1. (what it actually was) an order of
people who had controvrtial ideas that scared
people so they were banned in 1785 and ceased to exist.
2. (what ignorant
people and idiots think it is) a secret sociaty that is run mostly by jews and aliens to get money and power and introduce a new world order.
needless to say its an excuse for crackpots and nutters to spread stupid conspiricy theories and anti semitism. the illumitati were a bunch of
people who thought that the world would be better if it was run by a few people in sercret rather than by a load of differant countries but most people thought that was bad and they banned them.
there were never more than 2000 members of the illuminati