The Assassins: A Template for Modern Mind-Control Operations.

 The Persian warlord Hasan I Sabbah, who was also known as “The Old Man of the Mountains,” was perhaps the most skillful practitioner in the history of psychological manipulation. 

He was well versed in the ways of the Ismailis, a gnostic sect based in Cairo that used psychological techniques to instill initiates with a fanatic loyalty to the Egyptian caliph.

Ismaili theology may sound familiar. Its a long and disturbing feature of the region and world. This form of millenarianism is the belief that a mahdi, or divinely guided one, would introduce a longed-for era of equity and light.

The sect followed along the age old chosenite motif, and believed that they alone possessed the truth, and that an imam — a true descendant of Ali — would one day reveal himself.

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'Father of Lies' and Worship of Man Occultism.

 Warren Weston, who wrote “Father of Lies” in 1938, was at that time the world’s foremost authority on Gnostics and other sects. Today, his work is largely deep-sixed. The book is so full of esoteric examples that it’s actually overwhelming. I will attempt to condense his key big picture points.

Weston lays out the scheme or The Plan: a homogenized religion (globohomo) that would substitute for the worship of God, called the “worship of man.” The worship of man is rooted in many primitive cults. Such philosophies appeal to the lower instincts, and engender hate, malice, deceit. They are the basis of occultism today.

Thus, the schools of magic that formed the core of the priestly caste in India, Chaldaea, Babylonia, Egypt and elsewhere had, at different times, to face this menace to their institution; and everywhere they resorted to the same device. Weston argues the pedigree, or at least the methods, of this powerful priest class carries on to this day.

https://www.winterwatch.net/2025/12/father-of-lies-and-worship-of-man-occultism/