On May 1, 1776 a Jesuit priest and professor of canon law at Ingolstadt University in Bavaria (now part of Germany) formed an organization called the Illuminati. Adam Weishaupt summarized his philosophy as follows: "Man is not bad except as he is made so by arbitrary morality. He is bad because religion, the state, and bad examples pervert him. When at last reason becomes the religion of men, then will the problem be solved." God has given to man the ability to reason, but this is to be used properly to understand the things of God - it is not to be our 'religion'. Rom. 12:2 tells us to "be not conformed to this world BUT BE YE TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWING OF YOUR MIND..." The person whose mind is renewed to the word of God will see things from a different perspective, God's perspective, and he will hold a world-view based on scripture. Further, his renewed mind will actually change him, and he will no longer be shaped like the rest of the world. This is why many Christians don’t feel at home on earth and are longing to go to our true home.

Weishaupt held a different world-view, one in which God and his will did not matter, only man mattered. Some would call this humanism, but it is not humanistic, it is Satanic. It was Satan who told Eve "ye shall be as gods" and it was God who said "thou shalt not have any gods before me". This command applies to all other gods, including self. According to Weishaupt, reason was to be the religion of men. It follows that if man's own reason was to be his religion, man would actually worship himself. Weishaupt believed nationalism was an obstacle to man's progress: "With the origin of nations and peoples the world ceased to be a great family...Nationalism took the place of human love." Weishaupt was not an anarchist (one who believes in the absence of government) but believed that national government should be replaced by a world government that would be ruled in turn by the Illuminati. The ultimate goal of the Illuminati, and of its successors, is power: worldwide power. The power of one government over all people of the world.

In Gen. 11:1-9 we find the record of Babel. It was God himself who confused the languages and scattered the people into separate nations. Gen 11:6 is key: "Behold the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do." The goal of the Illuminati is to rebuild Babel: they plan to reunite the peoples of the world under one government. We already have a single language - the language of computers. Notice God said "nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do." The Illuminati knows this, which is why they use the symbolism illustrated here.

In 1777 Wieshaupt became a member of the Masons in Munich. His purpose was to infiltrate the organization then to altogether control it, and in 1782 Illuminism was injected in Masonry by indoctrinating the Masonic leadership. The Masonic organization has been used in nearly all countries where the Illuminati or their successors have produced revolution or gained control. At its core this organization holds the same goals as the Illuminati (it may actually be the Illuminati) and, because of its secrecy, it lends itself very well to planning revolution, but once the revolution has succeeded the Masons are suppressed because the same secrecy that leant itself so well to the goals of the revolutionaries can be used against them.

In 1783 the Bavarian government discovered the philosophies and purposes of the Illuminati: world conquest beginning in Bavaria. The government suppressed the Illuminati and their members fled throughout Europe, taking their beliefs with them. While the Illuminati was supposedly nonexistent by 1900, their work has been carried out continuously by groups who have different names but hold to the same plans and goals, which are:

It appears that, today, we are well along on the path established by Weishaupt.  But there's more.