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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThe head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch
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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.
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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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Illuminate the opposition.
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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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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 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 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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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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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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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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There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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