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Illuminate the opposition.
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The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
Adam Weishaupt / Philosopher
Hankering
Irresistible
Mind
New World Order
Nwo
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
Adam Weishaupt / Philosopher
Men
Believe
Demise
Made
Anything
Man
Oh
Cannot
Mortal
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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Founders
Imagine
Imagine That
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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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Details
Faults
May
General
Detail
Plan
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
Adam Weishaupt / Philosopher
Deism
Proud
World
Founder
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Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind.
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Mankind
Profitable
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Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination.
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Fruit
Illumination
Morality
Perform
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The first task of the association must therefore be to form the young members.
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Association
Members
Task
Therefore
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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
Adam Weishaupt / Philosopher
Men
Concealed
Mean
Mystery
Nwo
Effectual
Lead
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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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Nature
Government
Men
Fallen
Gone
Man Lives
Tarnished
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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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Men
Dwelling
Human Race
Race
Rational
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G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
Adam Weishaupt / Philosopher
Knowledge
Grace
Reason
Stars
Torches
Those
Star
Flaming
Indeed
Possess
Torch
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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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Mean
Order
School
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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.
Adam Weishaupt / Philosopher
Men
Opposites
Tenors
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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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Order
States
Stranger
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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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Secrecy
Together
Unions
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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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Active
Founding
Order
Should Have
Situation
Occupied
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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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Doe
Endeavour
Winning
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But I would have executed much greater things, had not government always opposed my exertions, and placed others in situations which would have suited my talents.
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Greater
Talents
Executed
Opposed
Placed
Suited
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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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Abraham
Code
Law
Lord
Mankind
Reason
Head
Priest
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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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Men
Believe
Mean
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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.
Adam Weishaupt / Philosopher
Historical
Mind
Reading
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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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Giving
Order
Zest
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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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Jealous
Noble
Objections
Purpose
Superstitions
Tyranny
Circumstance
Directed
Superstition
Therefore
Urged
Vanish
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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.
Adam Weishaupt / Philosopher
Alas
Domination
Dose
Ordinary
Political
Religious
Sleep
Sleepy
Deficient
Leave
Inefficient
Prejudices
Sadly
Sermon
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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 / Philosopher
Happiness
Inspirational
Capable
Discovery
Human Reason
Illumination
Mean
Reason
Attaining
Comparable
None
Obligations
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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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Education
Men
Conviction
Every Man
Illumination
Office
Full
Fitted
Placed
Proper
Suggested
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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.
Adam Weishaupt / Philosopher
Association
Clouds
Enlightening
Illumination
Mean
Prejudice
Sun
Understanding
Attaining
Held
Object
Superstition
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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome. I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States. I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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Proud
Rome
World
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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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Mean
School
Winning
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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.
Adam Weishaupt / Philosopher
Men
Lying
Strong
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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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Men
Believe
Christian
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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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Lying
Names
Order
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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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Men
Giving
Order
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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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Men
Knowing
Mean
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But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious prejudices; cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness, in a state of liberty and moral equality, freed from the obstacles which subordination, rank, and riches, continually throw in our way. My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable. Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.
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Christian
Mean
Religious
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