Reflective Essay on My Study of Illuminati

My Question

There you are, watching TV on the date of September 11, 2001. Then suddenly the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked, and people are in disarray of what is going on, then several weeks later conspiracies arrive of why this happened. Hearing the words “Illuminati” from several people. This secret society has always bugged me ever since the first clue to the Illuminati, that clue being the unfinished pyramid at the top of the dollar bill (Marketplace, 1). Questions that started to run through my mind seeing this on the dollar bill was, “Who were these people”? “What exactly did these people want”? “Did they influence anybody through their reign”?

My Journey

Throughout the many conspiracy theories and groups in the world, I got to come across the Illuminati, the Illuminati is an unknown group that is believed to be controlling the world, the big question I have thought is what is the Illuminati? The Illuminati was real at one point in time, it came into being on the date of May 1, 1776(“Illuminati” 1). They were called the Order of the Illuminati, they began as a secret society of only five members, and they were made up of people of opposed the Catholic Church’s power, as their numbers grew larger, the secret came out of their whereabouts they were banned by the Elector of Bavaria and since disbanded… But were they really (“Illuminati” 1)?

What I learned

As of modern times, it is believed that the Illuminati has influenced many popular who became famous. As I continued to search through the internet, the Illuminati affected a lot of people that were famous, this sparked up my question “Who did the Illuminati effect”? I read a document that said Beyoncé and Jay-Z are the King and Queen of the Illuminati, crazy right? Two of the most popular Hip-Hop singers who rose to fame to be a part of this secret society, but it’s not their fame that they believe it's for the actions these artists speculate that they are part of this society. In Jay-Z’s album “Roc Nation”, his signature hand sign is to have his hands in a shape of a triangle, and the Illuminati’s most common symbol in society is the Triangular eye(Chen, 3).

Furthermore, I continued to search and discover more truths about the Illuminati, I started reading on many cases of the Illuminati, such as murders. In Michael Jackson’s son, Prince said in a news video that a week before Michael Jackson’s death, Prince would hear Michael say, “They’re going to kill me, they’re going to kill me”. Who were they? Well in a press with Michael Jackson, he stated that there was “the system in place in the music industry takes advantage of celebrities”(Dean, par 3). To proceed even further into this Illuminati business, Aaron Hernandez, a young rich NFL player ended up taking his life in a jail cell for a life sentence for the 2013 shooting of Odin Lloyd, committed suicide, and wrote “ILLUMINATI” in all caps on the wall of his cell, with his own blood (ParkalertPress, 1)!

He then drew an unfinished pyramid and an eye, he also proceeded to write “John 3:16” on his forehead, I looked up this verse and it read “ For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” What was Aaron Hernandez trying to convey?

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One of the first questions was, who was the Illuminati? Well, the Illuminati had a big different society back then, then what it is today. In 1776, Adam Weishaupt didn’t believe in the monarchy of the church at the time and disregarded it, he proceeded to make an “Illumination” group that was set on changing European states on how they run. (Fotostock, par 4). During the night of May 1, 1776, the Illuminati met in a forest near Ingolstadt. There was a total of five men and established rules to which they govern the order. They even had three membership levels! First would be novices, minerals, and illuminated minerals (Fotostock, par 6). In a matter of years, the secret society grew to 600 members by 1782, then by the end of 1784, Illuminati grew to 3000 numbers(Fotostock par 7), not such a secret society if there are so many people, right? Well that’s exactly what happened, word got out of this society and the Bavarian society issued a banning order on the Illuminati, they later disbanded ever since. The next question that this theory gave was, who did the Illuminati affect? In an article made by ancient code, they wrote that figures such as Pope Francis and singers like Jay-Z and Beyonce are among the secret group, however, there really isn’t any evidence linking having them being discovered. (Ancient Code, par 3)

What this means to me

As of starting this project, I only had knowledge of the Illuminati about how there was an eye on the top of the pyramid in the dollar bill, I didn’t know that there was a conspiracy involved with this, the theory involved with this, was called the Illuminati theory. As of researching the topic 10 years later, I discovered something bigger behind the picture, the New World Order. This New World Order was the embodiment of the Illuminatis so-called plan, the powerful group sought to rule mankind into one singular world government (The Telegraph, 25). There has been some speculation that shows key events linking to the New World Order, such as 9/11.

President Bush was said to be a key link to the 9/11 attack, but what’s even eerier is that 11 years ago before 9/11 happened. Was that Bush gave an address called “Toward A New World Order”.(Cutting-edge, par 22) The main idea of this speech was that the Iraqi invasion would be a catalyst that would propel the US in a New World Order, then 11 years later the World Trade Center and the Pentagon was attacked, isn’t that crazy how Bush’s speech and the attack was on the same date, then the many allegations that “Bush did it” (Cuttingedge, par 23).

Now, this essay was really different than other research papers since it was basic research you wanted to do! It didn’t have any guidelines about what you should and shouldn’t do, and it had more freedom than most papers, except for the fact of plagiarism was still a no-go. Also making this essay compared to other essays was how chilling reading different articles, this gave me many twists in my stomach, one thought I always had in the back of my head was “What if they came and took me because of the stuff I knew”. Even on some nights, I couldn’t even sleep!

This essay really had value to me, there was so many theories or groups I could’ve done such as the Skulls and Bones society, or the Flat-Earth Theory, although those are some interesting topics, I believed that the Illuminati theory would give me useful information later since it was so secret.

To summarize it, the Illuminati has made me have many twists and turns, from asking “Who was the Illuminati” “What did they want” and “Who did they affect”, they provided me with so much information that I didn't even know existed! Just watch out cause even the Illuminati can be reading this paper as well.