The Chronicler's Web (TCW)

by DAN CALLOWAY
Published 23 March 2010

MYRTLE BEACH, SC – Who are the Illuminati? What do they represent?

According to the official website for this organization, illuminati-news.com, this mysterious group of super-rich power brokers have an ambition to create a slave society. They rule the world behind the scenes with an ultimate goal of creating a One World Government, with them on top to rule the world into slavery and dictatorship.

This secret organization is connected by bloodlines that go back thousands of years. Former president George H. Bush, Sr. has openly called for a New World Order in which the elite organization known as the Illuminati control the societies as occultists and black magicians.

The Illuminati claim their God to be Lucifer, ‘The Light Bearer,’ and through occult practices they influence and manipulate the masses. This description is one that summarizes some of the popular myths surrounding a branch of European Enlightenment that has been dormant for many hundreds and thousands of years. Another description of The Illuminati that is probably more accurate is one in which they are described as post-Rosicrucian.

The Illuminati entered the world stage following the Rosicrucians. They began as a self-selected group of intellectuals who sought to free themselves from the age-old bondage of “church and state.” The visionary of the Illuminati, was Adam Weishaupt (1748-1830), a Freemason and professor of canon law at the University of Ingolstadt in Germany who started the Bevarian Order of the Illuminati. Professor Weishaupt is also responsible for publishing the founding document of the organization, which he initially called “the Order of Perfectibilists” in 1776. Adam Weishaupt’s call to action mirrored the intellectual drive of the American Revolutionists: “…to raise liberty from its ashes–to restore to man his original rights…to obtain an eternal victory over oppressors–and to work the redemption of mankind, in secret schools of wisdom.”

Weishaupt called for a secret society of initiates to lead the rebellion against authority. This was in opposition to the call of Thomas Jefferson, at the time, and that of the American leaders whose view was a broadly based public movement for freedom. Jefferson defended Weishaupt’s plan for his fellow radicals to infiltrate Masonic lodges, whose secrecy would protect them. In a letter to the president of The College of William and Mary, Thomas Jefferson wrote,”As Weishaupt [sic] lived under the tyranny of a despot & priests, he knew that caution was necessary even in spreading information, and the principles of pure morality. He proposed therefore to lead the Free masons to adopt this object and to make the objects of their institution the diffusion of science & virtue.”

Weishaupt erred in the diffusion of his views and, as a result, in 1785 was dismissed from his teaching post and exiled from Bavaria by its Elector, Karl Theodor. He spent the remainder of his years in Gotha, a town in Thuringia, protected by sympathetic nobles, writing books, which explained his views.

Thus, the Illuminati, not unlike the Rosicrucians, live on in popular culture as a group of conspiracy theorists who view a Bavarian professor’s failed attempt to institute a New World Order as an enterprise that lives on as a thriving group of shadowy super-elite who run the governments from behind the scenes and hope one day to rule the world.