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# [https://database.factgrid.de/query/#SELECT%20%3Fvorgeschlagen_f_r_die_Mitgliedschaft_im_Illuminatenorden%20%3Fvorgeschlagen_f_r_die_Mitgliedschaft_im_IlluminatenordenLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fvorgeschlagen_f_r_die_Mitgliedschaft_im_Illuminatenorden%20wdt%3AP91%20wd%3AQ38779.%0A%7D proposed as member to the Order of the Illuminati]
<p align="right>back: [[The Gotha Illuminati Research Base]]</p>
# [https://database.factgrid.de/query/#SELECT%20%3Fvorgeschlagen_f_r_die_Mitgliedschaft_im_Illuminatenorden%20%3Fvorgeschlagen_f_r_die_Mitgliedschaft_im_IlluminatenordenLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fvorgeschlagen_f_r_die_Mitgliedschaft_im_Illuminatenorden%20wdt%3AP91%20wd%3AQ40457.%0A%7D handed in test essay for an Illuminati membership]
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# [https://database.factgrid.de/query/#SELECT%20%3Freichte_Charakter_Tabelle_f_r_den_Illuminatenorden_ein%20%3Freichte_Charakter_Tabelle_f_r_den_Illuminatenorden_einLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Freichte_Charakter_Tabelle_f_r_den_Illuminatenorden_ein%20wdt%3AP91%20wd%3AQ40474.%0A%7D handed in a character table for the Order]
# [https://database.factgrid.de/query/#SELECT%20%3Fvorgeschlagen_f_r_die_Mitgliedschaft_im_Illuminatenorden%20%3Fvorgeschlagen_f_r_die_Mitgliedschaft_im_IlluminatenordenLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fvorgeschlagen_f_r_die_Mitgliedschaft_im_Illuminatenorden%20wdt%3AP91%20wd%3AQ38780.%0A%7D signed a Revers for the Order of the Illuminati]
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# [https://database.factgrid.de/query/#SELECT%20%3FDeckname_im_Illuminatenorden%20%3FDeckname_im_IlluminatenordenLabel%20%3FIlluminaten_Ordensname_von%20%3FIlluminaten_Ordensname_vonLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3FDeckname_im_Illuminatenorden%20wdt%3AP2%20wd%3AQ14170.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FDeckname_im_Illuminatenorden%20wdt%3AP139%20%3FIlluminaten_Ordensname_von.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FDeckname_im_IlluminatenordenLabel All Illuminati code names (including names of places and regions) with their real name correlates]


Lists of Illuminati members are not exactly rare. Several lists began to circulate after their discovery in 1786; some were intriguingly accurate, and some riddled with allegations. It will be valuable to gather the information and to see where these lists coincide and where they differ, since they too offer interesting network information, and provide insight on who might belong together, in a system that remains beyond our present grasp.


The more interesting lists have remained internal and most of these are comprised today in Volume 10 of the "Swedish Box". All of these have a local focus: Local superiors exchanged juxtapositions of the code names, real names and brief background information, all  to facilitate contacts with other regional branches. The problem with these lists are, that they are lack definitive dates. The all present snap-shots, without focusing on a final picture.
== Membership ==
# [https://database.factgrid.de/query/#SELECT%20%3Fproposed%20%3FproposedLabel%20%3FproposedDescription%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fproposed%20wdt%3AP454%20wd%3AQ10677.%0A%7D proposed as member to the Order of the Illuminati]
# [https://database.factgrid.de/query/#SELECT%20%3Fmember%20%3FnameLabel%20%3FmemberLabel%20%3FmemberDescription%20%3FIlluminaten_Ordensname_von%20%3FIlluminaten_Ordensname_vonLabel%20%3FReligionLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fmember%20wdt%3AP91%20wd%3AQ10677.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fmember%20wdt%3AP247%20%3Fname.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fmember%20wdt%3AP140%20%3FIlluminaten_Ordensname_von.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fmember%20wdt%3AP172%20%3FReligion.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%28%3FnameLabel%29 signed a Revers for the Order of the Illuminati] / [https://database.factgrid.de/query/index.html#%23defaultView%3ATimeline%0ASELECT%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%20%3FDatum%20%3Fgnd_id%20WHERE%20%7B%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%20%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP91%20wd%3AQ10677%20.%20%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20p%3AP91%20%3Fstatement%20.%20%0A%20%20%3Fstatement%20ps%3AP91%20wd%3AQ10677%20.%20%0A%20%20%3Fstatement%20pq%3AP49%20%3FDatum%20.%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP76%20%3Fgnd_id%20.%7D%0A%7D%20%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FDatum%0A timeline]


Lists are one thing, but actual membership is another and comparably gradual thing. New members had to be proposed by accepted members, and Illuminati were usually keen to make such proposals within less than a year. Those proposed would be honoured as friends who deserved this trust, and they then could work as a base within the growing organisation. Members like Knigge generated power within the Order which would be far weaker without their massive recruitment &mdash; Knigge claimed he alone had added some 500 members to the Order.
== Degrees ==


To be proposed was on the other hand not an automatic ticket into the Order. The superiors and provincials tried to obtain background information before they processed new proposals. They would then ask for a trial essay and in the next step for character information, the "Insinuant" had to provide this data in a table under the given headings.
=== Minerval Class ===
# [https://database.factgrid.de/query/#SELECT%20%3FNameLabel%20%3FPers%20%3FPersLabel%20%3FPersDescription%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3FPers%20wdt%3AP447%20wd%3AQ99736.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FPers%20wdt%3AP247%20%3FName.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FNameLabel Novice] / [https://database.factgrid.de/query/index.html#%23defaultView%3ATimeline%0ASELECT%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%20%3FDatum%20%3Fgnd_id%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP447%20wd%3AQ99736%3B%0A%20%20%20%20p%3AP447%20%3Fstatement.%0A%20%20%3Fstatement%20ps%3AP447%20wd%3AQ99736%3B%0A%20%20%20%20pq%3AP106%20%3FDatum.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP76%20%3Fgnd_id.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%28%3FDatum%29 timeline]
# [https://database.factgrid.de/query/#SELECT%20%3FNameLabel%20%3FPers%20%3FPersLabel%20%3FPersDescription%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3FPers%20wdt%3AP447%20wd%3AQ99737.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FPers%20wdt%3AP247%20%3FName.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FNameLabel Minerval] / [https://database.factgrid.de/query/index.html#%23defaultView%3ATimeline%0ASELECT%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%20%3FDatum%20%3Fgnd_id%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP447%20wd%3AQ99737%3B%0A%20%20%20%20p%3AP447%20%3Fstatement.%0A%20%20%3Fstatement%20ps%3AP447%20wd%3AQ99737%3B%0A%20%20%20%20pq%3AP106%20%3FDatum.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP76%20%3Fgnd_id.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%28%3FDatum%29 timeline]
# [https://database.factgrid.de/query/#SELECT%20%3FNameLabel%20%3FPers%20%3FPersLabel%20%3FPersDescription%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3FPers%20wdt%3AP447%20wd%3AQ99738.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FPers%20wdt%3AP247%20%3FName.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FNameLabel Illuminatus Minor or Minervalis Illuminatus] / [https://database.factgrid.de/query/index.html#%23defaultView%3ATimeline%0ASELECT%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%20%3FDatum%20%3Fgnd_id%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP447%20wd%3AQ99738%3B%0A%20%20%20%20p%3AP447%20%3Fstatement.%0A%20%20%3Fstatement%20ps%3AP447%20wd%3AQ99738%3B%0A%20%20%20%20pq%3AP106%20%3FDatum.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP76%20%3Fgnd_id.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%28%3FDatum%29 timeline]


[[Item:Q133|Johann Joachim Christoph Bode]], the man whose archive today composes the bulk of extant materials, provincial of the last active province and subordinate of Ernest II of Gotha, was the highest member in the hierarchy after 1785, and mandated the signing of the "Revers", as the definitive entry point. The Revers was an oath of loyalty signed with either their real name or, in other cases, already with the Illuminati Order name.
=== Masonic Class ===
 
A. Symbolic Freemasonry
 
:These are the regular Masonic grades, they demanded membership in a local Lodge which was on this personal level infiltrated by Illuminati members - often, however, up to the point that the respective "Meister vom Stuhl" was already also the "Superior" of the local Illuminati "Minerval Church" which sent this member into the lodge. Some Illuminati received fast Masonic promotions so that they could quickly gain the higher Illuminati degrees which they needed in top level positions.
 
# Apprentice
# Fellow
# Master
B. Scottish Freemasonry
# [https://database.factgrid.de/query/#SELECT%20%3FNameLabel%20%3FPers%20%3FPersLabel%20%3FPersDescription%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3FPers%20wdt%3AP447%20wd%3AQ99742.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FPers%20wdt%3AP247%20%3FName.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FNameLabel Illuminatus Major or Scottish Novice] / [https://database.factgrid.de/query/index.html#%23defaultView%3ATimeline%0ASELECT%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%20%3FDatum%20%3Fgnd_id%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP447%20wd%3AQ99742%3B%0A%20%20%20%20p%3AP447%20%3Fstatement.%0A%20%20%3Fstatement%20ps%3AP447%20wd%3AQ99742%3B%0A%20%20%20%20pq%3AP106%20%3FDatum.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP76%20%3Fgnd_id.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%28%3FDatum%29 timeline]
# [https://database.factgrid.de/query/#SELECT%20%3FNameLabel%20%3FPers%20%3FPersLabel%20%3FPersDescription%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3FPers%20wdt%3AP447%20wd%3AQ99743.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FPers%20wdt%3AP247%20%3FName.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FNameLabel Illuminatus Dirigens or Scottish Knight] / [https://database.factgrid.de/query/index.html#%23defaultView%3ATimeline%0ASELECT%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%20%3FDatum%20%3Fgnd_id%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP447%20wd%3AQ99743%3B%0A%20%20%20%20p%3AP447%20%3Fstatement.%0A%20%20%3Fstatement%20ps%3AP447%20wd%3AQ99743%3B%0A%20%20%20%20pq%3AP106%20%3FDatum.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP76%20%3Fgnd_id.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%28%3FDatum%29 timeline]
 
=== Mysteries Class ===
 
A. Lesser Mysteries
# [https://database.factgrid.de/query/#SELECT%20%3FNameLabel%20%3FPers%20%3FPersLabel%20%3FPersDescription%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3FPers%20wdt%3AP447%20wd%3AQ99744.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FPers%20wdt%3AP247%20%3FName.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FNameLabel Lesser Priest Degree or Presbyter] / [https://database.factgrid.de/query/index.html#%23defaultView%3ATimeline%0ASELECT%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%20%3FDatum%20%3Fgnd_id%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP447%20wd%3AQ99744%3B%0A%20%20%20%20p%3AP447%20%3Fstatement.%0A%20%20%3Fstatement%20ps%3AP447%20wd%3AQ99744%3B%0A%20%20%20%20pq%3AP106%20%3FDatum.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP76%20%3Fgnd_id.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%28%3FDatum%29 timeline]
# [https://database.factgrid.de/query/#SELECT%20%3FNameLabel%20%3FPers%20%3FPersLabel%20%3FPersDescription%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3FPers%20wdt%3AP447%20wd%3AQ99745.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FPers%20wdt%3AP247%20%3FName.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FNameLabel Lesser Regent Degree or Princeps] / [https://database.factgrid.de/query/index.html#%23defaultView%3ATimeline%0ASELECT%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%20%3FDatum%20%3Fgnd_id%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP447%20wd%3AQ99745%3B%0A%20%20%20%20p%3AP447%20%3Fstatement.%0A%20%20%3Fstatement%20ps%3AP447%20wd%3AQ99745%3B%0A%20%20%20%20pq%3AP106%20%3FDatum.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP76%20%3Fgnd_id.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%28%3FDatum%29 timeline]
B. Greater Mysteries
# [https://database.factgrid.de/query/#SELECT%20%3FNameLabel%20%3FPers%20%3FPersLabel%20%3FPersDescription%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3FPers%20wdt%3AP447%20wd%3AQ99746.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FPers%20wdt%3AP247%20%3FName.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FNameLabel Magus, Docetist] / [https://database.factgrid.de/query/index.html#%23defaultView%3ATimeline%0ASELECT%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%20%3FDatum%20%3Fgnd_id%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP447%20wd%3AQ99746%3B%0A%20%20%20%20p%3AP447%20%3Fstatement.%0A%20%20%3Fstatement%20ps%3AP447%20wd%3AQ99746%3B%0A%20%20%20%20pq%3AP106%20%3FDatum.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP76%20%3Fgnd_id.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%28%3FDatum%29 timeline]
# [https://database.factgrid.de/query/#SELECT%20%3FNameLabel%20%3FPers%20%3FPersLabel%20%3FPersDescription%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3FPers%20wdt%3AP447%20wd%3AQ99747.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FPers%20wdt%3AP247%20%3FName.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FNameLabel Rex, Philosophus] / [https://database.factgrid.de/query/index.html#%23defaultView%3ATimeline%0ASELECT%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%20%3FDatum%20%3Fgnd_id%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP447%20wd%3AQ99747%3B%0A%20%20%20%20p%3AP447%20%3Fstatement.%0A%20%20%3Fstatement%20ps%3AP447%20wd%3AQ99747%3B%0A%20%20%20%20pq%3AP106%20%3FDatum.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP76%20%3Fgnd_id.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%28%3FDatum%29 timeline]
== Positions ==
# Serving Brother
# [https://database.factgrid.de/query/#SELECT%20%3FFamiliennameLabel%20%3FPerson%20%3FPersonLabel%20%3FPersonDescription%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3FPerson%20wdt%3AP266%20wd%3AQ146597.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FPerson%20wdt%3AP247%20%3FFamilienname.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%28%3FFamiliennameLabel%29 Censor]
# [https://database.factgrid.de/query/#SELECT%20%3FFamiliennameLabel%20%3FPerson%20%3FPersonLabel%20%3FPersonDescription%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3FPerson%20wdt%3AP266%20wd%3AQ146597.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FPerson%20wdt%3AP247%20%3FFamilienname.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%28%3FFamiliennameLabel%29 Quaestor]
# Decanus (Dean)
# Prefect
# Provincial
# Inspector
# National Inspector
# [https://database.factgrid.de/query/#SELECT%20%3FFamiliennameLabel%20%3FPerson%20%3FPersonLabel%20%3FPersonDescription%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3FPerson%20wdt%3AP91%20wd%3AQ146421.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FPerson%20wdt%3AP247%20%3FFamilienname.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FFamiliennameLabel%20 Member of the Areopagus]
# General
 
== All the code names "Ordensnamen" ==
:* [https://database.factgrid.de/query/#SELECT%20%3FPseudonym%20%3FPseudonymLabel%20%3FName%20%3FNameLabel%20%3FNameDescription%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3FPseudonym%20wdt%3AP2%20wd%3AQ14170.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FPseudonym%20wdt%3AP139%20%3FName.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FPseudonymLabel All Illuminati code names (including names of places and regions) with their real name correlates]
 
== Some notes on the numerous registers of members that can be compiled ==
 
Several lists of Illuminati members began to circulate right after their discovery in 1786. All of them were considerably shorter than the list the basic search in this database will yield with the advantage of being able to pull together all the sources we can name today. One reason for the lower number compiled by the Bavarian authorities is that the organisation had by 1786 developed several centres whose documents of the entire organisation would have yielded quite different but yet again not necessarily conclusive picture of the entire organisation.
 
The most conclusive compound of membership lists that survived lies today in volume 10 of the so called "Swedish Box", the collective archive of [[Item:Q133|Johann Joachim Christoph Bode]] in Weimar and [[Item:Q978|Ernest II.]] in Gotha. Instead of offering one unified list the volume incorporates hundreds of lists and single membership documents from provinces, local minerval churches and individuals. The leaders of the provinces were apparently ready to share information about the congregations under their monitoring nut none of these lists bears a date, several of them give pictures of the same place at different stages, snapshots taken between 1782 and 1786; and all of them offer only minimal information: code names, real names, and just enough background information to allow the identification among insiders. Some of these lists just give the code names. All we have here is a collection of local snap-shots taken at different moments without any interest in a final picture.
 
Lists are one thing &mdash; actual membership had quite its own logic. New members had to be proposed by accepted members. Illuminati were usually keen to make their first proposals of friends they would wish into the order within less than a year. Those proposed would be honoured as friends who deserved this trust, and they then could work as a base within the growing organisation. Knigge claimed he alone had added some 500 members to the organisation and he demanded independence on that account. To be proposed was at the same moment not an automatic ticket into the Order. The superiors and provincials tried to obtain background information before they processed new proposals. They would then ask for a trial essay and in the next step for character information which the "Insinuant" had to provide in a table under the given headings &mdash; so the gradual approach towards membership.
 
Johann Joachim Christoph Bode took the signature on the "Revers" as the definitive entry point. The Revers was an oath of loyalty signed with either their real name or, in other cases, already with the Illuminati Order name.


::REVERSE [OBLIGATION. LETTER OF A CANDIDATE.]
::REVERSE [OBLIGATION. LETTER OF A CANDIDATE.]
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::Signed in … on the … day of … in the year … (L. S.)
::Signed in … on the … day of … in the year … (L. S.)


Members, however, would not necessarily perceive the signing of the Reverse as their entry point. The Illuminati [[Item:Q969|Friedrich Christian Rudorf]] recruited in Buttstädt, the last local group we know of, signed their Reverse letters in the summer of 1785 and began sending in their monthly Quibus Licet without hearing from the Order in return until July/August 1786 and they felt confused: Were they actually members? They were waiting for an initiation, a ceremony to be performed in a Minerval Church; Buttstädt never received one and they remained as corresponding members for the remaining two years of the Order.
But those who signed the statement would not necessarily feel as members that very moment. The Illuminati [[Item:Q969|Friedrich Christian Rudorf]] recruited in Buttstädt, the last local group we know of, signed their [[Item:Q11216|Reverse]] letters in the summer of 1785 and began sending in their monthly [[Item:Q10508|Quibus Licet]] without hearing anything from the Order until July/August 1786. They felt lost and confused: Were they actually members? They were waiting for an initiation, a ceremony to be performed in a Minerval Church; Buttstädt never received one. Rudorf's members remained corresponding members for the remaining two years of the Order.
 
Fully functional Minerval Churches had monthly meetings &mdash; in Gotha's prominent case right into the summer of 1787. To be invited to the meetings was a clear signal that one was "in" the Order. The initiation came, however, only with the next level: the step into the Minerva degree.


Fully functional Minerval Churches had monthly meetings, and in Gotha's case right into the summer of 1787. The monthly reports list the local members on a ladder from lowest, Minerval rank to Regent. Membership was here organised within the degree system - and again not quite: Members like Ernest II and Bode had jumped into the highest rank without any ceremonies, simply by being readers of the degree texts as far as they were available.
The local reports of the congregations list members both present and absent on ladders from Novice to Regent. Membership was organised within the degree system which embraced the degrees of Freemasonry in the Order that was on its way to build a Freemasonic superstructure. Members like Ernest II and Bode had, however, never been Novices. They had been given the chance to read all the degree texts available to be then promoted to the top level positions they were supposed to fill. Even the career as a Freemason was not mandatory: High ranking Illuminati had connections into lodged that would promote a desired candidate to any rank needed in the Order just to fulfill the formal demands.  


The FactGrid database under these premises, is tool to provide a nuanced picture. You can filter: Who was proposed? Who was actually invited to sign a Revers? Who was listed as holding a particular degree, and at what particular moment in the brief history of the Order? Who held positions? &mdash; You can ask for the external list information and all the insinuations.
The FactGrid database under these premises, is the ideal tool to provide the nuanced picture. You can filter: Who was proposed? Who was actually invited to sign a Revers? Who was listed as holding a particular degree, and at what particular moment in the brief history of the Order? Who held positions?


Any of these questions will paint an interesting picture; here, however, the database is work in progress. The two questions that can be asked with relatively conclusive data are numbers 1 and 4 in the list above: Who was proposed and, more importantly, who signed a Revers? We are not yet in a position to provide all the references with the precision the database allows; and we are so far not able to offer the interesting lists which present names with brief biographical information, entry dates and entry points. All of this requires people who will make the connections and who will scan the roughly 9,000 entries in order to get the background information. The searches above provide, however a rough picture of the Order. We know of some 1350 people who were proposed and of some 1250 who appear to have signed a Revers.
Any of these questions will paint an interesting picture; here, however, the database is work in progress (and will remain work in progress for years to come). The two questions that can be asked with relatively conclusive data are at the moment the questions of Proposals and of signed Reverse letters. The lists which the simple SPARQL queries will compile are not yet satisfying: One would love to have them with the respective date and place information and with short biographical details. Some of the more detailed information is already given in the respective data sets and only waiting for SPARQL-experts who can write the scripts for the more interesting tables. SPARQL-experts could certainly also give first visualisations of the networks and of the Orders gradual geographical expansion. We will need data visualisers to exploit the information with technical insight and we need people who will eventually reassess all the documents with a fresh look at the membership information which they yield in all the nuances which we are now able to translate into database statements &mdash; only with the data we will we be able to give the more complex picture on the more complex searches which are now becoming possible.  


We will need data experts in order to visualise how the Order grew on the map. We need network analysts to show who proposed more members than others with a greater impact on his personal career. When and where did the Order infiltrate entire lodges? Here we need people who can ask SPARQL questions that provide the more interesting answers in tables and in more complex visulisations of statistics, networks and developments. --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] ([[User talk:Olaf Simons|talk]]) 09:36, 13 March 2019 (CET)
[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] ([[User talk:Olaf Simons|talk]]) 10:40, 14 March 2019 (CET)

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Membership

  1. proposed as member to the Order of the Illuminati
  2. signed a Revers for the Order of the Illuminati / timeline

Degrees

Minerval Class

  1. Novice / timeline
  2. Minerval / timeline
  3. Illuminatus Minor or Minervalis Illuminatus / timeline

Masonic Class

A. Symbolic Freemasonry

These are the regular Masonic grades, they demanded membership in a local Lodge which was on this personal level infiltrated by Illuminati members - often, however, up to the point that the respective "Meister vom Stuhl" was already also the "Superior" of the local Illuminati "Minerval Church" which sent this member into the lodge. Some Illuminati received fast Masonic promotions so that they could quickly gain the higher Illuminati degrees which they needed in top level positions.
  1. Apprentice
  2. Fellow
  3. Master

B. Scottish Freemasonry

  1. Illuminatus Major or Scottish Novice / timeline
  2. Illuminatus Dirigens or Scottish Knight / timeline

Mysteries Class

A. Lesser Mysteries

  1. Lesser Priest Degree or Presbyter / timeline
  2. Lesser Regent Degree or Princeps / timeline

B. Greater Mysteries

  1. Magus, Docetist / timeline
  2. Rex, Philosophus / timeline

Positions

  1. Serving Brother
  2. Censor
  3. Quaestor
  4. Decanus (Dean)
  5. Prefect
  6. Provincial
  7. Inspector
  8. National Inspector
  9. Member of the Areopagus
  10. General

All the code names "Ordensnamen"

Some notes on the numerous registers of members that can be compiled

Several lists of Illuminati members began to circulate right after their discovery in 1786. All of them were considerably shorter than the list the basic search in this database will yield with the advantage of being able to pull together all the sources we can name today. One reason for the lower number compiled by the Bavarian authorities is that the organisation had by 1786 developed several centres whose documents of the entire organisation would have yielded quite different but yet again not necessarily conclusive picture of the entire organisation.

The most conclusive compound of membership lists that survived lies today in volume 10 of the so called "Swedish Box", the collective archive of Johann Joachim Christoph Bode in Weimar and Ernest II. in Gotha. Instead of offering one unified list the volume incorporates hundreds of lists and single membership documents from provinces, local minerval churches and individuals. The leaders of the provinces were apparently ready to share information about the congregations under their monitoring nut none of these lists bears a date, several of them give pictures of the same place at different stages, snapshots taken between 1782 and 1786; and all of them offer only minimal information: code names, real names, and just enough background information to allow the identification among insiders. Some of these lists just give the code names. All we have here is a collection of local snap-shots taken at different moments without any interest in a final picture.

Lists are one thing — actual membership had quite its own logic. New members had to be proposed by accepted members. Illuminati were usually keen to make their first proposals of friends they would wish into the order within less than a year. Those proposed would be honoured as friends who deserved this trust, and they then could work as a base within the growing organisation. Knigge claimed he alone had added some 500 members to the organisation and he demanded independence on that account. To be proposed was at the same moment not an automatic ticket into the Order. The superiors and provincials tried to obtain background information before they processed new proposals. They would then ask for a trial essay and in the next step for character information which the "Insinuant" had to provide in a table under the given headings — so the gradual approach towards membership.

Johann Joachim Christoph Bode took the signature on the "Revers" as the definitive entry point. The Revers was an oath of loyalty signed with either their real name or, in other cases, already with the Illuminati Order name.

REVERSE [OBLIGATION. LETTER OF A CANDIDATE.]
I, the undersigned, obligate myself by my honour and my good name, without any secret reservation, never to reveal to anyone, not even to my most intimate friends and relatives, neither by word nor gestures, glances, nor in any other conceivable way, anything of the matters entrusted to me by Herr … concerning my acceptance into a certain secret society, whether I am accepted or not. This even more so as I have been assured prior to my acceptance that in this society nothing is done that is against the state, religion, or good morals. I also promise to immediately return the documents which will be communicated to me for this purpose or any letters I may receive after having made the necessary excerpts in a manner unintelligible to others. All this, as I am an honest man, and intend to remain one.
Signed in … on the … day of … in the year … (L. S.)

But those who signed the statement would not necessarily feel as members that very moment. The Illuminati Friedrich Christian Rudorf recruited in Buttstädt, the last local group we know of, signed their Reverse letters in the summer of 1785 and began sending in their monthly Quibus Licet without hearing anything from the Order until July/August 1786. They felt lost and confused: Were they actually members? They were waiting for an initiation, a ceremony to be performed in a Minerval Church; Buttstädt never received one. Rudorf's members remained corresponding members for the remaining two years of the Order.

Fully functional Minerval Churches had monthly meetings — in Gotha's prominent case right into the summer of 1787. To be invited to the meetings was a clear signal that one was "in" the Order. The initiation came, however, only with the next level: the step into the Minerva degree.

The local reports of the congregations list members both present and absent on ladders from Novice to Regent. Membership was organised within the degree system which embraced the degrees of Freemasonry in the Order that was on its way to build a Freemasonic superstructure. Members like Ernest II and Bode had, however, never been Novices. They had been given the chance to read all the degree texts available to be then promoted to the top level positions they were supposed to fill. Even the career as a Freemason was not mandatory: High ranking Illuminati had connections into lodged that would promote a desired candidate to any rank needed in the Order just to fulfill the formal demands.

The FactGrid database under these premises, is the ideal tool to provide the nuanced picture. You can filter: Who was proposed? Who was actually invited to sign a Revers? Who was listed as holding a particular degree, and at what particular moment in the brief history of the Order? Who held positions?

Any of these questions will paint an interesting picture; here, however, the database is work in progress (and will remain work in progress for years to come). The two questions that can be asked with relatively conclusive data are at the moment the questions of Proposals and of signed Reverse letters. The lists which the simple SPARQL queries will compile are not yet satisfying: One would love to have them with the respective date and place information and with short biographical details. Some of the more detailed information is already given in the respective data sets and only waiting for SPARQL-experts who can write the scripts for the more interesting tables. SPARQL-experts could certainly also give first visualisations of the networks and of the Orders gradual geographical expansion. We will need data visualisers to exploit the information with technical insight and we need people who will eventually reassess all the documents with a fresh look at the membership information which they yield in all the nuances which we are now able to translate into database statements — only with the data we will we be able to give the more complex picture on the more complex searches which are now becoming possible.

Olaf Simons (talk) 10:40, 14 March 2019 (CET)