Originally posted by spinkyboo
There's no question that it's the illuminate eye - the pyramid - it's the eye.
Except, of course, for the little fact that the Bavarian
Illuminati never used the eye in the pyramid as a symbol. The only symbol ever associated with the actual Illuminati was a dot in a circle, like
so:
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While the Eye of Providence has been used by a number of groups throughout history, and triangles and pyramids have had a variety of meanings going
back to ancient Greece, there's not a single document created by the Bavarian Illuminati that used that combination of symbols. Such fantasy loosely
goes back only to the mid/late 1950s, and really took off in the mid 70's with the fictional work "The Illuminatus! Trilogy" by Robert Shea and
Robert Anton Wilson. They fully admit they took every fringe conspiracy and kook theory they could find and wove them into a fictional, over-arching
storyline. I believe you won't find a single tie between the eye and the pyramid and the Illuminati that pre-dates 1975. Their novel was just so
popular among conspiracy theorists, that some elements of it have been assumed as fact. (Not unlike Dan Brown's fictions, but at a much smaller
scale, and to a more fringe audience.)
[edit on 9/17/2009 by JoshNorton]