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