illuminist

plural illuminists · alternative illuminatist · alternative Illuminist

1. Someone who subscribes to the doctrine of illuminism, or who claims to have achieved spiritual illumination; one of the Illuminati.

   For some years, the Swedenborgians had been corresponding with fellow Illuminists in Poland, Germany, Sweden and France, and they were eager to learn more about the mystical and millenarian prophecies emanating form their lodges.

   2006, Marsha Keith Schuchard, Why Mrs Blake Cried, Pimlico, published 2007, page 218