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.
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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There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
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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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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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Let it never appear in any place in its own name but always covered by another name and another occupation.
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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
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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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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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The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch
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The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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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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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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