Reflections on Lessing's Fragments

[your own] powers will act, that you will become of one mind with me,
and will love me, for reading truths from
an unlearned man The author likely identifies as a "Layman" or "Theosophist," someone claiming divine inspiration rather than academic training, a common trope in radical pietism.—truths which you have found
neither in the writings
of the ancient nor modern philosophers Weltweisen: literally 'world-wise ones,' a term used for philosophers,
nor ever heard from the lecture halls Katheder: the professor’s chair or podium in a university of high schools,
nor from the pulpits of religious
doctrine, and
indeed will never hear, because every
religious sect Religionsparthey: a religious party or denomination binds itself by oaths
not to deviate from that mode of teaching
which their learned orthodoxy
has constructed, and which has set limits
upon the infinite light in its office of
teaching, acting, and converting—regardless
of whether their dogmas agree
or do not agree with the light
of reason and understanding.

This orthodoxy is also the sole
and only cause why clever minds original: "witzige Köpfe." In this 18th-century context, "witzig" refers to intellectual sharpness or "wit" rather than humor; the author is likely criticizing Enlightenment rationalists.
despise that book, from which—