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This book consists of articles from Wikia or other free sources online. Pages: 41. Chapters: Adam Weishaupt, Alain Bourges-Maunoury, Alex Jacobson, Anna Navarre, Beth DuClare, Bob Page, Carmela, Chad Dumier, Collins, Daedalus, Defoe, El Rey, Ford Schick, Gary Savage, Gilbert Renton, Gordon Quick, Gunther Hermann, Harley Filben, Helios, Howard Strong, Ian Hilton, Icarus, Isaac, J. Allred, JC Denton, Jaime Reyes, Janey, Janice Reed, JoJo Fine, Jock, John Smith, Johnny, Jordan Shea, Joseph Manderley, Juan Lebedev, Kaplan, Leo Gold, Lloyd, Louis, Louis Pan, Lucius DeBeers, Maggie Chow, Mari Hela, Max Chen, Michael Berry, Miguel, Morgan Everett, Morpheus, Nicolette DuClare, Oracle, Paul Denton, Philip Mead, Renault, Richard Hundley, Ridley, Rock, Sam Carter, Sandra Renton, Scott, Shannon, Smuggler, Stanton Dowd, Tiffany Savage, Toby Atanwe, Tracer Tong, Vinny, Walton Simons, Yuen Kong. Excerpt: Johann Adam Weishaupt was a German philosopher and founder of the Illuminati, an Enlightenment-era secret society. On 1 May 1776 Weishaupt formed the "Order of Perfectibilists." He adopted the name of "Brother Spartacus" within the order. Though the Order was not egalitarian or democratic, its mission was the abolition of all monarchical governments and state religions in Europe and its colonies. Weishaupt wrote: "the ends justified the means." The actual character of the society was an elaborate network of spies and counter-spies. Each isolated cell of initiates reported to a superior, whom they did not know, a party structure that was effectively adopted by some later groups. Weishaupt was initiated into the Masonic Lodge "Theodor zum guten Rath," at Munich in 1777. His project of "illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason, which will dispel the clouds of superstition and of prejudice" was an unwelcome reform. Soon however he had developed gnostic mysteries of his own, with the goal of "perfecting human" nature through re-education to achieve a commu...
