Are the illuminati real

“GMH”是真實(shí)的嗎？

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The year was 1776.

In Bavaria, new ideals of rationalism, ?religious freedom,

and universal human rights

competed with the Catholic church’s ?heavy influence over public affairs.

Across the Atlantic,

a new nation staked its claim for independence on the basis of these ideas.

在1776年的巴伐利亞，

理性主義、宗教自由 和世界人權(quán)的新理想

與TZ教會對公共事務(wù)的 巨大影響相抗衡。

在大西洋彼岸，

一個(gè)新國家（美國） 基于此發(fā)布了獨(dú)立宣言。

But back in Bavaria,

law professor Adam Weishaupt’s ?attempts to teach secular philosophy

continued to be frustrated.

Weishaupt decided to spread his ideas ?through a secret society

that would shine a light on the ?shortcomings of the Church’s ideology.

He called his secret society ?the Illuminati.

而在巴伐利亞，

法學(xué)教授亞當(dāng) · 魏薩普（Adam Weishaupt）

嘗試講授世俗哲學(xué)，

但仍然挫折連連。

魏薩普決定通過一個(gè)秘密社團(tuán) 來傳播他的思想，

這將讓教會的 意識形態(tài)缺點(diǎn)顯露無疑，

他稱該秘密團(tuán)體稱為GMH。

Weishaupt modelled aspects of his secret ?society off a group called the Freemasons.

Originally an elite stoneworkers’ ?guild in the late Middle Ages,

the Freemasons had gone from passing ?down the craft of masonry

to more generally promoting ideals of ?knowledge and reason.

Over time, they had grown into a ?semi-secret, exclusive order

that included many wealthy and ?influential individuals,

with elaborate, secret initiation rituals.

魏薩普模仿GJH的模式， 組建了其秘密社團(tuán)。

GJH原是中世紀(jì)晚期的 一個(gè)精英石匠工會，

已經(jīng)從傳承石工技術(shù)

發(fā)展到更普遍地 推廣知識和理性理想。

隨著時(shí)間的流逝， 發(fā)展為半公開的排他性組織，

其中包括許多富有和有影響力的人，

具有精心設(shè)計(jì)的秘密入會儀式。

Weishaupt created his parallel ?society while also joining the Freemasons

and recruiting from their ranks.

He adopted the code name ?Spartacus for himself,

after the famed leader of the ?Roman slave revolt.

Early members became the Illuminati’s ?ruling council, or Areopagus.

One of these members, Baron Adolph ?Knigge, was also a freemason,

and became an influential recruiter.

魏薩普在加入GJH的同時(shí)， 創(chuàng)建了自己的并行社團(tuán)，

并從他們的隊(duì)伍中招募成員。

他使用了在羅馬奴隸起義中

著名領(lǐng)袖斯巴達(dá)克斯（Spartacus） 作為自己的代號。

早期成員組成了光明會的 統(tǒng)治委員會（Areopagus）。

共濟(jì)會成員巴倫 · 阿道夫 · 科尼格（Baron Adolph Knigge）男爵是GMH成員之一，

他成為了有影響力的招募者。

With Knigge’s help, the Illuminati ?expanded their numbers,

gained influence within ?several Masonic chapters,

and incorporated Masonic rituals.

By , there were over ?members,

including influential scholars ?and politicians.

As the Illuminati gained members,

the American Revolution also ?gained momentum.

Thomas Jefferson would later cite ?Weishaupt as an inspiration.

在科尼格的幫助下， GMH迅速壯大，

在GJH的幾個(gè)分會中贏得了聲譽(yù)，

并納入了共濟(jì)會的儀式。

到 1784?年，已有 600?多名成員，

其中包括有影響力的學(xué)者和政客。

隨著GMH的不斷壯大，

美國革命也獲得了發(fā)展，

托馬斯 · 杰斐遜（Thomas Jefferson） 后來用魏薩普激勵(lì)自己。

European monarchs and clergy were fearful ?of similar revolts on their home soil.

Meanwhile, the existence of the Illuminati had become an open secret.

Both the Illuminati and the Freemasons ?drew exclusively

from society’s wealthy elite,

which meant they were constantly ?rubbing shoulders

with members of the religious and ?political establishment.

Many in the government and church ?believed that both groups

were determined to undermine the ?people’s religious faith.

歐洲統(tǒng)治者和SZ人員 擔(dān)心自己家鄉(xiāng)發(fā)生類似起義，

同時(shí)，GMH的存在 已成為公開的秘密。

GMH和GJH成員

都來自社會富裕精英階層，

這也意味著，

他們一直與宗教 和政治組織成員有往來。

政府和教會的許多人認(rèn)為，

這兩個(gè)團(tuán)體決心破壞 人民的ZJ信仰。

But these groups didn’t necessarily ?oppose religion—

they just believed it should be kept ?separate from governance.

Still, the suspicious Bavarian government ?started keeping records

of alleged members of the Illuminati.

Just as Illuminati members begun to secure important positions in local governments

and universities,

a 1784?decree by Duke Karl Theodor ?of Bavaria banned all secret societies.

While a public ban on something ostensibly secret might seem difficult to enforce,

in this case it worked.

但這些團(tuán)體并不一定反對ZJ——

他們只是認(rèn)為ZJ應(yīng)該與政府分開。

盡管如此，

多疑的巴伐利亞政府開始保留 所謂的GMH成員的記錄。

伴隨著GMH成員

開始在地方政府 和大學(xué)中擔(dān)任重要職位，

巴伐利亞公爵卡爾 · 西奧多 （Duke Karl Theodor of Bavaria）

于 1784?年頒布了法令，

禁止所有的秘密團(tuán)體存在。

盡管公開禁止表面秘密的東西 似乎很難得以執(zhí)行，

但在這種情況下，卻奏效了。

Only nine years after its founding,

the group dissolved, ?their records were seized,

and Weishaupt forced into exile.

The Illuminati would become more ?notorious in their afterlife

than they had ever been in ?their brief existence.

A decade later, in the aftermath ?of the French Revolution,

conservative authors claimed the ?Illuminati had survived their banishment

and orchestrated the overthrow ?of the monarchy.

成立僅九年后，該組織解散，

他們的記錄被沒收，

魏夏普被迫流亡。

GMH解散之后，

比起其短暫存在時(shí)期， 名聲更加臭名昭著。

十年后，在法國大革命之后，

保守派作家聲稱 GMH幸免于難，

并策劃推翻了君主制。

In the United States,

preacher Jedidiah Morse promoted ?similar ideas of an Illuminati conspiracy

against the government.

But though the idea of a secret group ?orchestrating political upheaval

is still alive and well today, there is no evidence that the Illuminati survived,

reformed, or went underground.

Their brief tenure is well-documented ?in Bavarian government records,

the still-active Freemasons’s records,

and particularly the overlap between ?these two sources,

without a whisper since.

在美國，

傳教士吉迪亞 · 摩爾斯（Jedidiah Morse） 提出了類似想法，

認(rèn)為GMH陰謀反對政府。

但是，盡管今天依然有人認(rèn)為

秘密組織策劃了政治動蕩，

但沒有證據(jù)表明GMH得以幸存，

改頭換面或轉(zhuǎn)入地下。

他們短暫的存在完好記錄于 巴伐利亞政府的檔案中、

依然活躍的CJH記錄里，

尤其在這兩項(xiàng)資源的交疊部分中，

此后再沒有任何音訊。

In the spirit of rationalism the ?Illuminati embraced,

one must conclude they no longer exist.

But the ideas that spurred Weishaupt ?to found the illuminati still spread,

becoming the basis for many Western ?governments today.

These ideas didn’t start or end ?with the Illuminati—

instead, it was one community that ?represented a wave of change

that was already underway ?when it was founded

and continued long after it ended.

基于GMH推崇的理性主義精神，

只能斷定他們已不復(fù)存在。

但促使魏薩普 創(chuàng)立GMH的思想仍在傳播，

成為當(dāng)今許多西方政府的基礎(chǔ)。

這些想法沒有 隨著GMH而興衰——

相反，GMH是代表變革浪潮的 一個(gè)社會團(tuán)體。

在其創(chuàng)立之時(shí)， 變革浪潮也已形成，

并且在其解散很久后， 它還一直繼續(xù)存在。