Cults of The Dark Gods
TRANSLATOR'S NOTE
This material is a translation of a part of the researches of 'Professor von Archensbak'
related to certain cults, or quasi-religions, believed to be connected with the plans of
the Great Old Ones to resume their domination of our planet.
The Professor had originally intended to withhold this information until he had completed his
major work on Cthulhu-orientated cults.
After the recent death of the great Bulgarian scholar, 'Dr. Philius Sadowsky,' whilst he
was preparing a definitive commentary on the Necronomicon, however, von Archensbak has
asked me to prepare a synopsis of his findings for immediate publication.
THE VICTORY OF THE SANDS
Following the publication of my monograph on the Sigsand, or Sussex, Manuscript I have
received a number of letters from self-styled fellow 'researchers'.
In many cases these communicants were mere cranks of one persuasion or another.
Yet in the midst of this nonsense certain information has been drawn to my attention,
by one who wishes to remain anonymous, which has both confirmed certain data already in
my possession and more importantly, has fleshed out certain portions of that data which were
hitherto sketchy and unclear.
As I stated in my earlier work, there can be little doubt that the Sigsand Manuscript
is either wholly derived from some Arabic source, or at least depends upon such work
for its central thesis.
What was unclear to me when I wrote those words, however, was the identity of that original
material.
Let me state, quite categorically, that the document to which I refer is still unknown
to me.
Nevertheless I am at least able to indicate the probable source of the Sigsand material,
together with a list of the main groups, or cults, through which that teaching has been
disseminated down the ages, even unto the present day.
As the American writer, H.P.
Lovecraft, has so often observed, the time of the Great Old Ones' rule on Earth most
surely preceded our own times by many millennia.
Yet the knowledge of their being and of their power, together with the loathsome and blasphemous
rites inspired by that knowledge, has persisted within isolated groups like some dreadful
canker upon the soul and body of the human race.
Thus far had my researches led before new information was laid before me.
A simple belief that such 'lost' peoples as the dreaded Tcho-Tcho of the Tsang plateau,
the Abominable Snowmen of Mi-Go and the Deep Ones of Ponape (also spelled Pohnpei and earlier
Bonabee), were the scattered remnants of the Old Ones' worshippers on Earth.
How little I knew!.
Micronesia, Ponape
THE ASSASSINS
In tracing the history of that infamous and terrible cult of the Hashishim more commonly
called the Assassins, we must look to the deviant groupings of the Muslim faith.
The first, and most important schism within Islam was based upon different attitudes regarding
him whom they call The Prophet (i.e.
Mohammed).
On the one hand we have the Sunni's, who accept the Koran (as presented by The Prophet) as
the source of religious authority.
The main opposition group is that of the Shi'ite persuasion, which holds that every
age has its own divinely inspired leader or Imam who has absolute, God-given authority
over all men.
According to the Shi'ites each Imam has positively superhuman powers - handed down from age to
age since Adam.
To the Shi'ites, each Imam is, quite literally, the voice of God on earth.
As the Shi'ite sect begun to emerge, being in the minority, it protected itself by resorting
to secrecy.
And when Shi'ism itself began to fragment this led to the formation of a whole range
of new secret societies - most notably the Ishmaelites.
The Ishmaelites are distinguished by their belief that Ishmael son of Ja'far was the
seventh Imam and heir to the power and authority of Adam - all other Sunni's and
Shi'ites believe Ishmael to have been an evil man legally deprived of the Imamate by his
father.
The Ishmaelite sect also gave rise to yet another sub-group, a secret society within
a secret society.!
I refer, of course, to the Assassins.
So far as modern scholars, including my own source, have been able to ascertain the facts
in this matter, the cult of the Assassins was established by Hassan ibn Sabah - the
Old Man of the Mountains - in about 1,090 AD.
Ibn Sabah's nickname allegedly accorded him by the Crusaders, tells us much about both
parties.
The term 'old man' could be derived from the idea of a wise man or sage, since Ibn Sabah
himself was certainly not 'old' in years.
It is quite possible, on the other hand, that 'old' was meant to refer to the alleged antiquity
of Ibn Sabah's authority, which implies that some of the Crusaders at least were prepared
to recognize that authority.
The 'mountains' referred to, are in northern Iraq, where Ibn Sabah had his personal stronghold
at Alamut - The Eagle's Nest - from which he and his successors directed a reign of
terror which reached throughout the Arab world, and beyond.
El Alamut
But what was the real purpose behind the formation of this sect?
Certainly Hassan ibn Sabah and the later Grand Masters of the sect were interested in power,
indeed there was a time, before their ambitions were temporarily thwarted by the arrival of
Genghis Khan and the Mongol hordes, when it looked as though the Assassins might take
control of the entire Muslim world.
The influence of the Assassins, as their name implies, was based primarily upon the practice
of executing anyone who incurred the Master's displeasure or who offered a threat to the
cult, either real or imagined.
These executions were earned out by carefully trained and utterly dedicated killers called
the Fidavis.
The training is of particular interest since it involved certain mind altering techniques.
I have already mentioned that the Assassins were also known as the Hashishim.
This alternative title relates to the practice of drugging initiates with hashish and then
introducing them into a purpose-built 'heaven on earth' — a luxurious palace surrounded
by beautiful gardens and inhabited by throngs of lovely women who attended to the initiate's
every desire during his brief stay.
After a suitable period of time the initiate was drugged again, returned to the Eagle's
Nest, and told that he could only return to Paradise if the Master willed it, that is,
if he unhesitatingly obeyed the Master's every command.
The results of this process were remarkably successful
The 'uniform' of the Assassins, who most certainly remain to existence even today, consisted
of a white robe, a red belt and black or red boots.
It should be noted, however, that just as they are skilled in the many means of killing
so are they well trained in every aspect of the art of disguise.
Their absolute obedience to the will of their masters is unparalleled, even by the deadly
Ninjas of the East, since they have no fear of death but rather welcome it as the one
road back to that paradise they have already experienced!
In the 13th century the invading Mongols, led by Genghis Khan's liutenant, Halaku, seemed
to have wiped out the Assassins as part of their drive to exterminate Islam.
Yet when the Mongols were finally forced back by the Sultan of Egypt the Assassins reemerged
as strong as ever, not only in Syria (where their power had remained largely intact),
but also in Persia, Afghanistan (where they called themselves the Roshaniya - the 'illuminated
ones') and India (as the Thugees).
But the Assassins were no longer operating only in the Middle-East and India.
By indirect means they had penetrated into the very heart of Christendom itself, thus
providing the basis for every subsequent secret society of any note throughout the length
and breadth of Europe.
THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
The exact date for the foundation of the Knights Templar, like many other aspects of this ambiguous
organization, is almost impossible to fix with absolute precision.
Some writers suggest 1118 or 1120AD, whilst others place it up to ten years earlier.
What we can be sure of, however, is that by 1120AD at the latest, the first nine members
of the order were securely installed in that part of the (Christian) King of Jerusalem's
palace - that part which stood on the site of what had once been King Solomon's Temple.
Even at this early part of the history of the Templars we come across a series of intriguing
paradoxes.
Firstly, it Is alleged that Hugues de Payen, the first Master of the Order, and all his
colleagues were 'poor' knights.
Yet within a very short space of time following the foundation of the Order the knights began
to send large sums of money back to France, specifically to the Abbot of the Cistercian
monastery at Clairvaux - Saint Bernard.
This was extremely fortunate, from the monk's point of view, since it lifted them from being
on the verge of bankruptcy to a position as one of the most influential orders in the
Western world.
Secondly, there is the question of the seemingly instant acceptance of the founder knights
by King Baudouin I.
By what means were the nine, able to gain such immediate and extensive favours?
Thirdly, we must examine the Templars' declared objective - to make the roads of Palestine
safe for pilgrims and other travellers.
Yet how could they hope to succeed in such a massive task?.
Their seal emphasized their alleged poverty by showing two knights upon a single horse.
Even with e horse apiece, how could nine men police such a large area simple handed?
And lastly, who were they guarding the roads against?
In 1127 a majority of the Templars, including Hugues de Payen, returned to France where
they were welcomed as "the epitome and apotheosis of Christian values"!
De Payen was officially proclaimed the Grand Master (!) of the Knights of the Order of
the Temple, a semi-religious order of warrior-monks.
It was also at this time that they were granted the exclusive tight to wear white mantles
over their armour adorned with a red cross on the left side.
One hundred and eighty years later, the Templars were so rich that they had become the bankers
of Europe, so powerful that they recognized allegiance to no one, not even the Pope, yet
at the same time they were reviled on all sides as despotic, degenerate devil-worshippers.
I can hardly think that I need to impress upon my readers the many similarities between
the Assassins on the one side, and the Templars on the other.
Indeed, many of those who came into contact with the Templars quickly learnt that the
sect had adopted many of the Assassins' ideas and methods.
[Translator's Note: At this point Professor Archensbak's notes become totally fragmentary.
In essence he merely outlines the conflict which arose between Phillipe IV - Phillipe
le Bel - and the Templars, which Archensbak attributes primarily to the Templars' growing
arrogance towards everyone, from the Pope downwards, and more importantly to the fact
that Phillipe was heavily in debt to the Templars with little or no hope of being able to pay
that debt.]
When two Popes in succession refused to help Phillips in his plan to suppress the Templars,
both died under suspicious circumstances.
Phillipe was thus able to have his own candidate elected to the office, and in less than two
years a list of charges of blasphemy had been drawn up, and the Templars' strongholds had
been overthrown.
Amongst the charges drawn up against the Templars two, in particular, are worthy of note.
In the first it was alleged that all Templars, on entering the order, were required to reject
Jesus Christ as a false prophet and to spit and trample upon a crucifix placed on the
floor for this purpose.
The second charge concerns something, possibly a sculpture of a bearded head, which was called
Bafomet, said to have been held in the highest reverence.
On the subject of the renunciation of Christ by the members of what was apparently a Christian
order I will have more to say later.
For the moment let me merely suggest a parallel between this practice and the Assassins' effective
rejection of Mohammed.
The matter of Bafomet may be dealt with immediately - since there can be little doubt as to its
true significance.
Many scholars have worried over the name Bafomet, not only because of the uncertainty as to
what it was, but also because this Arabic-sounding word is not found in that language in that
exact form.
Yet we hardly need to look far for en explanation, for there is indeed a very similar word in
Arabic, namely abufihamet - which breaks down as abu, meaning 'father of' or 'source of,'
and fihamet (from the root word fehm), meaning 'wisdom' or 'understanding.'
If we then take Bafomet to mean 'father of wisdom' are we not led inexorably back to
the Assassins yet again, at their belief in the Imam of the age - their own Grand Master
- as the only true source of all knowledge.
Moreover, despite the praise heaped upon them as the defenders of the Holy Land, the Templars
actually fought only when it suited them to do so, and even then it was not always only
on behalf of their fellow Crusaders.
So, now, we have seen the Assassins as a cult dedicated to the pursuit of power, though
not averse to the accumulation of wealth - through murder, kidnapping and blackmail - when the
opportunity arose.
The Templars, on the other hand seem to have had little interest in power for its own sake,
except as a means of protecting their own interests.
Their dedication to the pursuit of wealth in all its forms, however, was legendary,
almost obsessive.
So what happened to the Templars, and to their vast wealth?
As an organization they were broken up by the raids staged by Philippe IV in 1307.
In 1312 the Order was officially disbanded by papal decree, and in 1314 the last Grand
Master, Jacques de Molay, was burned at the stake by command of Phillipe.
Yet this was hardly the end of the Templars.
In the first place their treasure was never found, nor has it been discovered up to the
time at which I write.
As for the individual members.
comparatively few were seized, and even fewer put to death.
The survivors undoubtedly found 'new' allegiances elsewhere.
Some knights simply moved from France to Prussia where they would undoubtedly have been welcomed
by highly sympathetic knights of the Teutonic Order.
Others, taking advantage of the war which was in progress between Scotland and England
took the road to the Highlands, where the papal decree had been totally ignored.
In both cases the exiles did not simply rest on the memories of their past.
Rather they began to build the foundations of new orders.
One society, created by the exiles in Scotland, became what we now know as Freemasonry.
Those in Germany, with a far greater dedication to secrecy, borrowed their new title from
the Afghans.
They became the llluminati!
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