Illuminati Declassified

Illuminati Declassified is an Android history app from Aquarius Mobile Studios about the real Bavarian Illuminati, the secret society Adam Weishaupt founded at Ingolstadt on 1 May 1776 and the Bavarian government banned in 1785. After police raids in 1786 and 1787, the order's private papers (its oaths, degree rituals and letters in code names) were seized and printed. The app is built from those papers as translated in John Robison's Proofs of a Conspiracy (1798), with narration from Vernon Stauffer's New England and the Bavarian Illuminati (1918). It sells no membership, because the order has not existed for more than two centuries. It works offline with no account and no ads, and is in development for Google Play.

• Built from the order's own seized papers: the oath of silence, the four questions every candidate answered in writing, the degree rituals and the letters in code names, printed after the police raids of 1786 and 1787.
• Twelve degrees in three classes (the Nursery, Masonry and the Mysteries), from Novice to Rex, with honest labels where the record runs out: Magus and Rex survive only as names and reports at several removes.
• A Daily Light: one real passage each day with a plain-English explanation, about six months of passages before any repeat, and every past day kept in the Archive.
• Case Files released weekly: the letters of the men who ran the order, how it fell, and the Illuminati panic of 1798 in America, with every accusation set beside what the record shows.
• Honest about sources: every quotation is checked against John Robison (1798) or Vernon Stauffer (1918), and documents that reached English through the order's enemies are labelled on the page.
• No membership for sale, no ads, no account and no cloud backup: your journal and answers never leave your phone. Free to start, with one optional one-time purchase for the higher degrees. Coming soon to Google Play.

Frequently asked questions

Were the Illuminati real?

Yes. The Order of the Illuminati was a real secret society, founded in Bavaria on 1 May 1776 by Adam Weishaupt, a professor of law at the University of Ingolstadt. It spread through the German lands in the early 1780s, was banned by the Bavarian government in 1785, and in 1786 and 1787 police seized its private papers, which the government then printed for all of Europe to read. The order has not existed for more than two centuries.

Can I join the Illuminati?

No. There is nothing left to join: the historical order came apart after the Bavarian bans of the 1780s. Anyone selling you a rank, a secret or an initiation is taking your money. Illuminati Declassified sells no membership. It lets you read what the order actually wrote instead.

Who founded the Illuminati, and when?

Adam Weishaupt (1748–1830), professor of law at Ingolstadt, founded the Order of the Illuminati on 1 May 1776. Vernon Stauffer's 1918 history records a membership of five at the founding, with only three elementary grades worked out.

What were the degrees of the Illuminati?

The order's own table ran to twelve degrees in three classes: the Nursery (Novice, Minerval, Illuminatus Minor), Masonry (Apprentice, Fellow Craft, Master, Illuminatus Major and Illuminatus Dirigens) and the Mysteries (Priest, Regent, Magus and Rex). The texts of the two highest degrees, Magus and Rex, were never printed; what is reported of them comes at several removes, and the app labels it that way.

What was the Illuminati scare of 1798 in America?

In 1798 New England ministers, drawing on John Robison's Proofs of a Conspiracy, warned that the Bavarian order was secretly at work in the United States. Vernon Stauffer's New England and the Bavarian Illuminati (1918) traces how that alarm rose and faded. The app's Case Files set each accusation beside what the record actually shows.

What sources does Illuminati Declassified use?

Two public-domain books on Project Gutenberg: the seized documents as translated in John Robison's Proofs of a Conspiracy (1798), and the historical narration of Vernon Stauffer's New England and the Bavarian Illuminati (1918). Robison was hostile to the order, so the app uses his translations of its documents but never presents his conclusions as fact, and every document that came through him carries the label 'As published by the order's enemies in 1798.'

Is Illuminati Declassified free, and does it need the internet?

It is free to start: the Reception, the first three degrees, the Daily Light and its Archive, the Year, the journal, the Cipher, the Documents and the Members cost nothing. One optional one-time purchase opens the remaining nine degrees, every Teaching, the Case Files and the higher Assemblies. There is no subscription. The app works fully offline, with no account and no ads, and your journal never leaves your phone.

When is Illuminati Declassified available?

Illuminati Declassified is in development at Aquarius Mobile Studios and is coming soon to Google Play, for Android.