we've all heard of the Illuminati
they're the guys behind all the
political assassinations and fake moon
landings and they'll stop at nothing to
bring about the New World Order or
something so how did the Illuminati
become the information ages version of
the Gestapo thought police and
Inquisition all rolled into one
hold onto your hats because we're diving
into the secret history of the
Illuminati Bavarian Illuminati the roots
of the Illuminati go back to May 1st
1776 when a college professor named Adam
vie hoped founded a secret refuge for
Germans in search of freedom from church
domination over philosophy and science
he called it the Illuminati of Bavaria
think of it as a secret club for wealthy
male fans of democracy and tolerance
soon its lodges appeared elsewhere in
Europe and the secret got too big to
hide as you might expect non democratic
authorities were none too pleased to
learn a vice Hopps secret club from 1784
to 1787 Duke Karl Theodor of Bavaria
cracked down on secret societies
outlawing the Illuminati in 1785 by
shaft skip town and the Illuminati of
Bavaria shut down that should have been
the end of it but that's only where the
conspiracy theories began expanding
conspiracy so why do people still worry
about this secret club that was probably
defunct centuries ago fittingly
it all goes back to one paranoid guy in
the 1790s a french abbot named august
Amparo el nearly single-handedly
invented the modern idea of the
evildoing Illuminati according to his
theories the Illuminati went underground
and secretly took over the European
Freemasonry from the inside and then
sparked the French Revolution of 1789
Burrell explained all his theories in
his four-volume memoirs illustrating the
history of Jacobin ISM according to
Burrell the Illuminati were medieval
Satan worshippers on a quest for
ultimate power crazy sure oh wait it
gets crazier
Double Trouble August on Barrow ELLs
theory might have been the craziest
theory about the French Revolution but
wasn't the only crazy theory the same
year that Barrow Welles memoirs came out
Englishman John Robeson published proofs
of a conspiracy claiming that the
Illuminati were a secret threat to
governmental stability everywhere you
know two movies about the same thing
sometimes coincident Li come out at the
same time coincidence and the rarer
sexier coinkidink
it was like that but with these two
eighteenth-century Illuminati conspiracy
books because some things never change
the károlyi connection over the years
the Illuminati's alleged ties to
Satanism refused to go away in the early
1900s the most messed up satanic
elements of Barrow Welles Theory
returned thanks to Aleister Crowley at
the peak of Crowley's notoriety the
media called him the wickedest man in
Britain he certainly was a controversial
figure who turned being an Illuminatus
into a cool rebellious idea for weirdos
on the fringes of society communism in
conspiracy theory culture what actually
happened doesn't matter as much as the
stories people tell themselves and with
that in mind there's one big piece
missing from the Illuminati conspiracy
story communism where does communism fit
in the big Illuminati scheme for the
answer we need to go back once again to
Bavaria at the time of the Holy Roman
Empire according to theories by Brad and
sherry Steiger the Bavarian Illuminati
survived in the form of Reading
societies devoted to literature and
self-improvement they proposed that Karl
Marx and Friedrich Engels were members
of those Illuminati reading societies
when they wrote the communist manifesto
in 1848 Steiger goes on to say that
historians got it wrong communism isn't
some idealistic critique of industrial
capitalism he says that communists are
Illuminati by this logic the Cold War
wasn't about fighting communism it was
about resisting the Illuminati plan for
a new world order and you know what
happens next it gets worse
Henry Ford dig deep enough and the
Illuminati conspiracy inevitably goes
from adorably nutty to horribly
disgustingly anti-semitic and for that
we can thank Henry Ford founder of the
Ford Motor Company in 1921 Ford
reprinted an English translation of a
Russian propaganda article
called the protocols of the Elders of
Zion in his wildly anti-semitic
newspaper the Dearborn independent the
protocol supposedly described a secret
meeting of evil Jewish men commonly
understood to be Illuminati who got
together to plot world domination so why
does it matter that Henry Ford chose to
publish the protocols in his newspaper
besides getting Ford name checked in
meine Kampf as one of Hitler's heroes it
also gave both wide distribution and
global credibility to anti-semitic lies
according to the Washington Post those
same anti-semitic lies show up
constantly in today's Illuminati
obsessed conspiracy theory culture 20th
century take over the second half of the
20th century is where a lot of the
modern Illuminati conspiracy theories
picked up steam it was kind of
inevitable considering all the
clandestine spying and technology
advances that were happening at the time
in particular
FBI director J edgar Hoover's quintal
Pro domestic surveillance program for
monitoring radical activists was
supposedly tied to the Illuminati as was
the CIA's project MKULTRA a program that
dosed soldiers with LSD in the hope of
developing super soldiers even some
presidents supposedly had the inside
scoop on the Illuminati threat in 1961
President John F Kennedy gave a speech
that some corners of the internet call
his Illuminati speech why because of one
single line what secret societies was he
talking about
it was 1961 so probably communism or
maybe the Mafia but that wasn't really
the point of the speech it was about the
freedom of the press the same freedom
that allows today's conspiracy buffs to
claim he was killed by the Illuminati
the Illuminatus trilogy pretty soon
paranoia and conspiracy theories went
mainstream Robert Anton Wilson and
Robert Shaye capitalized on the
widespread interest in conspiracy
theories by writing the Illuminatus
trilogy in 1975 three psychedelic
certifiably insane and loominatee themed
novels released as one volume based on
the most outlandish conspiracy theories
the authors learned while editing the
Playboy forum the illuminatus trilogy
basically established the sub-genre of
conspiracy fiction and continues to
drive interest in sinister secret
societies
you're talking about the Illuminati it's
no joke
Digital Illuminati in theory just about
all of current human knowledge is
available on the Internet
not to mention roughly 70% of the
world's cats in people clothes
population so why is the truth about
Illuminati so hard to come by
well move over al gore because according
to some conspiracy theorists the
Illuminati invented the internet why
would they invent the Internet
well so it's easier to brainwash
everyone obviously these telepathic
little bastards they embed themselves in
memories and then they use those to
multiply and spread out to take over
planets in other words Illuminati
conspiracy theories are getting more
convoluted with every passing year - the
Illuminati orchestrate the world's wars
are they enormous Satanist reptilians
who live inside the hollowed-out moon is
it all part of their plan for a new
world order you can ask the internet but
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