Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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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The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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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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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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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch
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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.
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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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By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors
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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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It will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint
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There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
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