We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.
ADAM WEISHAUPTI should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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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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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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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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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.
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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We must win the common people in every corner.
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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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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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It will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint
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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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