Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
ADAM WEISHAUPTIt 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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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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We must win the common people in every corner.
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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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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.
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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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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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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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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 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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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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Give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves;
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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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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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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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