of the Illuminati, with an initial membership of five, [1]  by  Jesuit -taught  Adam Weishaupt  (d. 1830), [2]  who was the first  lay  professor of  canon law  at the  University of Ingolstadt . [3]  It was made up of  freethinkers  as an offshoot of the  Enlightenment  and seems to have been modeled