A doctor who has received support from Trump for her stances on the coronavirus has previously claimed the Illuminati is working to destroy the world, it has emerged. Stella Immanuel appeared among a group of doctors in a viral video this week claiming that neither masks nor shutdowns are necessary to fight the pandemic. The video has been viewed more than 14 million times and was retweeted by the president, before being removed from social media for spreading unsubstantiated information.
Start your trial subscription today ———————————————————————————————. The original Illuminati group was founded in Bavaria in the 18th century by Adam Weishaupt, an anti-clerical professor who wanted to limit the interference of the Church in public life.
He based his secret society on the Freemasons, with a hierarchy and mysterious rituals, and named it the Order of Illuminati to reflect the enlightened ideals of its educated members.
Chris Hodapp, the co-author of Conspiracy Theories and Secret Societies for Dummies , says a defining feature of early Illuminati members is that they did not trust anyone over 30, because they were too set in their ways. The order did boast some influential members, with the most famous of these alleged to have been the German thinker Johann Goethe. The Illuminati was stamped out by a government crackdown on secret societies in the late s, but rumours that it continued to survive as an underground organisation have persisted into the modern day.
Among the alleged members of the secret society are not just politicians and religious leaders, but also actors and pop stars. In a interview with the BBC , David Bramwell, "a man who has dedicated himself to documenting the origins of the myth", said the modern-day Illuminati legend was influenced not by Weishaupt but rather by LSD, the s counter-culture, and specifically a text called Principia Discordia.
The book extolled an alternative belief system — Discordianism — which preached a form of anarchism and gave birth to the Discordian movement which ultimately wished to cause civil disobedience through practical jokes and hoaxes.
One of the main proponents of this new ideology was a writer called Robert Anton Wilson who wanted to bring chaos back into society by "disseminating misinformation through all portals — through counter culture, through the mainstream media," claims Bramwell. He did this by sending fake letters to the men's magazine Playboy, where he worked, attributing cover-ups and conspiracy theories, such as the JFK assassination, to a secret elite organisation called the Illuminati. Wilson went on to turn these theories into a book, The Illuminatus Trilogy , which became a surprise cult success and were even made into a stage play in Liverpool, launching the careers of British actors Bill Nighy and Jim Broadbent.
They were asked to recommend appropriate people to be received into the Order and to list those who might be unfit, justifying reasons for both opinions. They were told to pay attention to the conduct of other men around them and report back weekly about public or private occurrences. Neither sisterhood was to know about the other. The Barvarian Illuminati insinuated themselves into public offices and courts of justice. Documents found in the homes of Illuminati like diplomat Franx Xavier von Zwack confirmed their dreams of world domination.
The Duke of Bavaria, Karl Theodor, banned secret societies in In and instituted punishments for anyone who joined them. But did the Illuminati really dissolve? They point out that Weishaupt was banished but not imprisoned, so he carried on writing and working. Barruel even promoted a theory that secret societies, including the Illuminati, were behind the French Revolution.
By , fears about the dangerous sect had reached the US. George Washington wrote an open letter indicating the US had avoided the Illuminati threat, but just the mention of the secret society helped revive the topic and the fear. But for those who believe in the theories spread through the internet, the group is alive and well. Brazilian presidential candidate Cabo Daciolo Patriota , for instance, recently took refuge on top of a hill, on August 13 th , claiming that the Illuminati were trying to kill him after he attacked the group.
For the candidate, as well as many other people, the Illuminati are still out there, scheming the implementation of the New World Order, a totalitarian globalist government made up of people chosen by the secret elite. Nowadays, some fraternities claim to be descendent of the original Illuminati.
However, there are no evidences that these current groups managed to obtain any relevant political power or significant influence. Some politicians and religious leaders have been accused of belonging to this secret society, as well as artists and other celebrities.
The theory is that the entertainment industry was infiltrated by Illuminati members in order to mass brainwash. Year ago, people used to discuss in internet forums whether rapper Eminem had joined the Order in exchange for fame and fortune. Some people suspected that he was a slave, trying to escape the society, and would use subliminal messages in the lyrics of his songs to prove it.
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