In early days of humankind, in a great village of the middle lands, it was custom that after the work of day was done, and the evening meal was taken, as the expanses of the night began to unfold themselves above the earth, the men and women and children of the village would gather to talk in the gathering space in the center of the town by the steps of the temple.  And the wisest of the men and women of the village would sit closest to the center of the gathering space where a fire burned throughout the night.

They would talk of their days, of their worlds and their lives, of the seasons and of all they found around them. And throughout the night, men and women and children would rise to speak with the elders in the center of the village and ask of them what questions lay on their minds. And the elders knew answers to all the questions which were asked of them and so they were called the illuminati or the illuminated ones.

The illuminati told stories of the first days of men and women, of their lives and generations, and they gave teaching and laws for the people of the village, and they told them of God, who had created them and who watched over them from heaven on high. And their stories came to be known throughout the earth.