Part 1: Origins

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Adam Weishaupt and the Origins of the Bavarian Illuminati

From Adam Weishaupt’s birth to the founding of the Order in 1776. (11 pages)

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“Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.”
― Denis Diderot




Part 2: Secrets, Rituals and Symbols of the Bavarian Illuminati

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First Class: The Nursery

Illuminati Novice

The first step before entering the Bavarian Illuminati. (2 pages)

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Secrets of the Illuminati Minerval and Illuminati Minor Degrees

Secret passwords, symbols, signs and handshakes of the Illuminati Minerval and Illuminati Minor degrees. (2 pages)

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Brethren of Minerva – ILLUMINATI SECRET MEETINGS

Ten to 15 men of the Brethren of Minerva met secretly about two times a month. Minerval Assembly infographic (2 pages – 2 up)

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Second Class: Freemasonry

Illuminati Masonic Degrees

The 2nd Class began with the 3 Masonic degrees of the Blue Lodge – Entered Apprentice, Fellowcraft and Master Mason. Illuminati hits the big times at the Masonic Congress of Wilhelmsbad. (2 pages)

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Illuminated Symbolic Freemasonry

Illuminated Symbolic Freemasonry rituals based on the English York Rite (2 pages – 2 up)

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Illuminati Major – Scotch Novice

The point of union between Freemasonry and the Illuminati. (2 pages – 2 up)

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Illuminati Dirigens – Scotch Knights

The Bavarian Illuminati’s bureaucratic class (2 pages – 2 up)

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Third Class: Mysteries

Illuminati Priest

Lesser Mystery The highest class of the Bavarian Illuminati was the Mystery Class. The chosen few first became Illuminati Priests of the Order. (2 pages – 2 up)

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Illuminati Prince – Illuminati Regent

Lesser Mystery The Illuminati Prince grade furnished high-level administrators for the Illuminati. (2 pages – 2 up)

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Illuminati Magus – Illuminati Rex

Greater Mysteries The highest degrees of the Bavarian illuminati were EYES-ONLY and were conferred exclusively by Adam Weishaupt himself. (2 pages – 2 up)

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Part 3: BAVARIAN ILLUMINATI MEMBERSHIP

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Notable Members of the Bavarian Illuminati

Sample membership of the Bavarian Illuminati. (2 pages)

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Mozart, Beethoven and the Bavarian Illuminati

Were the two greatest pianists of all time members of the Illuminati? (2 pages)

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Part 4: END OF THE BAVARIAN ILLUMINATI

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Weishaupt’s Great Escape

Illuminati leaks : Illuminati Insider reveals all!
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Regensburg to Saxe-Gotha

Spartacus is on the run. Regensburg is no longer safe and he must reach Saxe-Gotha or face the death penalty back in Munich.




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Raid at Landshut

Bavarian police raid the home of Illuminati insider Xaver Zwack.
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Raid at Sandersdorf Castle

Bavarian police raid the castle of Baron Bassus. (2 pages – spread)>

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The Death of Adam Weishaupt

Weishaupt dies quietly in Saxe-Gotha in 1830. Did he outlive the Illuminati? (2 pages)>

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Part 5: ILLUMINATI IN LEGEND

 

Secrets of the Bavarian Illuminati is book 3 in the Illuminati Rex Conspiracy Comic Books series. Despite the occasional humor and being crammed with anachronisms, this comic is a non-fiction look at the history of the Bavarian Illuminati.

Ritual & Doctrine of the Illuminati (working title) – Josef Wäges, Jeva Singh-Anand and Reinhard Markner

Perfectibilists: The 18th Century Bavarian Order of the Illuminati – Terry Melanson

Les Illumines de Bavière et la Franc-Maçonnerie Allemande – René Le Forestier (short review here another here. I personally ordered it from Amazon France here.)

Illuminati of Bavaria – Marco Di Luchetti

Proofs of a Conspiracy – John Robison

Illuminati Conspiracy Part One: A Precise Exegesis on the Available Evidence – Terry Melanson

Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism – Augustin Barruel

Other Sources and Further Reading

A Bavarian Illuminati Primer – Trevor W. McKeown (Important note on the “legend of Lanz” can be found here.)

New England and the Bavarian Illuminati (Chapter III) – Vernon L. Stauffer

Geschichte des Illuminaten-ordens by Leopold Engel

Secrecy or Freedom? – Alan Jones

Secrecy or Freedom? includes synopses of: Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism, by Abbé Augustin Barruel; The French Revolution, by Nesta H. Webster; Humanum Genus – on Freemasonry, by Pope Leo XIII; Grand Orient Freemasonry Unmasked, by Monsignor George F. Dillon; Freemasonry in the Life and Times of Pope Pius IX, by Fr. Leonard Feeney; World Revolution, by Nesta H. Webster; Secret Societies and Subversive Movements, by Nesta H. Webster; Philip II, by William Thomas Walsh; Against Oligarchy, by Webster G. Tarpley; Treason in America, by Anton Chaitkin; America’s Secret Establishment, by Antony Sutton.

Geschichte des Illuminaten-Ordens von Fr. X. Zwack – Richard van Dülmen’s Der Geheimbund der Illuminaten. Darstellung, Analyse, Dokumentation (includes list of members. *BOTH Lanz*)



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