Illuminati Project Memo 2

ILLUMINATI PROJECT: MEMO #2

7/23

J.M .:

My second source was more helpful: Akron Daraul, A History of Secret Societies  (Citadel Press, New York, 1961).

Daraul traces the Illuminati back to the 11th century also, but not to Joachim of Floris.

He sees the origin in the Ishmaelian sect of Islam, also known as the Order of Assassins.

They were vanquished in the 13th century, but later made a comeback with a new, less violent Philosophy and eventually became the Ishmaelian sect of today, led by the Aga Khan. However, in the 16th century, in Afghanistan, the Illuminated Ones (Roshinaya) picked up the original tactics of the Order of Assassins. They were wiped out by an alliance of the Moguls and Persians (pages 220-223). But, "The beginning of the seventeenth century saw the foundation of the Illuminated Ones of Spain -the Allumbrados, condemned by an edict of the Grand Inquisition in 1623. In 1654, the 'illuminated' Guerinets came into public notice in France." And, finally-the part you're most interested in- the Bavarian IIluminati  was founded on May Day, 1776, in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, by Adam Weishaupt , a former Jesuit. "Documents still extant show several points of resemblance between the German and Central Asian I'himi-nists: points that are hard to account for on grounds of pure coincidence" (page 255). Weishaupt's Illuminati were suppressed by the Bavarian government in 1785; Daraul also mentions the Illuminati of Paris in the 1880s, but suggests it was simply a passing fad. He does not accept the notion that the Illuminati still exist today.

This is beginning to look big. Why are we keeping the details from George ?

Pat