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The Cult Dossier · No. 026 · Occult / Esoteric / Satanic
The Bavarian Illuminati
Order of the Illuminati; Perfectibilists
1 May 1776 – 1785 (formally) · Ingolstadt, Bavaria
III. THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY
Anti-religious — Enlightenment rationalist secret society
### Who led it
### What it worshipped and taught
### Who was in it
### How it ended, or where it stands
### The dead
### Of note
### Its timeline
- 1 May 1776 Founded with five members at Ingolstadt.
- 1780–1782 Knigge joins and restructures it; membership rises to roughly 2,000–2,500 across German states, Austria, Hungary and Italy.
- 1784–1785 Karl Theodor issues edicts banning all secret societies; the order is outlawed.
- 1786–1787 Raids on Zwack's and Baron Bassus's houses; documents published by the Bavarian government.
- 1797–1798 Barruel's Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism and Robison's Proofs of a Conspiracy blame the order for the French Revolution — the seed of two centuries of conspiracy literature.
### Its people
### Adam Weishaupt
Spartacus
Founder, the Bavarian Illuminati · 6 February 1748 – 18 November 1830 · active 1776–1785
Before the law. Order outlawed; Weishaupt stripped of his chair and exiled from Bavaria. Never imprisoned.
Where things stand. Deceased 1830. THE ORDER WAS GENUINELY DEFUNCT BY 1787. Every claim of a surviving Illuminati is unsupported.
- 1 May 1776 Founds the order with five members.
- 1780 Baron von Knigge joins and restructures it; membership reaches ~2,500.
- 1784–85 Banned by the Elector of Bavaria.
- 1786–87 Government publishes the seized internal papers.
- 18 November 1830 Dies at Gotha aged 82.
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