What if you knew that your everyday life is controlled by a secret society that pulls each and every string? The west has come in terms with the existence of their all controlling secret societies such as the Freemasons and the Illuminati. India too, with it’s incredibly rich history, has something very similar of its own. A secret society was formed in 273 B.C, India by the great Mauryan Emperor, Ashoka. They were called the Nine Unknown Men who had played the biggest role in shaping the political, social, economic and scientific progress of India ever since. Let’s find out more about them. Why was the society formed? Legend has it that ruthless Samrat Ashoka, conquered Kalinga at the cost of 100,000 lives and the massacre that was left behind changed him as a person. Upon taking up Buddhism, and devoting his time into the quest for intellect, Samrat Ashoka, realized the need for preserving the vast knowledge and human civilization that ancient India had achieved by that time. He believed it would be a disaster if such knowledge went to wrong hands and so, he formed a secret society of nine men, to whom he imparted the valuable knowledge in the fields of Propaganda, Physiology, Microbiology, Alchemy, Communication, Gravity. Cosmology, Light and Sociology.

Incredible revelations in Palm leaves

It is believed that valuable scientific information has been found written in palm leaves – extracts of scientific revelations by the Nine. Some of these palm leaves are said to have information on electromagnetic fields, heat, light, color, instructions on building machines for capturing solar energy and analyzing the components of the solar rays as well as instructions on communicating with extra terrestrials.

The information is found in one of the many palm leaves found by Karnataka scholar, Subramaniam Iyer and the text is known as Amsu Bodhini.

Books on the secret society

The legend of the secret society was made popular by a half myth, half scientific inquiry by Talbot Mundy titled, “Nine Unknown Men” (1923). Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier claimed that the Nine Unknown Men were real in their book, “The Morning of the Magicians” (1960) where the story of Pope Sylvester II was illustrated.

Recent books such as the “Mahabharata Secret” (2013) by Christopher C. Doyle, “Finders Keepers: (2015) by Swapan Saxena as well as popular television series like Heroes, mentions the ancient secret society of India.