American writer Madeleine L'Engle said,“To take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.” Since the beginning of time people have tried to push personal beliefs on others to establish their own utopian ideals. Whether it be through religion, organizations, politics, and even cults these leaders have gone through great lengths to propagandize their beliefs on others with the aide of money, social status, and fear. One organization in particular has infiltrated its way into society so deeply through media and government that Americans are not even aware that they are subject to their mind manipulating tactics, thus being used …show more content…
The first part of the mystery is easy to answer as the Illuminati does exist and has a vast history dating back to 1770s. On May 1, 1776 the Order of The Illuminists was founded by a law professor Adam Weishaupt and his four friends at at the University of Ingolstadt in Bavaria (Darity). “The Order’s stated mission was ‘to encourage a human and sociable outlook; to inhibit all viscous impulses; to support Virtue… to further the advance of deserving persons and to spread useful knowledge among the broad mass of people who were at present deprived of all education.’”(Darity). These proposals were a big deal at the time because they clashed with Bavaria's political and religious views. Weishaupt was concerned about the curriculum in his country being controlled by the Church and created the movement solely to spread the idea of Enlightenment and promote a sort of democracy. He believed the best way to go about such a movement was to create the secret society mirroring strategies from other organizations of his time such as the Jesuits and Freemasons who believed in discipline, organization, and unyielding views that refused to be …show more content…
von Knigge, and which were supposed to assure the creation of the society of free members lacking any rulers and kings. In a decade in the 1780s the ideas of the Illuminati spread actively, and lodges established in many of the southern Germany’s cities and towns. However the society appeared a failure – not because of the government’s victimizations. It appears that even before the government started hounding the Illuminati members, the society began disintegrating from within. Many of its members became engaged in “political mysticism and occultism” (Scott and Rothaus, 470), and Knigge himself being a serious ideologist of Illuminati left the society unable to withstand Weishaupt’s authoritarian