Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
ADAM WEISHAUPTWe must win the common people in every corner.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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Cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness,
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.
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I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States.
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This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.
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I declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of Freemasonry
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious prejudices
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behavior, show, condescension, popularity, and toleration of their prejudices, which we shall at leisure root out and dispel.
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If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan
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We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.
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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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Let it never appear in any place in its own name but always covered by another name and another occupation.
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The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
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Every man is entitled therefore, to give any explanation of the symbols and a system of the doctrine that he can render palatable.
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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
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A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.
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For thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.
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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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