And it will fire them the more, and cause them to work for us with zeal, without knowing that they do so.
ADAM WEISHAUPTIt is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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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.
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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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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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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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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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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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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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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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In a state of liberty and moral equality, freed from the obstacles which subordination, rank, and riches, continually throw in our way.
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For thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.
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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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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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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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By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors
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