For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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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The priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
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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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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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Salvation does not lie where strong thrones are defended by swords, where the smoke of censers ascend to heaven or where thousands of strong men pace the rich fields of harvest.
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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
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Of its origin, of its history, of its object, nor any explanation of its mysteries and symbols, which does not leave the mind in total uncertainty on all these points.
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By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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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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