Just as a bird cannot see a fish lurking in the deep sea, so those "illuminati" as you call them cannot see ordinary people. They only see ones who are an open threat to them, and it is their weakness. There is nothing to believe in the "illuminati" story, everything is right in front of our noses. They have been revealing their presence in the world so they became an infamous institution. That is their weakness too. So what's the way to defeat them? There is a saying in my homeland "Klin se klinom izbija", something simillar to fight fire with fire. Starting new secret societies may seem stupid and pointless when you could expect that the "illuminati" would also infiltrate them. They would, but they ablsolutley couldn't eliminate all of them! The catholic curch infiltrated a bunch of secret societies, yet it had lost its authority in the world. If anybody would hope to defeat them, he would need to start building a reverse pyramid from the foundation... We need to start influencing our local communities and join them later on.

Oh and by the way,stories about the antichrist are pure BS coming from them too so we would lose hope... Hitler was once considered an Antichrist, he had the strongest armies in the world, and he was defeated! Mongols were once considered a gods punishment, and the barbarian invasion was considered the end of the days too....