Category: Historical Bavarian Illuminati

  • Adam Weishaupt on the Source of the Decay of all Nations

    Adam Weishaupt on the Source of the Decay of all Nations

    “Since the number of men is large but the earthly realm is not inexhaustible, one man can no longer profit from the labour of twenty. Moderation, contentment, and frugality must become the general morals of mankind. (…) The whole earth becomes a garden, and nature has at last completed her day’s work here below, bringing…

  • The Collected Works of Adam Weishaupt: On Materialism and Idealism

    The Collected Works of Adam Weishaupt: On Materialism and Idealism

    VARIOUS OPINIONS ABOUT WEISHAUPT’S PHILOSOPHY RANGED FROM anarchist to secular utopian, republican, and philanthropist (see Buzz Feed Unsolved: The Secret Society of the Illuminati). The fact however is — Adam Weishaupt is a Protestant thinker, and his beliefs or system can be studied within the context of Idealism, personally engaged in a blend of rational mysticism and morality…

  • Owl Symbolism in the Illuminati’s Minerval Assemblies

    Owl Symbolism in the Illuminati’s Minerval Assemblies

    AS WITH MANY SCHOOL INSTITUTIONS, I TOO ADOPTED THE PALLAS ATHENA OR MINERVA as a symbolic “patron of knowledge and the arts.” It reminds me of what we all stand for and helps me hold myself accountable. However, we sometimes also find Minerva accompanied by an owl, and this symbolism enters the Illuminati Order. Owl…

  • First Thoughts about “The Secret School of Wisdom: The Authentic Rituals and Doctrines of the Illuminati”

    First Thoughts about “The Secret School of Wisdom: The Authentic Rituals and Doctrines of the Illuminati”

    A SCHOOL OF HUMANITY I am highly satisfied with my copy of “The Secret School of Wisdom: The Authentic Rituals and Doctrines of the Illuminati.” I cannot believe how much error exists regarding this historical order, and so fail to understand the reasons the Bavarian Illuminati Order is demonized, as if it was a ploy…

  • Adepts in America in 1776: William Q. Judge’s Speculations prompt Blavatsky to Question “Illuminati” Theory

    Adepts in America in 1776: William Q. Judge’s Speculations prompt Blavatsky to Question “Illuminati” Theory

    ADEPTS IN AMERICA IN 1776 CONTROVERSY William Q. Judge article in the Theosophist (1883) was his own theories. A respondent puts forth the claims of Adepts in America in 1776 to Helena Blavatsky who explains the European and American Revolution was an independent effort, though not from the men she is associated with. First Published…

  • The Spanish Alumbrados: Origin of the Term ‘Illuminati’

    The Spanish Alumbrados: Origin of the Term ‘Illuminati’

    Definition The Iluminados, Perfectibilists and TheosophiCAL REFERENCES Illuminati. the past participle of illuminare, meaning to “light up,” or “illuminate.” The plural term, “Illuminati” (Lat. illuminatus; Ital. Illuminato) was originally applied to a 16 c. Spanish mystic sect, called the Alumbrados (Spanish. “Enlightened”), or Aluminados, led by Sister María de Santo Domingo, or La Beata de Piedrahita (a…

  • Zain Khan interviews Josef Wages on the Truth about the Bavarian Illuminati

    Zain Khan interviews Josef Wages on the Truth about the Bavarian Illuminati

    Josef Wäges is making breakthroughs in historical research about the Bavarian Illuminati and Johann Adam Weishaupt. Zain Khan interviews Josef Wages a 32° degree Freemason, and also a best selling author of the book ‘The Secret School of Wisdom: The Authentic Ritual and Doctrines of the Illuminati.’

  • Illuminati History of the Secret School of Wisdom | Josef Wages

    Illuminati History of the Secret School of Wisdom | Josef Wages

    Josef Wäges gives the death-blow to Illuminati conspiracies as strings of repeated hearsay devoid of historical fact. He goes into the references made by George Washington, a Freemason, who equated the Illuminati with the Jacobinism of the French Revolution. Illuminati History of the Secret School of Wisdom “THERE are lives that Theosophists and all others…

  • Illuminati Pop Lies vs. Secret Society Truth with Josef Wages

    Illuminati Pop Lies vs. Secret Society Truth with Josef Wages

    JOHANN ADAM WEISHAUPT: FROM SENSATIONALIST AND SLANDEROUS MYTHS TO DOCUMENTED FACTS “It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fated by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.” — ADAM WEISHAUPT…

  • The Lamp of Diogenes: “A Worthy Goal for the Welfare of Mankind”

    The Lamp of Diogenes: “A Worthy Goal for the Welfare of Mankind”

    “In this time, when the games and abuses of secret societies were without end, I wanted to make use of this human weakness for a real and worthy goal, the welfare of mankind (…) I wanted what the heads of the ecclesiastical and secular powers should do and want by virtue of their offices.” JOHANN…

  • Kathryn Olmsted on the Secret Society of the Illuminati

    Kathryn Olmsted on the Secret Society of the Illuminati

    THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE ILLUMINATI Great points by Professor of History at UC Davis, Kathryn Olmsted.

  • Edith Starr Miller’s “Occult Theocrasy” on Theosophy and the Illuminati

    Edith Starr Miller’s “Occult Theocrasy” on Theosophy and the Illuminati

    Known as Lady Queensborough, her real name was Edith Starr Miller (1887-1933). Edith Starr Miller, an active member of Fascist leagues, sought it her utmost duty as an anti-Mormon Christian to find every religion other than her Christianity conduits in a ‘Satanic and Luciferian plot’ to overthrow “Judeo-Christian civilization.” Like the conspiracists of today, various groups…