But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious prejudices
ADAM WEISHAUPTI 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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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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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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Let it never appear in any place in its own name but always covered by another name and another occupation.
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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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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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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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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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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
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Illuminate the opposition.
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And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.
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