What is the illuminati?

Introduction

Many people request us what is the illuminati, their members and what they do, because most teens in this modern times use the word as some sort of magical groups controlling the world which includes all popular people (LOL). That's why we decided to write this article, to end the confusion of the real meaning of the Illuminati.

History

The Illuminati (plural of Latin illuminatus, "enlightened") is a name given to several groups, both real and fictitious. Historically the name refers to the Bavarian Illuminati, anEnlightenment-era secret society founded on May 1, 1776 to oppose superstition, prejudice, religious influence over public life, abuses of state power, and to support women's education and gender equality.

In subsequent use, "Illuminati" refers to various organizations claiming or purported to have unsubstantiated links to the original Bavarian Illuminati or similar secret societies, and often alleged to conspire to control world affairs by masterminding events and planting agents ingovernment and corporations to establish a New World Order and gain further political power and influence. Central to some of the most widely known and elaborate conspiracy theories, the Illuminati have been depicted as lurking in the shadows and pulling the strings and levers of power in dozens of novels, movies, television shows, comics, video games, and music videos.

Illuminati of Bravia

Adam Weishaupt founded the Illuminati of Bavaria on May 1, 1776 on the principles of his early training as a Jesuit. Originally called the Order of the Perfectibilists, "its professed object was, by the mutual assistance of its members, to attain the highest possible degree of morality and virtue, and to lay the foundation for the reformation of the world by the association of good men to oppose the progress of moral evil."

Illuminati Conspiracy

In the late 18th century, reactionary conspiracy theorists, such as Scottish physicist John Robison and French Jesuit priest Augustin Barruel, began speculating that the Illuminati survived their suppression and became the masterminds behind the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror.

During the interwar period of the 20th century, fascist propagandists, such as British revisionist historian Nesta Helen Webster and American socialite Edith Starr Miller, not only popularized the myth of an Illuminati conspiracy but claimed that it was a subversive secret society which serves the Jewish elites that supposedly propped up both finance capitalism and Soviet communism in order to divide and rule the world.

Freemasons

Freemasonry is one of the world's oldest secular fraternal organizations, which arose in late 16th- to early 17th-century Britain. Over the years a number of allegations and conspiracy theories have been directed towards Freemasonry, including the allegation that Freemasons have a hidden political agenda and are conspiring to bring about a New World Order, a world government organized according to Masonic principles and/or governed only by Freemasons

The esoteric nature of Masonic symbolism and rites led to Freemasons being first accused of secretly practicing Satanism in the late 18th century. The original allegation of a conspiracy within Freemasonry to subvert religions and governments in order to take over the world traces back to Scottish author John Robison, whose reactionary conspiracy theories crossed the Atlantic, and during the 19th century influenced outbreaks of Protestant anti-Masonry in the United States. In the 1890s, French writer Léo Taxil wrote a series of pamphlets and books, denouncing Freemasonry, charging their lodges with worshiping Lucifer as the Supreme Being. Despite the fact that Taxil admitted that his claims were all a hoax, they were and are believed and repeated by numerous conspiracy theorists, and had a huge influence on subsequent anti-Masonic claims about Freemasonry.

Real Members of the Illuminati

Adam Weishaupt (Professor)
Adolf Von Knigge (Baron)
Xavier von Zwack (Lawyer, Judge and Electoral Councillor)
Christoph Friedrich Nikolai (Bookseller)
Westenrieder (Professor)
Hertel (Canon)
Thomas Maria de Bassus (Baron)
Johann Simon Mayr (Composer)
Dietrich (Mayor of Strasbourg)
Johann J. C. Bode (Privy Councillor)
William Bon Buche (Baron)
Saint Germain de Constanzo (Compte De Marquis)
Ferdinand of Brunswick (Duke)
Ernst of Gotha (Duke)
Johann W. Goathe (Author)

The list above is just the short list, there are 67 names published 10 of them are professors, 13 nobles, 7 were in Church and 3 lawyers, the rest are government officials, merchants and military officers.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminati
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Order_(conspiracy_theory)#Illuminati
http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/stauffer.html
http://www.cephasministry.com/history_of_masonry_3.html
http://illuminati-order.com/
http://www.illuminati-order.org/index2.html
New England and Bavarian Illuminati (Author: Vernon Stauffer)
http://www.publiceye.org/apocalyptic/Dances_with_Devils_TOC.html
As it true what they say about freemasonry? (Author: Arturo De Hoyos)
http://www.webcitation.org/5w47O6KyR