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March 5, 1990

On the Misuse of Scientific Discoveries

In October 1953, a celebrated Professor of Law in Athens, Mr. O.J.
Despotopoulos, appealed to UNESCO in a manifesto demanding that
scientific research should cease, or at least be kept secret.

It ought, he suggested, to be in future entrusted to a council of
scientists, elected by a world vote, and consequently having
authority to keep silence.

A letter from Mr. Despotopoulos in 1955 says :

"Natural science is certainly one of the most meritorious
conquests in human history. But the moment it liberates
forces capable of destroying the whole human race it ceases
from a moral standpoint to be what it used to be. It has
become almost impossible to distinguish between pure science
and its technological applications. One cannot therefore
speak of science qua science as being a good thing in
itself.

Or rather, in some of its more important branches, it has
now become a negative value in so far as it no longer
conforms to ordinary moral standards and is free to exercise
its dangerous activities in order to satisfy the lust for
power of the politicians.

This adoration of progress and freedom where scientific
research is concerned is wholly pernicious. What we propose
is this: the codification of the conquests of natural
science up to now, and the creation of a Council of World
Scientists with powers to prohibit absolutely or partially
any progress it may achieve in the future.

Such a measure, no doubt, would be tragically severe, even
cruel, since the activity it seeks to curtail is one of the
noblest human impulses, and it is impossible to
underestimate the difficulties inherent in such a solution.
But there is no other that could be so efficacious.

The objections are easily foreseen: a return to the Middle
Ages, to barbarism, etc.; but these do not really carry any
weight. Out intention is not to retard intellectual
advancement, but to protect it; not to impose restrictions
for the benefit of any social class, but in the interests of
humanity as a whole. There lies the problem. Anything else
can only lead to divisions and time wasted in trying to
tackle problems of lesser importance."

These ideas have much in common with certain proposals put forwad
at international conferences on disarmament.





Other civilizations apparently have had similar ideas regarding
the control and regulation of scientific activities specifically
including the release of dangerous knowledge into the hands of
those who would irresponsibly misuse the information.

One such civilization was the Eastern Indians at the time of the
great ruler, Emperor Asoka in 273 B.C.

Asoka was the grandson of Chandragupta, the first ruler to unify
India. Ambition goaded Asoka to complete the work of his
grandfather by conquering the region of Kalinga, between what is
now Calcutta and Madras.

100,000 Kalingan lost their lives in defense of their country
during the battle.

Asoka was overcome with emotion on viewing the resulting massacre
and forever after experienced a horror of war. Introspection on
the results of his attempt to complete the unification of India
led him to a profound realization.

He came to understand that the only true conquest was to win men's
hearts by observance of the laws of duty and piety, because the
Sacred Majesty desired that all living creatures should enjoy
security, peace and happiness and be free to live as they pleased.

By his own virtuous example, Asoka spread this religion (Buddhism)
throughout India, Malaya, Ceylon and Mongolia. Asoka respected
all religious sects, preached vegetarianism, abolished alcohol and
the slaughter of animals.

The famous writer, H.G. Wells, in his OUTLINE OF WORLD HISTORY
wrote :

'Among the tens of thousands of names of monarchs accumulated
in the files of history, the name of Asoka shines almost
alone, like a star.'

Emperor Asoka's repulsion of war caused him to seek a means to
forbid men ever to put their intelligence to evil uses. During
his reign natural science, past and present, was vowed to secrecy.

Henceforward, and for the next 2,000 years, all researches,
ranging from the structure of matter to the techniques employed in
collective psychology, were to be hidden behind the mystical mask
of a people commonly believed to be exclusively concerned with
ecstasy and supernatural phenomena.

Asoka founded the most powerful secret society on earth; that of
the Nine Unknown Men.

It is still thought that the great men responsible for the destiny
of modern India, and scientists like Bose and Ram believe in the
existence of the Nine, and even receive advice and messages from
them.

The story of the Nine Unknown Men was popularized for the first
time in 1927 in a book by Talbot Mundy who for twenty-five years
was a member of the British police force in India. His book is
half fiction, half scientific inquiry.





The Nine apparently employed a synthetic language, and each of
them was in possession of a book that was constantly being
rewritten and containing a detailed account of some branch of
science.

The first of these books is said to have been devoted to the
technique of propaganda and psychological warfare. 'The most
dangerous of all sciences,' wrote Mundy, 'is that of moulding mass
opinion, because it would enable anyone to govern the whole
world.'

It must be remembered that Korjybiski's GENERAL SEMANTICS did not
appear until 1937 and that it was not until the West had had the
experience of the last World War that the techniques of the
psychology of language, i.e. propaganda, could be formulated.

The second book was on physiology. It explained, among other
things, how it is possible to kill a man by touching him, death
being caused by a reversal of the nerve-impulse. It is said that
Judo is a result of 'leakage' from this book.

The third volume was a study on microbiology, and dealt especially
with protective colloids.

The fourth was concerned with the transmutation of metals. There
is a legend that in times of drought temples and religious relief
organizations received large quantities of fine gold from a secret
source.

The fifth volume contains a study of all means of communication,
terrestrial and extra-terrestrial.

The sixth expounds the secrets of gravitation.

The seventh contains the most exhaustive cosmogony known to
humanity.

The eighth deals with light.

The ninth volume, on sociology, gives the rules for the evolution
of societies, and the means of foretelling their decline.

Avoiding all forms of religious, social or political agitations,
deliberately and perfectly concealed from the public eye, the Nine
were the incarnation of the ideal man of science, serenely aloof,
but conscious of his moral obligations.

Having the power to mould the destiny of the human race, but
refraining from its exercise(?), this secret society is the finest
tribute imaginable to freedom of the most exalted kind.

Looking down from the watch-tower of their hidden glory, the Nine
Unknown Men watched civilizations being born, destroyed and re-
born again, tolerant rather than indifferent, and ready to come to
the rescue - but always observing that rule of silence that is the
mark of human greatness.

Myth or reality? A magnificent myth, in any case, and one that
has issued from the depths of time - a harbinger, maybe, of the
future?
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