I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States.
ADAM WEISHAUPTIn a state of liberty and moral equality, freed from the obstacles which subordination, rank, and riches, continually throw in our way.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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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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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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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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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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And it will fire them the more, and cause them to work for us with zeal, without knowing that they do so.
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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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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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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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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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Illuminate the opposition.
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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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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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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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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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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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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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