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Who are the Illuminati? Billionaires Australia Investigates
Are the Illuminati responsible for starting wars, shaping history and controlling the world’s wealth for nefarious means? The thousand-year-old secret society is the subject of some of the most elaborate conspiracy theories out there, but we want to know once and for all the extent of the power of the Illuminati and whether or not they really are controlling the world’s billions.
A humble beginning
When you read about the Illuminati’s role in history it tends to highlight the organisation’s work in shaping high-profile historical events to its own ends – world domination through an authoritarian state – but it didn’t start out like that.
The Bavarian Illuminati was an Enlightenment-era secret society founded in the 1770s and opposed superstition, prejudice and religious influence, and supported gender equality. The Roman Catholic Church put pressure on the German state’s ruler and the secret group was outlawed, leading them to be wiped out by the end of the 1780s.
