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

A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers..

But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient….

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..

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 se….

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 ….

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 anot….

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 m….

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….

Illuminate the opposition..

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 ….

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

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

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

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

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….

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….

G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati..

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

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

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….