THE ILLUMINATI
Part One  
 
By Dennis L. Cuddy, Ph.D.
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The Illuminati (called "The Order" by its members) was a secret society founded on May 1, 1776 by Adam Weishaupt. According to University of Edinburgh professor (and General Secretary of the Royal Society of Edinburgh) John Robinson in Proofs of a Conspiracy (1798), its purpose was to root out all religion and ordinary morality, abolish national distinctions, demean patriotism, and "rule the world."
Weishaupt had been a Jesuit and professor of Canon Law at the University at Ingolstadt (Bavaria), and he initially called his secret society Perfektibilisten. According to Will and Ariel Durant in Rousseau and Revolution (1967), Weishaupt "followed the model of the Society of Jesus [Jesuits], divided his associates into grades of initiation, and pledged them to obey their leaders in a campaign to 'unite all men capable of independent thought,' make man 'a masterpiece of reason, and thus attain highest perfection in the art of government'." Weishaupt said, "Reason will be the only code of man…. When at last reason becomes the religion of man, so will the problem be solved." To Weishaupt (Illuminati code name Spartacus), the "problem" was all authority, monarchical and religious, as well as ownership of private property.
Weishaupt believed that he had developed a plan that could not be stopped, saying "my means are effectual, and irresistable. Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand." A key component of his plan included directing academic and religious education. If the Illuminati "was to govern the world," as they believed, they had to "acquire the direction of education-of church management-of the professorial chair, and the pulpit" (Robinson, page 109). From Illuminati "secret correspondence" Robinson found their "Instruction B for the whole degree of Regent" that included winning "the common people in every corner. This will be done chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behavior, show condescension, popularity and toleration of their prejudices which we shall at leisure root out and dispel."
According to Friedrich Christoph Schlosser's History of the eighteenth century and of the nineteenth till the overthrow of the French Empire: With particular reference to mental cultivation and progress (Vol. IV, 1845), the Illuminati was particularly interested in princes, declaring that their "grand object shall be to disseminate true knowledge among classes, and to bring the ruling princes under guardianship of the order." One way the Illuminati did this was to place their members as tutors of the children of nobility, especially princes who would later become rulers of countries. Such is the case of Alexander I of Russia who came under the influence of the Illuminati at a young age.
The secret correspondence of the Illuminati also revealed their plan to use the liberation of women for their purposes, as is stated "There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion, give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion and of standing up for themselves; it will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint, and it will fire them more, and cause them to work for us with zeal, without knowing that they do so; for they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration." Concerning religious education, Terry Melanson of the online Illuminati Conspiracy Archive said "Weishaupt and his control turned Jesus into a socialist revolutionary: representing Him as a secret society adept, who came to preach egalitarian virtue." In a letter dated September 19, 1776, Weishaupt refers to "our grand master, Jesus of Nazareth."
In terms of morality, Robinson indicated the Illuminati's plan included "destroying the veneration of marriage-vows." And he includes a letter from Illuminist Count Ludwig Savioli (code name Brutus) stating: "The Order must possess the power of life and death in consequence of our Oath… by the same right that any government in the world possesses it: For the Order comes in their place, making them unnecessary." This power of life and death included abortion, as Robinson wrote that in the handwriting of Franz Zwack (Weishaupt's closest confidant, and code name Cato) was "description of a strong box, which, if forced open, shall blow up and destroy its contents-Several receipts for procuring abortion-A composition which blinds or kills when spurted in the face… A method for filling a bed-chamber with pestilential vapours…." Regarding abortion, Weishaupt wrote to confidant Jakob Hertel (code name Marius) in September 1783 that Weishaupt and his sister-in-law "have tried every method in our power to destroy the child" in her womb.
Not only did the members of the Illuminati have code names, but symbols as well. According to Librarian of Congress and Rhodes Scholar James Billington in Fire in the Minds of Men (1980), "Weishaupt described his recruitment of Illuminists from within Masonic Lodges in Munich as 'the progress of the [picture of a point in the middle of a circle]' in the political area." Also, if one looks at the Masonic website, one can see the owl as an Illuminati symbol for their Minerval degree, which was just above the class of Novice. In Greek mythology, Minerva (Pallas-Athene or Athena) was the goddess of wisdom and reason. The Illuminati's Censor at the Minerval Assembly (at night) bows in front of the pyramid painted there. At this point, you might remember the gigantic carved owl present at the Bohemian Grove in California where many of the elite yearly gather in secret.
Robinson related that once one became an Illuminatus Minor, "the pupil is warmed by the pictures of universal happiness, and convinced that it is a possible thing to unite all the inhabitants of the earth in one great society…. [Then] it may frequently be no hard task to make him think that patriotism is a narrow-minded monopolizing sentiment." In a strategy Fabian Socialists later would adopt, the Illuminatus Minor also is told: "We must do our utmost to procure our advancement of Illuminati to all civil offices." Fabian Socialist H.G. Wells in New Worlds for Old (1907) revealed: "Socialism ceased to be an open revolution, and became a plot. Functions were to be shifted, quietly, unostentatiously, from the representative to the official he appointed: a bureaucracy was to slip into power…."
Baron Adolph von Knigge (code name Philo) was Weishaupt's second-in-command from 1780-1784. And according to Robinson, "his favorite scheme" was to create "Citizens of the World." You might reflect at this point whether you have heard any leading political figures recently refer to themselves as "Citizens of the World." Thus, whether it's world citizenship, abortion, women's liberation, or some other issue today, one can probably trace its origins back to being part of the Illuminati's plan.