Illuminati

Why conspiracy theories, and Illuminati never real?

The historical record shows that conspiracy theories linking Freemasonry to the Bavarian Illuminati arose from a fundamental conflation of two distinct organizations. The Illuminati was not a genuine Masonic body or Rite, though its founder, Adam Weishaupt, and Baron von Knigge borrowed the structural framework and certain degrees of Freemasonry to propagate their own separate enterprise. The Order of the Illuminati adopted Masonic organizational forms merely as an incidental vehicle for its own advancement, exercising no permanent influence on the internal structure or principles of Freemasonry.

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