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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.
Adam Weishaupt
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Adam Weishaupt
Age: 82 †
Born: 1748
Born: February 6
Died: 1830
Died: November 18
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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, 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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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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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We must win the common people in every corner. 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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A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.
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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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Illuminate the opposition.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?. 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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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment let it never appear in any place in its own name but always covered by another name and another occupation. None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry the public is accustomed to it, expects little from it and therefore takes little notice of it.
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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence 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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If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan, we must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn the public mind which way we will.
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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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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. Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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