The Illuminati contend that most European and American rulers have been members of this alien breed, and thus they have been controlling the world for centuries. All major events in human history over the last couple of centuries are, according to the Illuminati, results of attempts to achieve their one world government in which all are subjugated by the Illuminati elite. In addition to an obsession with interbreeding with each other to preserve the alien genetic structure, they are also obsessed with ritual, cold blooded behavior, territorialism, and top down hierarchical structures.

The Illuminati tactic is to divide and conquer by supplying arms and money to both sides and instigating people to fight and kill each other in order to be able to achieve their objectives. They foster the terrorism of atomic warfare and deliberately cause world famine. In pursuit of their primary goal of a one world government, they plan to destroy all religions and governments in the process. They project that the Illuminati's rise to power and world domination will begin at midnight on New Year's Eve 1999 when Lucifer comes to provide direction for his disciples and inaugurate the "New Age." An occult Millennial celebration to mark the beginning of the Illuminati world take-over will occur at the Great Pyramid in Giza, in ironic conjunction with a public celebration being planned for the Pyramids on December 31, 1999.