Notable Members of the Bavarian Illuminati

Members of the Bavarian Illuminati were chosen in line with its plan of infiltrating the elite and changing society from within. Members of the nobility and influential members of the media and government were especially targeted.

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Original Documents of the Bavarian Illuminati

List of links to original writings of the Bavarian Illuminati. All documents are in German.

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Illuminati Magus & Illuminati Rex

Illuminati Magus and Illuminati Rex, the two highest degrees of the Bavarian illuminati were EYES-ONLY and conferred exclusively by Adam Weishaupt himself.

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Illuminati Prince Degree

High-level administrators for the Bavarian Illuminati were chosen amongst its Illuminati Regents or Illuminati Princes. More Illuminati mysteries revealed…

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Illuminati Priest Degree

The Illuminati Priest degree was the first level of the Mystery Class. It was one of two degrees known as the Lesser Mysteries of the Illuminati.

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Illuminati Dirigens – Scottish Knight

The purpose of the Illuminati Dirigens or Scotch Knight level was to form administrators for the Order of the Illuminati. Knights were charged with keeping an eye out for possible Illuminati initiates within Masonic Lodges effectively forming a secret society within a secret society.

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Illuminati Major – Scotch Novice

Illuminati Major or Scotch Novice was an entry point for experienced Freemasons and a point of union between Freemasonry and the Illuminati.

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Illuminated Symbolic Freemasonry

Knigge based the Illuminated Symbolic Freemasonry rituals on the English York Rite with a few features from French Freemasonry and some specific to the Illuminati.

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Illuminati Masonic Degrees

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

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Brethren of Minerva – Illuminati Secret Meetings

Secret meetings of the Brethren of Minerva. Ten to 15 men met on the 1st of every month,on every new moon and on days marked sacred on the secret Illuminati calendar.

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Illuminati Minerval & Illuminati Minor Secrets

Persistent Illuminati Novices who met the Order’s criteria were promoted to the Illuminati Minerval degree and eventually into the Illuminati Minor degree, the last degree of the Nursery Class and a stopping point for the unworthy.

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Illuminati Novice Degree

Illuminati Novice – the first step in becoming a member of the Illuminati began with a one to three years trial period in which the candidate would be observed and evaluated for possible membership in the Bavarian Illuminati.

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Thrones and Altars

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

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