This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThe priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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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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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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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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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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Give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves;
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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
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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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It will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint
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Illuminate the opposition.
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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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G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.
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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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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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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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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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The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch
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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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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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Cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness,
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