A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.
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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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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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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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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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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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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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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G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.
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In a state of liberty and moral equality, freed from the obstacles which subordination, rank, and riches, continually throw in our way.
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My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
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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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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
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