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.

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

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 decry him.

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

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

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.

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