The Blue Exorcist: The Illuminati, Explained

Key things

• The Illuminati, led by Lucifer, aim to revive Satan for world unity and peace.
• Lucifer searches for the perfect vessel for Satan to possess, creating clones and the elixir of immortality.
• The Illuminati headquarters is a cloaked airship that conducts experiments to revive Satan and create a new world.

The Illuminati have a much more significant presence than what was first seen in Season 3. With Lucifer, the King of Light, as its commander, the Illuminati embarked on human experiments to create the perfect vessel for Lucifer and Satan.

Although Lucifer seeks to create the perfect vessel for his father Satan, he also seeks to unite Assiah and Gehenna to rid the world of suffering and create true peace. However, there is more to the Illuminati than meets the eye. Learn more about the Illuminati v Blue Exorcist.

What is the Illuminati?

With Lucifer as commander in chief, they plan to recreate the world

The Illuminati is a powerful organization that seeks to revive the Demon God, Satan. The King of Light, Lucifer, is the leader of the Illuminati and the driving force behind the revival of Satan. Although the Illuminati plan to revive Satan, that is not their only goal.

In the first phase, the Illuminati declared war on the True Cross Order of Knights. A year after his first public appearance, the Illuminati plan to revive Satan. The reason the Illuminati wish to revive Satan is to unite the divided Assiah and Gehenna. In The Blue Exorcist, the human world is called Assiah and the demon world is called Gehenna.

Demons can enter Assiah or the human world by possessing those within it. However, the daemon must be compatible with its host. The stronger the demon, the higher the compatibility required. The Illuminati, or Lucifer, wishes to return to the original state where light and darkness were born. This will make everyone equal and not in want, and thus the world will become peaceful.

We have to recreate everything. For that is the mission of the Illuminati.

As already mentioned, the Illuminati is a powerful organization. Before revealing themselves to the True Cross Order of Knights, the Illuminati were first known as the Bright Future Foundation. This Foundation would recruit members from powerful families to join the Illuminati with the Foundation as its front.

In preparation for Satan's awakening, the Illuminati, under the guise of the Foundation, established the Far East Laboratory, which was held in Inari. This device experimented on people who visited Liščí ulička, a tourist destination of restaurants and other food vendors. However, those who indulged in the food here would become addicted, so they resided in Peace Town Inari, a building built to house those being experimented on.

The purpose of these experiments was to create an elixir of immortality. The first attempt at this elixir was to sustain Lucifer's decaying body, and the second was to create a body capable of surviving Satan's possession.

Where is the headquarters of the Illuminati?

On a huge airship, the Illuminati can evade detection

The Illuminati's main headquarters is the Dominus Liminis, a magically cloaked aerial aircraft carrier that is ground zero for all its magical-scientific research. In the airship, the Illuminati's primary focus is on developing scientifically and technologically advanced weapons and armor.

The airship also houses Lucifer's perfect clones, which are perfect bodies that Lucifer can shut down and replace if he deteriorates. Lucifer's search for his ideal human body first began during his time in Section 13. During this time, Lucifer and many of his siblings, the Eight Demon Kings, searched Assiah for a human body that would withstand their hold – but the more powerful the demon, the harder it is searching for their perfect body. This is also why Satan could not possess a person for a long time when he tried to enter Assiah.

Has the Illuminati achieved this goal?

The Illuminati have resurrected Satan, but they have yet to recreate the world

In Chapter 110, Lucifer reveals to Yukio that the Illuminati have successfully created perfect clones of him that he can easily transition into if his body deteriorates. However, these clones are only substitutes and quick fixes with potions. As stated above, the goal of the Illuminati is to revive Satan and bring Assiah and Gehenna into unity. To revive Satan, he needed a perfect body and an elixir to serve as an immortality serum.

The Illuminati continued to research elixirs and conduct experiments on Dominus Liminis. They have since completed their research and created the finished potion during their last experiment. The process of creating Satan's ideal body has already been completed in the ground laboratory of the Illuminati, the KRC Laboratory in Romania.

The final process was the last experiment to create the elixir, which took place on Dominus Liminis. To complete the experiment, the Illuminati needed three demon eaters called the Chosen. These Demon Eaters, which included Ouroboros, Phoenix, and Hydra, were then placed in a distillation furnace that separated the demons from the Chosen and charred them. With this, Lucifer created a single drop of the finished potion, and thus Satan was revived in Chapter 129.

What is the relationship of the Illuminati to Section 13?

Section 13 gave Lucifer the ambition to continue the cloning experiments

The production of perfect bodies for the Eight Demon Kings began with Section 13. Section 13 was a restricted area with an asylum in the True Cross Academy under the True Cross Knight Order. It was first established to prolong Lucifer's life, as no human body could handle being possessed by such a powerful demon.

Asylum mass-produced clones of the Eight Demon Kings to find his perfect match. They used DNA from Samuel or Mephisto Pheles and Azazel to create the clones. At that time, Lucifer was nearing his end as the body he possessed was rapidly deteriorating. As an extreme measure, Lucifer was going to destroy the world so everyone would return to an equal world without suffering.

To prevent this from happening, Mephisto Pheles devised a plan to create a clone and remove Lucifer's pain. This is how he created Section 13 with the Asylum as a front. However, creating clones wasn't enough to ease Lucifer's pain, so they had to research the potion as well.

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