People in this world are distinct and completely different from each other. One thing that brings a different segment of people and binds them together is religion. We’re not here to discuss any typical religion but there’s much more meaning of having a relationship as we think of.
Hundreds of years ago when the concept of illuminism was first coined, it was seen as a cult that tends to have a common belief. But over time as the popularity increased, illuminism was started to be seen as a religion. People under the illuminism religion believed that there are people who are enlightened by the blessing of God and can be considered as the pure source of knowledge. They tend to consider “light” as the mode of having direct communication with a higher source and one who has the light is enlightened and divine.
When the illuminism religion came into existence?
In around 1688 in England, when the Glorious Revolution was almost approaching the end, the people started to become familiar with the aspect of enlightenment. It emerged as an intellectual and cultural movement that ended up influencing the people a lot. Earlier it started as a movement to remove the government but sooner people started seeing it as a religion that brought the people together. They now took it as to establish and propagation a completely new religion and also to take a political step for creating a universal democratic republic that would be followed after the existing government would be overthrown.
What did people believe in this religion?
As the people started dwelling more and more on illuminism religion, more and more theories and beliefs started coming up. It includes divine illumination and passivism, humanism, naturalism, utilitarianism, hedonism, and some atheistic and deistic aspects. Although there have been a lot of critiques on these theories, most people still tend to have faith in it. The religion became more and more connected to the ethical theories. It includes divine illumination and passivism, humanism, naturalism, utilitarianism, hedonism, and some atheistic and deistic aspects. The most important of the ethical aspects that were covered by this religion are mentioned below:
· A man tends to have natural rights but he is also bound to his moral duties which he should necessarily abide by.
· A man possesses the free will and reason because of which he ends up being personally responsible for the actions he does and the moral decisions he makes.
· It is mentioned that action without knowledge is unintelligent and any knowledge without any salvation would be needing intelligence, good works, and faith.
· It was believed that even though God does not act within man, still he enlightens the human mind in order to perceive and learn everything that the Church teaches us.
Just like any other religion, illuminism too had a lot of followers and there are even numerous beliefs connected with it. As you’ll read more about it, you’ll keep uncovering more and more interesting facts that could amaze you.