Johann Adam Weishaupt born on 6^th of February 1748 in Ingolstadt, Bavaria to Johann George Weishaupt (1717-1753), died when Adam was FIVE years of age, after his father passed away he came under the guardianship of his godfather Johann Adam Freiherr Van Ickstatt, who like Adams father was a professor of law at the university of  Ingolstadt,  Ickstatt  was a proponent of the philosophy of “Christian Wolff” (Also known as Wolfius, who was a German philosopher, his main achievement was the complete work of art on almost every scholarly subject of his time, displayed and unfolded accordingly to his demonstrative, deductive, mathematical method, which perhaps represents the peak of enlightenment rationality is Germany). And of the enlightenment, and he influenced the young Adam weishaupt with his rationalism.

            On May 1^st 1776 Johann Adam Weishaupt founded the illuminati, which was originally named the Order Of The Illuminati and had an initial membership of FIVE, the founder Weishaupt, who was first lay professor of cannon law it the university of Ingolstadt, this so called Order Of The Illuminati  was made up of free thinkers as an offshoot of the enlightenment and seems to have been modemed on free masons, the illuminati member took a vow of secrecy and pledge obedience to their superiors, members where divided into THREE main classes, each with several degrees, and many illuminati chapters drew membership from existing masonic lodges. The actual character of the society was an elaborate network of spies and counter spies, each isolated cells of initiates reported back to a superior whom they did not know, but this project of illumination, enlightening and understanding by the sun of reason, which will drive away superstition and prejudice, was an unwelcome reform. He used freemasonry (an international fraternal organization) to recruit for his own little look like masonic society with the goal of perfecting the human nature “re-education to achieve a communal state with nature, freed from government and organized religion” presenting their own system of pure masonry. Adam Weishaupt code name (Spartacus) organized his ritual structure which greatly expanded the secret organization. And the main goal of the illuminati then were to eliminate superstitious, prejudice and the domination of government, philosophy and science by the Roman Catholic Church, to reduce oppressive state, abuses of power, and to support the education of women and encourage their treatment as intellectual equals.

           Weishaupt original plan was for the order to be named the “PERFECTIBILISTS” and many influential and progressive politicians counted themselves in as members, the order had branches in most European countries and reportedly had around 2,000 members over the span of ten years. It attracted literary men and reigning dukes. But because of Weishaupt radical and rationalism in his vocabulary his organization was not likely to succeed. In 1777, Karl Theodor became the ruler of Bavaria, he was a proponent of enlightened despotism and his government intercepted the writings of the order in 1784 and the writings were interpreted as organized rebellion and civil disorder against the authority and the state, with the encouragement of the Roman Catholic Church, Karl Theodore permanently banned the illuminati and other secret societies in Bavaria in 1785 and Adam Weishaupt lost all he had and he fled Bavaria.

                                            

MODERN ILLUMINATI

           Several recent and present day fraternal organisations claim to be descended from the original Bavarian Illuminati and openly use the name “illuminati”. Some of the groups use variation on the name “The Illuminati Order” in the name of their own organisation. However, there is no evidence that these present day groups have a connection with the Bavaria Illuminati, rather they use the name Illuminati as a means of attracting members.

           Even conspiracy theories has emerged is this modern day to say that the Illuminati survived there suppression in 1785 where by there is no real evidence of such anywhere. Many modern Conspiracy theorists have propose that world events are being controlled and manipulated by a secret society calling itself the ILLUMINATI, they have even claimed that notable people e.g the high class, presidents, governors, owners of big cooperation’s are part of the group, and they even say that they’ve infiltrated the movie and music industries and other theorists contend that a variety of historical events were orchestrated  by the ILLUMINATI, from the battle of waterloo, to French revolution and president John F. Kennedy’s assassination to an alleged communist plot to hasten the New World Order by infiltrating higher places in the world.