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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Anand Thakur
I declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of Freemasonry
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 WEISHAUPTThe hankering of the mind is irresistible.
ADAM WEISHAUPTI should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
ADAM WEISHAUPTIn another situation, and in an active station in life,
ADAM WEISHAUPTI did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
ADAM WEISHAUPTIt will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint
ADAM WEISHAUPTAnd 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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTWho would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new 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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTCultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness,
ADAM WEISHAUPTAnd it will fire them the more, and cause them to work for us with zeal, without knowing that they do so.
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 WEISHAUPTWe must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
ADAM WEISHAUPTFor they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
ADAM WEISHAUPTAnd then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
ADAM WEISHAUPT