I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThe head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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Illuminate the opposition.
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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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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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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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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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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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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.
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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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Give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves;
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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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