Chapter 8 When the sun was bright

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Remember I previously mentioned that when invaders arrived or dynasties changed or whenever some dude with a fragile ego got angry, he would burn books? Yeah so, I am not the first person to think of this, Samrat Ashoka had also planned something to preserve the knowledge of his empire.

Undetected to the western world for two centuries and even before the legends of the world-famous "Priory of Sion", "Opus Dei" and the "Illuminati" would start, there existed a secret society in India, today known as "The Secret Society of Nine Unknown Men". This clandestine organization, as the name suggests, was a secret and elite group of nine great and powerful people, and is said to be established by one of the most significant emperors of India, Ashoka the Great.

This society remained unknown until 1923, when Talbot Mundy, wrote a novel named "Nine Unknown Men" concerning the same society, claiming that it was founded by the Mauryan Emperor Ashoka, around 270 B.C. to protect an advanced knowledge that would be a danger for humanity if it fell into the wrong hands. The nine unknown men were entrusted with guarding nine books of secret knowledge. As Talbot says, 'The Nine Books' were of the following subjects: –

Propaganda: The first book contained the techniques of propaganda and psychological warfare. This was an important aspect because if one could mold public opinion, one could rule the world.

Physiology: The second book focused on physiology and explained how to kill a person simply by touching him. It involved the reversal of a nerve impulse.

Microbiology: The third book discussed microbiology and biotechnology. They had developed a "divine nectar" and are thus immortal and have lived down these 2000 years.

Alchemy: The fourth book dealt with alchemy i.e., transmutation of metals. Mundy supported this theory of his by claiming that in times of severe drought, temples and relief organizations received large quantities of gold from a secret source.'

Communication: The fifth book contained the study of all means of communication, both terrestrial as well as extra-terrestrial, which means that the Nine Unknown Men were aware of the latter.

Gravity: The sixth book explored the secrets of gravitation and contained instructions on how to build an anti-gravity, flying machine known as a "vimana".

Cosmology: The seventh book dealt with cosmology and all matters related to the universe.

Light: The eighth book discussed the properties of light, such as the speed of light and how to change its speed to use it as a weapon.

Sociology: The ninth book was about sociology. It included rules for the evolution of human societies and a means of foretelling their eventual decline. Thus, it contained ways to create, nurture and destroy a whole culture or civilization.

According to him, the story was real and all the information he had gathered was from India when he served as an officer of British Police there. So, first, let us take a look into this claim for a moment. He worked in India for just 5 years (from 1899-1904), and he could find out one of the best-kept secrets in the world, which has been guarded for almost 2000 years, that too by being an outsider to the country. This all seems pretty unrealistic. But what was revealed next, after 37 years, in the 1960 Novel 'The Morning of the Magicians' by Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier, formed a solid base to support the existence of the society. They claimed that Pope Silvester II had met the society and also that the 19th-century French administrator and writer Louis Jacolliot confirmed their existence.

On his return from India, the Pope had brought many strange 'gadget-type things like a bronze head that was like a computer and was capable of interacting via speech and answering yes and no questions, which was considerably advanced technology for that time. Later, when he tried to display it to the public in a church, he mysteriously fell ill and died. Many conspiracies suggest that this organization murdered people to stop them from revealing their powerful secret knowledge to the less intelligent common masses. As the belief in the existence of this organization deepened, more historians and novelists became fascinated by it.

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