A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.
ADAM WEISHAUPTG is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.
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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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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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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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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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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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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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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 general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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Illuminate the opposition.
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We must win the common people in every corner.
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I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
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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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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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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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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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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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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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