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

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 i….

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 i….

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

It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools..

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 h….

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 ….

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, condescensi….

We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union..

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 ….

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….

By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may tu….

But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious ….

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

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

Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion..

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 St….

Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyrann….

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….

Illuminate the opposition..

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