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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:00,936 --> 00:00:04,936 (mysterious ethereal cacophony) 2 00:00:15,561 --> 00:00:18,478 (mysterious score) 3 00:00:51,121 --> 00:00:54,371 (haunting piano score) 4 00:02:11,711 --> 00:02:13,541 - [Johnny] In the south of Germany 5 00:02:13,541 --> 00:02:15,824 lies the state of Bavaria, 6 00:02:17,381 --> 00:02:22,004 whose history reaches back to the 6th Century Common Era. 7 00:02:23,771 --> 00:02:28,094 The Bavarian landscape is full of lush, beautiful scenery, 8 00:02:29,281 --> 00:02:33,324 rolling hills and impenetrable fortresses. 9 00:02:34,461 --> 00:02:38,471 Along the banks of the Danube River 10 00:02:38,471 --> 00:02:41,164 is the city of Ingolstadt, 11 00:02:42,991 --> 00:02:46,101 well-known for being the setting to 12 00:02:46,101 --> 00:02:49,198 Mary Shelley's novel, "Frankenstein". 13 00:02:50,911 --> 00:02:55,501 Yet, it is also known as the backdrop for 14 00:02:55,501 --> 00:02:58,391 a much darker narrative about the world's 15 00:02:58,391 --> 00:03:00,744 most controversial secret society, 16 00:03:02,211 --> 00:03:03,314 the Illuminati. 17 00:03:11,561 --> 00:03:16,561 The true story of the Illuminati is not a horror story, 18 00:03:19,351 --> 00:03:24,351 nor is it a conspiratorial account of nefarious intentions, 19 00:03:26,511 --> 00:03:29,841 set on enslaving humanity, 20 00:03:29,841 --> 00:03:32,484 or bringing forth the end of days. 21 00:03:34,591 --> 00:03:38,611 This is a rare and unvarnished insight 22 00:03:40,231 --> 00:03:42,588 into the mysteries of the Order, 23 00:03:42,588 --> 00:03:44,424 and their secret rituals, 24 00:03:46,551 --> 00:03:51,184 for the true story of the Illuminati is a very human one. 25 00:03:52,201 --> 00:03:53,924 It is a story of rebellion, 26 00:03:54,831 --> 00:03:56,134 a story of love, 27 00:03:57,081 --> 00:03:59,674 and a story of great loss. 28 00:04:06,111 --> 00:04:09,681 - The Illuminati was founded in 1776 by Adam Weishaupt 29 00:04:09,681 --> 00:04:11,891 and six of his pupils. 30 00:04:11,891 --> 00:04:14,541 Weishaupt's main objective for creating the Illuminati 31 00:04:14,541 --> 00:04:16,841 was to make mankind happy, 32 00:04:16,841 --> 00:04:19,641 by instilling a strict moral regiment 33 00:04:19,641 --> 00:04:21,621 through a series of initiatic decrees 34 00:04:21,621 --> 00:04:23,551 that were patterned after Freemasonry, 35 00:04:23,551 --> 00:04:26,151 to teach morality, virtue, 36 00:04:26,151 --> 00:04:28,711 and more importantly, self-actualization, 37 00:04:28,711 --> 00:04:32,181 and self-accountability to govern one's self, 38 00:04:32,181 --> 00:04:34,191 and thereby making him free. 39 00:04:34,191 --> 00:04:37,944 - He created this society to bring about, 40 00:04:38,781 --> 00:04:41,741 almost revolutionary change to Bavaria 41 00:04:41,741 --> 00:04:43,931 and possibly to Germany, 42 00:04:43,931 --> 00:04:45,664 or Europe as a whole. 43 00:04:46,631 --> 00:04:49,991 Weishaupt got this idea of forming a secret society 44 00:04:49,991 --> 00:04:51,604 by one of his students, 45 00:04:52,461 --> 00:04:53,641 who was not a Bavarian. 46 00:04:53,641 --> 00:04:55,971 He came from Central Germany. 47 00:04:55,971 --> 00:04:58,031 He showed him a number of books, 48 00:04:58,031 --> 00:05:01,121 which Weishaupt then devoured. 49 00:05:01,121 --> 00:05:02,891 They were Masonic books, 50 00:05:02,891 --> 00:05:05,761 as well as Rosicrucian trots. 51 00:05:05,761 --> 00:05:07,681 And Weishaupt developed this idea 52 00:05:07,681 --> 00:05:10,801 that by forming a secret society 53 00:05:10,801 --> 00:05:14,864 he could actually accelerate the pace of the Enlightenment. 54 00:05:16,111 --> 00:05:19,091 - During this time of the Enlightenment though, 55 00:05:19,091 --> 00:05:22,051 this is also the Age of the Secret Society, 56 00:05:22,051 --> 00:05:25,251 and how can you think of Age of Enlightenment, 57 00:05:25,251 --> 00:05:28,764 New Science, rational thought, and secret societies. 58 00:05:31,281 --> 00:05:35,021 What you have to think about is the idea of initiation, 59 00:05:35,021 --> 00:05:39,391 the process of gathering knowledge that has been lost, 60 00:05:39,391 --> 00:05:41,641 or has been unknown to you, 61 00:05:41,641 --> 00:05:43,944 was equated with Enlightenment. 62 00:05:45,851 --> 00:05:47,981 Now this entire time is, 63 00:05:47,981 --> 00:05:50,951 they're fascinated with the ancient world, 64 00:05:50,951 --> 00:05:53,031 Neoclassicism, et cetera... 65 00:05:53,031 --> 00:05:55,961 Greece, Rome, and then also Egypt, 66 00:05:55,961 --> 00:05:59,121 and so this idea of ancient mysteries 67 00:05:59,121 --> 00:06:02,641 practiced by the ancients as being revived, 68 00:06:02,641 --> 00:06:05,101 revolutionizing our thought. 69 00:06:05,101 --> 00:06:07,971 These secret societies saw themselves 70 00:06:07,971 --> 00:06:12,971 as inheritors of these ancient mysteries. 71 00:06:13,557 --> 00:06:16,724 (pensive piano score) 72 00:06:35,022 --> 00:06:38,772 (church bell slowly ringing) 73 00:07:23,605 --> 00:07:24,861 (haunting piano score) 74 00:07:24,861 --> 00:07:29,581 - [Johnny] In 1748, Johann Adam Weishaupt 75 00:07:29,581 --> 00:07:32,994 was born in the Bavarian city of Ingolstadt. 76 00:07:34,521 --> 00:07:38,181 By the time Weishaupt was only five-years old, 77 00:07:38,181 --> 00:07:41,334 both his Mother and Father would be dead. 78 00:07:42,951 --> 00:07:46,341 After the tragic death of his parents however, 79 00:07:46,341 --> 00:07:48,641 fate stepped in. 80 00:07:48,641 --> 00:07:52,551 Weishaupt's Godfather, the Baron von Ickstatt, 81 00:07:52,551 --> 00:07:54,354 took over the care for Weishaupt. 82 00:07:55,371 --> 00:07:59,111 It would be Baron von Ickstatt who would plant the seeds 83 00:07:59,111 --> 00:08:02,121 of the forbidden fruit of knowledge in Weishaupt, 84 00:08:02,121 --> 00:08:04,121 which would end up blossoming into 85 00:08:04,121 --> 00:08:06,874 the infamous Order of the Illuminati. 86 00:08:09,101 --> 00:08:12,071 The Baron von Ickstatt was the book censor 87 00:08:12,071 --> 00:08:16,141 for Ingolstadt University, a Jesuit institution. 88 00:08:16,141 --> 00:08:18,391 - So all of the books you're not supposed to read, 89 00:08:18,391 --> 00:08:19,761 Adam Weishaupt, you know, 90 00:08:19,761 --> 00:08:21,761 as a young man reads all of these books 91 00:08:21,761 --> 00:08:23,401 and he starts to understand that 92 00:08:23,401 --> 00:08:25,331 all these popular philosophical works, 93 00:08:25,331 --> 00:08:26,711 these aren't inherently bad, 94 00:08:26,711 --> 00:08:31,151 but what it does is it minimizes the role of the state 95 00:08:31,151 --> 00:08:34,234 and also the role of the church in society. 96 00:08:36,001 --> 00:08:39,041 And what ends up happening is that you know, 97 00:08:39,041 --> 00:08:40,291 he reads these pieces, 98 00:08:40,291 --> 00:08:42,881 and he's conversing with some of his students 99 00:08:42,881 --> 00:08:46,131 and he gets the idea as early as 1774, 100 00:08:46,131 --> 00:08:49,178 there's a draft paper that's in Berlin that's called, 101 00:08:49,178 --> 00:08:50,881 "A School For Humanity", 102 00:08:50,881 --> 00:08:54,081 and it kind of is the little proto-thing for the Illuminati. 103 00:08:54,081 --> 00:08:57,661 It was necessary to do this behind closed-doors because 104 00:08:57,661 --> 00:09:01,351 the Jesuits had a monopoly on the University's system. 105 00:09:01,351 --> 00:09:05,364 - The Jesuits were formed essentially as the Pope's army. 106 00:09:06,611 --> 00:09:11,421 The Jesuits had been very influential in 107 00:09:11,421 --> 00:09:15,404 education in general and at the University. 108 00:09:16,717 --> 00:09:20,791 Weishaupt was definitely on the side of the Enlightenment, 109 00:09:20,791 --> 00:09:24,448 and very much opposed to the on-going influence 110 00:09:24,448 --> 00:09:28,671 of the Jesuit Order at the University of Ingolstadt. 111 00:09:28,671 --> 00:09:30,921 - It's because the church during the 18th Century 112 00:09:30,921 --> 00:09:34,981 held a huge copyright on free-thought. 113 00:09:34,981 --> 00:09:36,201 During the Age of Enlightenment, 114 00:09:36,201 --> 00:09:38,491 this started to come apart. 115 00:09:38,491 --> 00:09:39,941 And so there's friction. 116 00:09:39,941 --> 00:09:44,941 This was a period where there was heavy censorship on works. 117 00:09:45,441 --> 00:09:49,671 The Catholic Church owned most land, knowledge, 118 00:09:49,671 --> 00:09:51,381 your soul, even... 119 00:09:51,381 --> 00:09:52,861 And so this concept, 120 00:09:52,861 --> 00:09:57,464 a dual-concept of secret, not secret, 121 00:09:59,971 --> 00:10:01,219 that's where it came into being. 122 00:10:01,219 --> 00:10:04,136 (thunder rumbling) 123 00:10:08,344 --> 00:10:11,927 (ethereal cathedral score) 124 00:10:16,369 --> 00:10:19,119 (birds chirping) 125 00:10:21,871 --> 00:10:24,881 - [Johnny] Over the years, Adam Weishaupt's mind 126 00:10:24,881 --> 00:10:28,561 opened up to the writings of various philosophers 127 00:10:28,561 --> 00:10:32,564 from the 18th Century Enlightenment Era at its zenith. 128 00:10:34,248 --> 00:10:38,411 (fire crackling) In 1768 by the age of 20, 129 00:10:38,411 --> 00:10:41,721 Weishaupt received his Doctorate Degree in Law, 130 00:10:41,721 --> 00:10:45,641 indicating that he had a very, bright mind. 131 00:10:45,641 --> 00:10:49,781 From 1772 to 1773, 132 00:10:49,781 --> 00:10:53,931 several important events occurred in Weishaupt's life. 133 00:10:53,931 --> 00:10:58,704 He obtained a professorship of law at Ingolstadt University, 134 00:10:59,731 --> 00:11:04,501 and married his first wife, Afra Sausenhoffer, 135 00:11:04,501 --> 00:11:07,074 against the wishes of his Godfather. 136 00:11:08,031 --> 00:11:09,821 During this time, 137 00:11:09,821 --> 00:11:14,821 Pope Clement XIV disbanded the Jesuit Order. 138 00:11:14,961 --> 00:11:18,871 This opened up an opportunity for non-Jesuits 139 00:11:18,871 --> 00:11:22,314 to teach Canon Law at Ingolstadt University. 140 00:11:23,881 --> 00:11:26,621 Weishaupt secured this new appointment, 141 00:11:26,621 --> 00:11:29,911 and became the first non-Jesuit in the history 142 00:11:29,911 --> 00:11:33,214 of Ingolstadt University to teach Canon Law. 143 00:11:34,861 --> 00:11:37,571 As Weishaupt's career progressed, 144 00:11:37,571 --> 00:11:42,541 his liberal views became apparent to his Jesuits colleagues, 145 00:11:42,541 --> 00:11:45,974 and he became their number one enemy on campus. 146 00:11:46,851 --> 00:11:49,641 While the Jesuits conspired against Weishaupt 147 00:11:50,551 --> 00:11:53,881 he used his intellect to fight back. 148 00:11:53,881 --> 00:11:55,961 - A concept itself was more about 149 00:11:55,961 --> 00:11:58,321 having a new Order of the Ages, 150 00:11:58,321 --> 00:12:01,591 so that he meant he could complement each other 151 00:12:01,591 --> 00:12:03,304 and work to a greater good. 152 00:12:04,621 --> 00:12:07,891 To improve yourself so that you can be of service, 153 00:12:07,891 --> 00:12:10,561 and you can also teach and instruct, 154 00:12:10,561 --> 00:12:13,511 and be an example for someone else. 155 00:12:13,511 --> 00:12:15,868 - [Johnny] He drafted a paper titled, 156 00:12:15,868 --> 00:12:18,421 "A School For Humanity", 157 00:12:18,421 --> 00:12:21,591 a philosophical doctrine which outlined a 158 00:12:21,591 --> 00:12:25,624 preliminary structure for his own secret society. 159 00:12:26,546 --> 00:12:29,651 Weishaupt eventually discarded his idea 160 00:12:29,651 --> 00:12:31,881 for a "School of Humanity", 161 00:12:31,881 --> 00:12:35,461 and on May 1st, 1776, 162 00:12:35,461 --> 00:12:38,341 wrote the statutes for an entirely new 163 00:12:38,341 --> 00:12:42,731 secret society called, the Perfectibilists. 164 00:12:42,731 --> 00:12:45,371 - That means, believe us in the 165 00:12:46,971 --> 00:12:49,961 continuous perfection of mankind. 166 00:12:49,961 --> 00:12:54,781 Believe us and fight us for the improvement 167 00:12:54,781 --> 00:12:56,734 of mankind and its condition. 168 00:12:57,791 --> 00:13:00,301 - He writes about why one should have such an Order 169 00:13:00,301 --> 00:13:02,001 and also whether such an Order 170 00:13:02,001 --> 00:13:03,691 would be dangerous to society. 171 00:13:03,691 --> 00:13:05,744 These are things he openly addresses. 172 00:13:09,021 --> 00:13:12,501 There's a Machiavellian undertone in all this, 173 00:13:12,501 --> 00:13:15,851 about absolute power he could have over people, 174 00:13:15,851 --> 00:13:17,461 who do not even realize that it is 175 00:13:17,461 --> 00:13:19,534 him having this power over them. 176 00:13:22,291 --> 00:13:26,751 - When you have this goal you become dangerous. 177 00:13:26,751 --> 00:13:30,251 In a similar manner, other secret societies have 178 00:13:30,251 --> 00:13:34,081 had similar goals and have therefore become dangerous. 179 00:13:34,081 --> 00:13:35,534 You have to understand that during this time 180 00:13:35,534 --> 00:13:38,341 that Bavaria was a Catholic country, 181 00:13:38,341 --> 00:13:43,341 that many people not only had no ownership of their mind, 182 00:13:44,961 --> 00:13:46,761 they didn't even own their own land. 183 00:13:47,631 --> 00:13:49,631 So there was no movement for the 184 00:13:49,631 --> 00:13:52,621 human soul to express themselves. 185 00:13:52,621 --> 00:13:57,301 - They don't really realize to what degree 186 00:13:57,301 --> 00:13:59,861 their lifes are monitored in the 187 00:13:59,861 --> 00:14:01,791 ideal society is going to erect. 188 00:14:01,791 --> 00:14:06,041 He speaks of a society in which everyone is observed. 189 00:14:06,041 --> 00:14:09,461 I think these ideas are absolutely common-ground 190 00:14:09,461 --> 00:14:11,841 at that time but they have the clear notion 191 00:14:11,841 --> 00:14:15,401 that humanity might be able to develop mentally, 192 00:14:15,401 --> 00:14:17,264 to develop into something higher. 193 00:14:18,161 --> 00:14:22,161 And that should be attractive for practically everyone 194 00:14:22,161 --> 00:14:24,661 to reach that perfection. 195 00:14:24,661 --> 00:14:28,951 It's more in a way that the old idea 196 00:14:28,951 --> 00:14:33,781 of Medieval philosophers that perfection comes after 197 00:14:33,781 --> 00:14:37,621 the world is destroyed in a divine revolution, 198 00:14:37,621 --> 00:14:39,361 that this idea is just dropped, 199 00:14:39,361 --> 00:14:42,371 you can get this perfection on Earth 200 00:14:42,371 --> 00:14:45,006 and you can strive for it and you can create it. 201 00:14:45,006 --> 00:14:48,589 (choir singing hauntingly) 202 00:14:51,054 --> 00:14:53,804 (birds chirping) 203 00:14:55,231 --> 00:14:57,561 At that time there were still 204 00:14:57,561 --> 00:14:59,531 ancient influences at the universities, 205 00:14:59,531 --> 00:15:03,924 so the first stage of the Order was a student group. 206 00:15:05,101 --> 00:15:07,241 - [Johnny] Within a short amount of time, 207 00:15:07,241 --> 00:15:10,721 Weishaupt changed the name of his secret society, 208 00:15:10,721 --> 00:15:14,811 from the Perfectibilists to the Order of the Illuminati. 209 00:15:14,811 --> 00:15:18,931 - Illumination is kind of like the light bulb going off 210 00:15:19,801 --> 00:15:23,981 that will set into motion a development 211 00:15:23,981 --> 00:15:27,131 in the initiate's psyche, and as a result, 212 00:15:27,131 --> 00:15:29,161 and it'll be reflected in their immediate 213 00:15:29,161 --> 00:15:32,031 environment in actual physical situations 214 00:15:32,031 --> 00:15:36,571 which will reflect in their mind and cause change. 215 00:15:36,571 --> 00:15:40,154 (choir singing hauntingly) 216 00:15:45,411 --> 00:15:46,311 - In the old days, 217 00:15:46,311 --> 00:15:48,741 you know before progressive reforms, 218 00:15:48,741 --> 00:15:50,181 and liberal reforms, and everything else, 219 00:15:50,181 --> 00:15:52,024 it was always a secret. 220 00:15:53,131 --> 00:15:55,151 The men in the town knew something, 221 00:15:55,151 --> 00:15:56,631 or they wanted to keep secrets among them, 222 00:15:56,631 --> 00:15:57,841 or they had oaths, 223 00:15:57,841 --> 00:16:01,221 and they kept those as secrets among the men. 224 00:16:01,221 --> 00:16:03,631 And then eventually those men used 225 00:16:03,631 --> 00:16:05,041 those secrets to their benefit, 226 00:16:05,041 --> 00:16:07,231 and it was to protect the people in the town. 227 00:16:07,231 --> 00:16:09,774 It was to protect the people in the city and the county. 228 00:16:10,681 --> 00:16:14,041 - They were trying to explain in the best way they knew how, 229 00:16:14,041 --> 00:16:18,461 their own agenda, 230 00:16:18,461 --> 00:16:22,771 or their own curriculum for freeing the human mind 231 00:16:22,771 --> 00:16:25,371 and therefore the spirit through initiation. 232 00:16:25,371 --> 00:16:28,821 It seems very strange that a almost anti, 233 00:16:28,821 --> 00:16:33,101 not only anti-Catholic but anti-spiritual organization 234 00:16:33,101 --> 00:16:38,101 would use ritualistic practices and symbols, 235 00:16:38,171 --> 00:16:40,531 but this is what they did at the time. 236 00:16:40,531 --> 00:16:43,301 We have to understand that the Age of Enlightenment, 237 00:16:43,301 --> 00:16:46,138 it wasn't necessarily all rationalists, 238 00:16:47,081 --> 00:16:49,631 and one plus one equals two, 239 00:16:49,631 --> 00:16:51,791 not only was there the Counter-Enlightenment 240 00:16:51,791 --> 00:16:54,901 but there were those who did believe in religion, 241 00:16:54,901 --> 00:16:58,131 there were those that did believe in spiritualism, 242 00:16:58,131 --> 00:17:00,594 or rather an esoteric doctrine. 243 00:17:05,571 --> 00:17:08,181 - [Johnny] The Illuminati degrees were broken up 244 00:17:08,181 --> 00:17:12,251 into three classes: the Minerval Class, 245 00:17:12,251 --> 00:17:16,481 the Freemasonic Class, and the Mysteries Class, 246 00:17:16,481 --> 00:17:19,564 comprising a system of 12 degrees. 247 00:17:21,111 --> 00:17:24,561 Within the Minerval Class of the Illuminati 248 00:17:24,561 --> 00:17:26,004 were three degrees: 249 00:17:26,921 --> 00:17:31,921 Novitiate, Minerval, and Illuminatus Minor, 250 00:17:32,131 --> 00:17:34,384 or Minervalis Illuminatus. 251 00:17:36,261 --> 00:17:39,011 The Minerval Class introduced the founding 252 00:17:39,011 --> 00:17:41,954 principles of the Order to the candidates. 253 00:17:44,811 --> 00:17:48,034 The term Minerval was derived from Minerva, 254 00:17:49,551 --> 00:17:51,524 the Greek Goddess of Wisdom. 255 00:17:53,771 --> 00:17:56,621 Often depicted with a shield 256 00:17:56,621 --> 00:17:59,014 emblazoned with the head of Medusa. 257 00:17:59,951 --> 00:18:03,024 - The first degree of the Illuminati is the Novice degree, 258 00:18:03,911 --> 00:18:05,871 the thing is though it's not much of a degree at all, 259 00:18:05,871 --> 00:18:08,521 because there's no formal initiation ceremony. 260 00:18:08,521 --> 00:18:10,581 And what it consists of is a young man, you know, 261 00:18:10,581 --> 00:18:12,651 somewhere between the ages of 14 and 16, 262 00:18:12,651 --> 00:18:15,421 he's brought in by his initiator, 263 00:18:15,421 --> 00:18:17,391 and he only knows this one person, 264 00:18:17,391 --> 00:18:19,861 so that way if he decides to quit or demit, 265 00:18:19,861 --> 00:18:21,431 he can't give the Order up because 266 00:18:21,431 --> 00:18:23,551 he doesn't know the people's actual names, 267 00:18:23,551 --> 00:18:26,091 or anyone else in the Order but his initiator. 268 00:18:26,091 --> 00:18:29,941 - [Johnny] Novitiates were required to maintain a journal, 269 00:18:29,941 --> 00:18:31,614 called a Quibus Licet, 270 00:18:33,891 --> 00:18:38,091 which was an exact record of all correspondence 271 00:18:38,091 --> 00:18:41,044 between the new member and the Illuminati. 272 00:18:42,631 --> 00:18:45,761 The candidates were taught an initial cipher 273 00:18:45,761 --> 00:18:49,014 to conceal names and locations of the Order. 274 00:18:50,001 --> 00:18:54,381 The Zoroastrian years and Persian months were also 275 00:18:54,381 --> 00:18:58,841 used in correspondence to add further complexity, 276 00:18:58,841 --> 00:19:02,104 and security in their private communications. 277 00:19:08,832 --> 00:19:10,761 (ritualistic chanting) 278 00:19:10,761 --> 00:19:15,761 In 1777, Weishaupt became a member of the Freemasons. 279 00:19:17,041 --> 00:19:21,631 He joined the Zur Wohltatigkeit Lodge, 280 00:19:21,631 --> 00:19:23,334 or the Lodge of Caution. 281 00:19:24,641 --> 00:19:28,331 Weishaupt only reached the degree of Fellow Craft 282 00:19:28,331 --> 00:19:32,821 before he decided not to continue in Freemasonry. 283 00:19:32,821 --> 00:19:36,341 But his cunning mind spotted an opportunity 284 00:19:36,341 --> 00:19:41,151 to grow his own Order by infiltrating Masonic lodges 285 00:19:41,151 --> 00:19:42,854 and recruiting their members. 286 00:19:43,831 --> 00:19:46,461 The Illuminati did this by chartering 287 00:19:46,461 --> 00:19:48,711 their own Masonic lodge, 288 00:19:48,711 --> 00:19:50,824 Saint Theodore of Good Counsel. 289 00:19:52,541 --> 00:19:56,011 - They begin to infiltrate Freemasonry, 290 00:19:56,011 --> 00:19:59,321 they create a lodge, Theodor zum guten Rath, 291 00:20:00,601 --> 00:20:05,601 and that is opening the doors into Freemasonry, 292 00:20:06,691 --> 00:20:09,231 now they are accepted and it's not clear 293 00:20:09,231 --> 00:20:11,271 that they are more than that, 294 00:20:11,271 --> 00:20:16,271 and that they have some hidden ambition in that lodge. 295 00:20:16,781 --> 00:20:19,041 - [Johnny] The plan was a success, 296 00:20:19,041 --> 00:20:21,744 and the Order of the Illuminati expanded. 297 00:20:23,021 --> 00:20:27,054 - This organization that is Freemasonry is a scaffold, 298 00:20:27,891 --> 00:20:32,441 a structure where by you can hang your own thoughts, 299 00:20:32,441 --> 00:20:35,081 your ideals and even some of the higher 300 00:20:35,081 --> 00:20:39,411 degrees of Freemasonry have that in mind. 301 00:20:39,411 --> 00:20:43,279 - [Johnny] As the Illuminati continued to grow and evolve, 302 00:20:43,279 --> 00:20:46,261 Weishaupt was struck with a devastating blow 303 00:20:46,261 --> 00:20:47,941 in his personal life. 304 00:20:47,941 --> 00:20:51,584 His beloved wife, Afra Sausenhoffer died. 305 00:20:53,065 --> 00:20:56,391 - Afra Sausenhoffer was Adam Weishaupt's first wife 306 00:20:56,391 --> 00:21:00,421 and she gets sick and is dying right around 1780 307 00:21:00,421 --> 00:21:03,061 and Adam Weishaupt is totally distraught. 308 00:21:03,061 --> 00:21:05,571 - And that was a very, heavy blow to Weishaupt 309 00:21:05,571 --> 00:21:07,264 and his only surviving daughter. 310 00:21:09,201 --> 00:21:12,051 - [Johnny] Yet fate stepped in, once again for Weishaupt. 311 00:21:13,151 --> 00:21:17,431 In May of 1780, Baron Adolph von Knigge, 312 00:21:17,431 --> 00:21:20,721 a well-known Freemason and Master Ritualist 313 00:21:20,721 --> 00:21:25,071 joined the Illuminati which altered both Weishaupt's life, 314 00:21:25,071 --> 00:21:28,234 and the destiny of the Order forever. 315 00:21:29,401 --> 00:21:31,541 - Knigge was ambitious. 316 00:21:31,541 --> 00:21:35,121 He must've been and is way charismatic, 317 00:21:35,121 --> 00:21:40,121 and he's highly engaged in the lodges in Germany. 318 00:21:45,581 --> 00:21:48,081 And he's a good networker. 319 00:21:48,081 --> 00:21:53,081 And he is interested in all these secret observations. 320 00:21:56,091 --> 00:21:58,571 - [Johnny] Knigge quickly became a part 321 00:21:58,571 --> 00:22:01,251 of the Illuminati's inner circle, 322 00:22:01,251 --> 00:22:03,521 and with Weishaupt's permission, 323 00:22:03,521 --> 00:22:07,851 began revising the second degree of the Order, 324 00:22:07,851 --> 00:22:08,984 the Minerval Degree. 325 00:22:11,071 --> 00:22:14,611 In the Minerval Degree the candidate was placed 326 00:22:14,611 --> 00:22:19,611 in a dark room by an officer known as his Godfather 327 00:22:19,631 --> 00:22:24,631 who told him, here you may reconsider once more, 328 00:22:25,221 --> 00:22:29,374 whether or not you remain resolved to join the Order. 329 00:22:31,091 --> 00:22:33,224 If the candidate wished to proceed, 330 00:22:34,401 --> 00:22:36,804 his hat and sword were collected. 331 00:22:38,279 --> 00:22:41,446 (pensive piano score) 332 00:23:12,751 --> 00:23:14,141 - After 30 minutes has passed, 333 00:23:14,141 --> 00:23:16,141 the candidate is taken from the dark chamber 334 00:23:16,141 --> 00:23:18,231 and brought into the Minerval assembly room 335 00:23:18,231 --> 00:23:20,644 before the Magistrate or the Officers. 336 00:23:21,741 --> 00:23:22,941 - [Johnny] He was asked, 337 00:23:23,791 --> 00:23:26,091 what is your desire? 338 00:23:26,091 --> 00:23:27,404 Why do you come here? 339 00:23:29,121 --> 00:23:31,591 After the initiate answered, 340 00:23:31,591 --> 00:23:35,821 he then pledged eternal silence, secrecy, 341 00:23:35,821 --> 00:23:38,244 and obedience to the Illuminati. 342 00:23:39,911 --> 00:23:43,604 The Minerval modes of recognition were then taught to him. 343 00:23:46,218 --> 00:23:49,331 "Ekas ekas este bebeloi", 344 00:23:49,331 --> 00:23:52,161 was given to him in charge as such 345 00:23:52,161 --> 00:23:54,644 as the secret passphrase of a Minerval, 346 00:23:55,671 --> 00:23:58,571 which was derived from the Ancient Greeks, 347 00:23:58,571 --> 00:24:01,238 meaning, "Away away ye profane". 348 00:24:02,621 --> 00:24:07,621 The secret grip was demonstrated by the joining of two hands 349 00:24:08,171 --> 00:24:11,261 and then tapping the hand of the other member 350 00:24:11,261 --> 00:24:13,584 with the pinky-finger, three times. 351 00:24:15,271 --> 00:24:18,751 The secret sign called, the Blinding Sign, 352 00:24:18,751 --> 00:24:22,571 was illustrated by a salute that shadowed, 353 00:24:22,571 --> 00:24:24,154 or blinded the eyes. 354 00:24:25,551 --> 00:24:28,654 The candidate was then awarded with a Minerval Jewel, 355 00:24:29,891 --> 00:24:33,601 a beautiful emblem of learning and graduation, 356 00:24:33,601 --> 00:24:36,114 into the early stages of Enlightenment, 357 00:24:46,811 --> 00:24:49,511 symbolized by the Owl of Minerva 358 00:24:50,451 --> 00:24:52,561 resting on top of an open book, 359 00:24:52,561 --> 00:24:55,504 ensorceled by a laurel wreath. 360 00:24:56,461 --> 00:25:01,461 The letters PMCV on the open book, 361 00:25:02,141 --> 00:25:06,531 stood for the Latin phrase, "Per me caeci vident", 362 00:25:06,531 --> 00:25:10,428 meaning, "Through me the blind become sighted". 363 00:25:12,971 --> 00:25:15,471 At the conclusion of the Minerval ceremony 364 00:25:16,341 --> 00:25:21,341 the superior returned the candidate's sword and hat to him. 365 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:24,381 (rousing victorious score) 366 00:25:24,381 --> 00:25:26,691 He then signed the Minutes Book, 367 00:25:26,691 --> 00:25:28,074 at the secretary's station. 368 00:25:32,351 --> 00:25:36,491 - Secrecy is important because there are many teachings 369 00:25:36,491 --> 00:25:38,921 that go in a gradual system, 370 00:25:38,921 --> 00:25:42,421 and if you give all the teachings 371 00:25:42,421 --> 00:25:43,931 and secrets at the beginning, 372 00:25:43,931 --> 00:25:48,001 sometimes we're not ready to understand those concepts. 373 00:25:48,001 --> 00:25:52,231 So the secret, it maintains an order to the gradual 374 00:25:52,231 --> 00:25:55,724 advancement of the person getting that knowledge. 375 00:25:58,091 --> 00:25:59,461 - It's important to make distinction between 376 00:25:59,461 --> 00:26:02,984 a secret society and a society with secrets. 377 00:26:05,181 --> 00:26:08,451 Masons were, are still a society with secrets, 378 00:26:08,451 --> 00:26:11,171 whereas the Illuminati was a secret society, 379 00:26:11,171 --> 00:26:12,501 the difference being, 380 00:26:12,501 --> 00:26:15,431 a Mason can say, "I am a Freemason", 381 00:26:15,431 --> 00:26:17,231 they just can't discuss what it is that 382 00:26:17,231 --> 00:26:20,218 they do in the ritual of Freemasonry. 383 00:26:20,218 --> 00:26:23,511 The Illuminati cannot mention membership at all, 384 00:26:23,511 --> 00:26:25,191 that's a secret society. 385 00:26:25,191 --> 00:26:28,031 So you take, for example the Masons, 386 00:26:28,031 --> 00:26:29,471 what's a different secret society, 387 00:26:29,471 --> 00:26:31,111 would be like the Mafia, 388 00:26:31,111 --> 00:26:33,751 you can, I can wear a Masonic Ring, 389 00:26:33,751 --> 00:26:35,781 and tell you that I'm a Freemason, 390 00:26:35,781 --> 00:26:37,921 you'll never see me wear a Mafia Ring, 391 00:26:37,921 --> 00:26:39,071 and so you'll never know 392 00:26:39,071 --> 00:26:41,221 whether I'm in it or not. (chuckles) 393 00:26:41,221 --> 00:26:43,431 - [Johnny] The Illuminatus Minor, 394 00:26:43,431 --> 00:26:48,111 or Minervalis Illuminatus Degree was a ritual used, 395 00:26:48,111 --> 00:26:52,871 primarily for inculcating into the mind of the candidate. 396 00:26:52,871 --> 00:26:55,131 The various symbols found within 397 00:26:55,131 --> 00:26:57,968 the Minerval Class of degrees. 398 00:26:57,968 --> 00:27:02,128 It was told, "Now take a look at the pyramid, 399 00:27:02,128 --> 00:27:06,398 "this is the symbol of our illustrious Order, 400 00:27:06,398 --> 00:27:10,728 "which takes large steps closer toward its goal, 401 00:27:10,728 --> 00:27:15,688 "only if the members join forces working toward its 402 00:27:15,688 --> 00:27:20,358 "attainment for the honor of the supreme architect 403 00:27:20,358 --> 00:27:23,361 "and the happiness of the world", 404 00:27:23,361 --> 00:27:28,214 which is why you find written here the letters D, P, 405 00:27:29,728 --> 00:27:31,368 "Deo proximo", 406 00:27:32,241 --> 00:27:34,048 meaning, "Close to God". 407 00:27:35,271 --> 00:27:39,551 The candidate was also instructed on the esotericism 408 00:27:39,551 --> 00:27:43,651 of the god-headed bird holding a Gorgon's head. 409 00:27:43,651 --> 00:27:47,881 Overall this symbol was indicative of gaining wisdom 410 00:27:47,881 --> 00:27:51,804 through various trials in life and constant study. 411 00:27:57,441 --> 00:28:00,461 After the symbolic instruction occurred, 412 00:28:00,461 --> 00:28:03,944 the candidate was taught the secret modes of recognition. 413 00:28:05,371 --> 00:28:10,101 The secret passphrase was "Cave Ne Cadas", 414 00:28:10,101 --> 00:28:14,248 Latin for, "Beware of falling from your high place". 415 00:28:15,211 --> 00:28:20,211 The secret grip was demonstrated by two hands conjoined 416 00:28:20,271 --> 00:28:24,614 and the thumb tapping the other hand three times. 417 00:28:25,601 --> 00:28:28,241 The secret sign was the thumb 418 00:28:28,241 --> 00:28:31,541 and index finger spread outward. 419 00:28:31,541 --> 00:28:33,111 - What this degree is are the 420 00:28:33,111 --> 00:28:36,371 leadership of the Minerval assembly. 421 00:28:36,371 --> 00:28:38,161 Now for someone to get to this period, 422 00:28:38,161 --> 00:28:40,981 they already had to have been made a Master Mason, 423 00:28:40,981 --> 00:28:42,971 and that's important because if you're going to advance 424 00:28:42,971 --> 00:28:46,271 at all on the Illuminati, you have to be a Freemason, 425 00:28:46,271 --> 00:28:47,721 and it was so that way they could have that 426 00:28:47,721 --> 00:28:51,461 seamless connection between the Secret School of Wisdom 427 00:28:51,461 --> 00:28:53,244 and the Masonic Degrees. 428 00:28:54,811 --> 00:28:59,381 - Low degrees are mostly about character formation, 429 00:28:59,381 --> 00:29:04,221 knowing thyself, and also knowing the others, 430 00:29:04,221 --> 00:29:07,031 getting to know the characters of 431 00:29:07,031 --> 00:29:09,044 the persons you communicate with, 432 00:29:09,921 --> 00:29:12,074 your friends and acquaintances. 433 00:29:13,321 --> 00:29:16,911 Particularly impressive is the incredibly long list 434 00:29:16,911 --> 00:29:21,171 of questions by which individual candidate's 435 00:29:21,171 --> 00:29:24,981 character was to be assessed and vetted, 436 00:29:24,981 --> 00:29:29,551 so thoroughly that it was completely unrealistic to do this. 437 00:29:29,551 --> 00:29:33,991 It's pages and pages of very intricate 438 00:29:33,991 --> 00:29:37,601 and detailed questions concerning the 439 00:29:37,601 --> 00:29:39,741 character of each individual candidate. 440 00:29:39,741 --> 00:29:44,741 So that's a very important element of the lower degrees. 441 00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:46,311 (mysterious piano score) 442 00:29:46,311 --> 00:29:48,901 - [Johnny] While Knigge strived to bring the Order 443 00:29:48,901 --> 00:29:51,674 to a new level of ritual excellence, 444 00:29:52,621 --> 00:29:56,074 a second enemy of the Illuminati arose. 445 00:29:57,071 --> 00:30:00,261 A Rosicrucian group calling themselves, 446 00:30:00,261 --> 00:30:02,244 the Golden and Rosy Cross. 447 00:30:03,181 --> 00:30:05,591 They were also a secret society, 448 00:30:05,591 --> 00:30:09,361 however the philosophy of these Rosicrucians 449 00:30:09,361 --> 00:30:13,341 couldn't be more disparate than the Illuminati. 450 00:30:13,341 --> 00:30:16,531 They believed in the ultimate goal of the universal 451 00:30:16,531 --> 00:30:20,981 reformation of mankind through the practice of studying 452 00:30:20,981 --> 00:30:25,104 and mastering the metaphysical laws of the universe, 453 00:30:26,151 --> 00:30:29,884 by combining the ritual practices of Alchemy, 454 00:30:30,771 --> 00:30:35,264 Hermeticism, Kabbalah, and Christian Gnosticism. 455 00:30:36,537 --> 00:30:40,941 - The Rosicrucians had a very strange set of ideas. 456 00:30:40,941 --> 00:30:45,941 They believed in a very mystical approach to Christianity, 457 00:30:46,141 --> 00:30:49,329 of very direct communication with God, 458 00:30:49,329 --> 00:30:52,704 they encouraged their members to lead a devout life. 459 00:30:53,951 --> 00:30:56,981 - [Johnny] Several harsh, written exchanges were made 460 00:30:56,981 --> 00:31:01,419 between the Golden and Rosy Cross and the Illuminati. 461 00:31:01,419 --> 00:31:02,921 (men murmuring) At the core of their war 462 00:31:02,921 --> 00:31:06,111 was the battle for recruiting members. 463 00:31:06,111 --> 00:31:09,731 As the war waged on, Weishaupt encountered 464 00:31:09,731 --> 00:31:13,291 yet another major obstacle in his personal life. 465 00:31:13,291 --> 00:31:16,401 He had impregnated his deceased wife's sister, 466 00:31:16,401 --> 00:31:19,731 Anna Sausenhoffer, out of wedlock. 467 00:31:19,731 --> 00:31:21,941 - He starts consulting with some of the members 468 00:31:21,941 --> 00:31:23,861 of the Illuminati, looking for you know, 469 00:31:23,861 --> 00:31:26,641 recipes to cause like an abortion, or a miscarriage, 470 00:31:26,641 --> 00:31:27,991 or something in this nature, 471 00:31:27,991 --> 00:31:30,051 it never ends up happening. 472 00:31:30,051 --> 00:31:32,891 - [Johnny] As a result of this controversy, 473 00:31:32,891 --> 00:31:35,351 Weishaupt beckoned his friend, 474 00:31:35,351 --> 00:31:40,341 and fellow-member of the Illuminati, Baron Thomas de Bassus, 475 00:31:40,341 --> 00:31:44,834 to let Anna go into hiding at Sandersdorf Castle. 476 00:31:48,971 --> 00:31:50,981 - He eventually married her 477 00:31:50,981 --> 00:31:53,471 but that was a long struggle for him 478 00:31:53,471 --> 00:31:58,471 because according to the rule that the Catholic Church, 479 00:31:58,651 --> 00:32:03,651 you had to get a special dispensation from the Pope himself, 480 00:32:03,831 --> 00:32:08,831 to be able to marry a sibling of your first partner. 481 00:32:09,061 --> 00:32:12,561 - [Johnny] During this time Knigge began adapting 482 00:32:12,561 --> 00:32:16,321 the Masonic Degrees of the Rite of the Strict Observance 483 00:32:16,321 --> 00:32:19,891 into the Illuminati and aggressively set into motion 484 00:32:19,891 --> 00:32:22,664 his plan for infiltrating Freemasonry. 485 00:32:24,311 --> 00:32:27,121 - Knigge's infiltration is strategic. 486 00:32:27,121 --> 00:32:29,871 He is getting into lodges, 487 00:32:29,871 --> 00:32:34,541 asking high-profiled members to join 488 00:32:34,541 --> 00:32:38,141 and for them it is in a way attractive 489 00:32:38,141 --> 00:32:40,201 as they are building a kind of internal 490 00:32:40,201 --> 00:32:43,031 super structure in these lodges. 491 00:32:43,031 --> 00:32:45,121 You can be a normal Freemason, 492 00:32:45,121 --> 00:32:49,951 and you can be a Special Freemason in a hidden congregation, 493 00:32:49,951 --> 00:32:52,724 and that's extremely interesting. 494 00:32:53,691 --> 00:32:56,131 - [Johnny] Knigge believed that incorporating a class 495 00:32:56,131 --> 00:33:00,841 of Freemasonic Degrees into the Order of the Illuminati 496 00:33:00,841 --> 00:33:03,511 would allow Freemasons to feel more comfortable 497 00:33:04,381 --> 00:33:07,564 in transitioning into an alternative system. 498 00:33:08,631 --> 00:33:10,611 - The main reason why they wanted to do this is 499 00:33:10,611 --> 00:33:13,551 because they had no money at all. 500 00:33:13,551 --> 00:33:14,891 And so their thought was, 501 00:33:14,891 --> 00:33:18,781 well if we graft ourselves onto the Masonic system, 502 00:33:18,781 --> 00:33:20,811 we can have a fertile ground for recruiting members, 503 00:33:20,811 --> 00:33:22,801 but more importantly we can have their money. 504 00:33:22,801 --> 00:33:26,804 - And Weishaupt albeit reluctantly agreed. 505 00:33:27,992 --> 00:33:28,825 (birds chirping) 506 00:33:28,825 --> 00:33:30,471 - [Johnny] Although Knigge revised 507 00:33:30,471 --> 00:33:34,341 various aspects of the Masonic rituals, 508 00:33:34,341 --> 00:33:38,944 the themes of mortality and reflection remained the same. 509 00:33:39,951 --> 00:33:43,621 - The Masonic system within the Illuminati system 510 00:33:43,621 --> 00:33:48,391 was not very well harmonized with the rest of the degrees. 511 00:33:48,391 --> 00:33:51,751 They didn't really teach what 512 00:33:51,751 --> 00:33:54,798 Weishaupt was most concerned with. 513 00:33:54,798 --> 00:33:58,831 They were mostly inline with existing Masonic Degrees, 514 00:33:58,831 --> 00:34:02,308 which were generally practiced at the time. 515 00:34:02,308 --> 00:34:05,891 (choir singing hauntingly) 516 00:34:10,421 --> 00:34:13,721 - [Johnny] In the fourth degree, Entered Apprentice, 517 00:34:13,721 --> 00:34:17,714 the candidate was led into the lodge room, blindfolded, 518 00:34:18,781 --> 00:34:21,951 and was received upon the point of a sword 519 00:34:21,951 --> 00:34:25,251 which was to teach him that his progression through the 520 00:34:25,251 --> 00:34:30,251 Illuminati Order would now take a much more serious tone, 521 00:34:30,681 --> 00:34:33,971 and dire consequences would await him, 522 00:34:33,971 --> 00:34:35,784 should he betray the Order. 523 00:34:37,051 --> 00:34:40,581 He was then led around the lodge room in a mysterious 524 00:34:40,581 --> 00:34:44,284 journey with his eyes veiled in darkness. 525 00:34:45,341 --> 00:34:48,231 It was only by the help of his guide 526 00:34:48,231 --> 00:34:51,531 that we was able to successfully navigate 527 00:34:51,531 --> 00:34:54,704 the dangers that surrounded his soul. 528 00:34:56,391 --> 00:34:59,001 As the Master of Ceremonies conducted 529 00:34:59,001 --> 00:35:01,024 the candidate toward the east, 530 00:35:03,891 --> 00:35:07,234 he was caused to kneel in front of the Worshipful Master. 531 00:35:10,831 --> 00:35:15,831 A compass was placed upon his naked left breast, 532 00:35:15,911 --> 00:35:20,031 which was to teach him to circumscribe his desires 533 00:35:20,031 --> 00:35:23,584 and keep the passions of his heart within due bounds. 534 00:35:25,181 --> 00:35:28,341 The Worshipful Master then used his gavel 535 00:35:28,341 --> 00:35:31,024 to strike the compass three times, 536 00:35:32,061 --> 00:35:34,484 piercing the skin of the candidate. 537 00:35:35,881 --> 00:35:39,891 This was to teach him to always conceal the secrets 538 00:35:39,891 --> 00:35:42,844 of the Illuminati within his bleeding heart. 539 00:35:47,691 --> 00:35:50,051 He was then prepared to receive 540 00:35:50,051 --> 00:35:52,981 the light of the Entered Apprentice. 541 00:35:53,973 --> 00:35:57,556 (choir singing hauntingly) 542 00:36:09,361 --> 00:36:13,028 (dramatic orchestral score) 543 00:36:45,621 --> 00:36:48,731 As his blindfold was removed, 544 00:36:48,731 --> 00:36:53,731 the Worshipful Master told him behold the host of men 545 00:36:54,311 --> 00:36:57,494 armed and ready to avenge perjury, 546 00:36:58,801 --> 00:37:00,971 should you become a traitor, 547 00:37:00,971 --> 00:37:05,714 none of your steps on the face of this Earth shall be safe. 548 00:37:09,651 --> 00:37:13,091 - There's an overlap between the Illuminati and the Masons. 549 00:37:13,091 --> 00:37:15,391 The Masons had 14 United States 550 00:37:15,391 --> 00:37:17,791 presidents who were Freemasons, 551 00:37:17,791 --> 00:37:20,121 and because there's always been that overlap 552 00:37:20,121 --> 00:37:22,241 between the Illuminati and the Masons, 553 00:37:22,241 --> 00:37:23,761 it's always been said that 554 00:37:23,761 --> 00:37:26,441 he country was run by the Illuminati. 555 00:37:26,441 --> 00:37:30,341 Really the Founding Fathers were Freemasons, 556 00:37:30,341 --> 00:37:31,941 including nine of the signers of 557 00:37:31,941 --> 00:37:33,601 the Declaration of Independence, 558 00:37:33,601 --> 00:37:36,411 including the most famous one, John Hancock. 559 00:37:36,411 --> 00:37:37,801 A lot of founding principles 560 00:37:37,801 --> 00:37:39,631 were based on Masonic principles. 561 00:37:39,631 --> 00:37:43,251 There were 13 colonies, some say that was intentional. 562 00:37:43,251 --> 00:37:46,841 There's been claims that Bermuda had requested colonization 563 00:37:46,841 --> 00:37:49,551 as part of them to be the 14th, that they were denied, 564 00:37:49,551 --> 00:37:51,811 'cause they wanted to keep it at that 13. 565 00:37:51,811 --> 00:37:53,591 So believe what you will with that. 566 00:37:53,591 --> 00:37:57,401 But it's also understood that Masonic lodges 567 00:37:57,401 --> 00:38:00,671 that overlap different borders at the time were 568 00:38:00,671 --> 00:38:04,631 the reason why there was trust built between those colonies, 569 00:38:04,631 --> 00:38:07,844 which in essence, united the states of America. 570 00:38:08,991 --> 00:38:11,851 The Masons had more of an influence, 571 00:38:11,851 --> 00:38:14,131 more so than what people think, 572 00:38:14,131 --> 00:38:16,714 is really the background work of the Illuminati. 573 00:38:17,921 --> 00:38:20,231 - A lot of people have this wrong notion that 574 00:38:20,231 --> 00:38:23,671 the Illuminati influenced the American Revolution, 575 00:38:23,671 --> 00:38:26,071 actually it was quite the opposite. 576 00:38:26,071 --> 00:38:29,071 They wrote John Adams and Benjamin Franklin, 577 00:38:29,071 --> 00:38:31,411 as they were serving as envoys in Paris 578 00:38:31,411 --> 00:38:33,151 and they were looking to establish 579 00:38:33,151 --> 00:38:36,861 a colony in the United States, called Elysium. 580 00:38:36,861 --> 00:38:39,151 It was showing that they philosophically 581 00:38:39,151 --> 00:38:41,451 associated with the liberties the early 582 00:38:41,451 --> 00:38:44,351 American Republic was after, as heaven, 583 00:38:44,351 --> 00:38:47,451 and they had similar ambitions and aspirations. 584 00:38:47,451 --> 00:38:48,771 The trouble was though is that they 585 00:38:48,771 --> 00:38:51,721 picked a place on the Savannah River, 586 00:38:51,721 --> 00:38:53,731 and in the Battle of Charleston, 587 00:38:53,731 --> 00:38:56,101 the entire Southern Colonies were cut off, 588 00:38:56,101 --> 00:38:58,161 and so it made this plan untenable, 589 00:38:58,161 --> 00:39:00,111 not to mention the fact that they didn't have any money, 590 00:39:00,111 --> 00:39:02,711 so it was really more of a pipe-dream than anything. 591 00:39:04,317 --> 00:39:05,541 (classical violin score) 592 00:39:05,541 --> 00:39:09,551 - [Johnny] Next in the Illuminati's Freemasonic Class, 593 00:39:09,551 --> 00:39:11,551 came the Fellow Craft Degree, 594 00:39:11,551 --> 00:39:13,251 where the candidate again, 595 00:39:13,251 --> 00:39:17,081 made a mysterious journey towards seven steps, 596 00:39:17,081 --> 00:39:21,311 which he would symbolically climb toward the middle chamber 597 00:39:21,311 --> 00:39:22,754 of the Temple of Light. 598 00:39:23,911 --> 00:39:26,241 Once inside the middle chamber, 599 00:39:26,241 --> 00:39:31,241 he was taught to continue to educate himself through study, 600 00:39:31,371 --> 00:39:34,011 to contemplate the beauty of nature, 601 00:39:34,011 --> 00:39:35,904 and to master his senses. 602 00:39:37,251 --> 00:39:40,381 When the Fellow Craft Degree concluded, 603 00:39:40,381 --> 00:39:43,891 the Worshipful Master pointed his sword at the candidate 604 00:39:43,891 --> 00:39:48,891 and said, "Draw your sword only in defense of your brethren 605 00:39:49,188 --> 00:39:51,638 "and the honor of the Order". 606 00:39:54,291 --> 00:39:56,451 In the Master Mason Degree, 607 00:39:56,451 --> 00:39:59,844 the theme of mortality reached its climax, 608 00:40:00,891 --> 00:40:05,031 again the candidate would make yet another mysterious 609 00:40:05,031 --> 00:40:08,521 journey around the lodge room with a coffin 610 00:40:08,521 --> 00:40:11,294 containing a skeleton in the middle of the floor. 611 00:40:14,141 --> 00:40:16,691 After completing the journey, 612 00:40:16,691 --> 00:40:20,264 the candidate's symbolic death ritual occurred. 613 00:40:22,221 --> 00:40:25,301 As he stood before the Worshipful Master, 614 00:40:25,301 --> 00:40:27,941 he was struck from behind on each one 615 00:40:27,941 --> 00:40:30,214 of his shoulders by the wardens. 616 00:40:31,561 --> 00:40:35,521 The Worshipful Master then hammered the candidate's forehead 617 00:40:35,521 --> 00:40:37,733 knocking him backwards. 618 00:40:37,733 --> 00:40:41,150 (rousing dramatic score) 619 00:40:45,191 --> 00:40:49,074 He was placed in the coffin with a veil over his head, 620 00:40:50,081 --> 00:40:51,861 with all of the brethren pointing 621 00:40:51,861 --> 00:40:54,024 their swords toward his heart. 622 00:40:54,891 --> 00:40:58,901 This act symbolized the doorway of death he would 623 00:40:58,901 --> 00:41:03,791 symbolically pass through on his way to the pillars 624 00:41:03,791 --> 00:41:07,244 of initiation and to the greater mysteries. 625 00:41:11,111 --> 00:41:13,301 - The candidate is taught that all things that 626 00:41:13,301 --> 00:41:16,671 may be unpleasant actually may not be bad, 627 00:41:16,671 --> 00:41:19,941 just as all things that are pleasant may not be good. 628 00:41:19,941 --> 00:41:22,091 And it teaches him to shift his perspective, 629 00:41:22,091 --> 00:41:26,931 from that of a local member of society to shift one's view, 630 00:41:26,931 --> 00:41:29,401 and perspective to a more global perspective. 631 00:41:29,401 --> 00:41:33,041 - One might think that that's kind of an exciting system 632 00:41:33,041 --> 00:41:35,981 that you have a group of enlightened masters 633 00:41:35,981 --> 00:41:38,751 guiding humanity to its highest reaches, 634 00:41:38,751 --> 00:41:40,521 through thick and thin, 635 00:41:40,521 --> 00:41:42,514 better or for worse. 636 00:41:43,776 --> 00:41:47,131 - [Johnny] Knigge introduced two high degrees 637 00:41:47,131 --> 00:41:49,241 from the Strict Observance into 638 00:41:49,241 --> 00:41:52,041 the Illuminati's Freemasonic Class, 639 00:41:52,041 --> 00:41:56,051 the Illuminatus Major, or Scottish Novice Degree, 640 00:41:56,051 --> 00:41:59,784 and the Illuminatus Dirigens, or Scottish Knight Degree. 641 00:42:00,711 --> 00:42:04,321 - The Strict Observance are basically strictly 642 00:42:04,321 --> 00:42:06,911 observing their Orders from unknown superiors 643 00:42:06,911 --> 00:42:08,381 and they're the guys that have the whole 644 00:42:08,381 --> 00:42:10,701 Templar Mythos into Freemasonry, 645 00:42:10,701 --> 00:42:13,171 that Freemasonry is directly descended 646 00:42:13,171 --> 00:42:14,721 from the Knights Templar, 647 00:42:14,721 --> 00:42:16,311 which is a fine story and everything, 648 00:42:16,311 --> 00:42:18,361 but it's not at all true. 649 00:42:18,361 --> 00:42:20,231 You know, it's just a mythology. 650 00:42:20,231 --> 00:42:24,161 - You bridged into a higher Order, 651 00:42:24,161 --> 00:42:26,251 which was one of Knighthood, 652 00:42:26,251 --> 00:42:29,341 and this wasn't just from Craftsman to Knighthood, 653 00:42:29,341 --> 00:42:32,274 this was a transition to a spiritual Order. 654 00:42:33,621 --> 00:42:35,981 - Knigge takes the two Scottish Degrees 655 00:42:35,981 --> 00:42:37,291 from the Strict Observance 656 00:42:37,291 --> 00:42:39,711 and he tries to augment them 657 00:42:39,711 --> 00:42:41,281 and put them into the system. 658 00:42:41,281 --> 00:42:44,611 So what ends up happening is that the Illuminati, 659 00:42:44,611 --> 00:42:48,831 their Scottish Novice Degree is really a play 660 00:42:48,831 --> 00:42:51,051 on the Scot's Master Degree that's 661 00:42:51,051 --> 00:42:52,874 in the Strict Observance system. 662 00:42:53,911 --> 00:42:57,701 - [Johnny] This is where the themes of the Freemasonic Class 663 00:42:57,701 --> 00:43:02,701 within the Illuminati Order transitioned from mortality 664 00:43:03,121 --> 00:43:04,504 to inner-reflection. 665 00:43:07,091 --> 00:43:11,431 The Worshipful Master handed the candidate a mirror 666 00:43:11,431 --> 00:43:16,228 and told him, "The Order gives you this sharpness of sight, 667 00:43:16,228 --> 00:43:18,968 "this degree of Enlightenment, 668 00:43:18,968 --> 00:43:23,968 "behold the image in this mirror it is your own. 669 00:43:23,968 --> 00:43:27,768 "Self knowledge is the magical looking glass 670 00:43:27,768 --> 00:43:31,378 "through which you may read the souls of others. 671 00:43:31,378 --> 00:43:34,638 "The path to the hearts of other men 672 00:43:34,638 --> 00:43:37,024 "begins with your own heart, 673 00:43:37,998 --> 00:43:41,868 "therefore begin with yourself. 674 00:43:41,868 --> 00:43:44,838 "Do you believe that inwardly, 675 00:43:44,838 --> 00:43:48,398 "you are as you appear on the outside? 676 00:43:48,398 --> 00:43:53,398 "Study your physionomy often, daily, hourly. 677 00:43:54,908 --> 00:43:58,078 "You will constantly discover new features 678 00:43:58,078 --> 00:44:02,418 "and you will learn to judge others by these features. 679 00:44:02,418 --> 00:44:05,148 "What a beautiful and awe, 680 00:44:05,148 --> 00:44:08,918 "what an ugly thing, it can so very often be 681 00:44:08,918 --> 00:44:12,308 "to behold the unconcealed human heart. 682 00:44:12,308 --> 00:44:13,758 "Nosce Te Ipsum." 683 00:44:16,411 --> 00:44:19,221 The secret sign of the Illuminatus Major, 684 00:44:19,221 --> 00:44:23,531 or Scottish Novice was the index finger of the right hand, 685 00:44:23,531 --> 00:44:25,751 pointing toward the heart, 686 00:44:25,751 --> 00:44:28,581 and the index finger of the left hand, 687 00:44:28,581 --> 00:44:30,824 pointing upward toward the moon. 688 00:44:31,931 --> 00:44:36,551 This sign alluded to a passage in the degree about 689 00:44:36,551 --> 00:44:40,431 how the initiates of this degree would only meet 690 00:44:40,431 --> 00:44:43,334 under the light of the moon in its first quarter. 691 00:44:44,381 --> 00:44:46,408 Where the writing stated, 692 00:44:46,408 --> 00:44:51,408 "Only he who sees with the eyes of Minerva's bird 693 00:44:51,798 --> 00:44:56,238 "laboring under the protection of this benevolent orb 694 00:44:56,238 --> 00:44:57,868 "will surely find them." 695 00:44:59,751 --> 00:45:03,921 - This right from the first degree up to its last 696 00:45:03,921 --> 00:45:07,891 was controlled by unknown superiors, secret chiefs, 697 00:45:07,891 --> 00:45:11,111 and this is something that pops up in Illuminati conspiracy. 698 00:45:11,111 --> 00:45:15,581 Again this controlling secret group that 699 00:45:15,581 --> 00:45:18,921 controls all of humankind or this particular Order, 700 00:45:18,921 --> 00:45:20,251 this was a particularly you know, 701 00:45:20,251 --> 00:45:23,591 popular theme at this period, 702 00:45:23,591 --> 00:45:25,431 and it exists later on. 703 00:45:25,431 --> 00:45:28,601 You have the secret chiefs in Theosophy 704 00:45:28,601 --> 00:45:32,484 and also references to it in the O.T.O. 705 00:45:33,961 --> 00:45:37,401 - And there was also the hidden assumption that if anyone 706 00:45:37,401 --> 00:45:41,751 has any secret knowledge about Alchemy and magic, 707 00:45:41,751 --> 00:45:46,001 then it must be people of social standing. 708 00:45:46,001 --> 00:45:50,241 So there is some idea behind it in the beginning, 709 00:45:50,241 --> 00:45:53,771 that you might use the infant gate 710 00:45:53,771 --> 00:45:57,711 for all these secret branches of knowledge, 711 00:45:57,711 --> 00:46:00,051 whether they are, in a way magic, 712 00:46:00,051 --> 00:46:02,008 I don't really get this. 713 00:46:02,008 --> 00:46:02,841 (haunting piano score) 714 00:46:02,841 --> 00:46:06,261 - [Johnny] The eighth and final degree of the Illuminati's 715 00:46:06,261 --> 00:46:10,321 Freemasonic Class was the Illuminatus Dirigens, 716 00:46:10,321 --> 00:46:12,321 or Scottish Knight, 717 00:46:12,321 --> 00:46:15,911 where the real deviousness of Adam Weishaupt 718 00:46:15,911 --> 00:46:17,284 began to surface. 719 00:46:19,891 --> 00:46:23,771 The legend of this degree was based in part, 720 00:46:23,771 --> 00:46:27,391 on the Battle of Bannockburn in Scotland, 721 00:46:27,391 --> 00:46:29,704 during the year 1314, 722 00:46:31,341 --> 00:46:34,051 where the exiled Knights Templar 723 00:46:34,051 --> 00:46:37,251 fought alongside Robert the Bruce. 724 00:46:37,251 --> 00:46:40,591 However, instead of instilling 725 00:46:40,591 --> 00:46:43,161 the ideals of Knightly virtue, 726 00:46:43,161 --> 00:46:47,861 into the new Illuminatus initiates of this degree, 727 00:46:47,861 --> 00:46:51,411 Weishaupt focused on using this degree 728 00:46:51,411 --> 00:46:54,981 to create a secret network of spies 729 00:46:54,981 --> 00:46:59,031 to gather information on Freemasonic Lodges, 730 00:46:59,031 --> 00:47:01,671 and use their influence to recruit 731 00:47:01,671 --> 00:47:05,414 more members into the Order of the Illuminati. 732 00:47:06,571 --> 00:47:09,111 Becoming an Illuminatus Dirigens, 733 00:47:09,111 --> 00:47:13,191 or Scottish Knight of the Order meant that 734 00:47:13,191 --> 00:47:16,821 in addition to being responsible for directing 735 00:47:16,821 --> 00:47:20,771 the Freemasonic Degrees within the Illuminati, 736 00:47:20,771 --> 00:47:23,721 the member was also charged with 737 00:47:23,721 --> 00:47:26,631 spying on Freemasonic Lodges, 738 00:47:26,631 --> 00:47:31,541 and influencing decision-makers within these circles 739 00:47:31,541 --> 00:47:33,194 to join the Illuminati. 740 00:47:34,031 --> 00:47:38,841 It was actually written in the statutes of this degree 741 00:47:38,841 --> 00:47:41,811 that the Illuminati believed themselves 742 00:47:41,811 --> 00:47:45,194 to be the secret superiors of Freemasonry. 743 00:47:46,731 --> 00:47:48,004 The candidate was told, 744 00:47:48,938 --> 00:47:53,938 "Happy are you who may cross this hallowed threshold, 745 00:47:54,418 --> 00:47:56,254 "we welcome you in our midst. 746 00:47:57,598 --> 00:48:02,428 "Ever bless the day we opened unto you the portal 747 00:48:02,428 --> 00:48:06,414 "only the wise and honorable man may enter. 748 00:48:07,558 --> 00:48:12,558 "Here you see a part of the unknown Holy Legion 749 00:48:12,918 --> 00:48:17,918 "bound with inseverable bonds to fight for mankind. 750 00:48:18,908 --> 00:48:22,188 "If you wish to make yourself worthy 751 00:48:22,188 --> 00:48:24,728 "of guarding the inner sanctum, 752 00:48:24,728 --> 00:48:28,068 "your heart must be clean and pure, 753 00:48:28,068 --> 00:48:31,798 "your spirit ablaze with divine fire 754 00:48:31,798 --> 00:48:34,208 "for the dignity of your nature." 755 00:48:38,161 --> 00:48:41,271 The sign of this degree was made 756 00:48:41,271 --> 00:48:43,101 forming the shape of an "X", 757 00:48:43,101 --> 00:48:45,911 which alluded to Saint Andrew's Cross, 758 00:48:45,911 --> 00:48:49,761 the Patron Saint of the Scottish Degrees. 759 00:48:49,761 --> 00:48:51,928 The password was "Jehovah". 760 00:48:52,881 --> 00:48:56,141 - There was this unique opportunity for the Illuminati 761 00:48:56,141 --> 00:49:00,181 to take over lodges which were becoming disaffected 762 00:49:00,181 --> 00:49:04,051 with the Strict Observance which by then was falling apart. 763 00:49:04,051 --> 00:49:05,981 This was a major component in 764 00:49:05,981 --> 00:49:08,351 the Illuminati Order's success. 765 00:49:08,351 --> 00:49:12,211 - I would love to see how many members per lodge they get 766 00:49:12,211 --> 00:49:17,211 because they seem to be sweeping higher members of lodges 767 00:49:17,441 --> 00:49:19,021 were more interesting members of lodges, 768 00:49:19,021 --> 00:49:21,541 at one group into the Order, 769 00:49:21,541 --> 00:49:24,431 they need this lodge input. 770 00:49:24,431 --> 00:49:28,401 Because if you create a Minerval Church anywhere, 771 00:49:28,401 --> 00:49:29,831 you need at least five, 772 00:49:29,831 --> 00:49:32,891 six members to have a starting point. 773 00:49:32,891 --> 00:49:36,171 - [Johnny] As a result of Knigge's recruiting efforts, 774 00:49:36,171 --> 00:49:40,591 a multitude of Freemasons joined the Illuminati. 775 00:49:40,591 --> 00:49:44,581 - They managed with Knigge's help to convert a lot 776 00:49:44,581 --> 00:49:49,361 of individual Freemasons and whole lodges almost, 777 00:49:49,361 --> 00:49:50,854 to the Illuminati Order. 778 00:49:52,761 --> 00:49:55,531 - The Illuminati got a strict focus on 779 00:49:55,531 --> 00:49:58,101 actually getting involved in intellectual work, 780 00:49:58,101 --> 00:50:00,631 on improving your character, 781 00:50:00,631 --> 00:50:02,701 on improving society, 782 00:50:02,701 --> 00:50:04,711 fire improving your character, 783 00:50:04,711 --> 00:50:08,841 offering their own option of a high-grade system 784 00:50:08,841 --> 00:50:11,031 right at the point of time when high-grade 785 00:50:11,031 --> 00:50:14,254 Freemasonry in Germany is in crisis. 786 00:50:15,931 --> 00:50:20,811 - [Johnny] In 1782, the Congress of Wilhelmsbad 787 00:50:20,811 --> 00:50:23,061 was called to Order. 788 00:50:23,061 --> 00:50:26,671 Many leading Masonic figures attended, 789 00:50:26,671 --> 00:50:29,628 representing the Illuminati was Knigge. 790 00:50:30,651 --> 00:50:34,264 Two major turning points at the Congress of Wilhelmsbad, 791 00:50:35,581 --> 00:50:39,531 tipped the scales in favor of the Illuminati. 792 00:50:39,531 --> 00:50:43,341 The first was that the Rite of the Strict Observance 793 00:50:43,341 --> 00:50:46,891 officially denounced their Templar origins, 794 00:50:46,891 --> 00:50:50,074 resulting in a major rift in the Order. 795 00:50:54,301 --> 00:50:58,121 The second, major turning point was that Johann Bode, 796 00:50:58,121 --> 00:51:01,831 a German translator and Deputy Grand Master of the 797 00:51:01,831 --> 00:51:06,544 Grand Lodge of Hamburg Freemasons, joined the Illuminati. 798 00:51:07,601 --> 00:51:11,921 - At the time when Bode comes into the game he is 799 00:51:11,921 --> 00:51:16,221 actually strategically creating a province for himself, 800 00:51:16,221 --> 00:51:21,051 the idea is once you have Bode in there you can have 801 00:51:21,051 --> 00:51:24,491 the higher-levels of aristocracy in this Order 802 00:51:24,491 --> 00:51:27,151 because he would be the person to get these 803 00:51:27,151 --> 00:51:29,701 top-level people from the different lodges 804 00:51:29,701 --> 00:51:32,914 and from other secret organizations into it. 805 00:51:35,921 --> 00:51:38,481 - [Johnny] Shortly after the recruitment of Bode, 806 00:51:39,981 --> 00:51:43,381 Knigge and Weishaupt commenced their work 807 00:51:43,381 --> 00:51:45,811 on what would be the final set of degrees 808 00:51:45,811 --> 00:51:49,514 for the Illuminati, the Mysteries Class. 809 00:51:51,341 --> 00:51:55,311 The ninth degree Presbyter or Priest, 810 00:51:55,311 --> 00:51:58,224 speculated on the purity of religion. 811 00:52:01,701 --> 00:52:06,408 The candidate was tempted with a crown, scepter, sword, 812 00:52:07,591 --> 00:52:11,111 gold and priest's garments. 813 00:52:11,111 --> 00:52:14,841 The candidate was told to choose from these items. 814 00:52:14,841 --> 00:52:19,291 If he reached for anything other than the priest's garments, 815 00:52:19,291 --> 00:52:23,191 he was told, "Begone unholy man". 816 00:52:23,191 --> 00:52:25,461 If he reached for the priest's garments, 817 00:52:25,461 --> 00:52:28,018 however, one called out to him, 818 00:52:28,018 --> 00:52:30,118 "Hail thee, noble man. 819 00:52:30,118 --> 00:52:32,138 "Peace be with you." 820 00:52:33,261 --> 00:52:36,508 The Holy Legion of Assistance shouted, 821 00:52:36,508 --> 00:52:38,331 "Hail and blessings", 822 00:52:38,331 --> 00:52:42,308 to the kings and priests of the New Union. 823 00:52:42,308 --> 00:52:43,544 "Blessed be you. 824 00:52:44,608 --> 00:52:48,648 "Be illuminated and go in peace." 825 00:52:51,721 --> 00:52:53,431 - The Presbyter Degree, 826 00:52:53,431 --> 00:52:58,241 it contained a peculiar Theology really, 827 00:52:58,241 --> 00:53:00,331 consisting of Weishaupt's ideas, 828 00:53:00,331 --> 00:53:02,064 but also of Knigge's ideas. 829 00:53:02,901 --> 00:53:06,401 That was probably the only degree where essential 830 00:53:06,401 --> 00:53:10,321 ideas of both men really were joined together, 831 00:53:10,321 --> 00:53:13,104 which also caused some friction. 832 00:53:14,261 --> 00:53:16,571 - It's really Adam Weishaupt's take 833 00:53:16,571 --> 00:53:18,471 on Jean-Jacques Rousseau's discourse 834 00:53:18,471 --> 00:53:20,591 on the origin of human inequality. 835 00:53:20,591 --> 00:53:21,461 On the one side, 836 00:53:21,461 --> 00:53:24,131 Rousseau takes you up the hill that mankind starts 837 00:53:24,131 --> 00:53:27,021 in a primitive state and is enslaved by his needs 838 00:53:27,021 --> 00:53:30,141 and Weishaupt takes you down the other side of the hill, 839 00:53:30,141 --> 00:53:31,921 and shows you by curbing your needs, 840 00:53:31,921 --> 00:53:34,554 you obtain your original state of freedom. 841 00:53:35,631 --> 00:53:39,074 - [Johnny] The 10th degree, Princeps or Regent, 842 00:53:39,951 --> 00:53:43,061 discussed Weishaupt's view on society. 843 00:53:43,061 --> 00:53:43,894 - Up to this point, 844 00:53:43,894 --> 00:53:46,781 the candidate has submitted himself to very 845 00:53:46,781 --> 00:53:49,141 demanding obligations and monthly reports, 846 00:53:49,141 --> 00:53:51,511 they cumulusly check reports, 847 00:53:51,511 --> 00:53:54,231 so when he is initiated as a Regent, 848 00:53:54,231 --> 00:53:56,411 he's set free from all these obligations, 849 00:53:56,411 --> 00:53:58,611 and all the files the Order has collected on him, 850 00:53:58,611 --> 00:54:02,311 up to this point are returned back to the candidate, 851 00:54:02,311 --> 00:54:05,201 and the thinking is that he's so tightly bound to this 852 00:54:05,201 --> 00:54:09,001 system that obligations are no longer necessary for him 853 00:54:09,001 --> 00:54:11,654 to be a loyal and faithful member of the Order. 854 00:54:12,721 --> 00:54:14,451 - [Johnny] In the ritual of this degree 855 00:54:14,451 --> 00:54:18,211 bones and a crown laid out before the candidate 856 00:54:18,211 --> 00:54:23,211 was to teach him that whether the bones belonged to a king, 857 00:54:23,641 --> 00:54:26,631 a nobleman, or a beggar, 858 00:54:26,631 --> 00:54:29,134 all are the same at death. 859 00:54:31,111 --> 00:54:35,891 The initiate was told that slaves were not allowed, 860 00:54:35,891 --> 00:54:40,221 and that he must profess his wish to be truly free 861 00:54:40,221 --> 00:54:45,044 from the chains that bound him to a state of slavery. 862 00:54:46,731 --> 00:54:48,751 Once the candidate was free from 863 00:54:48,751 --> 00:54:50,934 the bondage of his restraints, 864 00:54:52,561 --> 00:54:57,561 he then entered a room where he observed a shepherd's crook, 865 00:54:58,171 --> 00:55:02,054 which denoted he was charged with leading others to freedom. 866 00:55:03,151 --> 00:55:06,501 He received a Roman Cap of Liberty, 867 00:55:06,501 --> 00:55:10,001 in accordance with the ancient Roman tradition 868 00:55:10,001 --> 00:55:12,921 of when slaves from that era were 869 00:55:12,921 --> 00:55:16,164 literally set free by their masters. 870 00:55:17,161 --> 00:55:21,391 The crown set before him was to remind him 871 00:55:21,391 --> 00:55:24,661 that he should never desire to trade 872 00:55:24,661 --> 00:55:27,724 the Roman Cap of Liberty for the crown. 873 00:55:29,241 --> 00:55:33,761 Around this time, Knigge began to view Weishaupt 874 00:55:33,761 --> 00:55:36,651 as a hypocrite for preaching freedom 875 00:55:36,651 --> 00:55:40,521 and liberty through the Illuminati teachings, 876 00:55:40,521 --> 00:55:44,411 yet gave no real authority to Knigge 877 00:55:44,411 --> 00:55:47,984 to further develop his own ideas within the Order. 878 00:55:48,971 --> 00:55:53,971 As a result, Knigge and Weishaupt had a falling out, 879 00:55:53,991 --> 00:55:57,911 and thus the rituals for the Docetists 880 00:55:57,911 --> 00:56:01,254 and Philosophi Degrees were never finished. 881 00:56:02,661 --> 00:56:05,431 The 11th degree, Docetists, 882 00:56:05,431 --> 00:56:08,171 was the first of the Greater Mysteries, 883 00:56:08,171 --> 00:56:10,401 and was considered highly-heretical 884 00:56:10,401 --> 00:56:12,784 in the eyes of the Roman Catholic Church. 885 00:56:18,793 --> 00:56:20,831 (ethereal ambient score) 886 00:56:20,831 --> 00:56:25,351 A Docetist is one who believes that Christ's body 887 00:56:25,351 --> 00:56:29,371 was not human but either a phantasm, 888 00:56:29,371 --> 00:56:32,771 or a real, but celestial substance, 889 00:56:32,771 --> 00:56:36,994 and that therefore his sufferings were only apparent. 890 00:56:38,141 --> 00:56:40,391 - The Docetist Degree is where things 891 00:56:40,391 --> 00:56:42,831 start getting really interesting. 892 00:56:42,831 --> 00:56:45,491 In the correspondence between Knigge and Weishaupt, 893 00:56:45,491 --> 00:56:49,111 they talk about the need for creating a people's religion, 894 00:56:49,111 --> 00:56:50,081 and what this is, 895 00:56:50,081 --> 00:56:52,441 is that basically they're going 896 00:56:52,441 --> 00:56:55,681 to prove the existence of God 897 00:56:55,681 --> 00:56:57,881 and the immortality of the soul, 898 00:56:57,881 --> 00:57:00,654 and do it through logical and secular reasoning. 899 00:57:03,261 --> 00:57:08,261 - The degree I believe can be related to Weishaupt's 900 00:57:09,081 --> 00:57:14,081 own biography and the fate that had befallen him 901 00:57:14,651 --> 00:57:18,041 in 1780 when his first wife died. 902 00:57:18,041 --> 00:57:23,041 He was arguing that death only meant ascending 903 00:57:23,561 --> 00:57:27,704 to a new level of existence and perception. 904 00:57:28,621 --> 00:57:32,934 And so eventually in some kind of afterlife, 905 00:57:33,791 --> 00:57:38,791 everybody who had deceased and left the world of the mortals 906 00:57:40,911 --> 00:57:44,201 would probably be able to communicate with 907 00:57:45,341 --> 00:57:49,022 the other loved-ones that had gone before him. 908 00:57:49,022 --> 00:57:50,701 (rousing dramatic score) 909 00:57:50,701 --> 00:57:53,031 - [Johnny] The Docetists Degree however, 910 00:57:53,031 --> 00:57:58,031 discussed the idea that God does not perceive man 911 00:57:58,301 --> 00:58:01,804 the same way human beings perceive mankind, 912 00:58:03,521 --> 00:58:07,571 nor does God have a body and senses as we do, 913 00:58:07,571 --> 00:58:10,101 but is more of a divine mind, 914 00:58:10,101 --> 00:58:14,161 and therefore God perceives what happens to life 915 00:58:14,161 --> 00:58:19,161 as the effects of certain forces only observable to him. 916 00:58:20,311 --> 00:58:23,651 The writings in the Docetists Degree conclude 917 00:58:23,651 --> 00:58:26,958 with the daring statement that says, 918 00:58:26,958 --> 00:58:29,708 "We turn God into a man 919 00:58:29,708 --> 00:58:32,738 "and convert the infinite to the finite." 920 00:58:34,881 --> 00:58:37,201 - This is where the Great Mysteries come in, 921 00:58:37,201 --> 00:58:39,301 these ideas of the ancient mysteries, 922 00:58:39,301 --> 00:58:43,861 because this natural religion could not exist side-by-side 923 00:58:43,861 --> 00:58:48,471 with competing state gods who sought to control society. 924 00:58:48,471 --> 00:58:52,441 So the idea of the natural religion became part of a mystery 925 00:58:52,441 --> 00:58:56,641 which was to be practice or worship in secret. 926 00:58:56,641 --> 00:58:59,518 This is the real basis for what we say is, 927 00:58:59,518 --> 00:59:01,481 "Ancient Mystery Schools". 928 00:59:01,481 --> 00:59:03,401 They don't really exist in this form. 929 00:59:03,401 --> 00:59:06,591 The history of these ancient civilizations 930 00:59:06,591 --> 00:59:08,584 don't really have this concept. 931 00:59:10,111 --> 00:59:13,121 - [Johnny] The final degree of the Illuminati 932 00:59:13,121 --> 00:59:15,581 was the Philosophi Degree. 933 00:59:15,581 --> 00:59:17,491 Like the proceeding degree, 934 00:59:17,491 --> 00:59:20,171 it had no completed ritual. 935 00:59:20,171 --> 00:59:24,031 The former themes of restoring man to his natural 936 00:59:24,031 --> 00:59:29,031 state of liberty by curbing one's needs was intertwined 937 00:59:29,361 --> 00:59:31,941 with the concept that one must view 938 00:59:31,941 --> 00:59:34,814 the world from a broader perspective, 939 00:59:35,711 --> 00:59:39,921 that man only considers right from wrong, 940 00:59:39,921 --> 00:59:44,871 good and evil, from their own personal perspectives, 941 00:59:44,871 --> 00:59:48,831 and that to understand these concepts more fully, 942 00:59:48,831 --> 00:59:53,221 one must assume an external point of view 943 00:59:53,221 --> 00:59:56,941 to see the true cause and effect of actions, 944 00:59:56,941 --> 00:59:59,581 and that from this perspective, 945 00:59:59,581 --> 01:00:03,281 what is good might actually be bad, 946 01:00:03,281 --> 01:00:06,614 and what is wrong might actually be right. 947 01:00:07,561 --> 01:00:09,664 - This is where the political system of, 948 01:00:09,664 --> 01:00:11,881 that the Illuminati is trying to enact 949 01:00:11,881 --> 01:00:14,701 its political reforms are fully fleshed-out. 950 01:00:14,701 --> 01:00:19,651 - It's a panorama of philosophy of history, 951 01:00:19,651 --> 01:00:23,584 which centers on two ideas in particular, 952 01:00:24,421 --> 01:00:27,634 the correlation between population, 953 01:00:28,681 --> 01:00:32,571 and the advancement of humanity. 954 01:00:32,571 --> 01:00:37,061 - [Johnny] This theme resonated with Weishaupt and Bavaria, 955 01:00:37,061 --> 01:00:40,061 given the rolling back of the Enlightenment 956 01:00:40,061 --> 01:00:43,271 by Charles Theodore, and the control, 957 01:00:43,271 --> 01:00:47,571 and censorship of academia by the church. 958 01:00:47,571 --> 01:00:50,761 It is within this context that we see 959 01:00:50,761 --> 01:00:54,941 Weishaupt's motivation for creating the Illuminati, 960 01:00:54,941 --> 01:00:57,951 and the religious and political solutions 961 01:00:57,951 --> 01:01:02,121 offered by his Order were really one in the same. 962 01:01:02,121 --> 01:01:05,451 The solutions Weishaupt attempted to offer through 963 01:01:05,451 --> 01:01:09,641 his own philosophy were less-relevant to others, 964 01:01:09,641 --> 01:01:11,381 and this was one of the primary 965 01:01:11,381 --> 01:01:14,641 reasons that the Illuminati failed. 966 01:01:14,641 --> 01:01:16,451 It was in a large sense, 967 01:01:16,451 --> 01:01:19,451 one man working out his own issues, 968 01:01:19,451 --> 01:01:21,681 and attempting to manifest his 969 01:01:21,681 --> 01:01:25,179 own utopian vision as reality. 970 01:01:25,179 --> 01:01:28,331 - Weishaupt was an ambitious man. 971 01:01:28,331 --> 01:01:33,061 He could also be quite ruthless and acerbic. 972 01:01:33,061 --> 01:01:36,701 He was not the greatest leader because he was always 973 01:01:36,701 --> 01:01:40,431 clashing with other people and within the Order, 974 01:01:40,431 --> 01:01:44,971 so he was not very good at coming to a joint decision 975 01:01:44,971 --> 01:01:47,711 with his closest collaborators. 976 01:01:47,711 --> 01:01:52,304 - [Johnny] In 1784, the Illuminati began to fall apart. 977 01:01:53,541 --> 01:01:55,651 Knigge resigned from the Order, 978 01:01:55,651 --> 01:01:57,832 causing a major setback. 979 01:01:57,832 --> 01:02:01,665 (melancholy orchestral score) 980 01:02:11,822 --> 01:02:15,239 (water splashing loudly) 981 01:02:30,041 --> 01:02:33,751 That same year, the most powerful enemy 982 01:02:33,751 --> 01:02:37,351 of the Illuminati fully-surfaced, 983 01:02:37,351 --> 01:02:41,111 Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria. 984 01:02:41,111 --> 01:02:43,381 - Even though the Jesuits had lost their post, 985 01:02:43,381 --> 01:02:47,411 he puts the Jesuits back into place and so it basically, 986 01:02:47,411 --> 01:02:49,901 just as the Enlightenment was coming into Bavaria, 987 01:02:49,901 --> 01:02:52,221 the rug gets snatched out from underneath them. 988 01:02:52,221 --> 01:02:56,571 - [Johnny] Between 1784 and 1787, 989 01:02:56,571 --> 01:03:00,151 Charles Theodore issued several edicts, 990 01:03:00,151 --> 01:03:04,311 which would ban all secret societies in Bavaria, 991 01:03:04,311 --> 01:03:07,441 and eventually issue a death penalty, 992 01:03:07,441 --> 01:03:09,981 which would end the resistance on any 993 01:03:09,981 --> 01:03:14,481 remaining members of any secret society. 994 01:03:14,481 --> 01:03:18,931 He turned his focus, ultimately on the Illuminati, 995 01:03:18,931 --> 01:03:21,171 and especially Weishaupt, 996 01:03:21,171 --> 01:03:25,491 who lost his professorship from Ingolstadt University, 997 01:03:25,491 --> 01:03:28,973 and was eventually exiled from Bavaria. 998 01:03:28,973 --> 01:03:31,890 (thunder rumbling) 999 01:03:33,571 --> 01:03:36,151 - What's happening at the end of the Order is, 1000 01:03:36,151 --> 01:03:37,961 in a way, dark. 1001 01:03:37,961 --> 01:03:41,721 Dark because we don't have a document that says, 1002 01:03:41,721 --> 01:03:42,714 that's now the end. 1003 01:03:45,281 --> 01:03:47,641 Any such organization is doomed to fail. 1004 01:03:47,641 --> 01:03:51,484 I see how the Illuminati fail in their practical work. 1005 01:03:52,561 --> 01:03:55,224 They realize now it's not gonna work any longer. 1006 01:03:57,231 --> 01:04:01,491 - The last activities that we know of were in 1788, 1007 01:04:01,491 --> 01:04:02,781 and there's no question that 1008 01:04:02,781 --> 01:04:06,514 the Illuminati all actually, was dissolved. 1009 01:04:07,390 --> 01:04:09,551 (thunder booms) It was not a big bang, 1010 01:04:09,551 --> 01:04:12,431 it was a whimper at the end, 1011 01:04:12,431 --> 01:04:17,431 it was just dissolving quietly in Central Germany, 1012 01:04:19,491 --> 01:04:22,701 and Weishaupt wasn't able to continue 1013 01:04:22,701 --> 01:04:25,651 at the helm of this organization. 1014 01:04:25,651 --> 01:04:27,591 - [Johnny] With Weishaupt in exile, 1015 01:04:27,591 --> 01:04:32,281 it was rumored that he became a heavy smoker and drinker. 1016 01:04:32,281 --> 01:04:33,991 He struggled with money, 1017 01:04:33,991 --> 01:04:37,681 even though he was receiving a monthly stipend, 1018 01:04:37,681 --> 01:04:40,321 which led historians to believe that 1019 01:04:40,321 --> 01:04:43,069 he developed a gambling addiction. 1020 01:04:43,069 --> 01:04:45,211 (birds chirping) 1021 01:04:45,211 --> 01:04:49,201 Weishaupt spend the majority of his remaining years 1022 01:04:49,201 --> 01:04:54,194 in the town of Gotha, where he died in 1830. 1023 01:04:58,121 --> 01:05:01,381 Even though the majority of the world's leading 1024 01:05:01,381 --> 01:05:05,311 Illuminati historians have found evidence that 1025 01:05:05,311 --> 01:05:10,311 the Order did in fact dissolve in the late 18th Century, 1026 01:05:10,681 --> 01:05:13,141 there are still those today who believe 1027 01:05:13,141 --> 01:05:16,551 the Illuminati carries on in the shadows, 1028 01:05:16,551 --> 01:05:21,491 controlling governments, world affairs, the banking system, 1029 01:05:21,491 --> 01:05:24,324 and many other aspects of daily life. 1030 01:05:25,371 --> 01:05:29,111 Perhaps the greatest achievement of the Illuminati 1031 01:05:29,111 --> 01:05:32,244 is that the world still talks about them today. 1032 01:05:33,138 --> 01:05:36,721 (rousing orchestral score) 1033 01:05:40,631 --> 01:05:43,091 - I'm sure there are certain fraternities, 1034 01:05:43,091 --> 01:05:44,681 and certain groups that, 1035 01:05:44,681 --> 01:05:47,381 you know, I'm sure people would equate with the Illuminati, 1036 01:05:47,381 --> 01:05:48,431 like the O.T.O., 1037 01:05:48,431 --> 01:05:51,731 or some other organization I know that there's 1038 01:05:51,731 --> 01:05:54,261 the Fraternitas Attorney, 1039 01:05:54,261 --> 01:05:55,751 which is another group that maybe 1040 01:05:55,751 --> 01:05:57,621 people would associate with the Illuminati. 1041 01:05:57,621 --> 01:05:58,454 But I just say, 1042 01:05:58,454 --> 01:06:01,121 they tried to blend them all from you know, 1043 01:06:01,121 --> 01:06:04,561 the Templars to you know, 1044 01:06:04,561 --> 01:06:06,741 the Knights of Malta, to the Jesuits, 1045 01:06:06,741 --> 01:06:08,871 to you know, I just go down the list 1046 01:06:08,871 --> 01:06:10,501 of everyone that's Illuminati, 1047 01:06:10,501 --> 01:06:11,951 and I have a feeling that, 1048 01:06:11,951 --> 01:06:13,501 I don't think we should mix the substance, 1049 01:06:13,501 --> 01:06:15,521 I think that if there is an Illuminati, 1050 01:06:15,521 --> 01:06:18,001 we need to know the true history of the Illuminati, 1051 01:06:18,001 --> 01:06:20,308 and then from there I think people will find it to be, 1052 01:06:20,308 --> 01:06:21,941 "Oh, is that all it is?" 1053 01:06:21,941 --> 01:06:23,481 - Part of the Illuminati during that time 1054 01:06:23,481 --> 01:06:27,194 it definitely circulated and the idealism carried on, 1055 01:06:28,171 --> 01:06:32,321 and so there's that idea that globalization 1056 01:06:32,321 --> 01:06:35,431 and New World Order does exist with certain 1057 01:06:35,431 --> 01:06:37,191 things that developed in today's day and age. 1058 01:06:37,191 --> 01:06:40,351 I mean, we can call certain things like the United Nations, 1059 01:06:40,351 --> 01:06:43,771 or NATO a couple of Adam Weishaupt wins, 1060 01:06:43,771 --> 01:06:45,631 if you wanna call it that, 1061 01:06:45,631 --> 01:06:47,931 because his idea was to globalize 1062 01:06:47,931 --> 01:06:50,951 and get away from a nationalist viewpoint. 1063 01:06:50,951 --> 01:06:53,231 There are dangers to globalization, 1064 01:06:53,231 --> 01:06:55,681 because you might hate absolute power. 1065 01:06:55,681 --> 01:06:59,631 And then you'll have no watchers to oversee the watchers. 1066 01:06:59,631 --> 01:07:04,631 - They were advocates for liberalism, republicanism, 1067 01:07:06,131 --> 01:07:11,131 free thought, and secularism, and gender equality. 1068 01:07:11,681 --> 01:07:15,011 So it had some effect in the popular culture. 1069 01:07:15,011 --> 01:07:18,311 Now that was back you know, 1070 01:07:18,311 --> 01:07:21,271 when that society you know, worked, 1071 01:07:21,271 --> 01:07:25,081 and that declined and it met its own demise, 1072 01:07:25,081 --> 01:07:27,541 because of its own indiscretions. 1073 01:07:27,541 --> 01:07:32,391 But it did maintain an aura of mystique to where, 1074 01:07:32,391 --> 01:07:34,091 at the beginning of last century, 1075 01:07:34,091 --> 01:07:39,091 it was taken up by some to describe intentions of groups 1076 01:07:40,601 --> 01:07:43,381 in other societies that were taking their name 1077 01:07:43,381 --> 01:07:48,381 to have that in their societies as a level of hierarchy, 1078 01:07:49,291 --> 01:07:51,881 and because it had its own aura of mystique 1079 01:07:51,881 --> 01:07:56,881 to where they used it to attract membership. 1080 01:07:57,841 --> 01:08:00,971 And of course it has taken a life of its own, 1081 01:08:00,971 --> 01:08:03,521 because a lot of people think that 1082 01:08:03,521 --> 01:08:05,261 the Illuminati still exists 1083 01:08:05,261 --> 01:08:08,591 and that they're an entity of you know, to themselves, 1084 01:08:08,591 --> 01:08:13,061 and it is not my belief through the research 1085 01:08:13,061 --> 01:08:17,458 that I have found and a lot of people are intrigued by it, 1086 01:08:17,458 --> 01:08:20,471 and a lot of people who really partake on 1087 01:08:20,471 --> 01:08:23,881 the conspiracy theory make it as a given, 1088 01:08:23,881 --> 01:08:27,352 when it's actually unsubstantiated, you know, 1089 01:08:27,352 --> 01:08:29,234 that you know, that exists today. 1090 01:08:30,619 --> 01:08:32,161 - The Illuminati is an organization, 1091 01:08:32,161 --> 01:08:35,191 a secret organization that any war is the catch-all 1092 01:08:35,191 --> 01:08:37,841 for everything bad in the world anymore. 1093 01:08:37,841 --> 01:08:41,851 I've done countless talk shows about the Illuminati, 1094 01:08:41,851 --> 01:08:44,481 and I've had several people call my radio show, 1095 01:08:44,481 --> 01:08:46,571 claiming that they're part of the Illuminati, 1096 01:08:46,571 --> 01:08:49,161 or they've had some experience with the Illuminati, 1097 01:08:49,161 --> 01:08:50,181 and I always shake my head and say, 1098 01:08:50,181 --> 01:08:51,361 well didn't you know the Illuminati 1099 01:08:51,361 --> 01:08:53,591 disbanded like several hundred years ago. 1100 01:08:53,591 --> 01:08:54,631 They say, but there are secret 1101 01:08:54,631 --> 01:08:56,541 organizations that have branched off. 1102 01:08:56,541 --> 01:08:58,461 You know, I kind of think that maybe, yeah, 1103 01:08:58,461 --> 01:09:01,941 there a few branches that have kind of went 1104 01:09:01,941 --> 01:09:05,081 their various ways but I think that right now, 1105 01:09:05,081 --> 01:09:06,911 when you talk about the Illuminati, 1106 01:09:06,911 --> 01:09:08,191 it becomes nothing more than a 1107 01:09:08,191 --> 01:09:10,451 very safe, marketable, boogeyman. 1108 01:09:10,451 --> 01:09:15,321 - Some people actually believe in the idea that there is 1109 01:09:15,321 --> 01:09:20,321 some kind of secret society called, the Illuminati, 1110 01:09:20,580 --> 01:09:22,984 which calls the shots, even today, 1111 01:09:23,871 --> 01:09:27,601 which controls international organizations 1112 01:09:27,601 --> 01:09:32,601 and the way that the world is being run on a global scale. 1113 01:09:32,771 --> 01:09:34,971 That of course is nonsense, 1114 01:09:34,971 --> 01:09:38,821 but it's quite interesting in its own right. 1115 01:09:38,821 --> 01:09:43,131 We have to be careful to distinguish 1116 01:09:43,131 --> 01:09:45,164 between fact and fiction. 1117 01:09:46,301 --> 01:09:51,301 And the way we do that is by studying the original documents 1118 01:09:51,581 --> 01:09:56,074 and there's actually a lot to be done on that front. 1119 01:09:57,631 --> 01:10:00,401 We're very grateful that the Illuminati left behind 1120 01:10:00,401 --> 01:10:04,568 a rich heritage of archival documents, 1121 01:10:05,881 --> 01:10:10,581 and even though a lot was lost over the centuries, 1122 01:10:10,581 --> 01:10:13,041 there's still a lot of material for us, 1123 01:10:13,041 --> 01:10:18,041 historians to analyze and to publish 1124 01:10:18,521 --> 01:10:23,171 for the larger public to be acquainted with. 1125 01:10:23,171 --> 01:10:25,541 - How can you substantiate there is this 1126 01:10:25,541 --> 01:10:28,361 nefarious group that's still running the world. 1127 01:10:28,361 --> 01:10:30,451 I just think that you know, 1128 01:10:30,451 --> 01:10:33,941 especially with people that tend to be 1129 01:10:33,941 --> 01:10:36,601 sort of extremists in their belief systems 1130 01:10:36,601 --> 01:10:40,421 will sort of grab hold of something to kind of substantiate 1131 01:10:40,421 --> 01:10:43,171 a certain claim or what have you. 1132 01:10:43,171 --> 01:10:46,621 There are certain individuals that might have some sort of 1133 01:10:46,621 --> 01:10:49,641 profit interest involved, 1134 01:10:49,641 --> 01:10:51,761 it's just a marketing gimmick, 1135 01:10:51,761 --> 01:10:54,831 and especially people in the entertainment industry 1136 01:10:54,831 --> 01:10:56,351 kinda grabbed hold of that because 1137 01:10:56,351 --> 01:10:58,881 they knew it was something that could sell. 1138 01:10:58,881 --> 01:11:01,171 - Some of the craziest stories about the Illuminati, 1139 01:11:01,171 --> 01:11:04,071 well there's the one where the Queen of England's 1140 01:11:04,071 --> 01:11:05,381 a blood-drinking lizard. 1141 01:11:05,381 --> 01:11:06,701 - They want to take over the world. 1142 01:11:06,701 --> 01:11:09,721 - All governments are basically under one umbrella. 1143 01:11:09,721 --> 01:11:10,671 - The dollar bill. 1144 01:11:10,671 --> 01:11:12,231 - The eye, the sinister eye, 1145 01:11:12,231 --> 01:11:14,141 or they're doing the whole triangle. 1146 01:11:14,141 --> 01:11:16,691 - CIA trauma-based mind control. 1147 01:11:16,691 --> 01:11:20,171 - Or reptilian shape-shifter somewhere beyond visible light, 1148 01:11:20,171 --> 01:11:21,786 so you can't see them. (chuckles) 1149 01:11:21,786 --> 01:11:22,619 It's probably legit, right? 1150 01:11:22,619 --> 01:11:23,946 I mean. (laughs) 1151 01:11:23,946 --> 01:11:25,951 - So now it becomes, the Illuminati, 1152 01:11:25,951 --> 01:11:28,231 like a train, barreling down on you. 1153 01:11:28,231 --> 01:11:29,711 Illuminati! 1154 01:11:29,711 --> 01:11:31,871 You know, people, 1155 01:11:31,871 --> 01:11:34,911 their spit is speckling on their lips when they say it. 1156 01:11:34,911 --> 01:11:36,279 Illuminati! 1157 01:11:36,279 --> 01:11:37,941 You know, they get crazy. 1158 01:11:37,941 --> 01:11:41,171 And then you mention Freemasonry and people go crazy, 1159 01:11:41,171 --> 01:11:42,831 Satan in their head. 1160 01:11:42,831 --> 01:11:44,065 - Hail Satan! 1161 01:11:44,065 --> 01:11:46,121 - [Satanists] Hail Satan! 1162 01:11:46,121 --> 01:11:49,111 - Republicans, Hillary Clinton, 1163 01:11:49,111 --> 01:11:50,721 everybody all comes together, 1164 01:11:50,721 --> 01:11:52,431 and they're all thrashing at each other, 1165 01:11:52,431 --> 01:11:53,604 and that's Illuminati! 1166 01:11:55,731 --> 01:11:58,984 - Does the Illuminati still exist? (laughs) 1167 01:12:00,001 --> 01:12:02,501 No. (giggles) 1168 01:12:03,671 --> 01:12:05,941 - I really think that people are reticent to admit 1169 01:12:05,941 --> 01:12:10,011 that secret societies have been with us for a long time. 1170 01:12:10,011 --> 01:12:11,601 They've influenced a lot of things, 1171 01:12:11,601 --> 01:12:13,661 from music to literature... 1172 01:12:13,661 --> 01:12:14,911 Heck, take out your wallet, 1173 01:12:14,911 --> 01:12:15,901 look at the dollar bill. 1174 01:12:15,901 --> 01:12:19,211 What's on the back, the seal, "Annuit coeptis", 1175 01:12:19,211 --> 01:12:21,111 you know, "Novus ordo seclorum", 1176 01:12:21,111 --> 01:12:22,081 what is that all about, 1177 01:12:22,081 --> 01:12:24,971 it's about some Order that they have envisioned, 1178 01:12:24,971 --> 01:12:26,481 he has favored our undertakings, 1179 01:12:26,481 --> 01:12:30,821 all of this stuff is all Illuminati, 1180 01:12:30,821 --> 01:12:34,294 and it's there and it's gonna be with us for a long time. 1181 01:12:34,294 --> 01:12:35,751 (chuckles) - It does not exist. 1182 01:12:35,751 --> 01:12:37,551 The Illuminati does not exist today. 1183 01:12:38,571 --> 01:12:41,061 - Despite whatever headway is made, 1184 01:12:41,061 --> 01:12:43,661 what we can prove about what they truly were, 1185 01:12:43,661 --> 01:12:45,581 nobody was gonna want to believe it, 1186 01:12:45,581 --> 01:12:47,301 because they're already set in their way, 1187 01:12:47,301 --> 01:12:50,801 because conspiracies just refuse to die. 1188 01:12:50,801 --> 01:12:54,311 However, it's important to put this information out there, 1189 01:12:54,311 --> 01:12:58,751 because if it enlightens someone, that... 1190 01:12:58,751 --> 01:13:03,031 Does that not complete the work that the Illuminati, itself, 1191 01:13:03,031 --> 01:13:05,191 had been set out to do? 1192 01:13:05,191 --> 01:13:07,251 To enlighten the mind? 1193 01:13:07,251 --> 01:13:10,574 To free your heart of all the vices and fetters? 1194 01:13:11,677 --> 01:13:15,260 (rousing orchestral score) 1195 01:13:18,951 --> 01:13:22,141 - [Johnny] Whether the world will ever accept that 1196 01:13:22,141 --> 01:13:26,141 the Illuminati were simply a group of like-minded 1197 01:13:26,141 --> 01:13:30,961 individuals who desired to make the world a better place 1198 01:13:30,961 --> 01:13:35,544 through education and moral refinement does not matter, 1199 01:13:36,581 --> 01:13:40,704 because there is a profound lesson in the Order's story, 1200 01:13:41,681 --> 01:13:45,591 that those who search for the light in the darkness, 1201 01:13:45,591 --> 01:13:50,591 and do not stray from the path may indeed find illumination. 1202 01:13:56,375 --> 01:13:59,958 (pensive orchestral score) 1203 01:15:53,964 --> 01:15:57,964 (mysterious ethereal cacophony) 92005 90285