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 WEISHAUPTWhen man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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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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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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In a state of liberty and moral equality, freed from the obstacles which subordination, rank, and riches, continually throw in our way.
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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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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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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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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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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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I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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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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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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