I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
From Adam Weishaupt
The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
I did not bring Deism into Bavaria.
Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination.
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.
My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind.
The first task of the association must therefore be to form the young members.
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.
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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