The Illuminati | Secret Societies 2 | European History | Extra History

Bavaria 1785 guards on the road are alerted to keep an eye out for suspects fleeing the country Bavarian police hammer on doors for the prince elector Carl Theodore has discovered a secret plot a subversive group has wormed its way into the leadership structures of power the post office the Army Freemasonry the universities spreading its Credo of secularism atheism and the restructuring of Society members of the group who are caught are arrested police seese tranches of documents detailing plans for a silent Revolution yet still at large is their leader a man known by the code name

Spartacus Adam Vice hop the founder of the [Music] Illuminati of course it's no secret that nordvpn helps our ORD stay safe on the internet for a 2-year plan on a huge discount check out nordvpn.com extracredits VPN after the episode welcome back initiate to the second grade of wisdom in the AO extra Historia today we shall initiate you into the knowledge of the mysterious Illuminati but first the Supreme excellent lawgiver must reveal you a new sacred rule binding our covenant don't Google this stuff seriously just don't trust me please please please please please most of the

information online is hot garbage that tells you nothing and your YouTube recommendations will become Mega weird so please just trust me on this one because somehow a 18th century revolutionary Society from Central Europe has become the big bad of Fringe conspiracy theorists but we're getting ahead of ourselves on May 1st 1776 Adam Vice hppt a 28-year-old professor at the University of englot decided to start a secret society now this isn't as weird as it sounds on the surface secret societies were all the rage in the 18th century and vice Hobs native Bavaria the most popular

were the Freemasons who kept lodges in most major cities but it also boasted chapters of the rosac crucian an invisible College of experimenters who variously sought alchemical knowledge ancient Egyptian magic and natural law universities were also a particular hotbed for secret societies formed so students and professors could discuss Enlightenment ideals like democracy and secularism considered dangerous to the social order and vice Haled loved Enlightenment ideas in fact he was quite literally a child of the Enlightenment orphaned at age 4 he'd been raised by an uncle who Unleashed him in his private library of radical texts

so it was likely this type of academic Discussion Group Vice helped set out to create at first his group was small and consisted mainly of his students though he did have to keep those ideals hidden as he attended Jesuit schools then University always under the eye of the monks the Jesuits fostered a culture of surveillance with students and faculty encouraged to inform on one another however the Jesuit zealotry and tenacity to medal in politics caused their downfall the pope abolished their order in 1773 which opened a place for vice halp with Jesuits expelled from faculty

he was able to take up a position as professor of canon law and he decided to use that position to remake the world see Vice help had come to believe that religion had a corrosive effect on society and that what Humanity needed was a fully secular government run by reason and Enlightenment principles rather than superstition and he knew how to accomplish it via a Secret order who would gain positions of influence then steer the world from the Shadows but of course before that he kind of needed to learn how to secret society by which we

mean he copied off existing ones first he joined a Freemason Lodge in Munich finding a like-minded Ally in one of the Lodge's high-up members he persuaded the man to disclose all of the Hidden knowledge of Freemasonry so that they could use it in their own organization then Vice directed students to join the Masons spreading the influence of his new secret society by embedding it in the established networks of an existing one after all it was a key tenant of Vice Hal's philosophy that his organization might work under a variety of names and gues pushing always

toward revolutionary change those members initiated more members within the Freemason Lodges at times presenting this new secret society as a legitimate subfacet would through study of enlightenment philosophy and controlled teachings create perfect humans a name spoken of only in Whispers a name that would make the powerful shudder and that name was the order of the perfect abil ists I'm sorry what oh you you thought that name sucked yeah well the perfect abil ists thought so too so they urged Vice Alp to change it in order to attract more recruits oh and they had just the

name to go with the Illuminati think about it it's powerful and mysterious while also proclaiming their Enlightenment ideals real brainworm that one is but like most good ideas it was stolen yeah Illuminati was a word already used to describe devotees of the Enlightenment and it was also the name of a mystical Catholic sect formed by a Spanish woman in 1492 they just didn't seem to care like the Masons they established grades of membership and began writing deep lore and backgrounds claiming ancient knowledge that was partially invented by a member and partially stolen from published rosac

crucian papers to enter initiates had to write a literary essay and upon passing would Ascend to the first grade of membership their learning was strictly controlled in order to produce the desired educational effect and more Freemason rituals were included in the middle level until the initiate tried to achieve the rank of priest and full entry into the highest level of mysteries there they would be shown a table of treasures with a crown and scepter and behind that a throne the initiate would then be told that if this power tempted them they would be cast out

permanently to refuse the crown would be to walk the path of obedience to the order and a promise to help subvert the system for the cause of the Enlightenment hey wait didn't The Cult of mithis last week also involve refusing a crown huh interesting that element keeps popping up loyalty was also secured during these tests as part of the initiation rituals involved the candidate telling an examiner their darkest secrets and desires blackmail material should they ever betray the order the illumin were always watching you see an element Vice helped borrowed from the Jesuits he also

proposed a sort of kindergarten where female members would teach Enlightenment texts and the order spread dispersing through the Freemason Lodges of Europe it reached into Austria France and other cities in the Holy Roman Empire in some lodges half of the members were actually Illuminati while a few lodges were taken over entirely this included a lodge in Vienna that counted Mozart as a member but whether or not he knew about the secret inner order is still unknown Illuminati leadership did however try to recruit people of influence and by 1784 the Illuminati had 2,000 members which included

a general government officials professors and a Postmaster General who had the power to read anyone's mail now at this point in our teachings you might be wondering what did Vice help do with all that power well I'm going to tell you nothing yeah he was mostly focused on taking over more and more Freemason lodges issuing strict guidelines to follow and trying to subvert the rosac crucians not exactly a wild Act of sabotage and that's when the whole thing collapsed no one's quite sure what happened but in 1784 some Illuminati correspondents fell into government hands possibly

due to the actions of the rosac crucians who were kind of sick of the Illuminati messing with their members the hammer came down fast first the elector count sent out his troops and police to arrest Illuminati members and question them the whole thing fell like dominoes with each raid netting more confessions denouncements and documents and the story was a terrifying one to those in power this was a Secret order dedicated to Revolution by subtree which had operated under the government's nose for years the fact it had never gotten around to actually doing anything was immaterial

to embarrass and discredit the group The Bavarian government published the seized documents and by the next year in 1785 the holy Roman Emperor banned all secret societies apart from the Freemasons who had to register membership lists with the police Vice hoped himself escaped to sanctuary in another German state where he spent the rest of his life writing books about Illuminati ideas and died in his 80s for all practical purposes the Illuminati died in 1784 crushed by the Bavarian government but then the conspiracy theories started in 1797 two separate books were published in England alleging that

the the Illuminati had survived and were the secret Puppet Masters behind the French Revolution the books proved especially popular in the newly founded United States which ironically held many of the same views as Vice how Thomas Jefferson was a fan but also triggered an era of paranoia about secret societies and hidden plots from there they became a symbol rather than a group the name pinned in the center of every conspiracy Fanatics corkboard an allpurpose Boogeyman mostly because of a really great name they took from other people so in a way you could say that the

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