But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious prejudices
ADAM WEISHAUPTCultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness,
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By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors
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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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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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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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The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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Of its origin, of its history, of its object, nor any explanation of its mysteries and symbols, which does not leave the mind in total uncertainty on all these points.
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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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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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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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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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I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States.
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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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Give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves;
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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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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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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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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 public is accustomed to it, expects little from it and therefore takes little notice of it.
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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I declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of Freemasonry
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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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It will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint
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