Adam Weishaupt Quotes, Zest Quotes, Order Quotes

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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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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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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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.

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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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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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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.

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The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, 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 declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of Freemasonry, of its origin, of its history, of its object, nor any explanation of its mysteries and symbols, which does not leave the mind in total uncertainty on all these points. Every man is entitled therefore, to give any explanation of the symbols and a system of the doctrine that he can render palatable.

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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

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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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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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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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