One of the most profound enigmas of the existence of underground societies is and has all the time been, why do habitancy join? Why is it, that habitancy find these groups so interesting? What is it that we are seeing for?
There are the usual and obvious answers to these questions. That we are all searching for enlightenment in our own way, and that each someone finds it in different ways - hence the need for so many kinds of underground organisations. This has been called a void that we need to somehow fill, an emptiness within each one of us that calls out for a higher being or state of consciousness. Some psychologists believe that this is an evolutionary aspect of our lives, that within us there is a constant urge to improve and a deep-rooted hope. This hope makes us strive for more and thus we come to be the strongest and fittest of the species - hence evolution.
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But, there is a truth in this that has missed many. There is a void within us, quite literally. This void is the lack of the true enlightenment experience. There absolutely is a higher state of consciousness. If it were not so, then the feeling and emotions which drive habitancy towards re-discovering it would not be so strong and so universal. It is not - and I have to state this each time - the kundalini, which itself is a troubled and yet beautiful human electro-bio-chemical reaction. To consequent this aged Hindu notion to the letter is in the first instance next to impossible because texts do not exist, and secondly it is extremely risky and can absolutely lead to psychosis and other forms of mental problems. It is one aspect of the true inner wisdom, but not the aspect only.
The underground societies, and indeed, some religions of the globe have attempted over the millennia to bring us back to this state of consciousness, but they have more often than not utilised it for their own gain - power. How do we know this? A quick study of the underground societies of the globe will show that the enlightenment perceive has been used in every single chance to draw habitancy in and keep them.
From at least the 11th century an enigmatic group known erroneously as the Assassins emerged in Persia. They take their name from Hashish (hashish-im, hashish takers), a trance inducing drug notion by many to help the leaders control the minds of the subverts. The name was originally in fact an insult.
In one noted statement, Hasan, son of Sabah, the Sheikh of the Mountains and leader of the Assassins said to an lawful of the Emperors court, "You see that scholar standing guard on yonder turret-top? Watch!"
The Sheikh made a signal and immediately the scholar threw himself off the mountain top precipice to his death. "I have seventy thousand men and women throughout Asia, each one of them ready to do my bidding."
In the first instance this is breathtaking control over the mind of an additional one individual. In the second it implies that the Assassins were much older than this early appearance, with seventy thousand devotees cast throughout Asia. No community can set up seventy thousand devotees over night, it would take many years to cultivate this kind of following and it would also take a lot of convincing - unless there were an easier method of control that is!
As if to mimic or absolutely consequent an older custom the Assassins went through a cycle of initiation based upon seven levels. This relates entirely to the seven chakra points of initiation in the close by Hindu tradition. A tradition based around the vigor of the serpent. It was at the seventh level that the Assassins reached the great secret, that all mankind and all of creation were one and that all was part of the whole. This great underground included being part of the whole and comprehension its creative and destructive elements. The Ismaili (Assassin initiate) could therefore make use of this great power held within him. They firmly believed and in my notion rightly, that the rest of mankind knew nothing of this power, with the irregularity of the other societies. The power came through the use of the drug Hashish and clever ritualistic involvement - production the Ismaili feel part of a greater good, as a chosen one - something Adolf Hitler would later use to gain control of the German people. There was however, an eighth level which was slightly isolate and this taught that all religions and philosophies were false and that the only thing that mattered was fulfilment of this greater power, which lay within. Contrary to popular confidence the Assassins were not just Muslims, they were not under any type that is currently known other than underground society. It was only later on in their existence that they had to turn to Islam as a means of survival and even then they had extra privileges that allowed them to alter religion at will.
The Assassins are all the time linked, and rightly, to the Knights Templar. Both groups had dealings and a mutual respect. There are even monetary dealings between the two groups. Could it be that the Templars understood this greater underground and brought this "Holy Grail" of enlightenment back to Europe with them?
The whole process absolutely relates to the serpent vigor or fire of the ancients around the world, which as I already knew was linked to the serpent cults I revealed in The Serpent Grail. But there is an additional one piece of evidence, which relates to this. In the time of the second grand master, Buzurg-Umid (Great Promise), was situated at Alamut, otherwise known as the Viper's Nest. And there are added links to the Templars in that Buzurg-Umid absolutely made a deal with King Baldwin Ii of Jerusalem, a man intimately linked to the Templars. absolutely in 1129 the Templars and crusaders absolutely allied with the Assassins to take Damascus. This is an indication that the Assassins were not in fact anyway Muslim and in fact were even said to be ready to take on the cloak of Christianity should it bring them added power.
The underground rituals of the Templars and the accusations made against them would report entirely to the cult of the Assassins. The ask has to be asked, did the Templars utilise the same mind controlling techniques as the Assassins? There is in fact evidence to advise that the Templars, in connection with the Assassins absolutely understood the use of drugs, especially for the relief of pain. Robert Anton Wilson in his book Sex and Drugs, indicated his confidence that the Templars in fact used Hashish, and learned the use from the Assassins. This is not an unreasonable assumption, given the links. There are links to be found in the Templar rituals and beliefs with much of the Middle Eastern religions. There is Sufi sway with the Golden Head of the Sufi being involved as the Baphomet of the Templars. This Golden Head, as Idries Shah points out in The Sufis, was involved as the "worship of a mysterious head [which] could well be a reference to the great work of transhumanisation that takes place in the aspirant's own head." This was the idea that ones own humanity was transmuted into gold through the enlightenment perceive and thus the underground of alchemy is revealed.
Also, the inaugurate ritual of the Sufi complex passing through a doorway of two pillars. This entry symbolised the portal 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 absolutely be one of the origins for the twin pillars of the Mason guilds. It is also similar to the twin pillars that pilgrims to Mecca must pass through (Safa and Marwa).
Parsi (Persian Zoroastrianism) sway is also seen in the Kusti ritual where each day they would tie a sacred cord around their waist. The fact that the Templars were accused of holding a ritual with a sacred cord intimately resembling the custom of the Zoroastrian Kusti, indicates a tradition of knowledge going back through thousands of years.
These traditions can also be seen in that great Roman religion of Mithraism where the inaugurate was marked with the sign of the cross of the forehead. This was to signify the sun and the place of illumination, the very same as that of the Hindu's, aged Egyptians and tribal American's to name a few.
Much of this aged and supposedly underground teaching was passed ultimately in what is known as Gnosticism. All Gnostics cannot be drawn into one bag, but there is a general theme - that of illumination and enlightenment. The methods are now well-known to us. Many believed that through a frenzy they could achieve the extreme state and others that by fasting and mediation they would be drawn closer to god. The results were the same; a deeper comprehension of themselves and the confidence that they were in touch with god. This ecstasy would invigorate, and like being in a Nexus, the inaugurate would constantly want to re-achieve this state, thus holding him in the fold. The perceive being so very real to the religious mind that they truly believed they were in communion with god. And this is why I constantly draw a line at the kundalini, because it has dangers that its proponents not only refuse to see, but can't see because of its very nature!
The discrete methods used to access this altered state are very ancient. The ritual abstinence from food was as old as man. Practiced in the rituals of Eleusis the inaugurate would endure a prolonged period of fasting and then followed by a period of waiting. This increased the sense of anticipation and heightened the mind, which would create the event in their mind before it absolutely occurred. No leader could ask for more. Eventually, the inaugurate was lead into the Temple where they enjoyed a ritualistic meal and thus great effects were produced in the body with increased levels of sugar in the blood, the mind almost in a trance state. There was whirling like the dervish, sleep-inducing drinks and play-acting by the great and seemingly excellent priests. Sacred objects and sacred words were then, at this point of heightened state, would be revealed. The age and breadth of this system of indoctrination can be seen in the windup words, "Cansha om pacsha", a Sanskrit term. Indeed, it is appropriate by scholars that these rituals emerged in India from the aged Brahmins. Strangely, these rituals also complex a sevenfold cord that marked the passing of the initiate.
As Aristotle himself wrote, "Those who are being initiated do not so much learn anything, as perceive obvious emotions, and are thrown into a extra state of mind."
This "special state of mind" was a plasticity of the inaugurate that the priests could bend and manipulate to their own ends; just as the Old Man of the Mountain manipulated the Assassins. The inaugurate truly believed he or she had visited other worlds.
All these methods and means to manipulation were passed on through time into all manner of contemporary underground societies. In the High Priesthood of Thebes, a community first revealed in Germany in the 18th century, it was written of the initiate, "He was led to two high pillars between which stood a griffin driving a wheel before him. The pillars symbolised east and west, the griffin the sun and the wheel the four spokes of the four seasons. He was taught the use of the level and instructed in geometry and architecture. He received a rod, entwined by serpents and the password Heve (serpent), and was told the story of the fall of man." The symbols within this initiation are now obvious and ancient.
In the initiations and rituals of Witches similar themes are found. Whirling, dancing and a general build up to frenzy, would bring the participant into a general trance state - known today as catharsis. This was helped along with drugs, such as the "ointment" used by the Witches to help them fly and which contained hyoscine. The leader would then guide them through a set piece ritual of words and incantations foremost to unblemished mind control. Such control indeed, that like many religions, the participant would often give up their own family and friends. This is the origin of what we call in contemporary times a cult and it can now be realised just how hard it is to cult break.
This awakening of the mind through ecstasy is on the one hand a issue from the norm and a breakthrough for the mind into a freedom state, but on the other hand it is a risky tool, used by many cults, underground societies and in fact mainstream religion to control and manipulate the masses for their own ends. It may be that some have nothing but good intentions at heart, but history has shown repeatedly that greed is all-powerful and can take the soul of many well meant groups.
The lesson is, be right in what and whom you believe.
The Truth About incommunicable Societies
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