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water, tend to seek their own level and associate with their own kind. Often they withdraw from society altogether, the ascetics of India being one example. There is another form of pseudo-IIlumination, however, which is actually a form of demonic possession and frequently produces religious fanatics. A majority of all the political assassinations in history were committed by victims of this. John Wilkes Booth and his nine 7) ee ee, SY oe Se Ss Li a: ) ace ieee fellow conspirators are a prime example, as were Leon Czolgosz, who gunned down President McKinley in 1901; the young student who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in 1914, thus launching World War I; and most recently Benjamin Mendoza y Amor, the Bolivian artist who attacked Pope Paul with a knife on November 26,1970. Witnesses said that the latter would-be assassin ‘looked like he was having an epileptic fit' - one of the classic symptoms of possession. Some buff groups regard these maniacal killers as tools of the sinister Illuminati who have been pressed into service by hypnosis or some other brainwashing technique. They are quick to point out - that Jack Ruby pulled his gun and shot down Lee Harvey Oswald after being triggered by an auto horn which suddenly beeped in the basement of the Dallas police station. (No one has ever determined who blew that horn or why.) Ruby claimed to Ms dying day that he had no memory of entering the police station or firing the shot. like many major myths, the Illuminati legend began in.the Orient. Around 275 B.C., Asoka, the Emperor of India, is supposed to have founded the supersecret society of the Nine Unknown Men. This group was founded to collect, study, and protect the secrets of the occult, science, alchemy, astrology, and psychology. As late as 1927 Talbot Mundy, a specialist in Oriental lore, was writing about the mysterious Nine, implying that the society still existed and was still running things from far behind the scenes. In the tenth century young men were enticed into Persia's cult of the assassins by drugs and beautiful young ladies. Pounded by Sabah, the old man of the mountains who was purportedly one of the mystic Nine, the cult conducted a reign of terror which continued into this century. It may in fact still exist. They had tremendous political influence during various periods of history. The brainwashed, dragged members of the cult carried out their orders blindly, even when those orders were suicidal. A similar cult appeared in Afghanistan in the sixteenth century. This was known as the Roshaniya - the Illuminated Ones. like the Hashishim assassin cult of Persia, the Roshaniya appears to have been inspired by a. prophet in communication with the ultra-terrestrials. It began as a mystical order which quickly degenerated into a band of blind, drugged, mentally controlled murderers. They raised a lot of hell in Afghanistan for several generations, and their secret teachings spread into Europe. The Alumbrados - the Illuminated Ones of Spain - appeared around 1600, In France the Gueri-nets, another branch of the [Huminati, caused some excitement in 1654. A professor of canon law at Ingolstadt University in Bavaria, Adam Weishauptj founded the German Iluminati in the seventeeth century.