Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThese should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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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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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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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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My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
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Give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves;
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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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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 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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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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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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