The priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
ADAM WEISHAUPTWhen man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
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The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.
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G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.
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The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.
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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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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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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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My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
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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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There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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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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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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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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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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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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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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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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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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