Illuminati is a term that has been used to refer to numerous groups of people who asserted to be especially enlightened since the 15th century. The term is a plural form of the Latin word illuminatus, which means to reveal or enlighten.
The origin of Illuminati
The Adherents held the view that “light” originated from a higher source and was immediately conveyed to them, or that it came from a refined and exalted state of human understanding. The Alumbrados of Spain, which is Spanish for “enlightened,” belong to the first group. The word is first recorded by the Spanish historian Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo about 1492 (in the form aluminados, 1498), although he ties it to mysterious intellectual roots and believes that Italian influences helped spread their ideas in Spain.
The Adherents
Mara de Santo Domingo, afterwards referred to as La Beata de Piedrahita, was one of their early leaders and, according to some academics, a “pre-Alumbrado.” She was a laborer’s daughter who was born in 1485 in Aldeanueva, south of Salamanca. As a youngster, she joined the Dominican order and quickly rose to fame as a prophetess and mystic who could communicate with the Virgin and Jesus Christ in person. She was welcomed to Ferdinand of Aragon’s court, where he was persuaded that her visions were sincere. Following a request for direction from the Dominicans to Pope Julius II, the Inquisition organized a number of trials. She was exonerated in 1510 thanks to the efforts of her sponsors, who by that time included the duke of Alba, Francisco Cardenal Jiménez de Cisneros, and Ferdinand.
When St. Ignatius of Loyola was a student at Salamanca in 1527, he was accused of sympathizing with the Alumbrados and hauled before an ecclesiastical committee, but he was let go with a warning. Some people were not as lucky. A Toledo assembly of unlearned followers suffered scourging and imprisonment in 1529. Greater punishments followed, and for almost a century, notably in Cordoba, the Alumbrados provided the Inquisition with a large number of victims.
In 1623, it appears that the movement (known as the Illuminés) traveled from Seville to France. After being joined (1634) by Pierre Guérin, curé of Saint-Georges de Roye, whose adherents, known as Guerinets, were put down (1635), it rose to considerable popularity in Picardy. A second group of Illuminés appeared in the south of France in 1722 and seems to have persisted until 1794. They had links with the group at the time known as the “French Prophets,” a division of the militant Protestant Camisards.
The truth, secrets and the real plan of Illuminati
The emergence of the Bavarian Illuminati
Adam Weishaupt, a canon law professor at Ingolstadt and a former Jesuit, created the short-lived republican free thinking movement on May Day 1776, which is perhaps the group most commonly identified with the moniker illuminati. The members of this underground group identified as “Perfectibilists.” Their creator sought to displace Christianity with a religion of reason, just as subsequent French revolutionaries and positivist philosopher Auguste Comte of the 19th century did.
He predicted that the economy would function as a “communism of products,” with him serving as the leader of an elite that was enlightened (or illuminated).
The Owl of Minerva, a companion of the virgin goddess of knowledge Athena in Greek mythology, served as the Order’s symbol. Another Illuminati symbol was a dot inside of a circle, which stood for the all-seeing eye that belonged to an elevated Illuminati watching over the lower ranks rather than to God.
Weishaupt started out with a small group of followers who were carefully chosen from amongst his own students, and he gradually expanded his recruitment efforts from Ingolstadt to Eichstätt, Freising, Munich, and other places, paying particular attention to the enlistment of young men of wealth, rank, and social importance. Beginning in 1778, Weishaupt’s illuminati made contact with various Masonic lodges where, thanks to the encouragement of Adolf Franz Friedrich, Freiherr von Knigge, one of their leading converts, they frequently succeeded in gaining a commanding position.
The organisational structure and the spy system
The Illuminati used old-fashioned code names to hide their identities. Weishaupt was known as “Brother Spartacus,” after the gladiator who led the slave uprising and terrorized Rome for three years. Weishaupt sought out and secretly united young zealots, utilizing Freemason lodges as a recruiting ground. Anyone older than 30 wasn’t first trusted.
The names of the recruits’ ancestors, relatives, acquaintances, correspondents, and adversaries were to be provided. They were requested to suggest suitable candidates for admission to the Order and to suggest individuals who might not be suitable, providing justification for each position. They were instructed to observe the behavior of the guys around them and provide a weekly report on any public or private incidents. Cells and hierarchies of Novices, Minervals, and Illuminated Minervals were used to organize the lower ranks. Their spymaster was Weishaupt.
Recruits were required to swear an oath promising to support the society’s objectives in exchange for the threat of death after three years of one-on-one instruction with an Illuminati instructor.
“After that, he is asked, “Will you be obedient to the dictates of your Superiors?” while holding a drawn sword at his chest. If he ever betrays the Order, he faces certain retribution from which no potentate [monarch/ruler] can protect him, according to Robison.
He said that preparations were being made for two sisterhoods, one composed of virtue-oriented women and the other of women “who fly out of the normal track of prudish manners,” both of which would serve the male Illuminati. Both sisterhoods were not to be aware of the other.
The advent of the American Illuminati
Fears about the perilous group had spread to the US by 1798. Even though George Washington claimed in an open letter that the US had evaded the Illuminati threat, the mere mention of the shadowy organization helped resurrect the conversation and the associated anxiety.
Early American elections were plagued by rumors of covert alliances and double-dealings, but it wasn’t until the development of electronic media and the internet that conspiracy theories gained traction.
The satirical Illuminatus Trilogy brought the secret organization back to prominence in the middle of the 1970s, and it has remained there ever since Dan Brown’s 2009 thriller Angels & Demons was released.
The Illuminati symbol
The eye-in-a-triangle design on the reverse of the US dollar bill, known as the “Eye of Providence,” is thought by many Americans who follow the Illuminati to be a symbol of the organization, connecting it to the highest levels of US government and the corridors of power.
In reality, the all-seeing eye was first used as a Christian emblem to portray God in religious works of the Renaissance, such as Pontormo’s Supper at Emmaus.
On some early printings of the Douay-Rheims Bible, which President Biden carried on Inauguration Day, the eye can also be seen as a symbol. That doesn’t necessarily imply that the Illuminati have plans to overthrow the governments of the globe and replace them with President Biden, Lady Gaga, Eminem, and other musicians. A coincidence might as well not always be intentional.
The one-world concept
A one-world government or society might be created to make sure that no single party, faction, or philosophy could rule supremely. It is an interesting idea that would be challenging to imagine but would likely result in significant cultural blending.
For instance, if there were a worldwide education system, pupils all over the world might study world history rather than local histories. Local histories and cultures wouldn’t disappear, but they would deteriorate.
One intriguing point to make is that militaries would essentially vanish because there wouldn’t be any wars, but policing would expand instead. It could be assumed that the many trillions of dollars spent on militaries around the world may be used for research or even social projects to assist develop underdeveloped regions.
There would be three oversight administrators for each continent. The first would be concerned with the economy, the second with political stability, and the third with the military. These bureaucrats would serve as rulers, passing laws that applied only to that continent. To ensure that the people are adequately represented, politics and government will continue to become smaller in scope.
Due to the apprehension of dictatorship, the President of the Earth would mostly serve in a ceremonial capacity.
A global government might be the best or worst thing that has ever happened to humanity. Either humanity is wiped out or it spreads over the stars as the outcome.
Illuminati – What are the benefits?
The Barvarian Illuminati infiltrated government agencies and legal systems. Various estimates of the group’s size range from 650 to 2,500, but finally the covert organization was discovered and subjected to persecution. Documents discovered in the houses of members of the Illuminati, including diplomat Franx Xavier von Zwack, revealed their aspirations to rule the world.
Spying and Secrets: You will get access to all data on international governments as well as all scientific information. Additionally, you have access to satellite viewing.
Weapons and Medicine: Free access to all manufactured weapons and medications, even experimental and unlicensed products (such as cancer treatments and private military weapons) that are not displayed to the general public.
Drawbacks of Illuminati
It is well-known that the Illuminati is to blame for global instability. The 9-11 terrorist act has long been the subject of various conspiracies, and many people now think that George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, had planned it all along the way. It wasn’t until President Bush’s second term in office that the media learned he was a member of the “Skulls & Bones” group before he was elected president in 2000.
Why do people still believe in Illuminati?
Illuminati was always a background presence in popular culture and never truly vanished. The Illuminati, however, had a significant revival in the middle of the 1970s thanks to a literary trilogy that gave the organization the eerie and absurd reputation it has today.
From there, the Illuminati rose to prominence on occasion in both popular culture (as in Dan Brown’s enormously popular book Angels and Demons) and various subcultures, where the organization is frequently associated with Satanism, extraterrestrial myths, and other concepts that the real Bavarian Illuminati would have found to be completely alien.
Uscinski makes it clear that the majority of Americans in the modern day do not genuinely hold this belief. He claims that in a 2012 study he did on conspiracy theories, not a single person asserted that organizations like the Freemasons or the Illuminati were in charge of politics. But despite this, the Illuminati continues to be a source of jokes and speculations about lizard people in our culture.
