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johann adam weishaupt was a german philosopher and founder of the order of illuminati, a secret society with origins in bavaria.
on 1 may 1776 weishaupt formed the “order of perfectibilists”. he adopted the name of “brother spartacus” within the order. though the order was not egalitarian or democratic, its mission was the abolition of all monarchical governments and state religions in europe and its colonies.
weishaupt wrote: “the ends justified the means.” the actual character of the society was an elaborate network of spies and counter-spies. each isolated cell of initiates reported to a superior, whom they did not know, a party structure that was effectively adopted by some later groups.
weishaupt was initiated into the masonic lodge “theodor zum guten rath”, at munich in 1777. his project of “illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason, which will dispel the clouds of superstition and of prejudice” was an unwelcome reform. soon however he had developed gnostic mysteries of his own, with the goal of “perfecting human” nature through re-education to achieve a communal state with nature, freed of government and organized religion. he began working towards incorporating his system of illuminism with that of freemasonry.
weishaupt’s radical rationalism and vocabulary was not likely to succeed. writings that were intercepted in 1784 were interpreted as seditious, and the society was banned by the government of karl theodor, elector of bavaria, in 1784. weishaupt lost his position at the university of ingolstadt and fled bavaria.
in the late 18th century, adam weishaupt was a professor at the university of ingolstadt in bavaria. he believed in the abolition of both government and organized religion, so much so that on may 1, 1776 he started a little social club to that end. the original group began with five members and was called the order of perfectibilists. later it was renamed the order of the illuminati, and this enterprise spread throughout central europe.
from its inception, the first rule of the illuminati was do not talk about the illuminati. because of its controversial aims, the club had to keep its agenda and even its existence a strict secret. in written correspondence, members used a code to refer to dates, locations, and individual members. weishaupt’s codename was “spartacus.”
professor weishaupt joined a german strain of freemasonry in 1777, being initiated in munich. he immediately began to poach from the ranks of his fellow masons to fill out his own clandestine group. this recruitment continued unabated until he was finally caught and expelled from the freemasons.
eventually, somebody spilled the beans about weishaupt’s project and the ideals to which it was dedicated. all of a sudden, he become one of the most hated men in europe. he had simultaneously managed to rile both church and state.
the end result was a crackdown on secret societies across the board. in june 1784, both the masons and the illuminati were declared illegal by the king of bavaria. weishaupt fled to gotha, a city in eastern germany, to escape arrest. there he lived out the rest of his days.
people tend to get uptight when they are forced to look at the back of a dollar bill. and they have good reason to. there it is on the left — that goddamned pyramid with the freaky eyeball. and what the fuck is that at the bottom? novus ordo seclorum. obviously some kind of incantation.
according to the official explanation, the phrase is latin for “a new order of the ages.” the designer of the great seal, charles thomson, claimed that the “new order” he was referring to was that of the american republic. the year on the pyramid is 1776, which is the date of the signing of the declaration of independence.
all right, fine. but what about that eyeball? that thing is definitely occult. nothing says “big brother” quite like a hovering eyeball.
thomson explained away that one by claiming the eyeball belonged to god (or “providence,” as he put it), and that the phrase annuit coeptis means “it has favored our undertakings.” taken together, they are intended to communicate the idea that god is rooting for america.
illuminati today
writers such as mark dice, david icke, texe marrs, ryan burke, jüri lina and morgan gricar have argued that the bavarian illuminati survived, possibly to this day. many of these theories propose that world events are being controlled and manipulated by a secret society calling itself the illuminati. conspiracy theorists have claimed that many notable people were or are members of the illuminati. presidents of the united states are a common target for such claims.
in addition to the shadowy and secret organization, several modern fraternal groups claim to be the “heirs” of the bavarian illuminati and have openly used the name “illuminati” in founding their own rites. some, such as the multiple groups that call themselves some variation on “the illuminati order,” use the name directly in the name of their organization, while others, such as the ordo templi orientis, use the name as a grade of initiation within their organization.
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