Secret Sects of Syria: Consideration of Their Origin, Creeds and Religious Ceremonies, and Their Connection with and Influence Upon Modern Fr

ISBN-13: 9781138981546 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 352 str.

Springett;?Abar;?Abar

Opis

This book offers insights into the creeds, beliefs, and practices of secret sects active today who are involved in the politics of the region.

Spis treści

Chapter I The Root Principles of all Freemasonry; Chapter II The Ancient Mysteries; Chapter III The Antiquity Of The People Of The Lebanon; Chapter IV The Sabeans, Worshippers of the Pole Star; Chapter V The Gnostics and the Manicheans, and their Influence on the Order of Knights Templars; Chapter VI Other Gnostic Sects: The Ophites, Basil-Ideans, and Followers of Simon Magus; Chapter VII The Schiite Sects: Sufeism and the Dervish Orders; Chapter VIII Initiation Rites among the Dervishes 1 From Mysticism and Magic in Turkey, by L. M. J. Garnett. London, 1912.; Chapter IX Other Schiite Sects: The Metawileh; Chapter X The Sect of the Essenes and Their Tenets; Chapter XI Pythagoras and His System; Chapter XII The Ismaeli and Their Various Branches.—Origin of the Assassins; Chapter XIII The Assassins; Chapter XIV The Mohammedan Creed; From an Original Arabic Confession of Faith; Chapter XV The First Four Caliphs and the Twelve Imaums; Chapter XVI The Religious System of the Nusairis; Chapter XVII The Religious System of the Nusairis: Continued; Chapter XVIII Religious Festivals of the Nusairis; Chapter XIX Fundamental Principles and Deeper Mysteries of The Nusairi Religion; Chapter XX The “House of Wisdom” at Cairo, and the Founding of the Druse Sect by El Dorazi and Hamzeh; Chapter XXI The Religion of The Druses; Chapter XXII Religious Ceremonies of the Druses; Chapter XXIII Religious Creed of The Druses; Chapter XXIV Resemblance of the Druse Religion to that of the Lama of Thibet; Chapter XXV The Relation of the Druses to Freemasonry; Chapter XXVI The Yezidis, or Devil-Worshippers; Chapter XXVII Modern Arabian Freemasonry; Chapter XXVIII Syrian Influences on Modern Freemasonry; Chapter XXIX Syrian Influences on the Order of Knights Templar and the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite;

O autorze

Bernard H. Springett