Illuminatus pythagoras biography
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Winston Churchill is often credited with the line, “History is written by the victors.” For centuries, those in power have used revisionism to reshape events to their advantage. In today’s landscape, we’re often handed narratives with a sliver of truth, twisted to fit a broader agenda. Could it be that the most infamous conspiracy of all—the Illuminati—is simply another story spun to keep us in line?
Growing up, I learned “truths” that didn’t always hold up. Drugs are bad—until we see how psychedelics, used carefully, can be transformative. Capitalism helps everyone—until we uncover how it fuels addiction and exploitation. Stories of the Illuminati controlling the world are compelling, but as I dug deeper, I wondered: could their story be more complex?
The Illuminati are typically painted as shadowy puppet masters, yet what if they’re actually freedom fighters, aiming to liberate society through knowledge? Throughout history, revolutionaries have been reframed as threats. The
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Illuminati
18th-century Bavarian secret society
This article is about the secret society. For the conspiracy theory, see New World Order conspiracy theory. For other uses, see Illuminati (disambiguation).
The Illuminati (; plural of Latinilluminatus, 'enlightened') is a name given to several groups, both real and fictitious. Historically, the name usually refers to the Bavarian Illuminati, an Enlightenment-era secret society founded on 1 May 1776 in the Electorate of Bavaria. The society's stated goals were to oppose superstition, obscurantism, religious influence over public life, and abuses of state power. "The order of the day," they wrote in their general statutes, "is to put an end to the machinations of the purveyors of injustice, to control them without dominating them."[1] The Illuminati—along with Freemasonry and other secret societies—were outlawed through edict by Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria, with the encouragement of the Catholic Church, i
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Pythagoras of Samos (lived c. 570 – 495 BCE) is undoubtedly among the most famous of all ancient Greek philosophers. Unfortunately, extremely little can be said about him historically with any degree of certainty. As far as we know, Pythagoras never wrote anything himself and the only contemporary references to him come from the meagre fragments that have survived from the originally much more voluminous writings of his contemporaries. These sources are enough to establish that he was almost certainly a real person, but his life is almost completely obscure.
The later sources about Pythagoras that provide most of our information about him are filled with all kinds of unreliable legends. As I discuss in this article from March 2018, although most people today believe that Pythagoras was a mathematician, the earliest sources about his life actually portray him as more of a mystic sage. It’s only in later sources that he starts to be portrayed as having done anything involving ma