There was an order of Assai, based on the magician Hasan ibn Sabah.

Machine-assisted translation. The original Russian publication is linked below.

There was an order of Assai, based on the magician Hasan ibn Sabah. This magician had a rather interesting specialization related to the magic of illusions. He put people into a trance state, in which they lost fixation and their picture of the world floated. And then he would broadcast that picture that was in his own mind…