Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
ADAM WEISHAUPTI 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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We must win the common people in every corner.
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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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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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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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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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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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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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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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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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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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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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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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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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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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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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G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.
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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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But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious prejudices
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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Illuminate the opposition.
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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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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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