What is Illuminate?

  What is the Illuminati?

 

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They were very religious and opposed the idea of an enlightened, philosophical, scientific, rational movement. After infighting and further attacks by outside groups, as well as too high a membership to keep the Order secret, knowledge of the group got out. Many members were exposed, and a number held fairly high positions of power. After being accused of publishing anti-religious literature, the Bavarian government banned all secret societies and seized and published a large number of important documents from the Illuminati’s founders.

 

Main origin:

This effectively ended the existence of the group, and their founder fled Germany. In the few years after the end of the Bavarian Illuminati, several books were written, purporting that not only did the Illuminati still exist in secret but that they were conspiratorially responsible for many international events, including the French Revolution. These books gained significant popularity, and the ideas therein have survived into modern times. In recent years, the idea of a resurgent, or surviving Illuminati order that is in control of world events through underlying iconography and ritualism has been a popular conspiracy theory.

 

Conclusion
However, there is no evidence of the existence of this group, nor any connection between current groups and the Bavarian Illuminati. Still… isn’t that exactly what they’d want you to think? Another secretive society that has a considerable amount of power is the so-called “Church” of Scientology.