Cooper / Tier 2 — Mystery Babylon: The Mystery Schools and Their Lineage / secret-society
Roshaniya
Where each worldview places it
The 16th–17th-century "illuminated ones" of Afghanistan and "a later emergence of the old cult of the Assassins". Their tenets were abolition of property, religion and nation-states, and reshaping the world country by country. Their members prey on all outsiders[1]. "Branches of the Roshania are the illuminated ones, or the Illuminati"[2].
- Aliases
- Controls / directs
- It evolved into the Illuminati and the Knights Templar, created the Fellow travelers, fronts for the Order of the Quest, and serves the Unknown Supervisors[3]
- Answers to / controlled by
- founded by Bayezid Ansari[4]
- Lineage
- House of Wisdom (Cairo) → Assassins → Roshaniya → Illuminati, about 40 years after the last leader died[1]. The Afghan, Spanish (Alumbrados), French (Guerinets) and Bavarian illuminated "are all the same"[4].
- Dates
- 16th–17th century
- "ancient times"[1]
- Places
- AfghanistanHindu KushHashnagarPeshawarTirah
- Key events
- they fought the Mughal Empire
- guild names such as lamp makers, builders and soldiers are echoed by the AMA and ABA[4]
- Members / notable people
- Author's claims · 3
- 01Their secret signs, hand over forehead and holding the ear, are "exchanged even today in the courts of law all over the United States", and "the initiator usually wins the case"[1].
- 02They practised "spiritual vampirism": dead members' spirits act through the living[1].
- 03Their oath held that "all humanity... is our lawful prey"[2].