Nowadays, if Oprah Winfrey recommends your book, it’ll be a best-seller by week’s end. Think of Adolf Francis as having Winfrey’s influence over the Bavarian and German nobleman. Documents show that Weisphaut’s Illuminati did not reach its great heights until he managed to attract the interest of Francis, the Baron Von Knigge. Francis was a masteroccultist and had risen to the highest levels of other secret societies, including the Masons. Together, Weisphaut and Knigge managed to meld the supernatural with Weisphaut’s ambition of political revolution. Soon after the Baron’s sponsorship, the order of the Illuminati saw its membership swell to 300 men throughout all parts of Germany. By 1784, Illuminati membership had risen to 3,000, and the secret society appeared on the verge of assuming control of the entire Masonic establishment.
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One of the most thought of aspects of the Illuminati is its secret rituals, and it can be said that these did exist. Weisphaut incorporated many elements of the Masons tradition and the Rite of Strict Observance is a major element of the merging of the two secret societies. The Illuminati and Masons were and are an extremely hierarchal organization with seven different degrees that members had to pass through: apprentice, fellow, master, scots master, secular novice, knight, and lay brother. Historians state that “the Strict Observance was particularly devoted to the reform of Masonry, with special reference to the elimination of the occult sciences which at the time were widely practiced in many lodges, and the establishment of cohesion and homogeneity in Masonry through the enforcement of strict discipline, the regulation of functions.”
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