::: The Nine Unknown Men :::
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This tradition goes back to the time of Emperor Asoka, who reigned in
India from 273 B.C. He was the grandson of Chandragupta who was the
first to unify India. Ambitious like his ancestor whose achievements he
was anxious to complete, he conquered the region of Kalinga which lay
between what is now Calcutta and Madras. The Kalingans resisted and
lost 100,000 men in the battle.
At the sight of this massacre Asoka was overcome. For ever after he
experienced a horror of war. He renounced the idea of trying to
integrate the rebellious people, declaring that the only true conquest
was to win men's hearts by observance of the laws of duty and piety,
because the Sacred Majesty desired that all living creatures should
enjoy security, peace and happiness and be free to live as they
pleased.
A convert to Buddhism, Asoka, by his own virtuous example, spread this
religion throughout India and his entire empire which included Malaya,
Ceylon and Indonesia. Later Buddhism penetrated to Nepal, Thibet, China
and Mongolia. Asoka nevertheless respected all religious sects. He
preached vegetarianism, abolished alcohol and the slaughter of animals.
H.G. Wells, in his abridged version of his Outline of World History
wrote: "Among the tens of thousands of names of monarchs accumulated in
the files of history, the name of Asoka shines almost alone, like a
star."
It is said that the Emperor Asoka, aware of the horrors of war, wished
to forbid men ever to put their intelligence to evil uses. During his
reign natural science, past and present, was vowed to secrecy.
Henceforward, and for the next 2,000 years, all researches, ranging
from the structure of matter to the techniques employed in collective
psychology, were to be hidden behind the mystical mask of a people
commonly believed to be exclusively concerned with ecstasy and
supernatural phenomena. Asoka founded the most powerful secret society
on earth: that of the Nine Unknown Men.
It is still thought that the great men responsible for the destiny of
modern India, and scientists like Bose and Ram believe in the existence
of the Nine, and even receive advice and messages from them. [cf.
Phyllis Schlemmer's modern "Council of Nine" which "channeling"
sessions have drawn such notables as Uri "Spoon-Bender" Geller,
physicist Dr. Andrija "SPECTRA" Puharich (who once noted that Geller's
entity was Horus/Hawk-like in appearance -- another story for another
time perhaps) and, of course, societal sci-fi metaprogrammer
extraordinaire Gene "Star Trek" Roddenberry -B:.B:.]
One can imagine the extraordinary importance of secret knowledge in the
hands of nine men benefiting directly from experiments, studies and
documents accumulated over a period of more than 2,000 years. What can
have been the aim of these men? Not to allow methods of destruction to
fall into the hands of unqualified persons, and to pursue knowledge
which would benefit mankind. Their numbers would be renewed by
co-option, so as to preserve the secrecy of techniques handed down from
ancient times.
Examples of the Nine Unknown Men making contact with the outer world
are rare. There was, however, the extraordinary case of one of the most
mysterious figures in Western history: the Pope Sylvester II, known
also by the name of Gerbert d'Aurillac. Born in the Auvergne in 920 (d.
1003) Gerbert was a Benedictine monk, professor at the University of
Rheims, Archbishop of Ravenna and Pope by the grace of Otho III. He is
supposed to have spent some time in Spain, after which a mysterious
voyage brought him to India where he is reputed to have acquired
various kinds of skills which stupefied his entourage. For example, he
possessed in his palace a bronze head which answered Yes or No to
questions put to it on politics or the general position of
Christianity. [cf. "Max the Crystal Skull" of current notoriety
-B:.B:.] According to Sylvester II this was a perfectly simple
operation corresponding to a two-figure calculation, and was performed
by an automaton similar to our modem binary machines. This "magic" head
was destroyed when Sylvester died, and all the information it imparted
carefully concealed. No doubt an author- ized research worker would
come across some surprising things in the Vatican Library.
In the cybernetics journal, Computers and Automation of October 1954,
the following comment appeared: "We must suppose that he (Sylvester)
was possessed of extraordinary knowledge and the most remarkable
mechanical skill and inventiveness. This speaking head must have been
fashioned 'under a certain conjunction of stars occurring at the exact
moment when all the planets were starting on their courses.' Neither
the past, nor the present nor the future entered into it, since this
invention apparently far exceeded in its scope its rival, the perverse
'mirror on the wall' of the Queen, the precursor of our modern
electronic brain. Naturally, it was widely asserted that Gerbert was
only able to produce such a machine because he was in league with the
Devil and had sworn eternal allegiance to him."
Had other Europeans any contact with this society of the Nine Unknown
Men? It was not until the nineteenth century that this mystery was
referred to again in the works of the French writer Jacolliot.
Jacolliot was French Consul at Calcutta under the Second Empire. He
wrote some quite important prophetic works, comparable, if not superior
to those of Jules Verne. He also left several books dealing with the
great secrets of the human race. A great many occult writers, prophets
and miracle-workers have borrowed from his writings which, completely
neglected in France, are well known in Russia.
Jacolliot states categorically that the society of Nine did actually
exist. And, to make it all the more intriguing, he refers in this
connection to certain techniques, unimaginable in 1860, such as, for
example, the liberation of energy, sterilization by radiation and
psychological warfare.
Yersin, one of Pasteur and de Roux's closest collaborators, was
entrusted, it seems, with certain biological secrets when he visited
Madras in 1860, and following the instructions he received was able to
prepare a serum against cholera and the plague. [Yet in these current
Eschatological Times of Trouble, have these hidden secrets slipped into
the hands of vile and profane individuals such as Wolf "Herr Doktor
AIDS" Smuzness and, of course, "Oppie's boys" over at the LANL labs?
-B:.B:.]
The story of the Nine Unknown Men was popularized for the first time in
I927 in a book by Talbot Mundy who for twenty-five years was a member
of the British police force in India. His book is half fiction, half
scientific inquiry. The Nine apparently employed a synthetic language
[Enochian? -B:.B:.], and each of them was in possession of a book that
was constantly being rewritten and containing a detailed account of
some science.
[Note here the Qabbalistic "synchronicities" in the subjects of the
Nine Books. -B:.B:.]
The first of these books is said to have been devoted to the technique
of propaganda and psychological warfare. "The most dangerous of all
sciences," wrote Mundy, "is that of moulding mass opinion, because it
would enable anyone to govern the whole world." [Indeed, cf. the
Rockefeller-funded exploits of such notables as Harvard's Dr. John Mack
and CSETI's Dr. Steve Greer along with such other notables as the
military/intelligence community's Psyop (psychological warfare
operative) Extraordinaire Michael "Temple of Set" Acquino, Dr. John
"LSD, Dolphins 'n Sensory Deprivation Tanks" Lilly, The BABALON Bunch
(i.e. Crowley, Parsons 'n Hubbard), etc. etc. etc. -B:.B:.]
It must be remembered that Korjybski's General Semantics did not appear
until 1937 and that it was not until the West had had the experience of
the last World War that the techniques of the psychology of language,
i.e. propaganda, could be formulated. The first American college of
semantics only came into being in 1950. In France almost the only book
that is at all well known is Serge Tchocotine's Le Viol des Foules
[i.e. "The of the Masses," no doubt a take-off on Ortega y
Gasset's classic socio- logical work of the same name. -B:.B:.] which
has had a consider- able influence in intellectual political circles,
although it deals only superficially with the subject.
The second book was on physiology. It explained, among other things,
how it is possible to kill a man by touching him, death being caused by
a reversal of the nerve-impulse. It is said that Judo is a result of
"leakages" from this book.
The third volume was a study on microbiology, and dealt especially with
protective colloids.
The fourth was concerned with the transmutation of metals. There is a
legend that in times of drought temples and religious relief
organizations received large quantities of fine gold from a secret
source.
The fifth volume contains a study of all means of communication,
terrestrial and extra-terrestrial. [Keep in mind this is circa 250
B.C.E. -B:.B:.]
The sixth expounds the secrets of gravitation.
The seventh contains the most exhaustive cosmogony known to humanity.
The eighth deals with light.
The ninth volume, on sociology, gives the rules for the evolution of
societies, and the means of foretelling their decline.
Connected with the Nine Unknown Men is the mystery of the waters of the
Ganges. Multitudes of pilgrims, suffering from the most appalling
diseases, bathe in them without harming the healthy ones. The sacred
waters purify everything. Their strange properties have been attributed
to the fact that they contain bacteriophages. But why should these not
be formed in the Bramaputra, the Amazon or the Seine? Jacolliot in his
book advances the theory of sterilization by radiation, a hundred years
before such a thing was thought to be possible. These radiations, he
says, probably come from a secret temple hollowed out in the bed of the
Ganges.
Avoiding all forms of religious, social or political agitations,
deliberately and perfectly concealed from the public eye, the Nine were
the incarnation of the ideal man of science, serenely aloof, but
conscious of his moral obligations. Having the power to mould the
destiny of the human race, but refraining from its exercise, this
secret society is the finest tribute imaginable to freedom of the most
exalted kind. Looking down from the watch-tower of their hidden glory,
these Nine Unknown Men watched civilizations being born, destroyed and
re-born again, tolerant rather than indifferent, and ready to come to
the rescue -- but always observing that rule of silence that is the
mark of human greatness.
Myth or reality? A magnificent myth, in any case, and one that has
issued from the depths of time -- a harbinger, maybe, of the future ?
Excerpt from:
"The Dawn of Magic"
1960 by Louis Pauwels & Jacques Bergier
Anthony Gibbs & Phillips Ltd., London
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