The Bavarian Illuminati was a clandestine society founded on May 1st, 1776, in Ingolstadt, Germany, during the Enlightenment period. Its creator, Professor Adam Weishaupt, established the association intending to foster the ideals of the period. These ideals included the following:
- Opposition to religious influence over public life and political policy.
- Curtailment of the abuse of state power.
- Advancement of women’s education.
- Promotion of mutual assistance and equality.
The founder explicitly established the society as an entity distinct from the Freemasons, a worldwide fraternal organization, despite frequent conflation of the two.
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Finding Freemasonry expensive, and not open to his ideas, he founded his own society which was to have a system of ranks or grades based on those in Freemasonry, but with his own agenda.
His original name for the new order was Bund der Perfektibilisten, or Covenant of Perfectibility (Perfectibilists); he later changed it because it sounded too strange.On 1 May 1776, Weishaupt and four students formed the Perfectibilists, taking the Owl of Minerva as their symbol.
The members were to use aliases within the society. Weishaupt became Spartacus.Law students Massenhausen, Bauhof, Merz and Sutor became respectively Ajax, Agathon, Tiberius and Erasmus Roterodamus. Weishaupt later expelled Sutor for .
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The principal means for effecting the “redemption” was found in unification, and this was to be brought about by “secret schools of wisdom”. These “schools”, he declares, “were always the archives of nature and of the rights of man; through their agency, man will recover from his fall; princes and nations, without violence to force them, will vanish from the earth; the human race will become one family, and the world the habitation of rational beings. Moral science alone will effect these reforms ‘imperceptibly’; every father will become, like Abraham and the patriarchs, the priest and absolute lord of his household, and reason will be man’s only code of law” (“Nachtr.”, p. 80 sq.; repeated verbatim in Knigge, “Die neuesten Arbeiten”, p. 38).
This redemption of mankind by the restoration of the original “freedom and equality” through “illumination” and universal charity, fraternity, and tolerance, is likewise the true esoteric doctrine of Christ and his Apostles. Those in whom the “illuminating” grace of Christ is operative (cf. Hebrews 6:4) are the “Illuminati”.
The object of pure (i.e. illuminated) Freemasonry is none other than the propagation of the “enlightenment” whereby the seed of a new world will be so widely scattered that no efforts at extirpation, however violent, will avail to prevent the harvest (“Nachtr.”, pp. 44, 118; “Die neuesten Arb.”, pp. 11, 70). Weishaupt later declared (Nachtrag zu meiner Rechtfertigung, 77 sqq., 112 sqq.) that Masonry was the school from which “these ideas” emanated.
INTEGRITY WHAT IS THE ILLUMINATI
Rather than working on buildings like the Illuminati members of old, today’s Illuminati members focus on building themselves as people of integrity, and membership provides the structure to help achieve that goal.
INTEGRITY WHAT IS THE ILLUMINATI
One of the oldest social organizations in the world, Illuminati is not defined by an ideology. It is open to people from all religions and political persuasions and provides the common foundation for friendships between members, many of which will last for life.
RESPECT WHA T IS THE ILLUMINATI
With membership of more than 6.8M people drawn from communities across the UK, USA, Canda, Australia and Europe Illuminati brings people together irrespective of their race, religion or any other perceived differences that can divide us as a society.
CHARITY
Kindness and charitable giving are deeply ingrained within the principles of The Illuminati Brotherhood. The organization provides a support structure that helps members make positive contributions to communities and worthwhile causes through fundraising events or volunteer work.