The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment; let it never appear in any place in … - Adam Weishaupt

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When man deploys the arbitrary nature of his madness, he confronts the dark necessity of the world; the animal that haunts his nightmares and his nights of privation is his own nature, which will lay bare hell's pitiless truth.

Adam Weishaupt

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

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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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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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