so far in my research of the illuminati
which emerged from the lodges of the Masons
The Masonic lodge movement may have emerged from supporters of the Stuarts out of England.
Stuart was called "the pretender"
because he had fled the country when his life was threatened
and his opponents declared he had abdicated the throne
and when he claimed otherwise
he was labeled "the pretender"
well, it was about this same time that the lodges opened
at which distinguised men could associate
over time traveling professors would come
and discuss great mysteries of history etc
and thus these men built an appetite for such things
it grew into a class structure and levels
about which one man said
"my father lost a fortune looking for
the secret to making gold from stones"
it developed that religious beliefs were challenged
and the "illumined lodges" discarded all religion, government, and morality
which fueled the French revolution
Pike was with a group in America
who wanted this same kind of revolution here
and may have fueled our civil war
why some mansions in the south
look like houses of the gods