The nine unknown men

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THE NINE UNKNOWN MEN

From _The Morning Of The Magicians_

By Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier

Published by Avon Books. 1968. pp 67 - 71.

 

This [legend] goes back to the time of the 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. Forever 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, Tibet, 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 ectasy 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 fro 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.

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 Ortho 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 aquired various kinds of skills

which stupified 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. 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 modern binary machines. This " magic "

head was destroyed when Sylvester died, and all the information it

imparted carefully concealed. No doubt an authorized research

worker would come across some interesting 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

occring 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 head because he was in league with the Devil and had sworn

eternal allegiance to him. "

Had other Europeans any contact with the 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 catagorically that the Soceity of Nine did

actually exist. And, to make it all the more intriguing, he

refers in the 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 1890, and following the instructions he received

was able to prepare a serum against cholera and the plague.

The story of the Nine Unknown Men was popularized for the first

time in 1927 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, and each of them was in possession

of a book that was constantly being rewritten and containing a

detailed account of some science.

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. "

It must be remembered that Korjybski's _General Semantics_ did not

appear until 1937 and that it was not until the West had the

experience of the last World War that the techniques of 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 at all well known is Serge

Tchocotine's _Le Viol des Foules_ which has had a considerable

influence in intellectual polical 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 quanities of fine gold from a secret

source.

The fifth volume contains a study of all means of communication,

terrestial and extra-terrestial.

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 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 mold

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?

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, " kishore patnaik "

<kishorepatnaik09 wrote:

>

> THE NINE UNKNOWN MEN

>

> From _The Morning Of The Magicians_

> By Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier

> Published by Avon Books. 1968. pp 67 - 71.

>

 

That book is a classic of crackpotry. Along with Chilean diplomat

Miguel Serrano's work, it is the main source of the myth of Nazi

occultism, the Tibetan Nazi army, the Nazi base in Antarctica, the Nazi

UFOs.

 

Kishore, get your act together.

 

KE

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That book is a classic of crackpotry. Along with Chilean diplomat Miguel Serrano's work, it is the main source of the myth of Nazi occultism, the Tibetan Nazi army, the Nazi base in Antarctica, the Nazi

UFOs.

Kishore, get your act together.

KE

 

 

This is the first I came across the matter. I am not aware of its authenticity.

 

Kishore patnaik