For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
ADAM WEISHAUPTOh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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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 another situation, and in an active station in life,
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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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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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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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G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.
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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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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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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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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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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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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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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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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 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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By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors
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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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The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch
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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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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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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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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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