We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.
ADAM WEISHAUPTIf a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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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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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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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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If every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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In a state of liberty and moral equality, freed from the obstacles which subordination, rank, and riches, continually throw in our way.
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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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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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The most wonderful thing of all is that the distinguished Lutheran and Calvinist theologians who belong to our order really believe that they see in it (Illuminati) the true and genuine sense of Christian Religion.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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The priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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