Illuminate

ILLUM
INATI

HISTORY

SOCIETY

PURPOSE OF THE SOCIETY

INTERNAL POLICY

decline and general prohibition

MODERN ILLUMINATI

Bavarian Illuminati Society

A secret society of the Enlightenment founded on May 1, 1776 in Bavaria, now part of Germany. Its aims were to oppose superstition, obscurantism, religious influences on public life, and abuses of state power.

Adam Weishaupt was born on February 6, 1748-1830, in Ingolstadt in the electorate of Bavaria .

Order was not egalitarian or democratic within, but sought to promote doctrines of equality and freedom throughout society;

There was a system of ranks and degrees

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In 1775 Weishaupt became acquainted with the empirical philosophy of Federer and became an opponent of Kantian idealism. On May 1, 1776 he founded the Illuminati.

goal was to fight religion and promote rationalism instead. The Illuminati were formed with a vision of freeing people from religious slavery.

Christians were sought, with Jews and Gentiles excluded, as well as women, monks, and members of other secret societies.

The final decline of the Illuminati was due to the fact that the existence of the "secret" order became common knowledge, along with the names of many important members

Many conspiracy theories suggest that world events are controlled and manipulated by a secret society calling itself the Illuminati.

The Illuminati were blamed for several anti-religious publications that appeared in Bavaria at the time. The prince and his government banned all secret societies.

Mysteries. The lesser Mysteries were the degrees of Priest and Prince.

Masonic ranks. The three degrees of the Blue Lodge: Apprentice, Companion and Master

The Children's, consisting of the Novitiate, the Minerval, and the Junior Illuminati

Weishaupt became professor of canon law in 1773.

There are two points of view:

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"The agenda," they wrote in their general statutes, "is to put an end to the machinations of the purveyors of injustice, to control them without dominating them.

of Latin illuminatus, 'enlightened'

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