In a state of liberty and moral equality, freed from the obstacles which subordination, rank, and riches, continually throw in our way.
ADAM WEISHAUPTOf all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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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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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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I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
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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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The public is accustomed to it, expects little from it and therefore takes little notice of it.
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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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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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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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It will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint
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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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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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