scottobear | The Castrati

You give up a little something, you gain a little something...

It's more than I'd do, no matter how much power behind the throne you're looking at.

In China they backed up the Emperor, in Russia they backed up the Tsar. Two of the oldest and largest places in the world, and in both places they held more actual power than the ruler himself, and why? Because they were implicitly trusted. Guy loses his bean-bag, he can't bear children, no threat of a rival bloodline coming along. Guy chops it off -- willingly - in order to "be of service," and he's given an immense amount of power by some weak ruler.

They raise the ruler's kids and take charge of education. They watch over his wives and his mistresses, make sure they know what's what. They do it all, and they did it all until the old Kings went the way of the Dodo as far as modern sociopolitics were concerned.

The key phrase being the latter. The Underground knows better than modern sociopolitics. There are still Kings, and there are still Castrati. They're in almost every city, every town, working to focus power in the hands of a single person again, just like the good old days. In the bigger cities they run booster clubs and volunteer organizations, in the rural townships they might be the police force.

Outside of America? God only knows. I've got a buddy who swears that the entire Christian missionary force in Uganda is made up of Castrati, looking to set up a new Prester John, but I've got things closer to home to worry about, myself.

(Thanks to Arkon Daraul. the author of a A History of Secret Societies.) Like most researchers into this kind of thing, a lot of what he says makes very little sense; but it's a decent primer on the Assassins, Castrati, Charcoal-Burners, Rosicrucians, Vehm and more.