Show THE ROMANCE OF F WORDS WORDS WORDS' A ASSASSIN SASSIN N 1000 there was founded In I IN Asia a secret society known as the or Devoted Ol Ones es the members of which were ere pledged to i Implicit blind obedience nce to the o o ders of their theil superiors no mat matter ur Cl what di direction direction di- di these orders might take Hassan Haman ben the P Persian Persian Per Per- r- r sian sinn who founded the dreaded o order rileI was extremely explicit Inthe inthe In iu the rules he laid down for the government of the organization which was partly religious and partly secular In nature The members of the lower sections of the society were kept In hi total Ignorance of or the teachings an and alms aims of ot the body to which the they belonged and It was Impressed upon them that unfailing obedience obe obe- lence was their only key to success In this life lICe and happiness happiness happi happl ness in the next In order to give them a foretaste foretaste fore fore- taste of th the joys which were In store for tor them provided they followed Instructions Hassan ben directed that they be given Iven a specified ration of hashish or hemp hemp hemp-a a narcotic which produced analogous analogous an an- I f to those resulting from the use of opium and opium and from this practice the members of the society so so- city became known as has- has hashin or hemp Europeans Europeans Euro Euro- slightly altered the word to o u assassin and applied It to toan an anyone one guilty of murder this crime being a favorite among the Fe Copyright |