Illuminati vs Illuminist - What's the difference?
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Any of various societies, sects or other people claiming religious or intellectual enlightenment.
# Persons in the early church who had received baptism and been given a lighted taper as a symbol of the spiritual illumination they had received.
# Members of a Spanish sect of the sixteenth century, who believed that, by means of prayer, they had attained so perfect a state as to have no need of ordinances, sacraments, good works, etc.; the Alumbrados or Perfectibilists.
# Members of certain associations in Europe who combined to promote social reform in pursuit of perfection; especially one originated in 1776 by (Adam Weishaupt).
# An obscure sect of French familists.
# The Hesychasts, Mystics, and Quietists.
# The Rosicrucians.
An alleged global, elite, secret society which has as its ultimate objective the subjugation of humanity (world domination or New World Order).
Someone who subscribes to the doctrine of illuminism, or who claims to have achieved spiritual illumination; one of the Illuminati.
*2006 , Marsha Keith Schuchard, Why Mrs Blake Cried , Pimlico 2007, p. 218:
*:For some years, the Swedenborgians had been corresponding with fellow Illuminists in Poland, Germany, Sweden and France, and they were eager to learn more about the mystical and millenarian prophecies emanating form their lodges.
As an adjective illuminati
is .As a verb illuminati
is .As a noun illuminist is
someone who subscribes to the doctrine of illuminism, or who claims to have achieved spiritual illumination; one of the illuminati.illuminati
English
(wikipedia Illuminati)Noun
(en-plural noun)- The methods of control used by "Ming the Merciless, Rules of the Universe" in the 1980 film ''Flash Gordon'' are a metaphor for what some perceive to be the influence of the Illuminati on the real world.
