Weishaupt, through his organizing ability, was able to make the Illuminati one of the most effective instruments of evil that has ever been uncovered. Using the philosophy that "the end justifies the means," his methods became a model for world revolution. Eventually, the Order became suspect by the government of Bavaria, resulting in an investigation by a Bavarian Court of Inquiry in 1783. An event that led to exposure of the subversive nature of the Order was the untimely death of one of its members, an evangelist preacher named Lanze, who, while on a mission to Silesia, was struck down by lightning. Instructions found on his body resulted in a raid on the houses of two of the leading members of the Order. Here much mcriminating evidence was uncovered, among which was a list of Although Weishaupt was banished from Bavaria, and the Order was officially suppressed, the Order simply went underground and emerged as a network of Reading Societies throughout Germany. The goal of this network was to monopolize the writing, publication, reviewing, and distribution of all literature, as a means of controlling From the very beginning, the Illuminati was a secret society within a secret society, beginning in the Masonic Lodge Theodore of Munich, Germany of which Weishaupt was a member. It was his plan to use the 27 The Illuminati Using the methods of earlier secret societies, poisons. the minds of the readers.