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On March of 1785, the Bavarian sovereign issued the ban on secret society expressively. This 2nd ban caused arrest for members of the Illuminati. When arresting members the police found many things related to the Illuminati including a plan to create a female branch, invisible ink recipes, and instructions to carry out abortions. In August 1787 a third ban was issued where the death penalty for a membership in a secret society. After the third ban was issued the Illuminati was disbanded and Weishaupt moved to Gotha, Germany and lived there until his …show more content…
They spread stories about the Illuminati through “portals” such as mainstream media, center culture, by anything that has news. Wilson worked for the magazine Playboy at the time of this idea, him and Thornley started to send fake letters talking about the Illuminati. With this, the theory of the Illuminati spread far and even had more non-fiction books released based off the Illuminati such as Larry Burkett’s “The Illuminati”, and Dan Brown’s “Angels and demons”. Wilson even teamed up with Robert Shea to write “The Illuminatus Trilogy”, and in the book, the founding member of the original Illuminati, Adam Weishaupt, was a