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French publicist and Jesuit priest (1741–1820)
The Illuminati originated as a real secret society, the Bavarian Illuminati, founded by Adam Weishaupt in 1776 to promote Enlightenment ideals, but it was disbanded by 1785 with no credible evidence o...
The term "tampliers" likely refers to a misspelling of the , a medieval military order founded in 1119 to protect Christian pilgrims during the Crusades, distinct from the , an Enlightenment-era secre...
Secret societies such as the and provided symbolic and historical hooks that conspiracy-minded communities stitched into the modern (NWO) myth, but scholars and skeptics argue those groups’ real-world...
The “New World Order” (NWO) and “Illuminati” labels describe an interlocking set of conspiracy narratives that claim a hidden elite is plotting to create a single, totalizing global government; histor...