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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTCultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness,
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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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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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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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In a state of liberty and moral equality, freed from the obstacles which subordination, rank, and riches, continually throw in our way.
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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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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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I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States.
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The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch
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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 great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.
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There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
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The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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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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