Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Adam Weishaupt (1748–1830), founder of the 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 ...
The Illuminati was formed with the vision of liberating humans from religious bondage and undermining corrupted governments. [ 21 ] The actual character of the society was an elaborate network of spies and counter-spies.
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 ...
The Order of the Illuminati was an Enlightenment-age secret society founded by university professor Adam Weishaupt on 1 May 1776, in Upper Bavaria, Germany. The movement consisted of advocates of freethought , secularism , liberalism, republicanism , and gender equality , recruited from the German Masonic Lodges , who sought to teach ...
Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum is a labyrinthine 1988 novel about all sorts of secret societies, including the Illuminati and the Rosicrucians. [7] Fallen Angels (1984) by Bernard Cornwell (under the pseudonym Susannah Kells) is a love story set in the shadow of the Paris revolutionary guillotine and the grounds of Lazender Castle in England ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Towards the end of his life he published Proofs of a Conspiracy in 1797, alleging clandestine intrigue by the Illuminati and Freemasons (the work's full title was Proofs of a Conspiracy against all the Religions and Governments of Europe, carried on in the secret meetings of Freemasons, Illuminati and Reading Societies).
Williams alleged Ludacris’ mainstream success was due to him being involved with the Illuminati, which Luda refuted. Lady Gaga, William Shatner, and More Stars with the Oddest Christmas Songs Ever.