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In the south of Germany lies the state of Bavaria, whose history reaches back to the 6th

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century common era. The Bavarian landscape is full of lush, beautiful scenery, rolling

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hills and impenetrable fortresses. Along the banks of the Danube River is the city of Ingolstadt,

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well known for being the setting to Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein. Yet, it is also known

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as the backdrop for a much darker narrative about the world's most controversial secret

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society, the Illuminati.

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The true story of the Illuminati is not a horror story. Nor is it a conspiratorial count of

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nefarious intentions set on enslaving humanity or bringing forth the end of days. This

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is a rare and unvarnished insight into the mysteries of the order and their secret rituals.

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For the true story of the Illuminati is a very human one. It is a story of rebellion,

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a story of love, and a story of great loss.

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The Illuminati was founded in 1776 by Adam Weisshaub and Six of his pupils. Weisshaub's

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main objective for creating the Illuminati was to make mankind happy by instilling a strict

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moral regimen through a series of initiatic degrees that were patterned after a free

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masonry to teach morality, virtue, and more importantly self-actualization and self-accountability

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to govern oneself and thereby making him free.

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He created this society to bring about almost revolutionary change to be very, and possibly

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to Germany or Europe as a whole. By so I've got this idea of forming a secret society

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by one of his students who was not a bevaren. He came from Central Germany. He showed him

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a number of books which I saw then deviled. They were masonic books as well as from the

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Christian charts. By so I've developed this idea that by forming a secret society, he could

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actually accelerate the pace of the Enlightenment.

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During this time of the Enlightenment though, this is also the age of the secret society

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and how can you think of age of enlightenment, new science, rational thought, and secret

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societies.

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What you have to think about is that the idea of initiation, the process of gathering knowledge

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that has been lost or has been unknown to you, was equated with Enlightenment.

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Now this entire time is, they're fascinated with the ancient world, neoclassicism, etc.

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Greece, Rome, and then also Egypt. And so this idea of ancient mysteries practiced by the

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ancients as being revived, revolutionizing our thought. These secret societies saw themselves

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as inheritors of these ancient mysteries.

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In 1748, Johann Adam Weissopt was born in the Bavarian city of Ingolstadt. By the time

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Weissopt was only five years old. Both his mother and father would be dead.

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After the tragic death of his parents however, fate stepped in, Weissopts Godfather, the

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Bavarian von Ingstadt took over the care for Weissopt. It would be Bavarian von Ingstadt,

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it would plant the seeds of the forbidden fruit of knowledge in Weissopt, which would end

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up blossoming into the infamous order of the Illuminati.

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The Bavarian von Ingstadt was the book censor for Ingolstadt University, a Jesuit institution.

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So all of the books you're not supposed to read, Adam Weissopt, you know, as a young man

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reads all of these books and he starts to understand that all these popular philosophical

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works, these aren't inherently bad, but what it does is it minimizes the role of the

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state and also the role of the church in society.

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What ends up happening is that he reads these pieces and he's conversing with some of his

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students and he gets the idea is early as 1774. There's a draft paper that's in Berlin

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that's called a school for humanity and it kind of is the little proto thing for the

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Illuminati. It was necessary to do this behind closed doors because the Jesuits had a

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monopoly on the university system.

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The Jesuits were formed essentially as the popes on the Jesuits had been very influential

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in education in general and at the university by some definitely on the side of the

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Enlightenment and very much opposed to the ongoing influence of the Jesuit order at the

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Middle East. It's because the church during the 18th century held a huge copyright on

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free thought. During the ancient Enlightenment, the started to come apart and so there's

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friction. This was a period where there was heavy censorship on works. The Catholic Church

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owned most land, knowledge, your soul. And so this concept, a dual concept of secret

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not secret. That's where it came into being.

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Over the years Adam Vaishop's mind opened up to the writings of various philosophers from the 18th century and lightment era.

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At its zenith. In 1768 by the age of 20, Vaishop received his doctorate degree in law

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indicating that he had a very bright mind. From 1772 to 1773, several important events occurred in Vaishop's life.

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He obtained a professorship of law at English-study University and married his first wife,

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Afra Sousanhofer against the wishes of his godfather. During this time, Pope Clement, the 14th,

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disbanded the Jesuit order. This opened up an opportunity for non-Jewits to teach canon law at English-study University.

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Vaishop secured this new appointment and became the first non-Jewit in the history of English-study University to teach canon law.

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As Vaishop's career progressed, his liberal views became apparent to his Jesuit colleagues and he became their number one enemy on campus.

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While the Jesuits conspired against Vaishop, he used his intellect to fight back.

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The concept itself was more about having a new order of the ages so that humanity could complement each other and work to a greater good.

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To improve yourself so that you can be of service and you can also teach and instruct and be an example for someone else.

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He drafted a paper titled, A School for Humanity, a philosophical doctrine which outlined a preliminary structure for his own secret society.

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Vaishop eventually discarded his idea for a school of humanity and on May 1st, 1776 wrote the statutes for an entirely new secret society called the Perfectibilists.

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That means believers can be continuous perfection of mankind, believers and fighters for the improvement of mankind and its condition.

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He writes about why one should have such an order and also whether such an order would be dangerous to society.

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These are things he openly addresses.

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There is a McEvellian undertone in all this about absolute power he could have over people who do not even realize that it is him having this power over them.

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When you have this goal, you become dangerous. In a similar manner, other secret societies have had similar goals and have therefore become dangerous.

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You have to understand that during this time in Bavaria it was a Catholic country that many people not only had no ownership of their mind, they didn't even own their own land.

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So there was no movement for the human soul to express themselves.

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They don't really realize to what degree their lives are monitored in the ideal society is going to Iraq.

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He speaks of a society and which everyone is observed.

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I think these ideas are absolutely common ground at that time, but they have the clear notion that humanity might be able to develop mentally, to develop into something higher.

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And that should be attractive for practically everyone to reach that perfection.

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It's more in a way that the old idea of medieval philosophers that perfection comes after the world is destroyed in a divine revolution.

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That this idea is just dropped. You can get this perfection on earth and you can strive for it and you can create it.

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At that time there were still a Jesuit influence at the university, so the first stage of the order was a student cool.

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Within a short amount of time, Vaisop changed the name of his secret society from the perfectabilists to the order of the Illuminati.

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Illumination is kind of like the light bulb going off that will set into motion a development in the initiates psyche.

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And as a result, it'll be reflected in their immediate environment in actual physical situations which will reflect in their mind and cause change.

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In the old days, before progressive reforms and liberal reforms, everything else, it was always a secret.

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The men in the town knew something or they wanted to keep secrets among them where they had oaths and they kept those secrets among the men.

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And then eventually those men used those secrets to their benefit.

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It was to protect the people in the town, it was to protect the people in the city and the county.

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They were trying to explain in the best way they knew how their own agenda or their own curriculum for freeing the human mind and therefore the spirit through initiation.

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It seems very strange that almost anti not only anti Catholic but anti spiritual organization would use ritualistic practices and symbols.

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But this is what they did at the time.

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We have to understand that the age of enlightenment it wasn't necessarily all rationalists and one plus one equals two.

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Not only was there the counter enlightenment, but there were those who did believe in religion.

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Though were those that did believe in spiritualism or rather an esoteric doctrine.

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The Illuminati degrees were broken up into three classes, the Minerval class, the Fremasonic class, and the Mysteries class, comprising a system of 12 degrees.

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Within the Minerval class of the Illuminati or three degrees,

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Novissiate, Minerval, and Illuminatus Minor, or Minervalis Illuminatus.

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The Minerval class introduced the founding principles of the order to the candidates.

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The term Minerval was derived from Minerva, the Greek goddess of wisdom.

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Often depicted with a shield and blazing with the head of Medusa.

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The first degree of the Illuminati is the novice degree.

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The thing is though it's not much of a degree at all because there's no formal initiation ceremony.

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What it consists of is a young man somewhere between the ages of 14 and 16.

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He's brought in by his initiator.

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He only knows this one person, so that way he decides to quit or commit.

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He can't give the order up because he doesn't know the people's actual names or anyone else in the order but his initiator.

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Novissiats were required to maintain a journal called a Kribusley set, which was an exact record of all correspondence between the new member and the Illuminati.

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The candidates were taught an initial cipher to conceal names and locations of the order.

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The Zoro-Astrian years and Persian months were also used in correspondence to add further complexity and security in their private communications.

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The first time he was born in the world, he was born in the world.

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In 1777, Vaisat became a member of the Free Masons.

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He joined the Zoro-Astrian, the Houth-Sum-Kite Lodge, or the Lodge of Koshin.

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Vaisat only reached the degree of fellow craft before he decided not to continue in Free Masonry.

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But his cunning mind spotted an opportunity to grow his own order by infiltrating Masonic Lodge's and recruiting their members.

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The Illuminati did this by chartering their own Masonic Lodge, Saint Theodore of Good Council.

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They begin to infiltrate Free Masonry.

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They create a Lodge, Teodotsam Good Nrata, and Vaisat's opening the doors into Free Masonry.

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Now they are accepted and it's not clear that they are more than that, and that they have some hidden ambition in that Lodge.

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The plan was a success in the order of the Illuminati expanded.

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This organization that is Free Masonry is a scaffold, a structure whereby you can hang your own thoughts, your ideals, and even some of the higher degrees of Free Masonry have that in mind.

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As the Illuminati continued to grow and evolve, Vaisat was struck with a devastating blow in his personal life.

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His beloved wife, Afra Selsenhofer, died.

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Afra Selsenhofer was Adam Vaisat's first wife, and she gets sick and is dying right around 1780, and Adam Vaisat is totally destroyed.

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And that was a very heavy blow to Vaisat and his only surviving daughter.

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Yet fate stepped in once again for Vaisat.

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In May of 1780, Baron Adolf von Kniega, a well-known Free Mason and Master ritualists, joined the Illuminati, which altered both Vaisat's life and the destiny of the order forever.

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Kniega was ambitious, he must have been in his way charismatic, and he is highly engaged in the lodges in Germany, and he is a good networker, and he is interested in all of these secret observations.

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Kniega quickly became a part of the Illuminati's inner circle, and with Vaisat's permission, began revising the second degree of the order, the Minerval degree.

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In the Minerval degree, the candidate was placed in a dark room by an officer known as his godfather, who told him,

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Here, you may reconsider once more whether or not you remain resolved to join the order.

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If the candidate wished to proceed, as Hat and Soared were collected.

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After 30 minutes passed, the candidate was taken from the dark chamber and brought into the Minerval Assembly room before the magistrate or the officers.

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He was asked, what is your desire? Why do you come here? After the initiate answered, he then pledged eternal silence, secrecy, and obedience to the Illuminati.

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The Minerval modes of recognition were then taught to him.

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Eccus Eccus Estebabaloy was given to him in charge as such as the secret passphrase of a Minerval, which was derived from the ancient Greeks, meaning Owe, Owe, Eprefane.

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The secret grip was demonstrated by the joining of two hands and then tapping the hand of the other member with the pinky finger three times.

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The secret sign called the blinding sign was illustrated by a salute that shattered or blinded the eyes.

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The candidate was then awarded with a Minerval jewel, a beautiful emblem of learning and graduation into the early stages of enlightenment.

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Simbolized by the owl of Minerva, resting on top of an open book, and sourced by a laurel wreath.

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The letters pmcv, on the open book stood for the Latin phrase, her maquette hevident meaning through me the blind becomes cited.

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At the conclusion of the Minerval ceremony, the superior returned the candidate's sword and had to him.

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He then signed the Minutes book at the secretary station.

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The secret is important because there are many teachings that go in a graduate system and if you give all the teachings and secrets at the beginning, sometimes we're not ready to understand those concepts.

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So the secret remains an order to the graduate advancement of the person getting the knowledge.

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It's important to make distinction between the secret society and the society with secrets.

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The maisons were still a society with secrets whereas the illuminati was a secret society.

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The difference being a maison can say, I'm a free maison, they just can't discuss what it is that they do in the ritual of free maison ring.

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The illuminati cannot mention membership at all, that's a secret society.

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So you take, for example, the maisons, what's a different secret society will be like the mafya.

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You can, I can wear a maisonic ring and tell you that I'm a free maison.

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You'll never see me wear a mafya ring, and so you'll never know what I'm in or not.

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The illuminatus minor, or Minervalus, a illuminatus degree, was a ritual used primarily for inculcating into the mind of the candidate.

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The various symbols found within the Minerval class of degrees.

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He was told, now take a look at the pyramid.

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This is the symbol of our illustrious order, which takes large steps closer toward its goal.

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Only if the members join forces, working toward its attainment for the honor of the Supreme architect and the happiness of the world,

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which is why you find written here, the letters d, p, dayo, proximo, meaning close to God.

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The candidate was also instructed on the esotericism of the God-headed bird holding the Gorgans head.

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Overall, this symbol was indicative of gaining wisdom through various trials in life and constant study.

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After the symbolic instruction occurred, the candidate was taught the secret modes of recognition.

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The secret passphrase was Kave Nek Hadas, Latin for beware of falling from your high place.

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The secret grip was demonstrated by two hands conjoined, and the thumb tapping the other hand three times.

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The secret sign was the thumb and index finger spread outward.

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What this degree is are the leadership of the Minerval Assembly.

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Now for someone to get to this period, they already had to have been made a master Mason, and that's important because if you're going to advance it all on the illuminati,

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you have to be a free Mason, and it was so that way they could have that seamless connection between the secret school of wisdom and the Masonic degrees.

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Load degrees are mostly about character formation, knowing themselves, and also knowing the others,

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getting to know the characters of the person you communicate with, your friends and acquaintances.

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Particularly impressive is the incredibly long list of questions, or which individual candidates characters be assessed and embedded.

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So thoroughly that it was completely unrealistic to do this.

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It's pages and pages of very intricate and detailed questions concerning the character of each individual candidate.

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So that's a very important element of the Lord of the Grizz.

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While Kaniga strived to bring the order to a new level of ritual excellence, a second enemy of the Illuminati arose.

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A rose accrucian group calling themselves the Golden and Rosie Cross.

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They were also a secret society.

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However, the philosophy of these rose accrucians couldn't be more disparate than the Illuminati.

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They believed in the ultimate goal of the universal reformation of mankind through the practice of studying and mastering the metaphysical laws of the universe.

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By combining the ritual practices of alchemy, hermeticism, Kabbala, and Christian nostism.

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The rose accrucians had a very strange set of ideas.

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They believed in a very mystical approach to Christianity, a very direct communication with God.

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They encouraged the members to lead a devout life.

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Several harsh, written exchanges were made between the Golden and Rosie Cross and the Illuminati.

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At the core of their war was the battle for recruiting members.

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As the war waged on, Vaisott encountered yet another major obstacle in his personal life.

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He had impregnated his deceased wife, sister, Anna-Selson-Holford out of wedlock.

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He starts consulting with some of the members of the Illuminati looking for recipes to cause like an abortion or miscarriage or something in this nature and never ends up happening.

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As a result of this controversy, Vaisott back in his friend and fellow member of the Illuminati,

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they're in Thomas DeBassus to let Anna go into hiding at Sanders' Dorth Castle.

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Eventually, married her, but that was a long struggle for him because, according to the rules of Catholic Church,

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he had to get a special dispensation from the Pope himself to be able to marry a sibling of your first pardon.

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During this time, Kaniga began adapting the Masonic degrees of the right of the strict observance into the Illuminati

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and aggressively set into motion his plan for infiltrating free Masonry.

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Kaniga's infiltration is strategic. He is getting into lodges, asking high-profiled members to join,

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and for them it is an a way attractive as they are building a kind of internal superstructure in these lodges.

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You can be a normal free Masoner, and you can be a special free Masoner, and a hidden congregation, a Nazi-extremely interesting.

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Kaniga believed that incorporating a class of freemasonic degrees into the Order of the Illuminati

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would allow free Masones to feel more comfortable in transitioning into an alternative system.

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The main reason why they wanted to do this is because they had no money at all.

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And so their thought was, well if we graph ourselves onto the Masonic system, we can have a fertile ground for recruiting members,

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but more importantly, we can have their money.

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And vice-nob, all the kids, they're locked in play a game.

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Although Kaniga revised various aspects of the Masonic rituals, the themes of mortality and reflection.

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Remain the same.

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The Masonic system within the De Monati system was not very well harmonised with the rest of the degrees.

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They didn't really teach what vice-nob was most concerned with.

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They were mostly in line with existing Masonic degrees, which were generally a practice at the time.

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In the fourth degree, entered apprentice, the candidate was led into the lodroom blindfolded,

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and was received upon the point of a sword, which was the teaching that his progression through the Illuminati Order would now take a much more serious tone.

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And dire consequences would await him, should he betray the order.

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He was then led around the lodroom in a mysterious journey with his eyes veiled in darkness.

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It was only by the help of his guide that he was able to successfully navigate the dangers that surrounded his soul.

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As the master of ceremonies conducted the candidate toward the east, he was caused to kneel in front of the Worshipful Master.

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A compass was placed upon his naked left breast, which was to teach him to circumscribe his desires and keep the passions of his heart within due bounds.

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The Worshipful Master then used his gavl to strike the compass three times, piercing the skin of the candidate.

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This was to teach him to always conceal the secrets of the Illuminati within his bleeding heart.

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It was then prepared to receive the light of the entered apprentice.

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As his blindfold was removed,

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the Worshipful Master told him, behold, the host of men, harmed and ready through avenged perjury.

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Should you become a traitor, none of your steps on the face of this earth shall be safe.

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There's an overlap between the Illuminati and the Mason.

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The Mason's had 14 United States presidents who were free mason's, and because there's always been that overlap between the Illuminati and the Mason,

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it's always been said that the country was run by the Illuminati.

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Really the founding fathers were free mason's, including nine of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, including the most famous one John Hancock.

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A lot of founding principles were based on Masonic principles.

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There were 13 colonies, some say that that was intentional.

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There's been claims that Brimuda had requested colonization as part of the end to be the 14th that they were denied, because they wanted to keep it at that 13.

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It's a blewitchable with that, but it's also understood that Masonic lodges that overlap different borders at the time,

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where the reason why there was trust built between those colonies, which in essence united the states of America.

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The mason's had more of an influence, more so than what people think is really the background work of the Illuminati.

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A lot of people have this wrong notion that the Illuminati influenced the American Revolution actually was quite the opposite.

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They wrote John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin, as they were serving as on-voys in Paris, and they were looking to establish a colony in the United States called Elisim.

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It was showing that they philosophically associated with the liberties the early American Republic was after as heaven, and they had similar ambitions and aspirations.

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The trouble was that they picked a place on the Savannah River, and in the battle of Charleston, the entire Southern colonies were cut off, and so it made this plan untenable, not to mention the fact that they didn't have any money, so it was really more of a pipe dream than anything.

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Next in the Illuminati's Fremasonic class came the fellow craft degree, where the candidate, again, made a mysterious journey towards seven steps, which he would symbolically climb toward the middle chamber of the Temple of Light.

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Once inside the middle chamber, he was taught to continue to educate himself through study to contemplate the beauty of nature and to master his senses.

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When the fellow craft degree concluded, the worshipful master pointed his sword at the candidate and said,

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Draw your sword only in defense of your brethren and the honor of the order.

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In the master Mason degree, the theme of mortality reached its climax.

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Again, the candidate would make yet another mysterious journey around the Lodge Room, with a coffin containing a skeleton in the middle of the floor.

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After completing the journey, the candidates symbolic death ritual occurred.

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As he stood before the worshipful master, he was struck from behind on each one of his shoulders by the wardens.

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The worshipful master then hammered the candidates for head knocking him backwards.

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He was placed in the coffin with a veil over his head, with all of the brethren pointing their swords toward his heart.

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This act symbolized the doorway of death he would symbolically pass through on his way to the pillars of initiation into the greater mysteries.

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The candidate is taught that all things that may be unpleasant actually may not be bad, just as all things that are pleasant may not be good.

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And it teaches him to shift his perspective from that of a local member of society to shift one's view and perspective to a more global perspective.

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One might think that that's kind of an exciting system that you have a group of enlightened masters guiding humanity to its highest reaches through thick and thin better or for worse.

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Caniga introduced two high degrees from the strict observance into the illuminati's free Masonic class, the illuminatus major or Scottish novice degree and the illuminatus deregents or Scottish night degree.

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The strict observance are basically strictly observing their orders from unknown superiors and they're the guys that have the whole Templar mythos into free Masonic that free Masonry is directly descended from the night's Templar, which is a fine story and everything, but it's not at all true, it was just a mythology.

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You reached into a higher order which was one of nighthood and this wasn't just from craftsmen to nighthood, this was a transition to a spiritual order.

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Caniga takes the two Scottish degrees from the strict observance and he tries to augment them and put them into the system.

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So what ends up happening is that the illuminati, their Scottish novice degree, is really a play icon the Scotts master degree that's in the strict observance system.

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This is where the themes of the free Masonic class within the illuminati order transitioned from mortality to inner reflection.

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The worshipful master handed the candidate a mirror and told him the order gives you this sharpness of sight, this degree of enlightenment, behold the image in this mirror, it is your own.

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Self knowledge is the magical looking glass through which you may read the souls of others, the path to the hearts of other men begins with your own heart.

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Therefore begin with yourself.

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Do you believe that inwardly you are as you appear on the outside, study your physiognomy, often daily, hourly, you will constantly discover new features and you will learn to judge others by these features.

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What a beautiful and awe, what an ugly thing it can so very often be to behold the unconcealed human heart, Nuske, Tei, Epsom.

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The secret sign of the illuminatus major or Scottish novice was the index finger of the right hand pointing toward the heart and the index finger of the left hand pointing upward toward the moon.

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The sign alluded to a passage in the degree about how the initiates of this degree would only meet under the light of the moon in its first quarter, where the writing stated only he who sees with the eyes of the nervous bird, laboring under the protection of this benevolent orb will surely find them.

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This right from the first degree up to its last was controlled by unknown superiors, secret chiefs, and this is something that pops up in illuminati conspiracy.

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This controlling secret group that controls all of humankind or this particular order.

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This was a particular, you know, popular theme at this period and it exists later on.

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You have the secret chiefs in the Ossethe and also references to it in the OTO.

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There was also the hidden assumption that if anyone has any secret knowledge about alkeny and magic, then it must be people of social standing.

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So there is some idea behind it in the beginning that you might use the input gate for all these secret branches of knowledge,

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whether they are an away magic, I don't really get this.

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The eighth and final degree of the illuminati's free Masonic class was the illuminatus deirigens or Scottish night,

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where the real deviousness of Adam Weisshop began to surface.

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The legend of this degree was based in part on the Battle of Benachburn and Scotland during the year 1314,

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where the exiled night's Templar fought alongside Robert the Bruce, however,

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instead of instilling the ideals of nightly virtue into the new illuminatus initiates of this degree.

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Weisshop focused on using this degree to create a secret network of spies,

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to gather information on free Masonic lodges and use their influence to recruit more members into the order of the illuminati.

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Becoming an illuminatus deirigens or Scottish night of the order meant that in addition to being responsible for directing the free Masonic degrees within the illuminati,

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the member was also charged with spying on free Masonic lodges and influencing decision makers within these circles to join the illuminati.

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It was actually written in the statutes of this degree that the illuminati believed themselves to be the secret superiors of free Masonry.

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The candidate was told,

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happy are you who make cross this hallowed threshold.

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We welcome you and our myths.

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Ever blessed the day we opened unto you the portal only the lies and honorable man may enter.

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Here you see a part of the unknown holy legion bound within several bonds to fight for mankind.

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If you wish to make yourself worthy of guarding the inner sanctum, your heart must be clean and pure.

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Your spirit ablaze with divine fire for the dignity of your nature.

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The sign of this degree was made forming the shape of an ex which alluded to Saint Andrew's cross, the patron saint of the Scottish degrees.

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The password was Jehovah.

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There was this unique opportunity for the innati to take over lodges which were becoming disaffected with the strict observance which by them was falling apart.

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The major component in the illuminati order of success.

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I would love to see how many members per lodge they get because they seem to be sweeping higher members of lodges or more interesting members of lodges at one group into the order.

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They need this lodge input because if you create a mineral church anywhere you need at least five, six members to have a starting point.

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As a result of Kenega's recruiting efforts, a multitude of free maisons joined the Illuminati.

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They managed with Kenega's help to convert a lot of individual free maisons and whole lodges almost to the innati order.

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The Illuminati got a strict focus on actually getting involved in intellectual work on improving your character, on improving society.

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By improving your character, offering their own option of a high grade system right at the point of time where high grade free maisons and germany is in crisis.

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In 1782, the Congress of Vilhemsbad was called to order.

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Many leading Masonic figures attended representing the Illuminati was Kenega.

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Two major turning points at the Congress of Vilhemsbad.

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Tip the scales in favor of the Illuminati.

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The first was that the right of the strict observance officially denounced their Templar origins, resulting in a major rift in the order.

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The second major turning point was that Yohan Bauda, a German translator and deputy grandmaster of the grand lodge of Hamburg free maisons, joined the Illuminati.

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At the time when Bauda comes into the game, he is actually strategically creating a province for himself.

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The idea is once you have bought it in there, you can have the higher levels of aristocracy in this order because he would be the person to get these top-level people from the different lodges and from other secret organizations in Trid.

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Shortly after the recruitment of Bauda, Kenega and Weissacht commence their work on what would be the final set of degrees.

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The first four were the Illuminati, the mysteries class.

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The ninth degree, Presbyter, or priest, speculated on the purity of religion.

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The candidate was tempted with a crown, scepter, sword, gold, and priests' garments.

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The candidate was told to choose from these items.

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If he reached for anything other than the priest's garments, he was told, be gone on holy man.

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If he reached for the priest's garments however, one called out to him, healthy, noble man, peace be with you.

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The holy legion of assistance, shouted, cow and blessings to the kings and priests of the new union.

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Blessed be you, be illuminated and go and peace.

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The Presbyter degree, it contained a peculiar theology, really, consisting of viseugs and ideas, but also of Kenega's ideas.

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That was probably only the degree where essential ideas of both men really were joined together, which also caused some friction.

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It's really an advice hop's take on John Jacques Rousseau's discourse on the origin of human inequality.

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On the one side, Rousseau takes you up to Hill that mankind starts in a primitive state and is enslaved by his needs and vise hop takes you down to the other side of the Hill and shows you by curbing your needs you obtain your original state of freedom.

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The 10th degree, Princeups, or Regent, discussed vise hops view on society.

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Up to this point, the candidate has submitted himself to very demanding obligations and monthly reports that he bustle chat reports.

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So when he is initiated as a Regent, he set free from all these obligations and all the files that order has collected on him up to this point are returned back to the candidate.

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And the thinking is, is that he's so tightly bound to this system that obligations are no longer necessary for him to be a loyal and faithful member of the order.

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In the ritual of this degree, bones and a crown laid out before the candidate was to teach him that whether the bones belonged to a king, a noble man, or a beggar, all are the same at death.

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The initiative was told that slaves were not allowed and that he must profess his wish to be truly free from the chains that bound him to his state of slavery.

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Once the candidate was freed from the bondage of his restraints, he then entered a room where he observed a shepherd's crook, which denoted he was charged with leading others to freedom.

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He received a Roman cap of liberty in accordance with the ancient Roman tradition of when slaves from that era were literally set free by their masters.

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The crown set before him was to remind him that he should never desire to trade the Roman cap of liberty for the crown.

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Around this time, Kaniga began to view Vaishapt as a hypocrite for preaching freedom and liberty through the Illuminati teachings, yet gave no real authority to Kaniga to further develop his own ideas within the order.

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As a result, Kaniga and Vaishapt had a falling out and thus the rituals for the dositists and philosophies were never finished.

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The 11th degree, dositists was the first of the greater mysteries and was considered highly heretical in the eyes of the Roman Catholic Church.

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A dositist is one who believes that Christ's body was not human, but either a phantasm or a real but celestial substance, and that therefore, his sufferings were only apparent.

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The dositist degree is where things start getting really interesting.

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In the correspondence between Kaniga and Vaishapt, they talk about the need for creating a people's religion.

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And what this is is that basically they're going to prove the existence of God in the immortality of the soul and do it through logical and secular reasoning.

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The degree I believe can be related to Vaishapt's own biography and the fate that had before him in 1780 when his first wife died.

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He was arguing that the death only meant ascending to a new level of existence and perception.

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And so eventually, in some kind of afterlife, everybody who had deceased and left the world of the mortals will probably be able to communicate with the other loved ones that had gone before.

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The dositist degree, however, discussed the idea that God does not perceive man the same way human beings perceive mankind.

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Nor does God have a body and senses as we do, but is more of a divine mind and therefore God perceives what happens to life as the effects of certain forces only observable to him.

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The writings and the dositist degree conclude with the daring statement that says, we turn God into a man and convert the infinite to the finite.

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This is where the great mysteries come in, these ideas of the ancient mysteries, because this natural religion could not exist side by side with competing state gods who sought to control society.

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So the idea of the natural religion became part of a mystery which was to be practiced or worship in secret.

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This is the real basis for what we say is ancient mystery schools.

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They don't really exist in this form. The history of these ancient civilizations don't really have this concept.

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The final degree of the Illuminati was the philosophied degree.

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Like the preceding degree, it had no completed ritual.

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The former themes of restoring man to his natural state of liberty by curbing one's needs was intertwined with the concept that one must view the world from a broader perspective.

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That man only considers right from wrong, good and evil from their own personal perspectives.

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And that to understand these concepts more fully, one must assume an external point of view to see the true cause and effect of actions.

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And that from this perspective what is good might actually be bad and what is wrong might actually be right.

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This is where the political system of the Illuminati is trying to enact its political reforms are fully fleshed out.

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It's a panorama of philosophy of history which centers on two ideas in particular, the correlation between population and the advancement of humanity.

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This theme resonated with Vaisocht and Bavaria, given the rolling back of the Enlightenment by Charles Theodore and the control and censorship of academia by the church.

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It is within this context that we see Vaisocht's motivation for creating the Illuminati and the religious and political solutions offered by his order were really one in the same.

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The solutions Vaisocht attempted to offer through his own philosophy were less relevant to others and this was one of the primary reasons that the Illuminati failed.

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It was in a large sense one man working out his own issues and attempting to manifest his own utopian vision as reality.

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The author was an ambitious man he could also be quite a ruthless and a civic. He was not the greatest leader because he was always flashing with other people and within the order.

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So he was not very good at coming to a joint decision with his closest collaborators.

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In 1784 the Illuminati began to fall apart.

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Kaniga resigned from the order causing a major setback.

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The most powerful enemy of the Illuminati fully surfaced. Charles Theodore, a lecturer of Bavaria.

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Even though the Jesuits had lost their post he puts the Jesuits back into place and so it basically just as the Enlightenment was coming into Bavaria the rug gets snatched out from underneath them.

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Between 1784 and 1787 Charles Theodore issued several edicts which would ban all secret societies in Bavaria and eventually issue a death penalty which would end the resistance on any remaining

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members of any secret society. He turned his focus ultimately on the Illuminati and especially Vaisoft who lost his professorship from Anglestadt University and was eventually exiled from Bavaria.

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What's happening at the end of the order is in a dark dark because we don't have a document that says that's now the end.

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Any such organization is doomed to fail. I see how the Illuminati fail in their practical work. They realize now it's not going to be longer.

365
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The last activities that we know were in 1788 and there's no question that the Illuminati will actually was dissolved.

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It was not a big bang. It was a whimper at the end. It was just dissolving quietly in the centre of in central Germany and Vaisoft wasn't able to continue at the helm of this organization.

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With Vaisoft in exile, it was rumored that he became a heavy smoker and drinker. He struggled with money even though he was receiving a monthly stipend which led historians to believe that he developed a gambling addiction.

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Vaisoft spent the majority of his remaining years in the town of Gulta where he died in 1830.

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Even though the majority of the world's leading Illuminati historians have found evidence that the order did in fact dissolve in the late 18th century, there are still those today who believe the Illuminati carries on in the shadows controlling governments, world affairs, the banking system and many other aspects of daily life.

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Perhaps the greatest achievement of the Illuminati is that the world still talks about them today.

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I'm sure there are certain fraternities and certain groups that I'm sure people would quite with the Illuminati like the OTO or some other organization.

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I know that there's the fraternities that have been in the group that people would associate with the Illuminati.

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But I just say they try to blend them all from the Templars to the Knights of Malta to the Jesuits to go down the list of everyone that's Illuminati.

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I have a feeling that I don't think we should mix the substance.

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I think that if there is an Illuminati, we need to know the true history of the Illuminati.

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And then from there, I think people will find it to be, oh, is that all it is?

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Part of the Illuminati during that time, it definitely circulated in the idealism carried on.

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And so there's that idea that globalization and new world order does exist with certain things that developed in today's day in age.

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I mean, we can call certain things like the United Nations or NATO a couple of Adam Wysoft wins.

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If you want to call it that, because this idea was to globalize and get away from a nationalist viewpoint.

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There are dangers to globalization because you might hit absolute power.

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And then you'll have no watchers to oversee the watchers.

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They were advocates for liberalism, republicanism, free thought, and secularism, and gender equality.

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So it had some effect in the popular culture.

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That was back when the society worked and that declined and it met its own demise because of its own indispersions.

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But it did maintain an oral of mystique to where at the beginning of last century it was taken up by some to describe intentions of groups and other societies that were taking their name

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to have that in their societies as a level of hierarchy and because it had its own oral mystique to where they used it to attract membership.

388
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And of course it has taken a live of its own because a lot of people think that the Illuminatist still exists in that they're an entity of the inner to themselves.

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And it is not my belief to the research that I have found.

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And a lot of people are intrigued by it and a lot of people who really were taken on the conspiracy theory, make it as a given when it's actually unsubstantiated, you know, that exist today.

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The Illuminatist and Organization of Secret Organization that any war is the catch-all for everything bad in the world anymore.

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I've done countless talk shows about the Illuminatist and I've had several people call my radio show claiming that they're part of the Illuminatist or they've had some experience of Illuminatist and I always shake my head and say, well, didn't you know the Illuminatist band had like several hundred years ago?

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They say with our secret organizations that have branched off, you know, I kind of think that maybe yeah, there are a few branches that kind of went their various ways, but I think that right now when you talk about the Illuminatist, it becomes nothing more than a very safe marketable book you man.

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Some people actually believe in the idea that there is some kind of secret society called Illuminatist, which calls the shots today, which controls international organizations and the way that the world is being run on a global scale.

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That of course is nonsense, but it's quite interesting and it's all right. We have to be careful to distinguish between fact and fiction.

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And the way we do that is our studying the original documents and there's actually a lot to be done on that front. We are very grateful that the Illuminatist left behind a rich heritage of our Kyvel documents.

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Even though a lot was lost over the centuries, there's still a lot of material for us historians to analyze and to publish for the larger public to be acquainted with.

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How can you substantiate there is this nefarious group that still running the world? I just think that, you know, especially with people that tend to be sort of extremists in their belief systems will sort of grab hold of something to kind of substantiate a certain claim or what have you.

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There are certain individuals that might have some sort of profit, interest involved. It's just a marketing gimmick and especially people in the entertainment industry kind of grabbed hold of that because they knew it was something that could sell.

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Some of the crazy stories about the Illuminatist, well there's the one where the Queen of England's obliterating wizard.

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All governments are basically under one umbrella, the dollar bill. The eye to sinister eye are they're doing the whole triangle.

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C.I.A. trauma-based mind control or reptilian shapeshifter somewhere beyond visible light. So you can't see them. It's probably legit right?

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It's now it becomes a luminati, like a train barreling down on you, a luminati.

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You know, people, they're spit as feckling on their lips when they say it.

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They get crazy and they do mention pretty amazing.

406
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And people go crazy, Satan in their head.

407
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They all say, Satan in their head.

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Republicans, Hillary Clinton, everybody all comes together and they're all thrashing at each other and that's a look not a.

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Does the Illuminati still exist?

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No.

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I really think that people are reticents with myth that secret societies have been with us for a long time.

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They've influenced a lot of things from music to literature.

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Take out your wallet, look at the dollar bill, what's on the back, the seal,

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anoint coeptis, you know, no one sort of sublure him. What is that all about?

415
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It's about some order that they have envisioned.

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He has favored our undertakings. All of this stuff is all illuminati and it's there and it's going to be with us for a long time.

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It does not exist. They illuminati does not exist today.

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Despite whatever headway is made, what we can prove about what they truly were, nobody was going to want to believe it because they're already set in our way because conspiracies just refused to die.

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However, it's important to put this information out there because if it enlightens someone,

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that does that not complete the work that the Illuminati itself had been set out to do to enlighten the mind.

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To free your heart of all vices and fetters.

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Whether the world will ever accept that the Illuminati were simply a group of like-minded individuals who desired to make the world a better place through education and moral refinement does not matter.

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Because there is a profound lesson in the order's story that those who search for the light in the darkness and do not stray from the path may indeed find elimination.

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