Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
ADAM WEISHAUPTCultivates 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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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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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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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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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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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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 revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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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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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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It will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint
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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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Let it never appear in any place in its own name but always covered by another name and another occupation.
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But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious prejudices
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