Illuminati in French Revolution

Everyone on the Internet surely knows what Illuminati is. It's portrait would commonly be a triangle with an eye in the middle, like this:

It's one of the most controversial things in the Internet world and made famous because the sign appeared on a US one dollar bill along with other interesting signs, but it probably means nothing though.

Illuminati is real though, or was. It was an actual organisation founded in 1776. It was an enlightenment-era secret society called the Bavarian Illuminati. Their goals were to oppose any superstition or religious influence over public life and abuses of state power. Their general status "is to put an end to the machinations of the purveyors of injustice, to control them without dominating them." The society however, along with other secret societies around the era, were outlawed by the Bavarian ruler, Charles Theodore, with the encouragement of the Roman Catholic Church around 1784 - 1790 because the societies were thought to be anti-religious. It was several years later then that the people thought that these societies to have began to being secretive and operating underground and thought to be responsible for the French Revolution. That conspiracy theory was one of the first related to Illuminati, so I'm gonna explain it more.

How the Illuminati was possibly connected to the French Revolution was through a book by Terry Melanson titled 'Perfectibilists – The 18th Century Bavarian Order of the Illuminati'. Terry runs the Conspiracy Archive and he is also an excellent researcher. In this book in chapter 2, it covers the French revolution and the working of the Illuminati leaders of the time. It was also said that the Illuminati migrated from Bavaria to France during the enlightenment, and because of the ban of societies opposing religion. 

The book was about the Journal of J.J.C. Bode, a well known translator literary works. around the 1990's, there was speculation that the translator had gone Paris in 1787 to motivate the Masons (another secret societies) to join the revolution. long story short, the Masons kinda refused and an then he met another Secret Society called Philalethes. Though one of the  Philalethes leaders escaped to England and blame the society for ''revolutionary disturbances". 

Terry Melanson points out that the Bode journal has all the evidence for the Illuminati connection to the French Revolution. It reveals the following:

• Bode and Philaethes leaders developed methods for the Illuminati to operate in France
• Communications were marked with a cross to dissuade censors from opening the letters out of religious reverence.
• Letters would use standard Masonic cipher.
• The group, would use the name “Philalethes” rather than the “Illuminati.”
• Bode revealed that Daubermesnil, Jean-Baptiste Le Sage, Taillepied de Bondy and Alexandre-Louis Roettiers de Montaleau had all joined the Illuminati.
• All four men promised Bode, “…to seize this opportunity for the good of mankind. Amen!”

It was also stated in the journal that many documented French Masons were also members of the new Illuminati-Philalethes. Bode journal is the evidence that the Illuminati influenced the population of French with ''Enlightenment" leading up to the storming of the Bastille, which was pretty much the important part of French revolution.

I don't really know if this conspiracy theory is true, but if there is evidence, I guess it is. Illuminati was involved with the French revolution. If you don't want to believe it, nobody's forcing you.