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.

The talking bronze head

Pope Sylvester II, the first French Pope is believed to have visited India through a mystery voyage where he came to contact with the Nine Unknown. It is said that Pope Sylvester II had learnt incredible feats from the Indian Secret Society that included the technique of building a bronze head that answered questions in Yes or No.

Pope possessed the talking skull which functioned on an automation similar to the binary systems on modern machines. This ancient robot, along with many such incredible invention that he possessed and learnt from the Nine Unknown Men were destroyed with his death.

The cure for cholera and plague

Alexandre Emile Jean Yersin is known for saving the world from the epidemic of bubonic plague and cholera. However, the one of the lesser known stories is that Yersin had come down to Madras, India where he came in contact with the descendants of the Nine Unknown Men.

It is from them that Yersin learnt the technique of preparing the serum that could work as an antidote to cholera and serum. Apparently, the knowledge had been known to the secret society since Ashoka’s reign but their rule of silence compelled them to keep it a secret until 1890 when the epidemic was too much to bear.