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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTNone is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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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 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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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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G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.
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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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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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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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I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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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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In a state of liberty and moral equality, freed from the obstacles which subordination, rank, and riches, continually throw in our way.
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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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