Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
ADAM WEISHAUPTCultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness,
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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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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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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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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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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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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.
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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.
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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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The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
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The priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
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The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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