When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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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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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The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch
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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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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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It will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint
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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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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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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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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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My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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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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The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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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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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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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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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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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 was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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Illuminate the opposition.
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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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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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