Unveiling the Illuminati: The Real Society Behind the Myths and Conspiracy Theories
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There really was a secret society called the Illuminati that aimed to create a New World Order. In this episode of After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal, The team lifts the curtain and discovers the real life secrets of the Illuminati and the monstrous myth they became.
Maddy Pelling and Anthony Delaney are joined by Michael Taylor whose new book is called Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the War between Science and Religion and who is working on a full length history of the Illuminati.
So, where did this secret society come from?
He was a 28-year-old called Adam Weishaupt, a professor at the University of Ingolstadt in Bavaria. This era was a high point of the Enlightenment in Europe, which gave rise to a new kind of rational, secular thought. “[Weishaupt] was becoming increasingly frustrated with the control that former Jesuit priests were exerting, not only on the university but on his career,” Michael Taylor explains. “He decided that in order to give expression to the kind of enlightenment that he wanted to see percolate throughout Germany and throughout the world, he would form a secret society, within which he and his friends and his students will swap ideas about how to change the world in a way that was coherent with his enlightened values.“
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