Why did King Ashoka form a secret society ?

This is Oldest recorded secret society in the world containing Nine members each holding a Book of specialized knowledge which are key to the Human society. Emperor Ashoka was deeply hurt by the massacre after the Kalinga battle and formed the Society to hide the advanced weaponry to prevent it from falling from malicious hands. These Nine Unknown Men was given the responsibility of  to develop, preserve, and prevent the information from misusing it. King Ashoka was a huge visionary and hid the advanced scientific knowledge because Rama empire and Dwaraka  empires were destroyed by the advanced weaponery. So for the next 2000 years all scientific knowledge was hidden from the people and made to believe every thing was a supernatural phneomenon which meets the notion of a developing country.