I think i posted this before but, oh well, might as well post it again...*coughs*

The Illuminati was supposedly founded in Bavaria in 1776 by a german law professor named Adam Weishaupt. But I read somewhere that it has been traced back to the ancient Temple of Wisdom in Cairo, long before the birth of Christ.

The Illuminati (apparentlly)exists today under many different names and many different occupations. They are extremely powerful, very wealthly men (perhaps women too) who believe themselves to be the guardians of the secrets of the ages. It would appear that other such secret societies have been guarding certain technological gifts of the ETIs. Perhaps, from time to time, this alliance between the ETIs and the hidden society elects to make one of its secret technologies known to the general terrestrial population. Such intervention may be accomplished by carefully feeding certain framents of research to an "outside" scientist whose work and attitude have somehow made him/her acceptable to the society.