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They may have. See, back in 1776, when Adam Weishaupt founded the Illuminati, he imbued it with mystical ceremonies and promised supernatural knowledge and power to those who ascended the levels. His purpose for this seems to have been to play to the greed of those he was convincing to join the organization. The thing is, when he failed to produce on his promises, a large number of the aristocracy who he had duped became disillusioned with him and his secret society, and they walked away. Some of these activities, along with Weishaupt's attempts to separate the church and state, and his republican philosophies, rubbed the church and monarchy the wrong way. In 1785 the Duke of Bavaria ordered the organization disbanded (after having made a general order to such the year before for all secret societies), and hunted down the members he could find. Weishaupt fled to another region north of Bavaria where he died in 1830. The problem is that we don't know enough about what Weishaupt's ceremonies were, and it is unlikely that anyone in that time would have practiced something like drinking goat's blood that would so automatically be associated with the Devil by the Church.

If you mean the Illuminati today, then no. The organization no longer exists.

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