At the end of Part 1 of this series, I mentioned the acceptance of world
citizenship was an important part of the Illuminati's plot (just as
it's an important part of the plan of the Power Elite [PE] today).
Relevant to this, shortly after Ernst von Gochhausen was dismissed from
the Illuminati, he wrote a novel titled Exposure of the Cosmopolitan
System: In letters from ex-Freemasons (1786), in which the hero asks his
superior, "What purpose do the Illuminati have in infiltrating and
dominating Masonry?" The response was, "To emancipate all of mankind
from religious and political slavery." And the superior continued: "When
nations are no longer separated from one another; when citizens are no
longer influenced by the exclusive interest of any state or the
parochial sentiment of patriotism.... World citizenship. What does it
mean? You are either a citizen or you are a rebel. There is no third
choice...."
Concerning the strategies of the Illuminati, they are
similar to those of the PE today. For example, the Illuminati adopted
the Machiavellian concept that "the end justifies the means," contrary
to the Biblical admonition that one should not do evil that "good" may
come from it. Today, one can see some of the PE's activities regarding
population control as exhibiting the same perspective of "end justifies
means."
The plot of the Illuminati began to be exposed by the
Bavarian Court of Enquiry which commenced its investigation in 1983, and
it concluded with the abolishment of the Illuminati in 1786. There had
already been friction within Weishaupt's ranks as Baron Adolph von
Knigge (code name Philo), who was initiated into the Illuminati in July
1780 and was Weishaupt's second in command, resigned on April 20, 1784
over Weishaupt's direction and dictatorial management of the Order as
revealed in the Supplement of Further Original Works (1787) regarding
the Illuminati. Next year (1788), Baron von Knigge wrote: "As a rule,
under the veil of secrecy, dangerous plans and harmful teachings can be
accepted just as well as noble intentions and profound knowledge;
because not all members themselves are informed of such depraved
intentions, which sometimes tend to lie hidden beneath the beautiful
façade...." (See Steven Luckert's dissertation titled Jesuits,
Freemasons, Illuminati, and Jacobins: Conspiracy theories, secret
societies, and politics in late eighteenth-century Germany).