The Illuminati was founded in Bavaria in 1792, by a Freemason grandmaster named Adam Weishaupt. Adam received backing from the Rothschild family to build the Illuminati. He even converted to the Rothschild religion. He had been a Jesuit, but became a Jew. His followers were drawn, primarily, from Bavarian Freemason masters, who then attempted to use the Bavarian Freemasons to overthrow the Bavarian government. They were found out, and fled to Paris, where they infiltrated the French Freemasons. The revolutionary cry of "Liberty, Fraternity, Equality" was taken right out of the principles of Freemasonry. The same principles influenced the American Revolution and the Constitutional Conventions, as most of the instigators in those events were Freemasons. "Liberty, Fraternaty, Equality", however, was not what the French got. Something went seriously wrong.
The Freemasons are an ancient society that long operated under cover of a mason's guild. Throughout the Dark Ages, they preserved the ideals of freedom and equality for all men, while such things were persecuted relentlessly by the Catholic Church. The Black Plague left Europe with little need for masons, so they had to expand their range of applicants, to include other professions, including doctors and lawyers. With the decline of the papacy, the freemansons got a whole new playing field, with new opportunities. Somebody grabbed the freemasons by their leadership. That somebody was Adam Wieshaupt, an agent of the Rothschilds.
The article makes some impressive claims about Weishaupt's masonic connections, he was neither a master, nor a Grand master but spent his time trying to reform (bavarian) freemasonry into something it wasn't. He eventually left, his main claim to masonic fame being that he managed to get it banned by the bavarian authorities.
If the argument of this article is that there is a masonic connection to the Illuminati because Weishaupt was a senior freemason then it's false. There is no connection between the freemasons and the Illuminati (assuming they even exist).
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Really, there's no conspiracy, no evil. I can't prove that to the wilfully prejudiced but the
circumstantial evidence is overwhelming.
