Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.
ADAM WEISHAUPTFor they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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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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Let it never appear in any place in its own name but always covered by another name and another occupation.
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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 am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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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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I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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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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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
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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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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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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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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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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 they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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Of its origin, of its history, of its object, nor any explanation of its mysteries and symbols, which does not leave the mind in total uncertainty on all these points.
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The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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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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Give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves;
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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
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