The Reality About Secret Societies

The Reality About Secret Societies

by: Philip Gardiner
One of the most profound enigmas of the existence of secret societies is and has always been, why do individuals join? Why is it, that folks find these teams so attention-grabbing? What is it that we're looking for?
There are the same old and obvious answers to those questions. That we're all trying to find enlightenment in our personal approach, and that each person finds it in numerous ways - therefore the need for therefore many sorts of secret organisations. This has been referred to as a void that we have to by some means fill, an vacancy within every considered one of us that calls out for a better being or state of consciousness. Some psychologists consider that that is an evolutionary aspect of our lives, that inside us there is a fixed urge to enhance and a deep-rooted hope. This hope makes us strive for more and thus we grow to be the strongest and fittest of the species - hence evolution.
But, there is a truth on this that has missed many. There's a void within us, fairly literally. This void is the shortage of the true enlightenment expertise. There actually is a higher state of consciousness. If it weren't so, then the sensation and feelings which drive individuals in the direction of re-discovering it might not be so robust and so universal. It is not - and I've to state this each time - the kundalini, which itself is a troubled and yet lovely human electro-bio-chemical reaction. To observe this historical Hindu concept to the letter is in the first instance next to unimaginable as a result of texts do not exist, and secondly it's highly harmful and might easily result in psychosis and different forms of psychological issues. It's one facet of the true internal knowledge, but not the aspect solely.
The secret societies, and indeed, some religions of the globe have attempted over the millennia to convey us again to this state of consciousness, but they have as a rule utilised it for their own achieve - energy. How do we know this? A quick study of the key societies of the globe will present that the enlightenment experience has been used in each single occasion to draw individuals in and maintain them.

From a minimum of the eleventh century an enigmatic group identified erroneously because the Assassins emerged in Persia. They take their identify from Cannabis (hashish-im, cannabis takers), a trance inducing drug thought by many to help the leaders control the minds of the subverts. The name was initially in fact an insult.
In a single famous assertion, Hasan, son of Sabah, the Sheikh of the Mountains and chief of the Assassins stated to an official of the Emperors courtroom, You see that devotee standing guard on yonder turret-top? Watch!”
The Sheikh made a sign and instantly the devotee threw himself off the mountain high precipice to his dying. I have seventy thousand men and women all through Asia, every considered one of them ready to do my bidding.”
In the first instance this is wonderful management over the mind of another individual. Within the second it implies that the Assassins were a lot older than this early appearance, with seventy thousand devotees cast throughout Asia. No society can set up seventy thousand devotees over evening, it might take a few years to cultivate this sort of following and it might also take plenty of convincing - unless there were an easier methodology of control that's!
As if to imitate or certainly follow an older institution the Assassins went via a cycle of initiation based mostly upon seven levels. This relates completely to the seven chakra points of initiation in the close by Hindu tradition. A tradition based around the vitality of the serpent. It was on the seventh degree that the Assassins reached the great secret, that every one mankind and all of creation were one and that all the pieces was part of the whole. This nice secret included being a part of the whole and understanding its creative and harmful components. The Ismaili (Murderer initiate) might due to this fact make use of this nice power held within him. They firmly believed and for my part rightly, that the rest of mankind knew nothing of this power, apart from the opposite societies. The ability came by the use of the drug Hashish and intelligent ritualistic involvement - making the Ismaili feel part of a greater good, as a chosen one - one thing Adolf Hitler would later use to realize control of the German people. There was nonetheless, an eighth stage which was slightly separate and this taught that all religions and philosophies had been false and that the one thing that mattered was fulfilment of this higher energy, which lay inside. Contrary to widespread belief the Assassins weren't just Muslims, they were not beneath any class that is presently identified aside from secret society. It was solely in a while of their existence that they had to turn to Islam as a means of survival and even then they'd particular privileges that allowed them to change faith at will.
The Assassins are at all times linked, and rightly, to the Knights Templar. Each groups had dealings and a mutual respect. There are even financial dealings between the 2 groups. May or not it's that the Templars understood this greater secret and introduced this Holy Grail” of enlightenment back to Europe with them?
The entire course of definitely pertains to the serpent vitality or hearth of the ancients all over the world, which as I already knew was related to the serpent cults I revealed in The Serpent Grail. But there is another piece of evidence, which relates to this. Within the time of the second grand master, Buzurg-Umid (Great Promise), was situated at Alamut, in any other case often called the Viper's Nest. And there are additional links to the Templars in that Buzurg-Umid actually made a take care of King Baldwin II of Jerusalem, a person carefully related to the Templars. Certainly in 1129 the Templars and crusaders really allied with the Assassins to take Damascus. This is a sign that the Assassins weren't in truth anyway Muslim and in reality have been even stated to be prepared to tackle the cloak of Christianity ought to it convey them further power.
The key rituals of the Templars and the accusations made towards them would relate solely to the cult of the Assassins. The query has to be requested, did the Templars utilise the identical mind controlling methods as the Assassins? There may be the truth is proof to counsel that the Templars, in reference to the Assassins actually understood using medicine, particularly for the relief of pain. Robert Anton Wilson in his guide Intercourse and Drugs, indicated his belief that the Templars actually used Cannabis, and realized the use from the Assassins. This isn't an unreasonable assumption, given the hyperlinks. There are hyperlinks to be found within the Templar rituals and beliefs with a lot of the Middle Eastern religions. There's Sufi affect with the Golden Head of the Sufi being implicated because the Baphomet of the Templars. This Golden Head, as Idries Shah points out in The Sufis, was implicated as the worship of a mysterious head which may properly be a reference to the good work of transhumanisation that takes place in the aspirant's personal head.” This was the idea that ones personal humanity was transmuted into gold by means of the enlightenment expertise and thus the key of alchemy is revealed.
Additionally, the provoke ritual of the Sufi involved passing by means of a doorway of two pillars. This entrance symbolised the portal right into a world of illumination, knowledge and enlightenment. If it is true that the Freemasons emerged from a font of Templar knowledge, then this could indeed be one of many origins for the dual pillars of the Mason guilds. It is also much like the dual pillars that pilgrims to Mecca should go through (Safa and Marwa).
Parsi (Persian Zoroastrianism) affect is also seen in the Kusti ritual where each day they'd tie a sacred twine round their waist. The truth that the Templars were accused of holding a ritual with a sacred cord carefully resembling the observe of the Zoroastrian Kusti, signifies a tradition of knowledge going back by thousands of years.
These traditions will also be seen in that nice Roman religion of Mithraism where the initiate was marked with the signal of the cross of the brow. This was to signify the solar and the place of illumination, the very same as that of the Hindu's, ancient Egyptians and tribal American's to name just a few.
A lot of this historical and supposedly secret instructing was passed finally in what is called Gnosticism. All Gnostics cannot be drawn into one bag, but there is a normal theme - that of illumination and enlightenment. The strategies are now acquainted to us. Many believed that by way of a frenzy they might achieve the last word state and others that by fasting and mediation they might be drawn closer to god. The results have been the same; a deeper understanding of themselves and the idea that they have been in touch with god. This ecstasy would invigorate, and like being in a Nexus, the provoke would continually need to re-obtain this state, thus holding him in the fold. The expertise being so very actual to the spiritual mind that they honestly believed they were in communion with god. And this is the reason I continuously draw a line at the kundalini, as a result of it has risks that its proponents not solely refuse to see, but cannot see because of its very nature!
The varied methods used to entry this altered state are very historic. The ritual abstinence from meals was as outdated as man. Practiced within the rituals of Eleusis the provoke would bear a protracted interval of fasting after which followed by a interval of ready. This elevated the sense of anticipation and heightened the thoughts, which would create the event of their mind earlier than it truly occurred. No chief might ask for more. Finally, the initiate was lead into the Temple where they enjoyed a ritualistic meal and thus nice effects had been produced in the body with increased levels of sugar within the blood, the thoughts almost in a trance state. There was whirling like the dervish, sleep-inducing drinks and play-performing by the good and seemingly highly effective priests. Sacred objects and sacred phrases were then, at this level of heightened state, could be revealed. The age and breadth of this method of indoctrination could be seen in the closing phrases, Cansha om pacsha”, a Sanskrit term. Certainly, it is accepted by scholars that these rituals emerged in India from the ancient Brahmins. Surprisingly, these rituals also concerned a sevenfold cord that marked the passing of the initiate.
As Aristotle himself wrote, Those who are being initiated don't a lot study something, as expertise certain feelings, and are thrown into a particular state of mind.”
This particular mind-set” was a plasticity of the initiate that the monks could bend and manipulate to their very own ends; just as the Old Man of the Mountain manipulated the Assassins. The initiate truly believed she or he had visited different worlds.
All these strategies and means to manipulation had been handed on by means of time into all manner of recent secret societies. Within the High Priesthood of Thebes, a society first revealed in Germany within the 18th century, it was written of the initiate, He was led to 2 high pillars between which stood a griffin driving a wheel earlier than him. The pillars symbolised east and west, the griffin the solar and the wheel the 4 spokes of the four seasons. He was taught using the level and instructed in geometry and structure. He received a rod, entwined by serpents and the password Heve (serpent), and was advised the story of the fall of man.” The symbols inside this initiation are actually apparent and ancient.
Within the initiations and rituals of Witches related themes are discovered. Whirling, dancing and a basic construct as much as frenzy, would convey the participant right into a general trance state - recognized at the moment as catharsis. This was helped along with medicine, such because the ointment” used by the Witches to help them fly and which contained hyoscine. The chief would then information them by a set piece ritual of words and incantations main to finish mind management. Such control indeed, that like many religions, the participant would usually surrender their very own household and buddies. This is the origin of what we call in trendy occasions a cult and it might probably now be realised just how exhausting it's to cult break.
This awakening of the mind by means of ecstasy is on the one hand a launch from the norm and a breakthrough for the mind into a freedom state, however alternatively it is a harmful device, utilized by many cults, secret societies and in fact mainstream religion to control and manipulate the plenty for their very own ends. It could be that some don't have anything however good intentions at coronary heart, however history has shown repeatedly that greed is all-highly effective and can take the soul of many properly meant groups.
The lesson is, be careful in what and whom you believe.
About The Author
Philip Gardiner is a greatest promoting creator. He could be seen on TELEVISION, heard on radio and has written for a whole lot of magazines around the globe. His website is