The Illuminati was begun on May 1, 1776, by Adam Weishaupt, whose plan for his secret society was that a philosophical elite (the "illumined") would root out all religion and ordinary morality, abolish national distinctions, demean patriotism, and "rule the world." [6] A key member of the Illuminati was Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (code name "Abaris"), who wrote Faust, in which the lead character sold his soul to the demon Mephistopheles for knowledge and power. [7]

After the Illuminati was suppressed by the Bavarian government in the 1780s, it scattered abroad, even to the United States. On July 4, 1798, Dr. Timothy Dwight, president of Yale University, delivered a discourse in which he claimed:

In the societies of Illuminati doctrines were taught . . . (such as): The being of God was denied and ridiculed; . . . The possession of property was pronounced to be robbery; . . . Adultery, assassination, poisoning, and other crimes of the like infernal nature, were taught as lawful, and even as virtuous actions. To crown such a system of falsehood and horror all means were declared to be lawful, provided the end was good. . . . Of the goodness of the end every man is to judge for himself. . . . The great and good ends proposed by the Illuminati . . . are the overthrow of religion, government, and human society civil and domestic. These they pronounce to be so good, that murder . . . and war, however extended and dreadful, are declared by them to be completely justifiable, if necessary for these great purposes. . . . With unremitted ardour and diligence the members insinuated themselves into every place of power and trust, and into every literary, political and friendly society; engrossed as much as possible the education of youth, especially of distinction; became licensers of the press, and directors of every literary journal; . . . inlisted in their service almost all the booksellers, and of course the printers, of Germany; . . . panegyrized and trumpeted those of themselves and their coadjutors. . . . In the private papers, seized in the custody of the leading members in Germany, several such societies (of the Illuminati) are recorded as having been erected in America, before the year 1786. [8]

At this point, one might pause and ask whether in the 20th century "goodness" came to be judged by every man for himself, and whether there were wars "extended and dreadful."

It is not surprising that the Illuminati spread to America because Sir Francis Bacon's New Atlantis (1627) had already described the future formation of a utopian society across the ocean from Europe. And in Manly P. Hall's Lectures on Ancient Philosophy, one reads:

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