![]() ![]() Illū′miner, an illuminator Illū′minism.- adj. Illū′mine, Illū′me, to make luminous or bright: to enlighten: to adorn.- ns. one who is employed in adorning books with coloured letters and illustrations.- vs.t. Illū′minative, tending to give light: illustrative or explanatory.- n. Illuminā′tion, act of giving light: that which gives light: splendour: brightness: a display of lights: adorning of books with coloured lettering or illustrations: ( B.) enlightening influence, inspiration.- adj. Illuminā′tī, the enlightened, a name given to various sects, and especially to a society of German Freethinkers at the end of the 18th century.- n. Illū′minable, that may be illuminated.- adj. to light up: to enlighten: to illustrate: to adorn with ornamental lettering or illustrations.- adj. The purpose of this and other regulations was to enable the order to attain its object by securing for it a controlling influence in all directions, and especially by pressing culture and enlightenment into its service.Ī complete transformation would thus be effected public opinion would be controlled “priests and princes” would find their hands tied people who ventured to interfere would repent their temerity and the order would become an object of dread to all its enemies.Chambers 20th Century Dictionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: Weishaupt later declared that Masonry was the school from which “these ideas” emanated. illuminated) Freemasonry is none other than the propagation of the “enlightenment” whereby the seed of a new world will be so widely scattered that no efforts at extirpation, however violent, will avail to prevent the harvest. Those in whom the “illuminating” grace of Christ is operative (cf. Moral science alone will effect these reforms ‘imperceptibly’ every father will become, like Abraham and the patriarchs, the priest and absolute lord of his household, and reason will be man’s only code of law” This redemption of mankind by the restoration of the original “freedom and equality” through “illumination” and universal charity, fraternity, and tolerance, is likewise the true esoteric doctrine of Christ and his Apostles. These “schools”, he declares, “were always the archives of nature and of the rights of man through their agency, man will recover from his fall princes and nations, without violence to force them, will vanish from the earth the human race will become one family, and the world the habitation of rational beings. ![]() ![]() The principal means for effecting the “redemption” was found in unification, and this was to be brought about by “secret schools of wisdom”. Morals was the science which makes man “mature”, and renders him conscious of his dignity, his destiny, and his power. By “enlightenment” men were to be liberated from their silly prejudices, to become “mature” or “moral”, and thus to outgrow the religious and political tutelage of Church and State, of “priest and prince”. In this society of the future everything was to be regulated by reason. of ill mintus, past participle of ill minre, to light up. Illuminati Any of various groups claiming special religious enlightenment. People claiming to be unusually enlightened with regard to a subject. The dictionary has the following definition:
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