I declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of Freemasonry
ADAM WEISHAUPTThese should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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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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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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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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I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States.
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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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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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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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Cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness,
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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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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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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