Sagot :
It is a sect of 16th-century Spanish heretics who claimed special religious enlightenment or knowledge of something.
"some mysterious standard known only to the illuminati of the organization"
1. people claiming to possess special enlightenment or knowledge of something: "some mysterious standard known only to the illuminati of the organization"2. a sect of 16th-century Spanish heretics who claimed special religious enlightenment.3. a Bavarian secret society founded in 1776, organized like the Freemasons.