The Enlightened Society of Oculists—18th century eye doctors who formed a secret brotherhood surpassing the Freemasons—emerged from a linguistic confusion between “occultist” and “oculist.” Their encrypted documents, decoded after a decade using advanced algorithms, revealed their true nature.

During Vatican persecution of Freemasons (1740s), these eye specialists positioned themselves as perception’s guardians—both literally and symbolically. Their bizarre initiation ceremonies involved mock cataract surgery, plucking eyebrow hairs, and teaching cryptic languages.

Most remarkable was their possession of guarded Masonic secrets. Their peculiar artifacts—a seal showing cats watching mice and a disassemblable eye model—hint at connections to forbidden knowledge traditions, including Kabbalah.

Like Cronenberg’s Videodrome, their legacy illuminates an enduring truth: controllers of visual perception become architects of belief itself.