UmiI- Illuminati (ubuningi beLatin illuminatus, 'okukhanyiselwe') igama elinikezwe amaqembu amaningi, angokoqobo futhi aqanjiwe.Ngokomlando, leli gama livame ukubhekisa eBavarian Illuminati, umphakathi we- Enlightenment -era oyimfihlo owasungulwa ngomhlaka 1 Meyi 1776 eBavaria, namuhla oyingxenye yeJalimane.Izinhloso zomphakathi kwakuwukuphikisa inkolelo-ze, ukungaboni kahle, ithonya lenkolo empilweni yomphakathi, nokusetshenziswa kabi kwamandla ombuso."Ukuhleleka kosuku," babhala emithethweni yabo ejwayelekile, "ukuqeda amaqhinga abaphenyi bokungabi nabulungisa, ukubalawula ngaphandle kokubalawula." I Illuminati-kanye Freemasonry nezinye imfihlo imiphakathi-wavinjelwa ngokusebenzisa esimemezelweni ngo Charles uTheodore, Elector of eBavaria, ne isikhuthazo iSonto LamaKatolika, ngo-1784, 1785, 1787, futhi 1790. Phakathi neminyaka eyalandela, leli qembu lalihlanjalazwa kakhulu ngabagxeki abalondolozayo nabezenkolo abathi i-Illuminati yaqhubeka ingaphansi komhlaba futhi babephethe i- French Revolution. Izazi eziningi ezinethonya nosopolitiki abathuthukayo bazibheka njengamalungu, okubandakanya uFerdinand waseBrunswick kanye nommeli uFranz Xaver von Zach, owayengumphathi wesibili we-Order.Luhehe abesilisa abanjengoJohann Wolfgang von Goethe noJohann Gottfried Herder kanye noMbusi waseGotha noweWeimar.