... "The term “Illuminati” gets thrown around like monkey caca out there in conspiracy land; it’s typically inaccurately used as a catch-all term for any and all groups operating in a clandestine fashion and tends to carry more baggage than more precise terms like “Deep State” or “Cabal.” In our ignorance, we tend to see the Deep State as a single secretive institution, when in reality it is more accurate to think of it as a loose-knit amalgamation of groups reluctantly working hand in glove with one another to achieve full-spectrum dominance of humanity, or what is also known as synarchism.

It very well could be true that everything we know about this group is either disinformation or the work of imagination. Since many researchers disagree about the origin and intention of the group, we will simply look at what people claim to know, what mainstream historians acknowledge, and what some of the gnostic and New Age defenders of this group have to say." ...