beginning in the late 17th century there
was a cultural movement of intellectuals
who's now referred to as the Age of
Enlightenment their purpose was to
reform society using reason to challenge
ideas grounded in tradition and faith
and to advance knowledge through the
scientific method it promoted scientific
thoughts skepticism and intellectual
interchange the Enlightenment was at the
time a revolution in human thought in
1776 a German philosopher Johann Adam
vice helped formed a secret society in
the state of Bavaria in Germany named
the order of the Illuminati but only a
few years later in 1785 the order was
infiltrated and suppressed by government
agents of the newly elected ruler
Schultz Theodore he saw the increasing
popularity of these secret societies
such as the Illuminati as a threat that
could potentially overthrow the Bavarian
monarchy since then it's not known what
actually happened to the group which had
allegedly amassed over 2,000 members all
across Europe in the years to come and
to this day there have been several
claims and of course conspiracy theories
that the Illuminati still exists that
they are behind such events as the
French Revolution and the assassination
of John F Kennedy many also believe that
they have infiltrated governments across
the globe and that they are controlling
and manipulating world events supposedly
to create a new world order with a
global government in control of all of
humanity but as stated there is no
evidence that the Bavarian Illuminati
survived its suppression in 1785 today
there are quite a few organizations that
claim to be the real Illuminati none of
them have any proof of course so you
would have to take their word for it
unlike the original Bavarian Illuminati
who tried to remain a secret society
these modern iterations are not afraid
of making their existence very public
websites and social media like often
they do so for the sole purpose
attracting new members the group started
out with only five members in 1776 and
the plan was for the five of them to use
a unique moniker instead of their full
names Vice Hulk became Spartacus and the
other four were nicknamed IX Agathon
Tiberius and Erasmus Rotterdam as' and
they prefer to be called the perfect
abilities
rather than Illuminati it's interesting
that today the Illuminati is almost
synonymous with conspiracy theory and
that they are often depicted in various
forms of media as a group that lurks in
the shadows and pulls the strings behind
the scenes so to speak because the
reason the Illuminati was formed in the
first place was to oppose superstition
religious influence over public life and
the most ironically abuse of state power
abuse of state power the very ideas they
were against in the beginning are what
we claim they are behind today so what
makes the Illuminati so special because
as I mentioned there were many other
secret societies at the time and they
were all shut down and disbanded in 1785
well the reason for this can be credited
to a few fictional books and I guess a
little bit of luck as early as 1798 a
book titled proofs of a conspiracy was
published with a theory that the
Illuminati had survived and represented
an ongoing international conspiracy the
book proved to be very popular at the
time but after a few decades of
speculation the theory died down
it wasn't until over a century later
that the fictional book series titled
the illuminatus trilogy brought the
theories back to life however some
people believe the books to actually be
true and ever since the conspiracy
theories about the Illuminati has grown
more popular than ever before
on a less serious note if you go to
itani muli calm which is Illuminati
spelled backwards it will redirect to
the NSA website must be a conspiracy
nope turns out he was just a guy from
Utah who purchased the domain and
redirected it to the NSA or was it maybe
I'm making fun of this only to deflect
from the fact that everything you've
heard about the Illuminati is true
now I'm just kidding or am i yeah I'm
definitely kidding that this is not true
at all or am i yeah yeah I'm kidding
okay
it's move on or was it the name
Illuminati comes from the Latin word
Illuminatus which means enlightened
Illuminati can also be used as a word
and would then mean a group claiming
superior enlightenment on a particular
subject especially religion but I
seriously doubt you will have much use
of that word in everyday life so when
the Illuminati disbanded what happened
to Y sucked well he actually managed to
flee the state of the area and lived out
his life in the city of guilty' I I
don't think I'm saying that right before
his death in 1830 he wrote a series of
works on Illuminism but other than that
he was never involved with anything
relating to the Illuminati again if
you've heard about Illuminati before
it's very likely you've seen this symbol
time and time again it's usually
referred to as the Eye of Providence or
simply the all-seeing eye and if you're
from the US you probably see it every
day as it's on the back of the one
dollar bill but this is in fact not a
symbol of the Illuminati no they use a
symbol or logo if you will call the owl
of Minerva so why is this symbol so
strongly associated with the Illuminati
well we don't really know how it
happened or who was the first to use it
in that way but it's pretty easy to see
why many religions past and present have
used the image of an eye to represent
God or some sort of higher power one of
the earliest known examples is the Eye
of Horus an ancient Egyptian symbol of
protection and royal power so given the
original symbolism behind the eye and
that the Illuminati is often portrayed
as watching our every move
it seems quite fitting but then there's
the pyramid it has nothing to do with
God or higher power and everything to do
with the United States because the
pyramid has 13 steps which represents
the original 13
colonies how you get that to mean
Illuminati I don't know what conspiracy
theorists uh finds away alerted so let's
talk about these conspiracy theories we
hear so much about what is it exactly
that some people believe that Illuminati
does for example some believe that vice
hump traveled to the US after the
Illuminati was banned in Bavaria and
killed your cha-ching tongue before
taking his place as an impostor as such
the portrait seen on the one dollar bill
is said to actually be wise helped and
while you could say that he has slightly
similar features I'll give you that
everyone looked like this back then even
so to believe that you're trashing
Tangier it out anyone noticing is well
quite to say the least we're
talking real life here with actual
people not some sort of comic book
universe where a pair of glasses equals
I'm a completely different person yes
Superman we although it's you this is of
course just one of thousands of theories
out there others include that the
Illuminati is behind 9/11 the
assassination of John F Kennedy that
they faked the moon landings and more
recently that many celebrities and
famous people such as JC Queen Elizabeth
Beyonce among others are all part of the
Illuminati but the most common theory
regarding the Illuminati something
called the New World Order the premise
is that they have infiltrated
governments politicians corporations and
other key roles in society to eventually
take control of the world to form a
totalitarian global government if we're
going to get to really extreme many also
believe that they're somehow connected
to the Nazis that they are the
embodiment of Satan and yeah we're not
gonna follow a list further down the
rabbit hole there's just way too much
convoluted speculation and opinions
surrounding all of this and quite
frankly in the end it's gonna be up to
you what you want to believe oh and
before you go don't forget to check out
all-time conspiracies they also made a
video about the Illuminati over on their
Channel but what does it mean is all of
this just a mere coincidence or is it in
fact a secret message from our favorite
pop stars our Kanye Keesha Lady Gaga
Drake and jay-z all trying to tell us
something something that we shouldn't
know about the darker side of the music
industry in 2009 Kanye West