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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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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Illuminate the opposition.
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Every 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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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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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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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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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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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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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