I'm reading this incredible book that describes the origin of the Illuminati:
The Money Power: Pawns in the Game by William Guy Carr (published in 1956)
EXCERPT 1: Adam Weishaupt, a Jesuit-trained professor of canon law, defected from Christianity, and embraced the Luciferian ideology while teaching in Ingolstadt University. In 1770 the money lenders (who had recently organized the House of Rothschild), retained him to revise and modernize the age-old "protocols" designed to give the Synagogue of Satan ultimate world domination so they can impose the Luciferian ideology upon what remains of the Human Race, after the final social cataclysm, by use of satanic despotism.
The plan required the destruction of ALL existing governments and religions. This objective was to be reached by dividing the masses, whom he termed Goyim (meaning human cattle) into opposing camps in increasing numbers on political, racial, social, economic and other issues. The opposing sides were to be armed and an "incident" provided which would cause them to fight and weaken themselves as they destroyed National Governments and Religious Institutions.
In 1776 Weishaupt organized the Illuminati to put the plot into execution. The word Illuminati is derived from Lucifer, and means "holders of the light." Using the lie that his objective was to bring about a one-world government to enable men with proven mental ability to govern the world, he recruited about two thousand followers. These included the most intelligent men in their fields of arts and letters, education, the sciences, finance and industry. He then established Lodges of the Grand Orient to be their secret headquarters.
Weishaput's revised plan required his Illuminati to do the following things to help them accomplish their purpose.
(1) Use monetary and sex bribery to obtain control of people already occupying positions in high places in the various levels of ALL governments and other fields of human endeavour. Once an influential person had fallen for the lies, deceits, and temptations of the Illuminati they were to be held in bondage by the application of political and other forms of blackmail and threats of financial ruin, public exposure, physical harm and even death to themselves and their loved ones.
(2) Illuminati on the faculties of colleges and universities were to recommend students possessing exceptional mental ability belonging to well-bred families with international leanings for special training in internationalism. This training was to be provided by granting scholarships to those selected. They were to be educated (indoctrinated) into accepting the "idea" that only a One-World Government can put an end to recurring wars and tribulations. They were to be at first persuaded and then convinced that men of special ability and brains had the RIGHT to rule those less gifted, because the Goyim (masses of the people) don't know what is best for them physically, mentally and spiritually. Today three such special schools are located in Gordonstoun, Scotland; Schloss Salem, Germany; and Anavryta, Athens, Greece. Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth of England, was educated at Gordonstoun at the instigation of Lord Louis Mountbatten, his uncle, who became Britain's Admiral of the Fleet after World War Two.
Influential people trapped into coming under the control of the Illuminati, and students who had been specially educated and trained, were to be used as agentur and placed behind the scenes of ALL governments as "Experts" and "Specialists" so they could advise the top executives to adopt policies which would in the long run, serve the secret plans of the One Worlders and bring about the ultimate destruction of the governments and religions they were elected to appointed to serve.
The Illuminati were to obtain control of the Press and all other agencies which distribute information to the public. News and information was to be slanted so that the Goyim would come to believe that a One-World Government is the ONLY solution to our many and varied problems.
Because Britain and France were the two greatest powers at the end of the 18th Century, Weishaupt ordered the Iluminati to foment the Colonial Wars to weaken the British Empire and organize the Great Revolution to weaken the French Empire. The latter he scheduled should start in 1789.
A German author named Zwack put Weishaupt's revised version of the age-old conspiracy into book form and named it "Einige Original-Scripten". In 1784 a copy of this document was sent to the Illuminists Weishaupt had delegated to foment the French revolution. The courier was struck dead by lightning as he rode through Ratisbon on his way from Frankfurt to Paris. The police found the subersive documents on his body and turned them over to the proper government authorities.
After careful study of the plot, the Bavarian Government ordered the police to raid Weishaput's newly organized lodges of the Grand Orient and the homes of some of his most influential associates, including the castle of Baron Bassus-in-Sandersdorf. Additional evidence thus obtained convinced the authorities the documents were a genuine copy of a conspiracy by which the synagogue of Satan, who controlled the Illuminati AT THE TOP, planned to use wars and revolutions to bring about the establishment of one or another kind of One-World Government, the powers of which they intended to usurp as soon as it was established.
In 1785, the Bavarian Government outlawed the Illuminati and closed the lodges of the Grand Orient. In 1786, they published the details of the conspiracy. The English title is "The Original Writings of the Order and Sect of The Illuminati." Copies of the conspiracy were sent to the heads of church and state. The power of the Illuminati was so great that this warning was ignored, as were the warnings Christ had given the world.
The Illuminati went underground. Weishaupt instructed his Illuminists to infiltrate into the lodges of Blue Masonry and form a secret society within secret societies.