I declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of Freemasonry
ADAM WEISHAUPTEvery man is entitled therefore, to give any explanation of the symbols and a system of the doctrine that he can render palatable.
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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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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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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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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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Illuminate the opposition.
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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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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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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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It will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint
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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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