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He had a training ground for his soldiers called the garden of delights and within its precincts the corps were drugged with hashish and left to spend three days in the garden every time they successfully completed an operation. They never knew how they entered it and never knew how they emerged; it seemed like a dream and they thought they had actually been in paradise.

the valley of Alamut not far from tehran where at the end of the eleventh century an infamous cult called the assassins flourished. Using various devious political means, its leader Hassan i Sabbah established a mini kingdom with 60 castles just for himself and a corps which he kept at the bottom of this rock in a training ground he called the Garden of Delights.

the garden was not a three-dimensional place but a vision to which Hassan had the key.