Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
ADAM WEISHAUPT
The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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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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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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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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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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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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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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For thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.
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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
ADAM WEISHAUPT
But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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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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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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