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#What did the Illuminati believe? A drawing of an owl from the 1780s #the short period of time the Illuminati was active. Universal Images Group / Getty Images There were two sides to the historical Illuminati: their odd rituals and their ideals. The Illuminati did plenty of unusual things. They used symbols (like the owl) #adopted pseudonyms to avoid identification #and had complicated hierarchies like Novice #Minerval #and Illuminated Minerval that divided the ranks. In the beginning #Hodapp says #Illuminati members didn't trust anyone over 30 #because they were too set in their ways. Other reports of rituals are harder to confirm #but we know that members were very paranoid and used spy-like protocol to keep one another's identities secret. But while they were following these bizarre rituals #they also promoted a worldview that reflected Enlightenment ideals like rational thought and self-rule. Anti-clerical and anti-royal #the Illuminati were closer to revolutionaries than world rulers #since they sought to infiltrate and upset powerful institutions like the monarchy.