By Timothy Fitzpatrick
March 29, 2026 Anno Domini
There are two prevailing beliefs about the Illuminati that both misunderstand what the term really means.
Probably the most common belief is that the Illuminati is just a conspiracy theory that mentally unstable people use to describe a shadowy, faceless group of world conspirators they believe are after them. The other prevailing belief says that the Illuminati is an umbrella term for elite men who rely on occult means to subvert and control the world.
The former is your typical dismissive skeptic that tends to think that conspiracies are rare, if present at all in this world, while the latter is actually the partially correct belief.
Through the use of Jewish Gnosticism and its various strains—Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, Theosophy, etc.—the Bavarian Illuminati of failed Catholic Adam Weishaupt (1748–1830) sought to influence those holding power so that the group could eventually gain control of the world—the cartoonish “plotting for world domination”. As corny as that might sound, it seems that really was/is the plan.
The Illuminati were perhaps the first Communists, in a sense, as they realized ways of subverting society that mirror some of the ways modern Communists subvert society: deconstructing religion (especially Christianity), promoting immorality, internationalism, and abolishing private property. I won’t get too deep into the history of the Bavarian Illuminati, because there are better men who have written a great deal more about it and it’s not the focus of this article (for more on the Illuminati, see Jesuit priest Augustin Barruel’s Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism [1797], the quintessential book exposing the Illuminist conspiracy). While encyclopaedias of the world admit the existence of Weishaupt’s Illuminati as some group of those believing themselves to be enlightened, they further obscure the true meaning of this term by leaving it ill defined.
So, what exactly is the Illuminati?
The Illuminati are a group who use illuminism to achieve their ends. Therefore, the Illuminati are those who adhere to the method or tactic of illuminism. But what is illuminism? It’s a system. The method of illuminism is quite simply what is known today as blackmail (the criminal act of coercion using threats). Weishaupt allegedly came up with the idea of a systematic form of blackmail by observing the Catholic sacrament of penance (confession) and adapting it to a form outside of its sacramental Catholic use. Instead of having men’s secrets (sins) confessed to a priest and dissipated into the air of the sacramental chamber (confession booth) and ultimately absolved by God, why not, Weishaupt must’ve though, extract these secrets so that they could be used against men to get them to do what the Illuminati want them to do, through exploitation or extortion? What was forgotten and forgiven sins in the Catholic confessional could now become compromising material for ongoing use.
Late British author Nesta Webster quotes Weishaupt,
“Every person shall be made a spy on another and on all around him…friends, relations, enemies, those who are indifferent—all without exception shall be the object of his inquiries; he shall attempt to discover their strong side and their weak, their passions, their prejudices, their connections, above all, their actions—in a word, the most detailed information about them.”[1]
If illuminism means blackmail then the Illuminati ought to mean the blackmailers.
Weishaupt and his successors likely first experimented with illuminism on their own members (the Hollywood film The Skulls portrays this brilliantly) and then later brought it out into the general population for its ultimate use. Blackmailing chiefs of police, magistrates, monarchs, even clerics, must’ve become common wherever the Illuminati slithered about.
Initially, Weishaupt created the group the Perfectibilists, which was later renamed to the Illuminati. The Perfectibilists adopted the owl of Minerva as their symbol. Minvera (Athena, to the Greeks) was a Roman goddess associated with strategic warfare. She is sometimes depicted with an owl on her shoulder.
“To the Romans, an owl feather placed near sleeping people would prompt them to speak in their sleep and reveal their secrets,” writes author Cassandra Eason.[2]
As an example of Minerva’s prowess, she is said to have devised the Trojan horse strategy that fooled the Trojans and paved the way for the Greeks to enter and conquer Troy. It seems likely that this strategic genius of Minerva’s was one of the reasons for the Illuminati’s adoption of her symbol.
(The American secret society known as Bohemian Grove adopted the symbol of the owl based on its wisdom. Could it also be related to Minerva and her strategic intelligence?)
While various secret societies throughout history have likely used blackmail to achieve their objectives, in the legacy of Weishaupt’s Illuminati, there is really only one power that has systematized and honed the concept of illuminism (blackmail) down to a science, and that is the Soviet Union, specifically it’s security forces, the CHEKA-NKVD-KGB-FSB. Just as Weishaupt used compromising material on his targets as his primary method of gaining control over them, the Soviets also have used compromising material (from which the Soviet Russian term kompromat [компрометирующий материал] derives) to achieve their strategic ends. Although kompromat has been going on since the Soviet Union was founded, what better proof of its continued and successful use is there than of the present controversy of the Jeffrey Epstein sex scandal, a kompromat operation that is global and seems to involve just about everyone in the power structure of the West?
Kompromat is illuminism.
Illuminism is Kompromat.
The KGB and its predecessors were known for secretly arresting or murdering enemies of the Revolution in the middle of the night. Proto-Communist Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, who was alive during the formation of the Bavarian Illuminati and may well have been a member, in his Philosophy of Right (1820) writes, “the owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.” Although the KGB doesn’t use an owl in its emblem, it does use a sword-on-shield symbol that could be related to Minerva and her sword and shield. The shield and especially the sword are prominent symbols in Freemasonry and the Kabbalah. The flaming sword (pointing downward like the KGB’s sword), according to the Kabbalah, represents divine energy’s dialectical path through the Tree of Life (Sephiroth).
“As you contemplate the Flaming Sword’s path, you’ll notice it doesn’t follow a straight line but rather moves in a precise pattern that mirrors the flash of lightning. It’s a reminder that spiritual energy doesn’t manifest directly but transforms through various stages of consciousness.”[3]
The above explanation reveals that the flaming sword travels not in a straight line but in a zig-zagging pattern (dialectically). In the occult world, white and black magic or good and evil are used to bring about a desired end. The various stages of consciousness spoken by kabbalist gurus seem to be the same as the various alchemical stages of the dialectical method.
“Russia will become the capital of Kabbalah,” writes Russian rabbi Michael Laitman. “Marxism-Leninism prepared us for Kabbalah.”[4] Materialistic atheism in the Soviet Union was merely a stage (a zag) travelling down the flaming sword of the dialectical method. Laitman suggests that belief in Kabbalah was the ultimate end of this seeming Communist flaming sword.
We can see how this applies to the KGB’s use of controlled opposition (like the Soviet Trust[5]) to bring about a certain synthesis from the conflict between two seemingly opposing forces (in controlled opposition operations, the two sides are not naturally opposing forces, although they can be initially, but are manipulated by the power running the op). Similarly, the KGB’s offshoot, the Israeli Mossad[6], has as its motto by way of deception thou shalt do war.
“… there are three major ‘hooks’ for recruiting people: money; emotion, be it revenge or ideology; and sex,” former Mossad officer Victor Ostrovsky revealed in his book By Way of Deception.[7] Reading between the lines here, Ostrovsky seems to suggest that those who can’t be bought or be exploited through appeal to their ideology are given sex, and when that fails, the sex can be turned into blackmail (likely how the KGB hooked Donald Trump to do their bidding). Where does Weishaupt’s network begin and the KGB/Mossad’s end?
Deception can be said to be a dialectical tactic (one lies [use of evil] to bring about a supposed good). Therefore, the Kabbalah’s flaming sword becomes even more realized in the KGB’s use of the sword in its emblem.
Furthermore, on top of the sword and shield in the KGB emblem are the Soviet five-pointed star (pentagram) and the hammer and sickle—both of which can have Kabbalistic meaning. Revolutionary Leon Trotsky (Lev Bronstein) associated the origin of Soviet five-pointed star with the Jewish false messiah Simon Bar-Kochba, according to historian Woflgang Akunov[8], and a standing member of the current Russian Duma belonging to the Russian Federation Communist Party, Vladimir Nikitin, oddly admitted, “a five-pointed star, even in the Jewish Kabbalah, is a symbol of activity and victory.”[9] What’s more, Russian rabbi Avraham Shmulevich claims that “the Communists (Soviets) used Kabbalistic symbolism…the hammer and sickle reproduces the letters of the (Hebrew) word ‘Shaddai’ with their shape.” Shmulevich concludes, “God (shaddai) is the father of the Revolution.”[10]
While the Soviet system has relied on materialistic atheism as a cover for its secret purpose[11], it seems likely that the KGB was instituted in the spirit of the Illuminati and its Kabbalistic occult forces, with blackmail and controlled opposition being among its primary tactics.
Notes:
- Webster, Nesta, World Revolution. The Plot Against Civilization, Small, Maynard & Company, 1921, pg. 14 ↑
- Eason, Cassandra, Fabulous Creatures, Mythical Monsters, and Animal Power Symbols: A Handbook, Bloomsbury Academic, 2008, pg. 71 ↑
- Mystiphora, 12 Kabbalistic Symbols And Their Hidden Meanings, Jan. 7, 2025 – https://mystiphora.com/12-kabbalistic-symbols-and-their-hidden-meanings/ ↑
- Laitman, Michael, ‘Russia will become the capital of Kabbalah…Marxism-Leninism prepared us for Kabbalah’: rabbi Michael Laitman, Feb. 24, 2003, IZ – https://fitzinfo.net/2024/02/22/russia-will-become-the-capital-of-kabbalah-rabbi-michael-laitman/ ↑
- Piper, Michael Collins, The Judas Goats: The Enemy Within, American Free Press, 2006, pgs. 64-66 – https://fitzinfo.net/2018/03/08/controlled-opposition/ ↑
- Aviv, Juval, Juval Aviv is the real Zohan, Youtube, Steve Hager, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOMHEHd8XtY&t=61s ↑
- Ostrovsky, Victor, By Way of Deception, St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1990, pg. 91 ↑
- Akunov, Wolfgang, About the roots of Bolshevik symbolism, 2008, Proza – https://fitzinfo.net/forum/topic/trotsky-referred-to-origin-of-soviet-five-pointed-star-with-jewish-false-messiah-simon-bar-kochba-historian-akunov/#postid-2139 ↑
- Nikitin, Vladimir, Congratulations on the 75th anniversary of the Victory from the VSD “Russian Fad”, KPRF, May 7, 2020 – https://fitzinfo.net/forum/topic/a-five-pointed-star-even-in-the-jewish-kabbalah-is-a-symbol-of-activity-and-victory-russia-cprf-duma-deputy-vladimir-nikitin-on-soviet-victory-day-anniversary/ ↑
- Shmulevich, Avraham, Mysticism and world domination – HyperZionism is a social practical Kabbalah, APN, Nov. 23, 2009 – https://fitzinfo.net/2026/02/03/kabbalah-is-a-political-doctrine-a-political-weapon-rabbi-avraham-shmulevich/ ↑
- Sulam, Baal, Late Jewish sage Baal Sulman explains how Communism is the ultimate objective of Kabbalah – https://fitzinfo.net/2024/08/25/late-jewish-sage-baal-sulman-explains-how-communism-is-the-ultimate-objective-of-kabbalah/ ↑
Dude, you’ve done a good job here, but at the same time you’re drawing some terrible conclusions.
You conclude that Israel is just a Soviet satellite?
Israel is said to be the energy center of the world and the universe, cabalistically speaking. Madonna has already said this, and other Kabbalists. The Temple of Solomon, where the Shekinah is said to dwell. Zedekiah’s Cave, which is the zero point of creation. The Jews at Google, Meta, Palantir, Microsoft, have invested so much in Artificial Intelligence to help the Israeli army. It’s literally impossible for Israel not to be the main concern of the Jews.
Communism is atheistic and materialistic, and as you very well said, it serves as a dialectic for Kabbalah. So why the hell do you conclude that the end is a communist world government? You know what the Talmud says about atheism, right? In fact, the atheism of the Jews is referred to as Amalek because it cooled the faith of the Jews. Do you know that the Bolsheviks installed a council of atheist Jews to persecute religious Jews? The Bolsheviks even used Hebrew propaganda promoting the consumption of pork. You also know that according to Noahide law, the first law is very similar to the first commandment: to have only one God. This rules out all the materialistic atheism of the communists. As you yourself said, it serves as a dialectical means, yes that’s true, but where did you get the idea that this is the end?
You draw this from the absurd conclusion that “Zionism” is somehow opposed to the “Jewish world government,” and that “Zionism” is just a means to the “Bolshevik world government.” Where the hell do you think the capital would be? Haven’t you realized that communist “internationalism” only serves the gentiles? The Haganah, on the left, the Irgun on the right, and the Lehi on the third way, joined together to commit attacks. Don’t you see that the Jews don’t care about ideological differences when it comes to Jews controlling Israel? Actually, their entire book is about that, and then you think they abandoned a millennia-old book (which is literally what forms their identity) to start following Karl Marx?
The latest absurd conclusion I’ve seen is that Mossad was infiltrated by the Russians? If US intelligence services concluded that their information reached Russia through Mossad, could it be because Mossad steals and sells to Russia to continue strengthening the enemies of the US/Edom in a war of destruction (for both sides, even)?
What you’re doing is the same thing that anti-Vatican conspiracy theorists do. You treat Jews as poor victims, used as puppets for the purposes of evil Russians/Catholics who hide behind the Jews. Poor victims. In reality, what you’re doing is using the “scapegoat” tactic to exonerate the Jews, using Russians/ Vatican as the true scapegoats.
It’s ironic that Hollywood films, controlled by Jews, spent decades pointing to the Soviet Russians as the enemies. Even Stranger Things (what greater example of Jewish brainwashing than that?) but somehow, the communists are behind the Jews producing films and comics and creating the cliché of the Soviet villain, without ever having created the cliché of the Jewish villain, but who are the scapegoats? Are they the Jews?
Perhaps it was the Russians behind the 109 expulsions, and that in reality the Jews were never the true culprits.
You do some good research here, but the conclusion that the end is not the Israeli government controlled by Jews is absurd.
I don’t give a damn about the technical terms of “Zionism.” In practice, Jews controlling Israel and Zionism mean the same thing, and that’s what they want
Yes, the Jews need some anti-Zionism to fulfill the prophecies that Israel would be attacked and destroyed. That’s where communism and Islamic radicalism fit in. But don’t forget that the ultimate goal is for Israel to rise from the ashes like a phoenix. To confuse this with the Jews being literally anti-Zionist and pro-internationalist, instead of a world government controlled by Jews from Israel, is a bizarre mistake.
You talk about Palestinian “victimhood” while simultaneously complaining about “antisemitism” several times. I’ve never seen you complain about racism, homophobia, or sexism, but for some reason, the only prejudice that bothers you is antisemitism?
The funny thing is you’re impressed that Pope Francis was in a church in Palestine with an image of Jesus on a Palestinian scarf. What does that prove? That Palestinian Christians depicted Jesus as Palestinian? What blasphemy. Seriously, it makes no sense for you to highlight that.
Costafelipejunior, your arguments aren’t very clear. You seem a little confused about my conclusions.
I wrote this from memory. As I said, you have some good research here, but I don’t like your main conclusion.
Do you believe that the “Zionists jews” are scapegoats for the “international Bolsheviks jews”? Correct me if I’m wrong, but that statement is literally impossible to be true. In fact, the opposite is true. The way you put it isn’t.
As I said, there are countless Kabbalistic and religious reasons for Israel to be the capital of a world government run by Jews. This may not apply to the technical terms of Zionism, but the technical terms make no difference from the practical terms. If they are against “Zionism,” it doesn’t matter; they have already built the structure they need to establish a capital. They may disagree on abstract nonsense, but that doesn’t change the real structure of what Zionism has brought.
In fact, it’s very clear that the whole Bolshevik/KGB/Marxist thing lacks enough cosmogony to be the ultimate Illuminati ideology. While Kabbalah does indeed possess it, Marxism can only be a shell, and not the content itself.
This article doesn’t even mention Zionism. If you are referring to another article I wrote, you should post the comment there instead.
The way I put what? What did I allegedly say?
What does it matter where the capital is so long as Jews are running it?
So, what is the ultimate ideology?
I’m giving my general impression of several of your articles, and the site as a whole. If I commented on each one individually, I’d seem like a lunatic hater, but that’s not the case. Again, you have a good research, detailed and technical, and I respect that. But you seem to be aiming in the wrong place.
“What does it matter where the capital is so long as Jews are running it?”
Well, your sentence made me realize how far I am from your point of view.
Don’t forget the Lehi terrorist group’s motto: “If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill” Psalm 137:5
Also, don’t forget that Trump was compared to “Messiah” Cyrus simply for recognizing Jerusalem as the Israeli capital.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-group-mints-trump-coin-to-honor-jerusalem-recognition/
And that Trump’s Kabbalah teacher, Eitan Yardeni, was the same as Madonna’s.
https://www.haaretz.com/2009-09-01/ty-article/madonna-in-tel-aviv-israel-is-the-energy-center-of-the-world/0000017f-e179-d7b2-a77f-e37ff0a00000
Michael Laitman also stated that “Israel is the central point of the world.”
The Center Of The World – The Center Of Thought | Laitman.com https://share.google/RafBMtChy3SVQtY61
Michael Laitman was a student of Baal HaSulam’s son, and Philig Berg was a student of his son-in-law. It is clear that this is a general teaching.
This explains why the five richest Jews (Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Steve Ballmer, Larry Fink) are supplying their digital companies’ AIs to the Israeli army. The Jewish AI golem is taking over the city for the Jews right before everyone’s eyes.
“So, what is the ultimate ideology?”
I consider them merely Kabbalists, which is the esoteric side of Judaism and Noahide laws, as they themselves describe it. Or more precisely Frankists.
I tend to consider their ultimate ideology Kabbalah as well, so I am not sure where your disagreement with me is. Too many people get fixated on Zionism and lose sight of Kabbalah, which lurks beneath all revolutionary, even some counter-revolutionary, and all occult movements.
Good Article Tim,
Check out this pretty detailed paper I stumbled across about Russian and Soviet Occultism.
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I’m going to post it to the Forum.
Lots of soviet fun facts on Kabbalah in the article.
Hi Tim, I’m about to print this article so I can read it better. Awesome.
I have a favor to ask. I cannot locate – on FitzInfo – the Odysee link of that video “KGB asset Alex Jones dancing with Chabadniks.” Is it in Russia, by the way? This way, I can inform others where I obtained the link. Thank you in advance.
Video here, Veritas.
https://odysee.com/@Fitzinfo:c/Jones-Chabadniks-dance:7
I believe the footage is from the USA.