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il·lu·mi·nism

(i-lū'mi-nizm),
A psychotic state of exaltation in which one has delusions and hallucinations of communion with supernatural or exalted beings.
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In their correspondence, Illuminists were required to use code names for themselves.
The Terror also claimed the lives of many Illuminists as mob violence spun out of control.
But before then the Illuminists had already attempted to export Jacobin-style revolution to the infant United States.
A primer on the Illuminati: the genuine historical evidence on the secret society is every bit as fascinating as the fabrications and fantasies now circulating in our pop culture
Dostoyevsky, a former adherent of an illuminist radical group, knew whereof he wrote.
George W. Bush: U.S. to illuminate the globe
In the instructions found in the personal papers of Illuminist Baron Bassus, 1787, "There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
Roots of "pay equity"
Luchtanas (2002: 158) doubts this hypothesis leaving the ideas of nationality for the 18th century illuminists.
Comparative study of christian and pagan burial constructions/pagoniskuju ir krikscioniskuju laidojimo konstrukciju lyginamoji studija
Spanish Erasmists, proto-Protestants, and illuminists all raised their own challenges to the need for the mystical path.
Doing it for God: Renaissance rhetoric and the beginnings of Spanish mystical writing
Perez gives passing recognition to the role of the Inquisition in repressing other heretics, primarily Lutherans, superficially converted Muslims, Illuminists, foreign Protestants and those who adhered to some form of materialism, as well as its role in searching out individuals accused of moral crimes, for example, soliciting priests, bigamy, blasphemy, superstition and sodomy.
From Cordoba to autos-da-fe: recent books on medieval Spain's religious conflicts offer lessons for today
At least some Jesuits (Tomasso Ceva, for example) entered into dialogue with the new line of thought and rhetoric espoused by Illuminists such as Ludovico Muratori.
Giovanna Zanlonghi. Teatri di formazione: Actio, parola e immagine nella scena gesuitica del Sei-Settecento a Milano
By placing Illuminists in governments, institutions, and positions of influence, Weishaupt said, "we may, in secret, influence all political transactions.
The evil eye: the occult symbol chosen for the Orwellian Information Awareness Office has links to ancient paganism and modern revolutionary Communism. (Cover Story: On the Home Front)
The Illuminists consider their objectives "to be so good, that murder, butchery, and war, however extended and dreadful, are declared by them to be completely justifiable, if necessary for these great purposes.
Bones of contention: infamous for reportedly bizarre initiation rituals, Yale's secret society Skull and Bones serves as a recruiting ground for entrants into the covert international Power Elite. (Conspiracy)
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