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

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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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"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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"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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"I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati."

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"The hankering of the mind is irresistible."

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

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