The Illuminati is separate from the NWO

Most people seem to automatically connect the Illuminati with the NWO and even connect the Illuminati with freemasonry and elite families such as the Rothschilds. In the media, celebrities who are associated with secret societies are automatically considered taboo, because of an association based on an assumption. People assume that the Illuminati are associated with the NWO, freemasonry, TPTB, etc. But they are not!

The founder of the Illuminati, Adam Weishaupt originally tried to join the Freemasons, but did not want to pay the fee required to join. He then decided to go off an start his own organization, called the Order of the Illuminati.

"Contrary to Immanuel Kant's famous dictum that Enlightenment was the passage by man out of his 'self-imposed immaturity' through daring to 'make use of his own reason, without the guidance of another,' Weishaupt's Order of Illuminati prescribed in great detail everything which the members had obediently to read and think, so that Dr. Wolfgang Riedel has commented that this approach to illumination or enlightenment constituted a degradation and twisting of the Kantian principle of Enlightenment. Riedel writes: 'The independence of thought and judgement required by Kant ... was specifically prevented by the Order of the Illuminati's rules and regulations. Enlightenment takes place here, if it takes place at all, precisely under the direction of another, namely under that of the "Superiors" [of the Order].

^^ From:
Dr. Wolfgang Riedel, Die Weimarer Klassik und ihre Geheimbuende,2002, p. 112


People make the connection that the Illuminati is automatically associated with the freemasons and the New World Order, which is the brainchild of several multinational governmental powers. For all we know, the Illuminati could be the good guys, fighting against the NWO.