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.
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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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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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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The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch
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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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I declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of Freemasonry
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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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By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors
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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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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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There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
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A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.
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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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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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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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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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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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The public is accustomed to it, expects little from it and therefore takes little notice of it.
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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 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 revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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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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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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