Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
ADAM WEISHAUPTWe 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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Cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness,
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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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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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The priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
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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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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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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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We must win the common people in every corner.
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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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Salvation does not lie where strong thrones are defended by swords, where the smoke of censers ascend to heaven or where thousands of strong men pace the rich fields of harvest.
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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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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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