The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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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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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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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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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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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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Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.
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This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behavior, show, condescension, popularity, and toleration of their prejudices, which we shall at leisure root out and dispel.
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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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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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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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G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.
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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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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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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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