Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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.
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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 it never appear in any place in its own name but always covered by another name and another occupation.
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My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
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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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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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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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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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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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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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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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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.
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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.
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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 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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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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The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
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The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch
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