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<p> THE NINE UNKNOWN MEN</p>
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<p> From _The Morning Of The Magicians_
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By Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier
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Published by Avon Books. 1968. pp 67 - 71.</p>
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<p> This [legend] goes back to the time of the Emperor Asoka, who
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reigned in India from 273 B.C. He was the grandson of
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Chandragupta who was the first to unify India. Ambitious like his
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ancestor whose achievements he was anxious to complete, he
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conquered the region of Kalinga which lay between what is now
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Calcutta and Madras. The Kalingans resisted and lost 100000 men
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in the battle.</p>
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<p> At the sight of this massacre Asoka was overcome. Forever after
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he experienced a horror of war. He renounced the idea of trying
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to integrate the rebellious people, declaring that the only true
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conquest was to win men's hearts by observance of the laws of duty
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and piety, because the Sacred Majesty desired that all living
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creatures should enjoy security, peace and happiness and be free
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to live as they pleased.</p>
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<p> A convert to Buddhism, Asoka, by his own virtuous example, spread
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this religion throughout India and his entire empire which
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included Malaya, Ceylon and Indonesia. Later Buddhism penetrated
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to Nepal, Tibet, China and Mongolia. Asoka nevertheless respected
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all religious sects. He preached vegetarianism, abolished alcohol
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and the slaughter of animals. H.G. Wells, in his abridged version
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of his _Outline Of World History_ wrote: "Among the tens of
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thousands of names of monarchs accumulated in the files of
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history, the name of Asoka shines almost alone, like a star."</p>
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<p> It is said that the Emperor Asoka, aware of the horrors of war,
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wished to forbid men ever to put their intelligence to evil uses.
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During his reign natural science, past and present, was vowed to
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secrecy. Henceforward, and for the next 2000 years, all
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researches, ranging from the structure of matter to the techniques
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employed in collective psychology, were to be hidden behind the
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mystical mask of a people commonly believed to be exclusively
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concerned with ectasy and supernatural phenomena. Asoka founded
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the most powerful secret society on earth: that of the Nine
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Unknown Men.</p>
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<p> It is still thought that the great men responsible fro the destiny
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of modern India, and scientists like Bose and Ram believe in the
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existence of the Nine, and even receive advice and messages from
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them.</p>
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<p> One can imagine the extraordinary importance of secret knowledge
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in the hands of nine men benefiting directly from experiments,
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studies and documents accumulated over a period of more than
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2000 years. What can have been the aim of these men? Not to
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allow methods of destruction to fall into the hands of unqualified
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persons and to pursue knowledge which would benefit mankind.
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Their numbers would be renewed by co-option, so as to preserve the
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secrecy of techniques handed down from ancient times.</p>
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<p> Examples of the Nine Unknown Men making contact with the outer
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world are rare. There was, however, the extraordinary case of one
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of the most mysterious figures in Western history: the Pope
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Sylvester II, known also by the name of Gerbert d'Aurillac. Born
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in the Auvergne in 920 (d. 1003) Gerbert was a Benedictine monk,
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professor at the University of Rheims, Archbishop of Ravenna and
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Pope by the grace of Ortho III. He is supposed to have spent some
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time in Spain, after which a mysterious voyage brought him to
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India where he is reputed to have aquired various kinds of skills
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which stupified his entourage. For example, he possessed in his
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palace a bronze head which answered YES or NO to questions put to
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it on politics or the general position of Christianity. According
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to Sylvester II this was a perfectly simple operation
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corresponding to a two-figure calculation, and was performed by an
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automaton similar to our modern binary machines. This "magic"
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head was destroyed when Sylvester died, and all the information it
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imparted carefully concealed. No doubt an authorized research
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worker would come across some interesting things in the <span class="GPE" title="GPE">Vatican</span>
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Library.</p>
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<p> In the cybernetics journal, _Computers and Automation_ of October
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1954, the following comment appeared: "We must suppose that he
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(Sylvester) was possessed of extraordinary knowledge and the most
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remarkable mechanical skill and inventiveness. This speaking head
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must have been fashioned 'under a certain conjunction of stars
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occring at the exact moment when all the planets were starting on
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their courses.' Neither the past, nor the present nor the future
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entered into it, since this invention apparently far exceeded in
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its scope its rival, the perverse 'mirror on the wall' of the
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Queen, the precursor of our modern electronic brain. Naturally it
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was widely asserted that Gerbert was only able to produce such a
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machine head because he was in league with the Devil and had sworn
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eternal allegiance to him."</p>
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<p> Had other Europeans any contact with the society of the Nine
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Unknown Men? It was not until the nineteenth century that this
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mystery was referred to again in the works of the French writer
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Jacolliot.</p>
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<p> Jacolliot was French Consul at Calcutta under the Second Empire.
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He wrote some quite important prophetic works, comparable, if not
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superior to those of Jules Verne. He also left several books
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dealing with the great secrets of the human race. A great many
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occult writers, prophets and miracle-workers have borrowed from
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his writings which, completely neglected in France, are well known
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in Russia.</p>
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<p> Jacolliot states catagorically that the Soceity of Nine did
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actually exist. And, to make it all the more intriguing, he
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refers in the this connection to certain techniques, unimaginable
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in 1860, such as, for example, the liberation of energy,
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sterilization by radiation and psychological warfare.</p>
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<p> Yersin, one of Pasteur and de Roux's closest collaborators, was
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entrusted, it seems, with certain biological secrets when he
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visited Madras in 1890, and following the instructions he received
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was able to prepare a serum against cholera and the plague.</p>
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<p> The story of the Nine Unknown Men was popularized for the first
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time in 1927 in a book by Talbot Mundy who for twenty-five years
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was a member of the <span class="NORP" title="NORP">British</span> police force in India. His book is
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half-fiction, half scientific inquiry. The Nine apparently
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employed a synthetic language, and each of them was in possession
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of a book that was constantly being rewritten and containing a
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detailed account of some science.</p>
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<p> The first of these books is said to have been devoted to the
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technique of propaganda and psychological warfare. "The most
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dangerous of all sciences," wrote Mundy, "is that of moulding mass
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opinion, because it would enable anyone to govern the whole
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world."</p>
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<p> It must be remembered that Korjybski's _General Semantics_ did not
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appear until 1937 and that it was not until the West had the
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experience of the last World War that the techniques of psychology
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of language, i.e., propaganda, could be formulated. The first
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American college of semantics only came into being in 1950. In
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France almost the only book that at all well known is Serge
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Tchocotine's _Le Viol des Foules_ which has had a considerable
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influence in intellectual polical circles, although it deals only
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superficially with the subject.</p>
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<p> The second book was on physiology. It explained, among other
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things, how it is possible to kill a man by touching him, death
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being caused by a reversal of the nerve-impulse. It is said that
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Judo is a result of "leakages" from this book.</p>
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<p> The third volume was a study on microbiology, and dealt especially
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with protective colloids.</p>
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<p> The fourth was concerned with the transmutation of metals. There
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is a legend that in times of drought temples and religious relief
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organizations received large quanities of fine gold from a secret
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source.</p>
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<p> The fifth volume contains a study of all means of communication,
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terrestial and extra-terrestial.</p>
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<p> The sixth expounds the secrets of gravitation.</p>
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<p> The seventh contains the most exhaustive cosmogony known to
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humanity.</p>
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<p> The eighth deals with light.</p>
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<p> The ninth volume, on sociology, gives the rules for the evolution
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of societies, and means of foretelling their decline.</p>
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<p> Connected with the Nine Unknown Men is the mystery of the waters
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of the Ganges. Multitudes of pilgrims, suffering from the most
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appalling diseases, bathe in them without harming the healthy
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ones. The sacred waters purify everything. Their strange
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properties have been attributed to the fact that they contain
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bacteriophages. But why should these not be formed in the
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Bramaputra, the Amazon or the Seine? Jacolliot in his book
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advances the theory of sterilization by radiation, a hundred years
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before such a thing was thought to be possible. These radiations,
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he says, probably come from a secret temple hollowed out in the
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bed of the Ganges.</p>
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<p> Avoiding all forms of religious, social or political agitations,
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deliberately and perfectly concealed from the public eye, the Nine
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were the incarnation of the ideal man of science, serenely aloof,
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but conscious of his moral obligations. Having the power to mold
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the destiny of the human race, but refraining from its exercise,
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this secret society is the finest tribute imaginable to freedom of
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the most exalted kind. Looking down from the watch-tower of their
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hidden glory, these Nine Unknown Men watched civilizations being
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born, destroyed and re-born again, tolerant rather than
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indifferent, and ready to come to the rescue -- but always
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observing that rule of silence that is the mark of human
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greatness.</p>
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<p> Myth or reality? A magnificent myth, in any case, and one that
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has issued from the depths of time -- a harbinger, maybe, of the
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future?</p>
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<p> -EOF-</p>
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