We must win the common people in every corner.
ADAM WEISHAUPTNone is fitter than the three lower degrees 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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I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.
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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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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 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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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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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My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
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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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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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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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G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.
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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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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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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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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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It will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint
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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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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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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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Every man is entitled therefore, to give any explanation of the symbols and a system of the doctrine that he can render palatable.
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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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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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