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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Anand Thakur
A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThis 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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTOf all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
ADAM WEISHAUPTOh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
ADAM WEISHAUPTWho would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
ADAM WEISHAUPTI declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of Freemasonry
ADAM WEISHAUPTLet it never appear in any place in its own name but always covered by another name and another occupation.
ADAM WEISHAUPTIt will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint
ADAM WEISHAUPTFor thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.
ADAM WEISHAUPTAnd then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
ADAM WEISHAUPTMy general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThe great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
ADAM WEISHAUPTIf 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 WEISHAUPTSalvation 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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTOur secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.
ADAM WEISHAUPTI did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
ADAM WEISHAUPT