If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan
ADAM WEISHAUPTOf 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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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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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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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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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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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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For thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.
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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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We must win the common people in every corner.
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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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If every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
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The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch
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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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G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.
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