Recently I got an interesting myth that called The Unknown Men, it's an organization that guard a forbidden knowledge.
According to occult lore, the Nine Unknown Men are a two millennia-old
secret society founded by the Indian Emperor Asoka 273 BC. The legend of
The Nine Unknown Men goes back to the time of the Emperor Asoka, who
was the grandson of Chandragupta. 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 and resolved to follow the path of
non-violence.
He converted to Buddhism after the massacre, the Emperor founded the
society of the Nine to preserve and develop knowledge that would be
dangerous to humanity if it fell into the wrong hands. It is said that
the Emperor Asoka once 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.
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.
The Nine Books
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Propaganda
and Psychological warfare is a concerted set of messages aimed at
influencing the opinions or behavior of large numbers of people. Instead
of impartially providing information, propaganda in its most basic
sense presents information in order to influence its audience. It is the
most dangerous of all sciences, as it is capable of moulding mass
opinion. It would enable anyone to govern the whole world.
Physiology
is the study of the mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions of
living organisms. The book of The Nine included instructions on how to
perform the "touch of death (death being caused by a reversal of the
nerve-impulse)". I believe it's related with Varma Kalai in Indian martial art and then become Dian Xue Shu/Dim Mak in kungfu.
Microbiology,
and, according to more recent speculation, Biotechnology. In some
versions of the myth, the waters of the Ganges are purified with special
microbes designed by the Nine and released into the river at a secret
base in the Himalayas. 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?
Alchemy,
including the transmutation of metals. In India, there is a persistent
rumor that during times of drought or other natural disasters temples
and religious organizations receive large quantities of gold from an
unknown source. The mystery is further deepened with the fact that the
sheer quantity of gold throughout the country in temples and with kings
cannot be properly accounted for, seeing that India has few gold mines.
Communication, including communication with extraterrestrials.
Gravitation.
Book 6 The Vaiminaka sastra is said to contain the instructions
necessary to build a Vimana, sometimes referred to as the "ancient UFOs
of India."
Cosmology,
the capacity to travel at enormous speeds through spacetime fabric, and
time-travel; including intra- and inter-universal trips. Since I have a problem with travelling thing, I reaaaaally wanna got this knowledge. Btw, I ever watch in youtube, a Chinese CCTV record an unbelievable rescue with a light speed by an unknown man. It's related with this book? Who knows.
Light,
the capacity to increase and decrease the speed of light, to use it as a
weapon by concentrating it in a certain direction etc.
Sociology, including rules concerning the evolution of societies and how to predict their downfall.
Suspected Members
Numerous figures who straddled the line between occultism and science fiction writing, most prominently (and apparently first) Louis Jacolliot, Talbot Mundy, and later Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier in their Morning of the Magicians, propagated the story of the Nine claiming that the society occasionally revealed itself to wise outsiders such as Pope Sylvester II who was said to have received, among other things, training in supernatural powers and a robotic talking head from the group. In more recent times, according to this circle, the Nine assisted humanity by revealing the secret of the Cholera vaccine.
Among conspiracy theorists the Nine Unknown is often cited as one of the oldest and most powerful secret societies in the world. Unusually for the conspiracy subculture, the image of the group is largely though not entirely benign. Theosophists also believe the Nine to be a real organization that is working for the good of the world.
Some modern Indian scientists such as Jagdish Chandra Bose, a pioneer in Radio and Microwave Optics and Vikram Sarabhai, the man behind the Indian space and missile defense programs, were said to believe in or even to be members of the Nine although documentation on this issue is predictably scant. Believers in the Nine also point to the mysterious Delhi iron pillar, which is said to have been constructed at a time before the technology.
Indian scientists are occasionally rumored to be members of the Nine Unknown Men, and from time to time, if a Westerner should visit India and then do something astounding, he is considered to have had their help (as was the case with Pope Sylvester II, and also Alexandre Emile John Yersin, who knew Louis Pasteur and Pierre Paul Emile Roux, who respectively created vaccines for Rabbies and Dyphtheria).
Pope Sylvester II
There is an 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?
Jacolliot
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
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 Nine came to the rescue of the civilization from these deadly diseases which they knew if not kiboshed would bring the human race to extinction.
CONCLUSION
Interesting isn't? 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, they even didn't tempted to use their knowledge for money or fame. 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. Seriously, I wanna got a knowledge from them. lol
