Order of Assassins

The author, he said,

tells of Hassan al-Sabah, Sheikh al-Jibal, the chief of the mountains, the lord of Hashishin.

i get it exclaimed ferrol the garden paradise into which hashish drugged devotees were tossed while unconscious so that when they awoke they would believe themselves to be in the moslem heaven of cool water beautiful women and forbidden wine

precisely my excellent blockhead i drink to your wit said d'artois with a smile that flashed over the edge of his cup of cold coffee and your antoinette is bedeviled in some way by a garden like that of hassan al-saba the master of those assassins who terrorized all syria and persia centuries ago ferrol grimaced

It is a matter of history that Ismailian assassins were often ordered to slay a dignitary and to make no attempt at escape.

In one case the slayer struck, then sat down and began eating his travel rations of bread and dates, calmly awaiting the guard that would drag him to the executioner and impalement on a sharpened stick.

The besotted Hashishin faced a horrible doom for the sake of re-entrance to the paradise with which their master duped them.

The utter fearlessness and indifference to death and torture aroused more terror than the assassinations they perpetrated.

Years ago, a hit man would partake of a considerable amount of hashish before going out on a job.

Hence, they were called eaters of hashish, or in Arabic, hashashin, a word that found its way into English as assassin.

So you see, there is truly nothing new under the sun.

Our cast included Earl Hammond, E.V. Juster, and Ian Martin.

That whole nexus, the whole Edward Kelly, John Dee, Ian Fleming, Sir William Stevenson, Aleister Crowley nexus and throw in the Cecils and the rest of the aristocrats to boot, it really sheds an enlightening view on this history of secret intelligence networks that you've been working on with your articles and with the podcasts that we've been doing.

with, uh, the rosicrucians you know you see them and and i don't i don't know that there's any actual tangible evidence that they're related to the templars and then you've got this mystique that the templars pick up all this stuff from the order of assassins or as i like to affectionately call them the hash bros

yeah

and so they learned this and you know one of the stories is like uh the old man in the mountain who says saw any sabah at the time He points up to the mountain and he goes, watch this.

as an overarching theme in history and not just a modern phenomenon.

Because I think the way that it's perceived and the way that it's kind of taught is, oh, well, in 1945 or with the introduction of LSD, the CIA became interested in the possibility that mind control could exist, that you could be able to do, you know, to program someone to become an assassin.

And they explored it for... 20 years and then it didn't work the way that they wanted to and so they they left it alone and obviously that's you know the the way that the CIA has kind of explained away MKUltra and some of the abuses that they you know looked into but where does that that concept as just springing up out of nowhere in 1945 1946 1947 is completely bullshit you know you look at all these different windows of history and you look at these different you know you look at these different um societies and cultures and people have been pursuing you know brainwashing and mind control and programming you know as a concept for a really really long time and you mentioned the order of assassins and how referencing them as the Hashbros.

I mean, the Hashashin, I believe, is like the name for the order and existed somewhere over in the Middle East or maybe India.

That's one in the Jerusalem.

They worked with another sister order in the Muslim world called the Order of the Hashashins or the Assassins founded in 1090 and actually trained the founding Templars in setting up their secret society.

They currently exist in the form of the Ismailis under the Aga Khan.

That's their current thing.

And with each new conquest, which we'll get into, they grew exponentially.

And as far as the Ein Hor that we discussed, the Huris, which I also always find funny because I wonder if the English word Hor is sort of etymologically based on Huri because we do have a lot of English words that come back from Arabic words like assassin, which comes from the Hashashin, which is an Islamic group.

But at any rate, so, you know, and it's interesting because when you read these, and I quote them in the book, when you read about Muslims dying on the field of battle, they supposedly see The Hori's coming down and welcoming them, you know, with their open arms and it comes up.

Now, the funny thing is, you know, this isn't just or not.

the earliest example you'd actually call state-sponsored assassination, not just battlefield revenge.

The Hashashin, the original assassins, capital A, in the 11th and 12th centuries.

They were a Nizari Ismaili Shia sect, operating out of mountain fortresses in Persia and Syria, and they developed targeted killing of political and religious leaders into something like a strategic doctrine.

They'd infiltrate a target's household over months, sometimes years, then strike in public, often in a mosque on a Friday, to maximize the psychological impact.

You mentioned the historical arc earlier.

What does the pre-modern

record look like beyond the Hashashin? Assassination as a tool of statecraft is as old as states.

The Roman Republic had a formal institution called proscription.

The ghost of a garden haunting a woman in Bayonne in nineteen thirty-three? D'Artois tapped the cover of Siret al-Haquin.

The author, he said, tells of Hassan al-Sabah, Sheikh al-Jibal, the chief of the mountains, the lord of Hashishin.

I get it, exclaimed Farrell.

The garden paradise into which hashish-drugged devotees were tossed while unconscious, so that when they awoke they would believe themselves to be in the moslem heaven of cool water, beautiful women, and forbidden wine.

It is a matter of history that Ismailian assassins were often ordered to slay a dignitary and to make no attempt at escape.

In one case the slayer struck, then sat down and began eating his travel rations of bread and dates, calmly awaiting the guard that would drag him to the executioner and impalement on a sharpened stake.

The besotted Hashishin faced a horrible doom for the sake of re-entrance to the paradise with which their master duped them.

The utter fearlessness and indifference to death and torture aroused more terror than the assassination they perpetrated.

The author,

he said, tells of Hassan al-Sabah, Sheikh al-Jibal, the chief of the mountains, the lord of Hashishin.

i get it

exclaimed ferrol the garden paradise into which hashish drugged devotees were tossed while unconscious so that when they awoke they would believe themselves to be in the moslem heaven of cool water beautiful women and forbidden wine

It is a matter of history that Ismailian assassins were often ordered to slay a dignitary and to make no attempt at escape.

In one case the slayer struck, then sat down and began eating his travel rations of bread and dates, calmly awaiting the guard that would drag him to the executioner and impalement on a sharpened stick.

The besotted Hashishin faced a horrible doom for the sake of re-entrance to the paradise with which their master duped them.

The utter fearlessness and indifference to death and torture aroused more terror than the assassinations they perpetrated.