reply to post by Spooky Fox Mulder
You confuse things, my friend. Mainly, unless you specify in the beginning, you can not go grouping the Illumanati and the Free Masons. Secondly,
the Illumanati movement well predates the 1770's and AW.
You are speaking of the Theoretical merger of Illumanati and Free Masons (an Infiltration, actually) which is just that, theory. For future
reference, to escape the angst of Mason's in practice, I advise stating this Theory prior to be purely PC.
On another vein, my Birthday happens to be May Day, May 1st. I'll do better to see if such 'strange' things happen in future years.