dam Weishaupt was born in Inglostadt, Germany, on February 6 1748. Educated by Jesuits, in 1775 at the age of 27 he became professor of natural and canon law at Inglostadt University, and was initiated in the Teodor Masonic lodge of the Good Council in Munich in 1777. It was a cosmopolitan who sneezed the fanatic superstitions of the priests of that time. He decided to establish an enlightened society to fight against injustice and so he did, founding the order that on May 1 1776, was to become the “Bavarian Illuminati” – The Illuminati conspiracy.
Originally called “Order of perfectibility”, its purpose was to allow members to unify to “obtain the highest possible degree of morality and virtue and to lay the foundation for the reform of the world, by unifying the best ones, to fight against the propagation of the bad behavior”.
Helped by influential people like Baron von Knigge, Xavier Zwack, and Baron Bassus, Weishaupt founded an order which has become extremely popular. Not much time has passed, and two thousand people have become members. The Illuminati conspiracy lodges were located in France, Italy, Poland, Hungary, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium and the Netherlands. On June 22 1784, Bavarian authorities have issued a repressive decree to the order that they have repeated the next year in March and then again in August. That same year, 1785, Weishaupt was kicked out of education and sent to exile out of Bavaria.
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