Adam Weishaupt
Where each worldview places it
Jesuit-trained priest and professor of canon law at Jesuit Ingolstadt University, who founded the Bavarian branch of the Illuminati on 1 May 1776. Cooper insists he did not truly establish the Illuminati, which predated and outlived him[1].
- Aliases
- Adam WeishopProfessor WeishopAdam Weishaupe
- Controls / directs
- founded and created the Illuminati ("the Frankenstein monster")[2]
- Answers to / controlled by
- member of the Society of Jesus, which trained him[3]
- Lineage
- Alumbrados → Jesuits → Weishaupt[4]
- Dates
- 1774–1776
- 1776-05-01
- letter of 1778
- downfall and banishment in the 1780s[5]
- Places
- Key events
- sends agents to infiltrate Europe's lodges[4]
- Members / notable people
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- Author's claims · 7
- 01"It is necessary to establish a universal regime and empire over the whole world"[6].
- 02"No man is fit for our order who is not ready to go to every length" (1778)[7].
- 03"Let it never appear in its own name but always covered by another name and another occupation"[8].
- 04"The strength of our order lies in its concealment and in its many different names", even "appearing to oppose ourselves"[9].
- 05"The flaming star is the torch of reason"[10].
- 06Maxwell and Hilder, Cooper's television guests, quote him: people unite only to save their hides, so bloodshed and anarchy will bring world unity[11].
- 07Maxwell[12] reads the film Frankenstein (Ingolstadt) as an allegory of him.