In concert, Céline Dion often throws up the Devil’s Horns hand gesture — a nod to the devil, supposedly. Along with that, some conspiracy theorists claimed her gender-neutral children’s clothing line had Satanic themes to it. Ever since her drastic change from Disney Queen to the free-spirited songstress, Miley Cyrus has been getting Illuminati claims. Some say her tattoos of the all-seeing eye and Leonardo da Vinci’s heart are signs of Illuminati symbolism. Others were freaking out because they claim they can see her eyes change like a lizard in a previous interview with Barbara Walters. So they think she’s a tattooed lizard person. Kesha once joked in a Rolling Stone interview that she was “really the leader of the Illuminati.” As you can guess, left theorists in a frenzy. She’s also had a lot of Illuminati symbolism in her early music videos. The works of Robison and Barruel made their way to the United States and across New England. The Rev. Jedidiah Morse, an orthodox Congregational minister and geographer, was among those who delivered sermons against the Illuminati. In fact, one of the first accounts of the Illuminati to be printed in the United States was Morse's Fast Day sermon of 9 May 1798. Morse had been alerted to the publication in Europe of Robison's Proofs of a Conspiracy by a letter from the Rev. John Erskine of Edinburgh, and he read Proofs shortly after copies published in Europe arrived by ship in March of that year. Other anti-Illuminati writers, such as Timothy Dwight, soon followed in their condemnation of the imagined group of conspirators. [26]

Phillip Jose Farmer in his books Tarzan Alive (1972) and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life (1973) and The Other Log of Phileas Fogg (1973) linked the fictional characters to various Illuminati, plots and conspiracy theories. Illuminati circles in the rest of Germany expanded. While some had only modest gains, the circle in Mainz almost doubled from 31 to 61 members. Reaction to state Catholicism led to gains in Austria and footholds were obtained in Warsaw, Pressburg (Bratislava), Tyrol, Milan and Switzerland. [18] Top pathologist Dr. Roger Hodkinson calls COVID-19 The Greatest Hoax Ever Perpetrated on an Unsuspecting Public Class II – The Masonic grades. The three "blue lodge" grades of Apprentice, Companion and Master were separated from the higher "Scottish" grades of Scottish Novice and Scottish Knight. Porter, Lindsay (2005). Who Are the Illuminati?: Exploring the Myth of the Secret Society. Pavilion Books. ISBN 978-1-84340-289-3 . Retrieved 21 November 2017.While he’s continuously denied the wild claims, there was a time when conspiracy theorists thought that Justin Bieber was a member of the illuminati. In particular, such conspiracy theories noted an owl tattoo that he has on his forearm, and even spread rumors that the ‘real’ Bieber died in a car crash and has since been replaced. Hogle, Jerrold E. The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-521-79124-3. pp. 51–55

Eventually, Morse’s accusations against Democratic-Republican societies were unable to withstand the weight of evidence and he stopped talking about the Illuminati. As historian Jonathan Den Hartog has written, evangelical Federalists concerned about the preservation of a Christian nation “overplayed their hand” by propagating the Illuminati scare. In the process, they “called their standing as societal authorities into question, and ultimately weakened their position” as shapers of American culture. Within two decades the Federalist Party had faded from the political landscape, but their fears about the collapse of evangelical culture in the United States would persist well into the 21st century.Then again, there might be a more pragmatic reason why hip-hop latched on to the idea of the Illuminati. As Rakaa Iriscience of the trio Dilated Peoples pointed out in a 2014 interview with Hiphopdx.com, “There were a lot of organizations that existed. That one [the Illuminati] just happened to rhyme with body, party, naughty and a lot of other things. It sounds cooler than some of the other ones do.” Bandmate DJ Babu agreed: “Yeah, Templars doesn’t sound cool. Illuminati is way tighter.”

By the 1960s, Bob Dylan’s protest songs lit the fuse for antiwar activists and burning draft cards. Once the Beatles led a British invasion to America’s shores, an entire counterculture listened to tunes advocating LSD, free love and political revolution. In Tinseltown, spurred on by Alfred Kinsey’s falsified sexual behavior studies, moviegoers saw for the first time onscreen nudity and vulgarities that had up until then been forbidden under the Hays Code [i.e. Hollywood’s primary self-censorship apparatus]. René le Forestier, Les Illuminés de Bavière et la franc-maçonnerie allemande, Paris, 1914, Book 1, Chapter 3, pp. 45–72. Markner, Reinhold; Neugebauer-Wölk, Monika; Schüttler, Hermann, eds. (2005). Die Korrespondenz des Illuminatenordens. Bd. 1, 1776–81 (in German). Tübingen: Max Niemeyer. ISBN 978-3-484-10881-3. The favorite symbol of Daft Punk — often used as a gigantic DJ booth during their shows — is none other than a triangle. And like many of the other supposed Illuminatis on this list, they’ve been caught on camera throwing up the pyramid hand sign on more than one occasion. Emma WatsonRELATED: Fact Or Fiction? 6 Kobe Bryant Helicopter Crash Conspiracy Theories Exploding On The Internet