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  2. Illuminati - Wikipedia

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    An emblem of the Bavarian Illuminati. The Illuminati (/ ə ˌ l uː m ɪ ˈ n ɑː t i /; plural of Latin illuminatus, 'enlightened') is a name given to several groups, both real and fictitious. Historically, the name usually refers to the Bavarian Illuminati, an Enlightenment-era secret society founded on 1 May 1776 in the Electorate of Bavaria.

  3. Adam Weishaupt - Wikipedia

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    Contrary to Immanuel Kant's famous dictum that Enlightenment (and Weishaupt's Order was in some respects an expression of the Enlightenment Movement) was the passage by a man out of his 'self-imposed immaturity' through daring to 'make use of his own reason, without the guidance of another,' Weishaupt's Order of Illuminati prescribed in great ...

  4. Category:Illuminati - Wikipedia

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    The Illuminati (1776-1785) was an Enlightenment-era secret society founded on 1 May 1776 in Bavaria, today part of Germany. The society's goals were to oppose superstition, obscurantism, religious influence over public life, and abuses of state power. "The order of the day," they wrote in their general statutes, "is to put an end to the ...

  5. Aloys Basselet von La Rosée - Wikipedia

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    Johann Kaspar Aloys Reichsgraf Basselet von La Rosée (5 May 1747 Munich - 5 December 1826) was a Bavarian official and judge as well as a member of the Illuminati.. He was a son of Lieutenant Field Marshal Johann Kaspar Basselet von La Rosée and grandson of the Bavarian State Chancellor Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl.

  6. Illuminati in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    The Illuminati plot to bring revolution to England is a central thread. Angels & Demons (German title: Illuminati), Dan Brown's 2000 precursor to 2003's The Da Vinci Code, is about an apparent Illuminati order plot to destroy its enemy the Catholic Church by using antimatter to blow up the Vatican while Papal elections are being held.

  7. Nesta Helen Webster - Wikipedia

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    Nesta Helen Webster (née Bevan, 24 August 1876 – 16 May 1960) was an English author who revived conspiracy theories about the Illuminati. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She claimed that the secret society's members were occultists, plotting communist world domination , through a Jewish cabal, the Masons and Jesuits.

  8. Alumbrados - Wikipedia

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    The alumbrados (Spanish pronunciation: [alumˈbɾaðos], illuminated), also called the illuminati, were the practitioners of a mystical form of Christianity in the Crown of Castile during the 15th–16th centuries.

  9. Carl Adolf Boheman - Wikipedia

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    Gustav IV Adolf feared Boheman, after a warning from Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, who pointed out Boheman as a member of the Illuminati and the Yellow Rose as a society of conspirators. The King had Boheman arrested, the Duke and Duchess questioned, banned secret societies at court, forced Duke Charles to excluded Boheman from the Freemasons and had ...