The Illuminati Who Are They and Do They Want to Rule the World?

Who or are the Illuminati? Perhaps your first thought is that of a paranoid crackpot wearing a tinfoil hat or maybe your thinking more in lines of The Apocalypse, the Anti-Christ and the coming New World Order. The Illuminati largely remain a mystery with any number of contradictory opinions, theories and interpretations of history.

Whether the Illuminati is a secret organization manipulating humanity or was a short-lived group of intellectuals looking for enlightenment in the 1700's will probably be debated for years to come. Still, I find this mysterious group fascinating. Despite all the conspiracy theories and real or imagined paranoia about the Illuminati there are some concrete indisputable facts regarding them. On the other hand, there is a wealth of largely unverifiable interpretations and conjecture about the Illuminati.

From Wikipedia

"A secret society is a club or organization whose activities and inner functioning are concealed from non-members. The society may or may not attempt to conceal its existence. The term usually excludes covert groups, such as intelligence agencies or guerrilla insurgencies, which hide their activities and memberships but maintain a public presence. The exact qualifications for labeling a group as a secret society are disputed, but definitions generally rely on the degree to which the organization insists on secrecy, and might involve the retention and transmission of secret knowledge, denial of membership in or knowledge of the group, the creation of personal bonds between members of the organization, and the use of secret rites or rituals which solidify members of the group."

OK, The Illuminati is a secret society. That was easy. No arguments, or differences of opinion there. It is the nature of a secret society to remain secret. And the Illuminati, if it does actually exist is as secret as they come. We begin in the 1500's when the first written mention of the Illuminati.References to enlightened ones or Illuminati first began then. Occultists referred to themselves as Illuminati or "enlightened" ones..

Dictionary.com refers to Illuminati as:

"Persons possessing or claiming to posses superior enlightenment or a name given to different religions or sects because of their claim to superior enlightenment"

This group used occult practices and rituals and believed they were in contact with a higher power. This group was called-The Rosicrucians. The remnants of the Roscrucians probably either formed or were incorporated into the Illuminati in the 1700's.

Adam Wieshaupt founded the The Illuminati in the 1700's. This group is often referred to as the Bavarian Illuminati to distinguish it from the Illuminati that many feel goes further back, perhaps even to the roots of civilization.

In 1776, Wieshaupt published a manifesto for the Illuminati spelling out its goals. Weishaupt manifesto called for a one-world order. His plan as spelled out in the Illuminati manifesto called for among other things abolishing religion, government, orders of class, right to own property and raise your own children and nationalism. The Bavarian government discovered Wieshaupt manifesto, largely by accident and forcibly disbanded the Illuminati.

Although the manifesto was much more detailed, many of these goals relate directly to the state of our society today. Think about how society and the plight of the common man has changed over the past few hundred years or even the last few decades. Is the moral degradation of our society planned?

Many believe that the Illuminati still seeks a one world government remains. Can't debate that the manifesto exists, is displayed at the British Museum.a Nor that Wieshaupt started an organization called the Illuminati. The question remains are they still actively pursuing this goal? Perhaps under the umbrella of secret societies or groups using different names:Bilderberg group, Trilateral Commission, Council on Foreign Relations and The Skull and Bones?

Much controversy surrounds this topic, with many believing that the Illuminati go further back than the 1700's Perhaps even as far back as thousands of years. That the top of the Illuminati power pyramid is actually members of 13 families. And that these bloodlines trace their roots back to ancient Egypt or even further.

The Illuminati's goal is to rule the world with a one-world government. It accomplishes this by manipulating countries through their leaders and their legislation. It engineers crisis's and events that only they have a solution to. However these engineered crisis and there solutions are designed to further propel the world accepting a one-world government..

Reference to the Illuminati started in the 1700's. However many believe that some form of the secret group probably started well before then, exists to this day and is comprised of the wealthiest and most powerful families. They control by using networks of secret organizations and societies. These organizations and secret societies included what was referred to as The Illuminati in the 17th century, The Rosicrucians, in the 15th century and many others going further back in time. In this era groups such as The Bilderberg's, Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons and Skull and Bones.

Although placing a name on the organization is necessary referring to them as the Illuminati I think misses the full picture and how far back they actually go.

Pure opinion here. Describing the group, or families that seek to rule the world as the Illuminati is probably a little too simplistic. History shows time and time again that he who has the money has the power. For example, in the bible Jesus speaks of money changers, modern day bankers. Nothing has changed much since civilizations beginnings. Is the common element a secretive society that manipulates civilization and their governments into puppets that do their bidding?

Reads the news, watch it on television, talk to your neighbors or participate in forums and a common theme is repeated year after year. The power that of corporations, banks and the military industrial complex. They manipulate our legislation with lobbyists to assure legislation that accomplishes their interests and goals. Money grants access to legislators that ordinary citizens cannot get.

So, if corporations can use lobbyists to manipulate legislation with money, power and the weaknesses of our legislators couldn't some mysterious and more powerful group manipulate corporations, and banks? Could these families or this secret organization manipulate corporations and banks in a similar fashion?

I believe so.