Hi, Very interesting article, but I'm fairly sure it's missing gun fights, murder, explosions, and car chases...
Cheers, James. On 30/11/12 marc <[email protected]> wrote: >They Cracked This 250-Year-Old Code, and Found a Secret Society Inside > >By Noah Shachtman > >The master wears an amulet with a blue eye in the center. Before him, >a candidate kneels in the candlelit room, surrounded by microscopes >and surgical implements. The year is roughly 1746. The initiation has >begun. The master places a piece of paper in front of the candidate >and orders him to put on a pair of eyeglasses. “Read,” the master >commands. The candidate squints, but it’s an impossible task. The page >is blank. > >For more than 260 years, the contents of that page—and the details of >this ritual—remained a secret. They were hidden in a coded manuscript, >one of thousands produced by secret societies in the 18th and 19th >centuries. At the peak of their power, these clandestine >organizations, most notably the Freemasons, had hundreds of thousands >of adherents, from colonial New York to imperial St. Petersburg. >Dismissed today as fodder for conspiracy theorists and History Channel >specials, they once served an important purpose: Their lodges were >safe houses where freethinkers could explore everything from the laws >of physics to the rights of man to the nature of God, all hidden from >the oppressive, authoritarian eyes of church and state. But largely >because they were so secretive, little is known about most of these >organizations. Membership in all but the biggest died out over a >century ago, and many of their encrypted texts have remained >uncracked, dismissed by historians as impenetrable novelties. > >http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/11/ff-the-manuscript/all/ >_______________________________________________ >NetBehaviour mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour -- http://jwm-art.net/ image/audio/text/code/ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
