Magnus Agusta Rex

On a time, one such order was founded, and true to DeMolay's curse, its members did themselves deny Crown and Mitre their authority, and did encourage free thought and Enlightenment. And as before, Crown and Mitre were swift to retaliate, and Weisshaupt and his Illuminati were destroyed, as were the Templars before them. But, as with the Templars, the sparks scattered on the winds, to enkindle where they might; and as before, many came to claim descent of the Illuminati, or to say that the Illuminati continued in secret to control the destinies of nations. And as with the Templars, it was not known whether one order spoke true, another false, or whether the whole argument was simply a construct of the Secret Masters to confuse the unIlluminated, or whether there were any Secret Masters at all.