There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
ADAM WEISHAUPTIlluminate the opposition.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.
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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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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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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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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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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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The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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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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I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch
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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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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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