Do secret societies exist? Is there a black hand that controls everything? Are the Illuminati real? They say that the Illuminati control the future of the world from their dark discretion. Organized in the shadows, they have led the way through the history of societies since time immemorial. Hidden behind their white masks, sheltered in their ancestral rites, these lovers of secrecy delight in manipulating the present for the benefit of an arcane interest. That is what, at least, those who believe in the existence of this secret society say. Now, is it possible that the Illuminati were actually something else? Do you know for sure who those Illuminati were? The truth is that secret societies have existed since the moment in which access to power, knowledge, and political decisions remained in the hands of certain closed groups, owners of orthodoxy. It was at that time that organizations aiming to pull down slavery and open the doors of freedom, were born, acting from the darkness of the most secret discretion. The Illuminati, indeed, were one of those idealists. Within the pages of this book you will find not only the essence that defined the Illuminati, but also the long list of members of such a society, its rules and initiation rites and the huge forest of even and opposite societies, of persecutors and antagonists, as well as the surprising myth built around an organization mythologized by admirers and detractors of a practice as human as the longing for happiness that we all harbor within a just and egalitarian society.