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There have been two subsequent expansion sets: Illuminati Brainwash and Illuminati Y2K. In 1994, Steve Jackson reworked the old Illuminati card game into a trading-card format: INWO (Illuminati: New World Order). Illuminati was first released at the gamers' convention, Origins, in September 1982, promptly spawning two expansion sets, with an Expansion Set 3, published in January 1985, adding a board. The game has ominous secret societies competing with each other to control the world through sinister means, including legal, illegal, and even mystical. None of the symbols are uniquely masonic. Illuminati is a standalone card game made by Steve Jackson Games (SJG), inspired by The Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea. The Adepts of Hermes card depicts the illustration at left. While the freemasons will use the all-seeing eye alone or in a triangle, and the US Great Seal depicts an eye in a triangle above a pyramid, it is only in fictional usages such as this that the eye is actually in the pyramid. Through the ages, the all-seeing eye has been a pagan, Christian or new age symbol for God while the triangle represents the triune nature of God.

The Bavarian Illuminati card depicts the illustration above, an eye in a pyramid. Copyright 1995 Steve Jackson Games Incorporated. While none of the cards make specific reference or mention of Freemasonry, several cards refer to groups often associated with Freemasonry in the popular mind: the common cards, "Fraternal Orders", " Rosicrucians" and " Templars" the uncommon cards, "Illuminati" and "Society of Assassins (Illuminati)" the rare Illuminati cards, " Adepts of Hermes" and "Bavarian Illuminati" and the uncommon rare card, "Illuminati University." The object of the game is world domination.

Please contact our editor with other examples.Ī convulated, confusing, and often quite humourous card game, the official card list of Apincludes 413 cards with an additional 125 cards in an Assassins set. Illuminati Y2K is an expansion set to the newly-released colour Illuminati.Y2K introduces 76 new groups, 26 new special cards and two new Illuminati: The Church of the SubGenius and the Shangri-La. Curiously enough, this card game, preoccupied with conspiracy theory and the Illuminati, makes no mention of the freemasons. While Freemasonry is frequently referred to in film and text, little research has been done into its occurrence in games. Masonic references in games: Illuminati, New World Order Sor far, I've counted 39 cards, and made a partial list from the images at. I know the 1982 (original) edition has 54 cards, but I can't find anywhere a list of that cards. Hi everyone! I'm trying to compile a list of Illuminati cards by edition.
