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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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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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G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.

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

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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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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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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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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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The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.

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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?

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

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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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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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There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion, give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves; it will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint, and it will fire them the more, and cause them to work for us with zeal, without knowing that they do so; for they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.

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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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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. The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.

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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.

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