Category: Secret Societies
“[E]veryone admits that the real strength of a secret society lies in its concealment: the more secret it is, the more it will be able to fully remove any obstacles. The primary interest of a secret society is therefore to do everything that it can to keep itself secret in order, as far as is possible, to avoid betrayal and becoming public knowledge.” – Adam Weishaupt, Pythagoras, oder Betrachtungen über die geheime Welt- und Regierungskunst (1790), 404-5. [Translation courtesy of Josef Wäges]
Gotha Illuminati Research Base (here and here). Order name unknown. (1747 Munich – 1826) Catholic – Studied in Würzburg and Ingolstadt. In 1763, became a Privy Councillor in Munich. Appointed as a Court Councillor in 1767,...
Gotha Illuminati Research Base (here and here). Order name: “Bunder” (1737 Neuwied – 1805 Neuwied) Protestant – Merchant in Neuwied. (1783) Member of the local lodge “Caroline zu den drei Pfauen,” Apprentice Degree. *** “Caroline zu...
Gotha Illuminati Research Base (here and here). *1760, †1819, law student, Ingolstadt, member of the Illuminati under the code name “Osiris” Illuminati: Dec. 1777 Illuminat; Oct/Nov. 1781 Illuminatus minor. (1760 Eichstätt – 1819 Beilngries) Cath. –...
Gotha Illuminati Research Base (here and here). Mayor, Munich; Order Name “Marcellus” (1758 Munich – 1797) In 1780, he was the head of the city archives and a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in...
Gotha Illuminati Research Base (here and here). ~1784-06, student of law, Ingolstadt Unknown Order Name. Catholic – From Amberg, son of a government councilor, studied law in Ingolstadt from 1782 onwards, relegated in 1785, then in...
Gotha Illuminati Research Base (here and here). *1747, †1808, head of the royal mining company, Hanover, member of the Illuminati under the code name Sala. (1747 Hannover – 1808) Lutheran – In 1777, he was employed...
Gotha Illuminati Research Base (here and here). *1747, merchant, Neuwied, member of the Illuminati under the code name Metrodorus *** Here’s an excerpt translated from professor Wilson’s book. Knigge to Bode, 14th of November [1783] From...
Introduction (Thanks to Joe Wäges for translating some of the biographical material on Wolf.) Translated from German to English and printed in the short-lived periodical German museum (v.1: London, 1800, pp. 207-218, 296-305, 390-396), the following essay on the Bavarian...
Gotha Illuminati Research Base (here and here). (1754 Camogask [Graubünden] –1835) Ref. – 1773 member of the Rhaetian Synod, 1776 pastor in Fläsch, 1786 pastor in Haldenstein (Graubünden), 1798 in French military service, living in Silvaplana...
Gotha Illuminati Research Base (here and here). Order name unknown. Theological candidate in Sieke, 1779 Kollaborator at the Holzminden school. Freemasonry: Nov. 1776, member of the Göttingen Lodge “Augusta zu den drei Flammen”; Worshipful Master, 1779...