Freemasonry is the world's oldest fraternity which finds its organizational origins in medieval stonemason craft guilds Freemasons use tools and emblems of the Builder's trade to teach moral lessons though its roots traced to the 14th century the origins of what we would recognize as Freemasonry today really got started in Great Britain at the beginning of the 18th century the main idea behind Freemasonry is to make good men better and thereby make the world a better place in the long run but when we talk about the original Illuminati we're referring to the Bavarian Illuminati a late 18th
century secret society founded by Adam wisopt a German law professor who believed strongly in the enlightenment ideals and the Illuminati never got any kind of critical mass following there were only a few thousand members at its peak and the whole thing pretty much came and went in about a decade
