the Illuminati

[mburbank]

That's a Masonic symbol. The innermost circle of the Masons may have been Illuminati at the time the dollar bill was drawn.

Of course, the Masons claim the eye and the pyramid are symbols which date back to their egyptian roots.

Both the Masons and the Illuminati were highly secretive and prone to deliberatly spreading lies about themsleves the beeter to keep their secrets. So parsing the truth about what their actual accomnplishments may have been is very hard.