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, condescension, popularity, and toleration of their prejudices, which we shall at leisure root out and dispel.

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

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 another occupation. None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry; the public is accustomed to it, expects little from it and therefore takes little notice of it.

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.

Illuminate the opposition.

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

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.