I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThe great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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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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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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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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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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The public is accustomed to it, expects little from it and therefore takes little notice of it.
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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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Cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness,
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Every man is entitled therefore, to give any explanation of the symbols and a system of the doctrine that he can render palatable.
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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I declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of Freemasonry
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And it will fire them the more, and cause them to work for us with zeal, without knowing that they do so.
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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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If every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
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