Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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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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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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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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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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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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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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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It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.
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The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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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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The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch
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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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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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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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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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