Sorcerers' Society

The **Sorcerers' Society** (魔術協会, *Majutsu Kyōkai*?) is a loose collection of Magi practitioners of magic and sorcery formed by powerful Magi sorcerers as a means to defend their traditions, their arts and themselves. It was founded by the immortal Jewish sorcerer Brishisan in 1 A.D. during the time of Christ's birth.

Today, the Society is split in various branches throughout the world that have differing allegiance. For example, a prominent division, the Sorcerers' Society in Egypt became a subsidiary absorbed by the Justice Alliance, while the most important faction, the Clock Tower, became a front to complete the master plan of another secret organization, namely the Illuminati, which was also run by Brishisan himself.

## Background

### Origins

In the beginning of the 10th century B.C., the kingdom that the Israeli king David established had flourished in a golden age under the rule of his son Solomon, one of the wisest kings and most powerful practitioners of magic in human history, to the point where he was called the King of Sorcerers. As a result, he had many disciples and followers who wished to be learned in the ways of the unknown powers, including Brishisan, who became one of the highest and most loyal court magicians during the King's reign. However, upon Solomon's death in 931 B.C., a falling had occurred when the Promised Land was torn into civil war, divided between Solomon's son Rehoboam who still had the Tribes of Judah and Benjamin under Jerusalem's jurisdiction and Jeroboam who led the other ten tribes in rebellion and formed the Samarian kingdom as its new ruler. Brishisan saw that the Israelites' doom was imminent because both factions broke off from God's promise and decided to selfishly pursue power and glory. Therefore, he saw himself as the true continuation of Solomon's kingdom and legacy, and Rehoboam and Jeroboam and all the leaders that came after them instead as illegitimate and apostates, unworthy of God's blessing.

When the Babylonians attacked Judah, Brishisan refused to aid the Israelites, believing that this is God's punishment and leaving them to their fate. After the Persians freed the Israelites from Babylonian captivity, he had hoped that they would have learned their lessons and not abandon their promise to God like they did before.

### Foundation

In 1 A.D., during the time when Roman rule was looming over the land of Judea, the Messiah Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem and the Rome-installed monarch Herod the Great, feeling threatened upon learning what the future may hold at the hands of Christ, ordered every male infant in Bethlehem to be killed. However, Jesus' family escaped to Egypt and returned home to Nazareth in Galilee shortly after Herod's death. Brishisan, like Herod, saw Jesus as a great threat, fearing that His future kingship would dislodge the legacy of Solomon and the Jewish people. To preserve the traditions and practices of his King for his descendants and people, together with a group of Jewish and Gentile magicians and superhumans, he formed an organization dedicated to preserving the arts of their ancestors. Upon foundation, Brishisan laid down this manifesto:

> *“All the nations that violate the religion of the Jews originated from the seed of a stinking and filthy ass. YHWH has bestowed on you, the Jews, the divine command of ruling the world and the cornerstone established by the King of Sorcerers Solomon, the wisest and greatest of all rulers, from which you shall carry out His supreme will. Continue his legacy for generations to come and expand from the Promised Land to the rest of the world. Carry out your vengeance against the Gentiles that humiliated and exiled you. Rule them in secret and in public, with strength and oppression, through deceit and cunning. Do not allow any nation to share your control of the world. A new order shall destroy and replace the old order through magic, through money, through science, through politics, through murder, through sex, through any means possible. Only then shall you truly become a great nation forever; you shall be as numerous as the stars in the sky and shall finally have fulfilled the promise of YHWH in the days of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Moses.”*
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