In this time, when the games and abuses of secret societies were without end, I wanted to make use of this human weakness for a real and worthy goal,… - Adam Weishaupt

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In this time, when the games and abuses of secret societies were without end, I wanted to make use of this human weakness for a real and worthy goal, the welfare of mankind.… I wanted what the heads of the ecclesiastical and secular powers should do and want by virtue of their offices.

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Johann Adam Weishaupt (6 February 1748 – 18 November 1830) was a German law professor, philosopher and founder of the Illuminati.

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Pen Names: Spartakus Spartacus
Alternative Names: Johann Adam Weishaupt
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I myself brought Deism no more to Bavaria than to Rome or Italy. I found it there already; and I shall give the reasons below, just why in the most fanatical countries, and more under Catholicism than Protestantism, this sort of person is found in such a measure and multitude.

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