I'm fairly certain it doesn't happen until level 33. At level 32 they give you glimpses of what leveling up means. You then can choose to move on (sell your soul to the devil?) or not.

At least that was my take on my fathers story of his friend at seminary. That makes this third hand information, and unfortunately my father passed a couple years ago so I can't fill in any details. But it makes sense.

Everything I've seen suggests the illuminati infiltrated the legitimate (not evil) secret society called the Freemasons around 1776ish (the "official" foundation date of the Illuminati). That doesn't mean they were infiltrated everywhere at that time, possibly only in Germany.

Regardless of when that infiltration actually occured, they seemed to be a secret society within a secret society. They used the bottom level secret society to recruit. Going from one to the other was not a guarantee. If I had to guess, based on what I've read since, the vast majority within the Freemasons were probably completely clueless about their connection to the illuminati.

I would say the same is probably true of most societies of that nature (Scottish Rite et al). They are used as recruiting centers and are not inherently evil in and of themselves. I imagine there is a trickle down taint from the top, though that can be said of our whole world.