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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThis 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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThe head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch
ADAM WEISHAUPTIt was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
ADAM WEISHAUPTFor they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
ADAM WEISHAUPTWe must win the common people in every corner.
ADAM WEISHAUPTIt is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThis 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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTOf all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
ADAM WEISHAUPTOh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
ADAM WEISHAUPTI should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThese should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
ADAM WEISHAUPTFor thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.
ADAM WEISHAUPTI am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
ADAM WEISHAUPTAnd it will fire them the more, and cause them to work for us with zeal, without knowing that they do so.
ADAM WEISHAUPTA Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.
ADAM WEISHAUPTG is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.
ADAM WEISHAUPT