I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
ADAM WEISHAUPTOf all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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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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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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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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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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Illuminate the opposition.
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Give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves;
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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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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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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 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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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behavior, show, condescension, popularity, and toleration of their prejudices, which we shall at leisure root out and dispel.
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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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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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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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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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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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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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If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan
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