For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
ADAM WEISHAUPTI did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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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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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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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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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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Salvation does not lie where strong thrones are defended by swords, where the smoke of censers ascend to heaven or where thousands of strong men pace the rich fields of harvest.
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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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For thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.
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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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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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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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