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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTIt will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint
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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
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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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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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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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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.
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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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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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I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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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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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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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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The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
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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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I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States.
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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 public is accustomed to it, expects little from it and therefore takes little notice of 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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Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.
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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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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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