Illuminate the opposition.
ADAM WEISHAUPTI did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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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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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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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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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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The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
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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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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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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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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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Cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness,
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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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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The public is accustomed to it, expects little from it and therefore takes little notice of it.
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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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
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There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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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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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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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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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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I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States.
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