Are the Illuminati related to Freemasons and the Bohemian Club?

Answer 1

Short answer is no. However to relay a bit of history, the Bavarian Illuminati founded by Adam Weishaupt did manage to get himself and many of his followers into Masonic Lodges in Munich, Germany. Of course nobody knew his agenda yet.

Once found out, he was expelled along with his followers as 'users'. Now that is the fact and no amount of conspiracy theory will change that.

The organization ceased to exist by 1791.

Whenever conspiracy theory is spouted, the mysterious "Illuminati" (along with the Bilderburgers, The Trilateral Commission, the Council of Foreign Relations, and a plethora of others) are most often named as being responsible. Ironically, however, while many, many people can name those ostensibly belonging to the other conspiracy groups, the "Illuminati" is always left hanging as some secret, shadowy entity which no one can quite describe. Interestingly too, no one can quite identify what specific acts can be attributed to them - everybody's got their own lists. And no one in 225 years seems to have left the organization to reveal its secrets. Pretty powerful stuff..... (If you're not hearing the theme music for The X-Files right now, it's a CONSPIRACY!!!)

Not one single defector in 5 or 6 generations: think about that! That'd be your great, great, great grandfather. I wonder how many people reading this page can actually name someone from their family who lived in the 1700s. Those who want to persuade us that a secret Illuminati cabal did lead the world from the Renaissance to the 19th century, and/or that it continues to do so today have a very difficult burden of proof and have never come close to producing documents or actual evidence that such is the case.