Do Engel’s Illuminati still exist?
Introvigne : Yes. Although persecuted in Nazi Germany, the Illuminati were able to survive in Switzerland, particularly thanks to the efforts of Felix Lazerus Pinkus (1881-1947), a rich left-wing economist. supported in many ways Hermann Joseph Metzger (1919-1990), a baker by trade as well as a stage hypnotist, who maintained alive the Order of the Illuminati until his death in 1990, and created an Illuminati center in the Swiss village of Stein, in the Canton of Outer Appenzell. A small number of his disciples still live or at least periodically meet there, and they are the only legitimate heirs of Engel’s Illuminati. Of course, one can join a number of other “Orders of the Illuminati”, some of them online by paying a fee, but these do not even have the legitimacy of a succession from Engel’s organization. Can we characterize the Illuminati, as Dan Brown would have it, as a conspiracy to destroy the Vatican and its power in the name of reason and science? Introvigne : As mentioned ear
