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.

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.

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

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

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

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

The hankering of the mind is irresistible.