

Recruits had to supply the names of their ancestors, relations, friends, correspondents, and enemies. he employed Jesuitical tricks, causing them to fall out with each other, setting them as spies on each other, and separating any two that he saw attached to each other, by making the one a Master of the other and, in short, he left nothing undone that could secure his uncontrolled command,” according to John Robison, author of Proofs of a Conspiracy. “When he could not persuade them by his own firmness. The lower ranks were divided into hierarchies of Novices, Minervals, and Illuminated Minervals, and divided into cells. Initially, anyone over 30 wasn’t trusted. Weishaupt aimed to find young zealots - using Freemason lodges as a recruiting ground - and knit them together with secrecy. Weishaupt was ‘Brother Spartacus’, named after the gladiator who headed the insurrection of slaves and kept Rome in terror for three years.

The Illuminati adopted antique codenames to avoid identification. Another Illuminati emblem was a dot within a circle that symbolized the all-seeing eye which belonged not to God, but to a superior Illuminati watching over the lower ranks. The Order was represented by the Owl of Minerva, which in Greek mythology traditionally accompanies Athena the virgin goddess of wisdom. He foresaw the economy operating under a ‘communism of goods’ structure overseen by an enlightened (illuminated) elite over which he presided. Weishaupt aimed to abolish all religions and obliterate every government so mankind could live happily in a world of equality. They created a plan for the global subversion of church, state, royalty, and society. Anti-clerical and anti-royal, the Illuminati aimed to infiltrate and upset powerful institutions.

Jay-Z said his signal is a diamond ‘Roc’ - not an Illuminati triangle - for Roc-A-Fella RecordsĪdam Weishaupt, a Bavarian professor of canon law, started the radical Illuminati secret society in Europe in 1776 when he was 28 years old.
