Cooper / Tier 2 — Mystery Babylon: The Mystery Schools and Their Lineage / secret-society
Assassins
Where each worldview places it
"The most extraordinary secret society of the mysteries": trained killers under iron discipline, pursuing world conquest by "systematic infiltration and control of each individual country"[1]. "The Assassins ... was the original and folks, the Order of the Templars was the copy"[2].
- Controls / directs
- It initiated the Knights Templar and gave them a secret allowance of 3,000 gold pieces "from the larger to the smaller organization". It influenced the Hospitallers, Jesuits, Dominicans and Franciscans ("traced either to Cairo or to Alamut"), evolved into the Thugs and the Roshaniya, and infiltrated the Seljuk government and the Shah of Khwarazm's court[3]
- Answers to / controlled by
- the grandmasters at Alamutafter 1260 the Mamluk Sultan of Egypt, who re-initiated them in "the ancient Egyptian mysteries of Babylon"[2]
- Lineage
- Abode of Learning → Assassins (1090) → Ismailis and the Aga Khan; also → Thugs (India), Khojas and Roshaniya; → Templars[4]
- Dates
- 1090 onward
- still exists[5]
- Places
- Key events
- 1090: Hassan takes Alamut
- c. 1092: Nizam al-Mulk stabbed and Malik Shah poisoned
- 1126: Aksunkur murdered in the mosque
- c. 1126–29: secret treaty with Baldwin II, foiled at Damascus, 6,000 killed
- 1129: allied with the Templars against Damascus
- 1176 and 1185: pacts with Saladin
- 1192: Conrad of Montferrat stabbed
- 1256: Alamut falls to Hulagu
- 1260: restored by the Mamluks[6]
- Members / notable people
- Hassan-i SabbahKiya Buzurg-UmmidKiya MuhammadHassan IIMuhammad IIJalal al-Din HasanAla al-Din MuhammadRukn al-Din KhurshahRashid al-Din Sinan (Syria)BahramIsmail the LashbearerAbu Ali of Qazvinthe Father of Trustthe Fida'isDai al-Kabir. Allies and enemies: Richard the Lionheart (accused of commissioning Conrad's murder), Sanjar, Saladin, Hulagu Khan. Chronicler: Juvayni[1]
- Author's claims · 4
- 01The schoolboy pact of Hassan, Omar Khayyam and Nizam al-Mulk "is the method for infiltrating and controlling large masses, populations, governments, military organizations, and society as a whole"[5].
- 02Their "artificial paradise" drugged youths into fanatical killers, the origin of the Shambhala legend[5].
- 03"His empire may still exist to day, changed and melded with other sects of the mysteries"[5].
- 04Hitler's Eagle's Nest and one near Santa Barbara echo Alamut[5].