beautiful garden with luxurious resting places. Here amid sparkling streams, fruit trees, and flowers he was attended by beautiful women serving him wine in gold and silver vessels as soft music played in the background. After enjoying all the delights of what he believed was paradise, he was again drugged and, while once more unconscious, carried back to the presence of the Grand Master. Upon awakening, he was assured that he had never left the side of the Grand Master but had merely experienced a foretaste of the paradise that awaited him if he obeyed the orders of his masters. In this matter the Assassins established a system of organized murder on a basis of religious fervor, and unleashed a reign of terror throughout the East. Years later, in secret records released by two of their own leaders, a list was found of celebrated men of all nations who had been their victims. Eventually, the leaders of the Assassins turned on each other and became the victims of the poisons and daggers they had prepared for others. Although the dynasty of the Assassins had ended by 1250, the sects from which they derived continued. The Knights Templar is another example of the end results of secret societies. After the First Crusade had ended with the defeat of the Muslims and the capture of Jerusalem, a band of nine Frenchmen formed an order (in 1118) for the protection of pilgrims to the Holy Sepulchre. The King of Jerusalem presented them with 21 Secret Societies