Few groups have the same reputation among conspiracy theorists as do the Illuminati. With it’s trademark Eye of Providence, the group captures the imagination of people who usually aren’t interested in neither conspiracy narratives nor esoteric societies. Although writers like Dan Brown and to a much, much lesser extent (depressingly enough) Robert Anton Wilson have done their part to popularize the Illuminati, the very reason that they could write about the Illuminati rather than any other esoteric society from the 18th century (and these were plentiful) required a certain notoriety on behalf of the Illuminati.

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