But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious prejudices
ADAM WEISHAUPTBut I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious prejudices
ADAM WEISHAUPTOh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
ADAM WEISHAUPTIlluminate the opposition.
ADAM WEISHAUPTOh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
ADAM WEISHAUPTThese should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
ADAM WEISHAUPTIn a state of liberty and moral equality, freed from the obstacles which subordination, rank, and riches, continually throw in our way.
ADAM WEISHAUPTIt is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThis 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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTWe see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThe hankering of the mind is irresistible.
ADAM WEISHAUPTFor they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
ADAM WEISHAUPTI declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of Freemasonry
ADAM WEISHAUPTWho would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThere is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
ADAM WEISHAUPTOf all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
ADAM WEISHAUPTIt was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
ADAM WEISHAUPT