And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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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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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Cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness,
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.
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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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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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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 then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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We must win the common people in every corner.
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A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.
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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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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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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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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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I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States.
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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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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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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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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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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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