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On May 1, 1776, Adam Weishaupt founded the Bavarian Illuminati. In honor of this event, The Konformist has created The Illumilink, our big collection of information on the Illuminati.
What our Nation's Capital is all about.
One fabulous popularizer of the Illuminati is Robert Anton Wilson, author of The Illuminatus Trilogy!, as well as a good pal of the late great Timothy Leary. Here are some good sites for RAW and Leary:
The "Official" Robert Anton Wilson Website
Black-Ops: Robert Anton Wilson and Miriam Joan Hill's Encyclopedia of Conspiracies Home Page
(Not exactly RAW, but close enough.)
The Timothy Leary and Robert Anton Wilson Show
Fringeware: Robert Anton Wilson Bio
Disinformation Revolutionaries: Robert Anton Wilson
Disinformation Revolutionaries: Timothy Leary
Two Heads Talking: David Byrne in conversation with Timothy Leary
Steve Jackson Games has been another popularizer of Illuminati, through his card games and role playing games of the same name. Curiously, Steve Jackson Games has been (albeit quite tangently) linked to the Heaven's Gate "suicides", as reputedly both were working on similar Cyberpunk-themed sci-fi games.
Steve Jackson Games: Illuminati New World Order (INWO)
Steve Jackson Games: Illuminati
Steve Jackson Games: INWO SubGenius
Steve Jackson Games: GURPS Illuminati
A comprehensive repository of 3,300 homebrew cards for Illuminati New World Order (INWO), the collectible card game by Steve Jackson Games.
And here's some other great Illuminati-linked sites:
Hail Bob!!!
From the folks at A-Albionic research.
And you think the Hell's Angels are bad-assed.
Yeah, sure they are.
EXPOSING THE SATANIC CONSPIRACY OF THE ILLUMINATI'S NEW WORLD ORDER
I think the title says it all.
A Discordian disorganization dedicated to.... uh, I'm not really sure.
Middle Ages Illuminati Boogeymen.
The Guerilla Tarot at work.
EgyptAir and 33.
Beware. It sounds like a MLM deal to me...
Bill Gates: multi-billionaire nerd or Illuminati pawn?
One of the first to warn of the Illuminati...
Doctor Solomon Tulabare claims to be the head of all Illuminati in the world as well as all libertarian and objectivist organizations.
The Crowley sector of the Illuminati.
Illuminati 101.
Come on, get with the program!
Quotes from those in power confirming there is one.
A Satanic plot for a One World Government.
This site rules!!! It's like Ayn Rand on LSD!
Neo-Tech's defense of the Illuminati.
And now, here are some sites debunking Masonic conspiracy theories, suggested, surprisingly enough, by a Freemason. In any case, thanks to Trevor W. McKeown of The Grand Lodge of British Columbia and the Yukon for these fine suggestions:
Anti-Masonry as it relates to conspiracy theories
The Big Book of Conspiracies Refuted
The Grand Lodge of British Columbia and the Yukon
In addition, here are two of the finer pieces circulating the Net.
April 22, 1995
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."(1)
Adam Weishaupt was born February 6, 1748 at Ingoldstadt and educated by the Jesuits. His appointment as Professor of Natural and Canon Law at the University of Ingoldstadt in 1775, a position previously held by an ecclesiastic, gave great offense to the clergy. "Weishaupt, whose views were cosmopolitan, and who knew and condemned the bigotry and superstitions of the Priests, established an opposing party in the University.... This was the begining of the Order of Illuminati or the Enlightened...."(2) Weishaupt was not then a Freemason; he was initiated into Lodge Theodore of Good Council (Theodor zum guten Rath), at Munich in 1777.
Most information regarding the rituals and objectives of the order is derived from papers and correspondence found in an illegal search of Xavier Zwack's home in 1786 and a search of Baron Bassus's house in 1787. (3)
Status as a Mason was not required for initiation into the Order of Illuminati since the fourth, fifth and sixth degrees of Weishaupt and Baron Von Knigge's system practically duplicated the three degrees of symbolic Freemasonry. Although Knigge claimed to have a system of ten degrees, the last two appear never to have been fully worked up.(4)
"The Order was at first very popular, and enrolled no less than two thousand names upon its registers.... Its Lodges were to be found in France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Poland, Hungary, and Italy.
Knigge, who was one of its most prominent working members, and the author of several of its Degrees, was a religious man, and would never have united with it had its object been, as has been charged, to abolish Christianity. But it cannot be denied, that in the process of time abuses had crept into the Institution and that by the influence of unworthy men, the system became corrupted; yet the course accusations of Barruel and Robison are known to be exaggerated, and some of them altogether false....
The Edicts (on June 22, 1784, for its suppression) of the Elector of Bavaria were repeated in March and August, 1785 and the Order began to decline, so that by the end of the eighteenth century it had ceased to exist.... it exercised while in prosperity no favorable influence on the Masonic Institution, nor any unfavorable effect on it by its dissolution."(5)
Coil describes the Order as a "short lived, meteoric and controversial society"(6) while Kenning refers to it as a "mischievous association".(7)
In his own defence, Weishaupt did say:
"Whoever does not close his ear to the lamentations of the miserable, nor his heart to gentle pity; whoever is the friend and brother of the unfortunate; whoever has a heart capable of love and friendship; whoever is steadfast in adversity, unwearied in the carrying out of whatever has been once engaged in, undaunted in the overcoming of difficulties; whoever does not mock and despise the weak; whose soul is susceptible of conceiving great designs, desirous of rising superior to all base motives, and of distinguishing itself by deeds of benevolence; whoever shuns idleness; whoever considers no knowledge as unessential which he may have the opportunity of acquiring, regarding the knowledge of mankind as his chief study; whoever, when truth and virtue are in question, despising the approbation of the multitude, is sufficiently courageous to follow the dictates of his own heart, - such a one is a proper candidate." (8)
"The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile; and no man can lay any such thing to my charge." (9)
As regards any information derived from celebrated anti-mason, John Robison (10): "In the (London) "Monthly Magazine" for January 1798 there appeared a letter from Böttiger, Provost of the College of Weimar, in reply to Robison's work, charging that writer with making false statements, and declaring that since 1790 'every concern of the Illuminati has ceased.' Böttiger also offered to supply any person in Great Britain, alarmed at the erroneous statements contained in the book above mentioned, with correct information." (11)
In the following year, 1785, Weishaupt was deprived of his professorship and banished with pension from the country. He moved to Gotha where he died in 1811.
The Encyclopædia Britannica refers to the Illuminati "cells" in an article on eighteenth century Italy as "republican freethinkers, after the pattern recently established in Bavaria by Adam Weishaupt."(13) and as a "rationalistic secret society" in an article on Roman Catholicism.(14)
Depending on your perspective, the lack of any detailed information on the Illuminati in the current edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica can be ascribed to their current power and secretiveness or to the much simpler explanation that the editors found the order to be of little importance in the flow of history and social development.
John M. Roberts claims that "The Illuminati were the first society to use for political subversion the machinery of secret organization offered by free masonry ... through the craft they began to spread."(15) while Robert Gilbert feels that Christopher McIntosh "overestimates the strength and significance of the Illuminati."(16)
Serious researchers are directed to the following partial list of the many books and pamphlets written by Weishaupt:
A Picture of the Illuminati, 1786.
A Complete History of the Persecutions of the Illuminati in Bavaria, 1786.
An Apology for the Illuminati, 1787.
An Improved System of the Illuminati, 1787.
The United Grand Lodge of England Library catalogue includes:
P.4. Adam Weisshaupt, "Uber den allgorischen Geist des Alterthums". Regensburg, 1794. 8vo.
Documented evidence would suggest that the Bavarian Illuminati was nothing more than a curious historical footnote. Certainly, this is the opinion of Masonic writers. Conspiracy theorists though, are not noted for applying Occam's razer and have decided that there is a connection between the Illuminati, the Freemasons, the Trilateral Commission, British Emperialism, International Zionism and (if you read the writings of Jack T. Chick of Chino California) communism that all leads back to the Vatican in a bid for world domination. Believe what you will but there is no evidence that the Illuminati survived its founders.
As an aside: the Alumbrados (Spanish for 'enlightened') were members of a mystical movement similar to the French Guerinets, in 16th century Spain; for the most part they were reformed Jesuits and Franciscans. They believed that the human soul could enter into direct communication with the Holy Spirit and, due to their extravagant claims of visions and revelations, had three edicts issued against them by the Inquisition.
Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits in 1534 and composer of the 'Constitutions" of the Society of Jesus, has written nothing that would suggest he was in sympathy with the Alumbrados.(17) The name translates as 'illuminati' in Italian but the name is the only similarity with the later Bavarian Illuminati.
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(1) Albert G. Mackey, Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, Richmond, Virginia: Macoy Publishing. 1966, p.474.
(2) Albert G. Mackey, Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, Richmond, Virginia: Macoy Publishing. 1966, p.1099.
(3) Charles William Heckethorn, The Secret Societies of all ages and Countries [in two volumes], London: George Redway. 1897 p.310.
(4) Albert G. Mackey, Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, Richmond, Virginia: Macoy Publishing. 1966. p.475.
(5) Albert G. Mackey, Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, Richmond, Virginia: Macoy Publishing. 1966. p.1099.
(6) Henry Wilson Coil, Coil's Masonic Encyclopedia, New York: Macoy Publishing. 1961 p. 545.
(7) Kenning's Masonic Cyclopaedia and Handbook of Masonic Archealogy, History and Biography, ed. Rev. A.F.A. Woodford. London: 1878. p. 326.
(8) Adam Weishaupt, An Improved System of the Illuminati, Gotha: 1787.
(9) Adam Weishaupt (1748 - 1811), An Apology for the Illuminati,Gotha:1787.
(10) John Robison (1739 - 1805), Proofs of a Conspiracy against all the Religions and Governments of Europe carried on in the Secret Meetings of the Freemasons, Illuminati. and Reading Societies, collected from Good Authorities, printed by George Forman for Cornelious David, Edinburgh: 1797. (531 pages).
(11) Heckethorn, p.314.
(12) Heckethorn, pp. 305 - 316.
(13) Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th edition. Vol. 22, p. 223, 2b.
(14) Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th edition. Vol. 26, p. 937, 2b.
(15) J.M. Roberts, The Mythology of Secret Societies, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1972, pp. 123-4.
(16) Christopher McIntosh, The Rose Cross and the Age of Reason, Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1992, reviewed by Robert Gilbert in the Transactions of Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076, London: Butler & Tanner Ltd.1993 p. 241.
(17) The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, trans. by L.J. Puhl (1951); The Constitutions of the Society of Jesus; Translated with an Introduction and a Commentary", by G.E. Ganss:1970.
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Additional references:
"Illuminism and the French Revolution". Edinburgh Review vol. 204 pp35-60 July 1906.
"Jebedidiah Morse and the Bavarian Illuminati: An Essay on the Rhetoric of Conspiracy". Central States Speech Journal Fall/Winter 1988. pages 293-303.
New England and the Bavarian Illuminati. Vernon L. Stauffer. 1918.
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Trevor W. McKeown Editor, Mensa World "The heart may conceive and the head devise in vain, if the hand be not prompt to execute the design."
And now, for those whol love capital letters, from:
http://www.realtime.net/~dream/index9.html
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"WHAT LUCK FOR RULERS THAT MEN DO NOT THINK" - ADOLF HITLER
"OUR JOB IS TO GIVE PEOPLE NOT WHAT THEY WANT, BUT WHAT WE DECIDE THEY OUGHT TO HAVE" - RICHARD SALANT FORMER PRESIDENT OF CBS NEWS.
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This Site is dedicated to Exposing "THE ILLUMINATI", a Corrupt and Evil network of Ultra Wealthy People around the world that are literally "RUNNING THE WORLD". This Satanic Network has been connected to, International Bankers, Government, The Mafia, The Trilateral Commission, Multi-National Corporations, Freemasons, Insurance Companies, The Super Wealthy, The Council On Foreign Relations, The Skull and Bones Society at Yale University, The Council of World Churches, The Federal Reserve, The Bildebergs, The Media, The World Bank, The United Nations, The Committee of 300, and many others! "THE ILLUMINATI" are already in a position where they could take over the "People" if they wanted to! They own all of the Food you Buy at the Grocery Store! They start Wars, Smuggle Drugs, Cause Famines, Assassinate Presidents, Release Deadly Viruses, Experiment in Mind Control, Have Evil Advanced Technologies the Public doesn't know about, and much more! THIS IS ALL DOCUMENTED! DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH! WE HAVE BEEN BRAINWASHED! WE ARE IN AN EMERGENCY! PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER!
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THIS IS HOW BRAINWASHED THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA HAVE BECOME. WE BELIEVE WE LIVE IN A DEMOCRACY. THIS IS NOT TRUE! WE ARE CURRENTLY LIVING UNDER A DICTATORSHIP! UNDER THE EMERGENCY WAR AND POWERS ACT OF 1933 AND PRESIDENTIAL EXECUTIVE ORDERS THE GOVERNMENT CAN TAKE OVER BANKS, COMMERCE, COMMUNICATIONS, SUSPEND LAWS AND EXERCISE ANY POWER THAT IT CHOOSES. LEGALLY THE PEOPLE HAVE NO POWER AT ALL! ARE YOU SCARED YET?
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COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
TRILATERAL COMMISSION
BILDERBERGS
THESE ARE THREE SEMI-SECRET VERY POWERFUL ORGANIZATIONS THAT CONTROL THE WORLD. THIS IS THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT MEETING IN SECRET. ONLY THE TOP PEOPLE IN THESE ORGANIZATIONS ARE AWARE OF WHAT EVIL IS TAKING PLACE. I STRONGLY SUGGEST THAT YOU RESEARCH AND EXPOSE THESE GROUPS!
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HISTORY IS A LIE! ALL WARS ARE STARTED ON PURPOSE! "THE ILLUMINATI" FEED ON DEATH AND SUFFERING! IT KEEPS THE PEOPLE IN CHAOS AND THEM IN CONTROL! WAR MAKES TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR THE CORRUPT. THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT KNEW ABOUT PEARL HARBOR BEFORE IT EVER HAPPENED! THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY REFUSES TO RELEASE JAPANESE RADIO COMMUNICATIONS INTERCEPTED THE WEEK PRIOR TO THE BOMBING OF HIROSHIMA!
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FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY
FEMA WAS "NOT" CREATED UNDER CONSTITUTIONAL LAW BY CONGRESS! IT HAS THE POWER TO SUSPEND LAWS, TAKE OVER BANKS, TRANSPORTATION, AND INDUSTRY!
THUS, RIGHT NOW, YOU HAVE NO CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OR DEMOCRACY! FEMA IS ALSO ESTABLISHING CONCENTRATION CAMPS ON AMERICAN SOIL AS WE SPEAK!
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THE C.I.A. HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN ASSASSINATIONS, OVERTHROWING DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED LEADERS, ELECTION FIXING AND MILITARY SUPPORT FOR BRUTAL PUPPET DICTATORS, DRUG SMUGGLING AND MIND CONTROL!
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DAVID ROCKEFELLER IS ALLEGEDLY CERTAINLY ONE OF THE LEADERS OF THIS ELITE EVIL NETWORK ESTABLISHED AROUND THE WORLD. "THE ILLUMINATI" HAVE BEEN LINKED TO SATANIC LIKE RITUALS! CONSPIRACY? I THINK SO!
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ACCESS IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN TO THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS FOUND IN 1947. MANY OF THE WORLDS LIBRARIES ARE SECRET AND CONTAIN ANCIENT TEXT WE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT. THE ILLUMINATI KEEPS IN POWER BY KEEPING THIS KNOWLEDGE TO THEMSELVES.
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YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK AND THE STATUE OF LIBERTY ARE NO LONGER CONTROLLED BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. THE UNITED NATIONS HAS DECLARED THEM "U.N. BIOSPHERES". THE UNITED NATIONS HAS QUIETLY TAKEN OVER CONTROL OF 506 PROPERTIES AROUND THE WORLD. NOTICE THAT YOUR NEWS MEDIA DOESNT REPORT THIS TREASON!
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THE U.S. GOVERNMENT AND OTHER GOVERNMENTS HAVE BEEN RELEASING DEADLY VIRUSES AND DEADLY CHEMICALS ON THE UNKNOWING PEOPLE FOR MANY YEARS. THE GULF WAR SYNDROME WAS REAL. THE GOVERNMENT LIED! THE "ILLUMINATI" RELEASED AIDS! SATANIC PEOPLE ENJOY DEATH AND DESTRUCTION.
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THE FCC IS A GOVERNMENT AGENCY THAT DECIDES WHAT YOU SEE AND HEAR ON TELEVISION, RADIO, SATELLITE, CABLE AND WIRE SERVICES. THUS THE ILLUMINATI HAS TIGHT CONTROL OF WHAT INFORMATION GOES OUT TO THE PEOPLE.
JUST LIKE THE INTERNET, THE AIRWAVES SHOULD BE FREE TO ALL PEOPLE.
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GEORGE BUSH WAS A MEMBER OF A SECRET ORGANIZATION AT YALE UNIVERSITY CALLED " THE SKULL AND BONES SOCIETY". THIS IS A BREEDING GROUND FOR "THE ILLUMINATI".
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THE FEDERAL RESERVE IS NOT A PART OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT! IT IS NEITHER FEDERAL OR A RESERVE! CONGRESS IS SUPPOSE TO RUN OUR MONETARY SYSTEM. IT'S NOW BEING RUN BY A GROUP OF ELITE PRIVATE BANKS FOR PROFIT!
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NASA IS LYING TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES! THEY REFUSE TO RELEASE CERTAIN SPACE PHOTOGRAPHS TO THE PUBLIC. THEY SAY THEIR SPACE SHUTTLE TRANSMISSIONS ARE LIVE. THEY ARE NOT LIVE SHOTS! THEY ARE DELAYED AND SCREENED! THEY REFUSE TO POINT THE HUBBLE TELESCOPE TOWARDS THE MOON!
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SECRET UNDERGROUND MILITARY BASES! THESE BASES ARE ALLEGED TO BE LINKED UP BY SECRET TUNNELS WITH BULLET TRAINS THAT DO 600MPH! YOUR TAX DOLLARS PAY FOR THESE SECRETS! NOTICE THE SECRET TUNNEL RUNNING TO MEXICO. DRUG SMUGGLING? WE HAVE NUCLEAR TUNNEL TECHNOLOGY THAT CAN GO THROUGH SOLID ROCK AT 10 MILES AN HOUR! THIS IS WHERE "THE ILLUMINATI"OPERATES!
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FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT
THE ACT WAS PASSED IN 1966. THE PEOPLE HAVE NOW RECEIVED MILLIONS OF PAGES OF ONCE SECRET DOCUMENTS USING THIS ACT. DESPITE ABSOLUTE EVIDENCE THAT THE NSA, CIA, FBI, AND THE PENTAGON HAVE BEEN LYING TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC, PEOPLE STILL REFUSE TO BELIEVE THERE IS A CONSPIRACY!
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YOUR GOVERNMENT IS A DRUG PUSHER! THE CORRUPT U.S. GOVERNMENT IS WORKING IN COOPERATION WITH OTHER CORRUPT COUNTRIES TO ENSURE THAT DRUGS FLOW INTO THIS COUNTRY! WHY? BECAUSE IT MAKES BILLIONS OF DOLLARS. THE CIA HAS ALREADY BEEN LINKED TO THE COCAINE TRADE!
Please send any and all links or information on the Illuminati to Robalini@aol.com
