People are very susceptible to dark forces. However, they often think that they are really 'illuminating' others as to the sinister societies, ultimate secrets, etc.

Yes, it is scary how much time it must have taken to create a site like that. And my own cynical and sinister side did not overlook the fact that their logo looked very much like a communist sickle slicing the world - and that they were equating all the successful capitalists as satan worshippers.

These people are usually younger folks in their early twenties - very impressionable - and have not lived long enough to see that there is not possibly enough time for all these folks to spend in meetings discussing how to rule the world - and having known some folks in the 'elite' world - I also know they often are too busy discussing the durability merits of the Bugatti Royale's rhinoceros hide upholstered chauffeur's compartment, or picking up lear jets, vacation houses and Bell Helicopters from Robb Report, to worry about secretly ruling the world.

They are too busy impressing and competing against each other and against the ravages of time. (Yes, the wealth patrons are much more likely to be found spending their free time in a plastic surgeons office than some boring meeting of the Grand Abbot of the Universal New Order.)

Here is the DEFINITIVE history of the illuminati. (As described by the "Shadow Government's" library ;-) - and one of a dozen surviving hundred and two year old sets of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica)

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Illuminati, or "Enlightened," is a title which at different times has been given to, or assumed by, various sects or orders of mystics, on the ground of the superior knowledge of God and of divine things which they claimed. Among these may be mentioned that of the Spanish "Alombrados" or "Alumbrados" which arose about the year 1520, and which before its final disappearance about a century later afforded numerous victims to the Inquisition, especially at Cordova.

Ignatius Loyola, while a student at Salamanca (1527), was tried by an ecclesiastical commission for alleged sympathy with its views, but was acquitted with an admonition.

Under the name Illumines a similar sect appeared in Picardy in 1623, and afterwards entered into the close relations with the Guerinets or followers of Pierre Guerin; but by its anti-nomianism it soon provoked repressive measures, to which it finally succumbed in 1635. The history of another sect of the Illumines, which appeared in the south of France about 1722, is very obscure, but it is said to have subsisted until 1794.

The title of Illuminati has often been popularly bestowed also on Rosicrucians, Martinists, Swedenborgians; but one of the most most recent as well as most important applications of this elastic word has been to denote a secret society, or semi-political semi-religious order, which made a stir in Germany, especially in the southern and Catholic portions of it, from 1776 to 1784. It was founded on May 1, 1776 by Adam Weishaupt, professor of canon law at Ingolstadt, and an ex-Jesuit, and set before it as its general purpose the discouragement of tyranny, superstition, and ignorance and the furtherance of the cause of reason, freedom and virtue. The name originally assumed for the order was the Society of the Perfectibilists (Gessellschaft der Perfectibilisten).

Politically its tendencies were republican, and in religion it was free-thinking, having a distinct aversion to CHristian ritual and Christian dogmas alike. The entire subservaincy of its members (who on admission were pledged to blind obediance of the orders of their superiors) was secured by a strict system of secret confessions and monthly reports., checked by mutual espionage. Beginning with a narrow circle of disciples carefully chosen from among his own students, Weishaupt gradually extended his propaganda from Ingolstadt to Eichstadt, Freisung, Munich, and elsewhere, special attention to enlistment of young men of wealth, rank, and social importance.

As the order increased in numbers its organization naturally became more complicated, and was ultimately considerably influenced by the intimate relations which were established with masonic lodges at Munich and Freisung in 1780. About the same time an important impulse was given to its prosperity in middle and northern Germany by the ambition and energy of a newly acquired member, Baron Adolfe von Knigge, who had his headquarters at Frankfort-on-the-Main. It was to him that the society was indebted for its extremely elaborate constitution (never, however, actually realized) according to which the membership was divided into three great classes, in which the first to be included the "novices," the "minervals," and the "lesser illuminati," while the second consisted of "freemasons" ("ordinary," "Scotch," and "Scotch Knights") and the third or "mystery class" was subdivided into the two grades of priests and regents and of magus and king.

Each member of the order had given him a special name, generally classical, by which he alone was referred to in official communications; all correspondence was conducted in cipher; to increase the mystification, towns and provinces were invested with new and altogether arbitrary designations. At its period of greatest development the order included a very wide area, extending from Italy to Denmark, and from Warsaw to Paris; at no time, however, do its numbers appear to have exceeded 2000.

Its aims and methods, which, as plainly appears in portions of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister were somewhat in accordance with the taste of the period, met with more or less sympathy from Goethe himselfand from Herder, from the gand-dukes Ernest II of Gotha and Karl August of Weimar, as well as from other persons of influence and repute (Bode, Nicolai) A rupture which took place between Weishaupt and Knigge in 1784 greatly accelerated the public expression of a counter feeling of suspicion and dislike which had been slowly gathering strength, and in 1785 the Bavarian Government issued an edict which proved fatal to the order. Many of its members were imprisoned or compelled to leave their homes; Weishaupt himself was deprived of his chair and banished the kingdom.

See Grosse Absichten des Ordens der Illuminaten (with Appendices, Munich 1786) ; and Weishaupt's Vollstandige Geschichte der Verfolgung der Illuminaten (1787), and Kurze Rechtfertigung meiner Absichten (1787)

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Other later encyclopedias have taken snippets of the above definition, shifted it around a bit, perhaps omitted a few things a long the way.

A little information always leads to a lot of guessing. So the folks who know a little have turned the Illuminati into a satanic cult of power-hungry corporate leaders - the equally gullible will buy into these crafted sites with little or no discerning ability.

As I read the link posted earlier, I could not help but wonder if the fellow who wrote it really believed what he wrote. Sadly, I fear they begin to believe it - turning the whims of jealousy of wealth and frustration with big business into play as they conjur up a detailed manifesto which smears families, businesses and individuals.

But I must go...

The secret meetings are about to be called to order.

SDAI-Tech1

PS
Bush did a GREAT job with his State of the Union Address!