None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
ADAM WEISHAUPTWe may turn the public mind which way we will.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch
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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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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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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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We must win the common people in every corner.
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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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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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The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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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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My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
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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 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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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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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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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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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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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
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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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There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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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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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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