Who are illuminaties?

Answer 1

In present day life, no one. They broke up around 1785. The modern, imaginary Illuminati are no more real than unicorns.

Of course, you have as much right to declare yourself an Illuminatus as anyone else. You can be one if you want. But it is very wrong to call someone else one just because you envy them, the way people do these days. That's accusing them of conspiracy-- not something you want to try unless have an unlimited legal budget.

But in real-life terms, all the actual Illuminati died centuries ago. No living person has ever been proven to be an Illuminati in a court of law.

Historically the Illuminati was a group of individuals who made up an Enlightenment era secret society which began in 1776 and lasted for about ten years, at the most. Nowadays, the Illuminati is considered to be a group of individuals (unknown and unproven) who supposedly are a part of the New World Order, purportedly attempting to control world politics and Economics.

For some reason they just won't go away! It's hard to move around when you don't exist!

Answer 2

The real Illuminati organization broke up in 1784, and I doubt anyone I have ever heard of was in it.

The imaginary Illuminati has anyone in it that a Conspiracy Theorist wants it to. Please take note that "no living person* has ever been proven in a court of law to be an Illuminati. If they don't like someone, or envy their success, they simply say so-and-so is an Illuminati.

Being imaginary, these "illuminati" can use any secret signs or gestures anyone wants to say they use. Mostly the people who make these things up say that Masonic signs are Illuminati signs. The Fringers seem to think the Masons are some sort of evil cabal instead of a bunch of guys who get together and act about the same way "Coy" did in that Ray Stevens song, "Shriner's Convention"!

They will even claim that the Masons, whom they will almost always call by the obsolescent term, "freemasons", are a bunch of Satanists. The fact that the existence of Satan has never been scientifically verified is well known to all intelligent people, including the Masons. Why they should worship an organism not known to exist, is a matter for the Fringer's imaginations. It would be like bowing to a vacuum-- is nothing sacred?