Durch den Beitritt des Freiherr n Adolph Knigge 1780 erfuhr der Illuminatenorden bald reichsweite Verbreitung, wobei Knigge neue Mitglieder besonders in den Reihen der Freimaurer anwarb.
He broke with them, instead joining with movements of freethinkers , that were the most radical offshoot of The Enlightenment , and became increasingly liberal in his religious and political views, favoring deism and a kind of millennial natural order that swept aside states and organized religion.Common crawl Common crawl