it's a great story because people have heard of the Illuminati they've heard the conspiracy theory version which has found its way from the late 18th century all the way to the novels of Dan Brown and so there's there's a kind of name recognition there but nobody nobody actually knows what the Illuminati were the real story is fascinating and we we can actually reconstruct it now it was a sort of group of of South German Enlightenment radicals who really wanted to bring about a quite drastic change that would undermine the power of organized religious Authority and
Advance ideas of Enlightenment but because this is such a revolutionary and and indeed dangerous thing to do they they created a very very secretive uh Society a bit like a masonic lodge with initiation rights elaborate language and a set of stages through which initiates had to pass before the the true purpose of the organization was revealed to them
