This day in History May 1 1776 : Enter the Illuminati!
This Day in History – May 1, 1776
The Day the Illuminati Declared War on God and Kings
On May 1, 1776, a man named Adam Weishaupt, trained by Jesuits but drawn to Enlightenment ideology, officially founded the Order of the Illuminati in Bavaria. His goal wasn’t speculation—it was revolution.
He intended to overthrow the monarchies of Europe, displace Christianity, and install a world built on secular “reason,” secret oaths, and elite control.
Not through ballots or battles—but through infiltration.
They called it enlightenment—but it was a war against Light
I spoke personally on several occasions with Ralph Epperson, the man who authored The Unseen Hand, The New World Order, and Masonry: Conspiracy Against Christianity. I own his books. I’ve read them. And I can tell you this:
He was singularly focused—and he loved the Lord.
He sounded the alarm long before it was trendy to whisper “Illuminati” on a podcast.
He warned us that the handshake networks of secret societies had never gone away.
That the Masonic lodges, the global orders, the “brotherhoods”—were not relics of the past, but tentacles of a very present beast.
I have to admit: some of what he shared sounded far-fetched to me at the time.
But over the years, my own research confirmed what he said.
It wasn’t conspiracy—it was construction.
They were building something.
And now, we're living in it.
The world loves to believe that the Illuminati was disbanded—that Weishaupt was exiled and the order dismantled.
But that’s the same lie they tell about every secret society when it slips into the shadows.
In 1802, Scottish professor John Robison warned of this same deception in his book Proofs of a Conspiracy:
“An association has been formed for the express purpose of rooting out all the religious establishments, and overturning all the existing governments of Europe... and it was hidden under the veil of secrecy and brotherhood.”
Robison wasn’t alone. The Abbé Barruel in France documented the same pattern—two men, unaware of each other, uncovering the same beast.
That’s not a theory. That’s historical agreement.
By the 1820s and 30s, the threat wasn’t just whispered in Europe.
In the United States, a sitting political party rose to confront it head-on: the Anti-Masonic Party.
It formed after the mysterious disappearance of Captain William Morgan, who tried to expose Masonic rituals and was likely murdered for it.
This wasn’t fringe—it led to grand juries, widespread protests, and the birth of America’s first third party.
Even John Quincy Adams published letters condemning Freemasonry as a threat to liberty.
Though Alexander Hamilton wasn’t involved, many Anti-Masons saw the centralized banking and federal controls he favored as fertile ground for secret manipulation.
They understood something vital:
Secret oaths and public trust do not mix.
When secrecy becomes a virtue, tyranny is
Weishaupt didn’t invent the spirit of antichrist.
He just organized it.
And May 1 is his feast day.
---Final Section (Freemasonry, the Founders, and the Illuminati’s Boost):
By the time the Illuminati emerged in 1776, Freemasonry was already fertile ground—not because it had departed from biblical Christianity, but because it had never been rooted in it.
Like the Elks or the Boy Scouts, it borrowed moral language and ceremonial trappings—but it offered no cross, no Christ, no salvation.
The so-called “Great Architect of the Universe” was a generic deity, a placeholder that welcomed all faiths except the one that claims exclusivity—Jesus Christ.
In early America, Freemasonry played a more civic role.
Men like George Washington and Paul Revere participated in American lodges that often functioned like The Grange—networks for trust, charity, and wartime secrecy.
In some circles, it was even used as a litmus test for loyalty during the Revolutionary War.
But while those lodges may have worn a softer face, the foundation remained the same:
Ritual over redemption. Oaths over obedience. Brotherhood without the blood of the Lamb.
I’ve walked through Masonic halls myself—as an inspector making sure Fire codes were followed in my early 20s.
I’ve seen the shrines, the altars, the ritual chairs, the hidden symbols.
It wasn’t parody. It was serious—and deeply spiritual.
But not the Spirit of Christ.
“In secret have I said nothing.” – John 18:20
“Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.” – Ephesians 5:11
Freemasonry offers a form of godliness, but denies the only Name that saves.
It offers light—but not the Light.
It offers brotherhood—but not adoption by the Father.
It sets a table—but not the Lord’s table.
And when the Illuminati came, they didn’t need to destroy the American order—they simply fed the drift already in motion.
They gave it an ideological evolutionary boost—one that would take a revolution grounded in “natural rights” and push it toward naturalism, relativism, and eventually outright antichristism.
What began as a moral republic would, over time, become a machine of global influence—hollowed of Christ, and filled with light that blinds.
How Freemasonry Opposed True Christianity (Even Pre-Illuminati):
- Syncretism and Moral Relativism
• Freemasonry replaced Jesus Christ with a generic “Great Architect of the Universe.”
• All religions were accepted as equal paths to “light.”
• Prayers in the lodge were often deliberately non-specific—no prayers in Jesus’ name, no exclusive truth.
That’s not pluralism—that’s denying Christ’s exclusive authority:
“For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” – 1 Timothy 2:5
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- Secrecy and Oaths
• Jesus specifically condemned secret oaths:
“Swear not at all… let your yea be yea.” – Matthew 5:34–37
• The Masonic system requires members to swear blood oaths—even upon penalty of death—not to reveal “secrets” that often amount to symbolic plays and rituals.
This is not of God. It’s deception dressed in ceremony.
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- A Counterfeit Brotherhood
• Freemasonry promised brotherhood and light without the Gospel or regeneration.
• Its structure mimicked the Church—altars, worship, progression, even “resurrection” themes—but it was a gospel-less imitation.
Paul warned about this:
“Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.” – 2 Timothy 3:5
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- Historical Fruits
• Many Enlightenment philosophers, revolutionaries, and liberal theologians were Masons.
• The French Revolution, with its hatred of the Roman Popes and royalty, did not stop there, they hated Scripture most of all and it was heavily influenced by Masonic and proto-Illuminist ideals.
• Even in America, the lodge was often a breeding ground for deism, Unitarianism, and later universalism—every flavor of apostasy.
But the true Light still shines.
The Illuminati didn’t end in 1785.
It morphed into the systems we now call globalism, technocracy, and digital “freedom.”
It moved from lodge halls to university halls.
From whispers in candlelight to slogans on screens.
But the goal is the same: to erase God and enthrone man—not as image-bearer, but as self-worshiper.
So on May 1, while the world celebrates “workers’ rights” and parades false unity,
remember: this was the day the serpent declared war—by pretending to offer light.
And there is only one Light the darkness cannot comprehend.
“For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.” – Luke 12:2 (KJV)
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