Secret Sects Of Syria

Routledge, 2014 M01 21 - 352 pages

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I The Root Principles of all Freemasonry	15

II The Ancient Mysteries	21

III The Antiquity of the People of the Lebanon	34

IV The Sabeans Worshippers of the Pole Star	43

V The Gnostics and the Manicheans	52

The Ophites Basilideans and Followers of Simon Magus	61

Sufeism and the Dervish Orders	68

VIII Initiation Rites Among the Dervishes	75

XVIII Religious Festivals of the Nusairis	165

XIX Fundamental Principles and Deeper Mysteries of the Nusairi Religion	175

XX The House of Wisdom at Cairo and the Founding of the Druse Sect by El Dorazi and Hamzeh	180

XXI The Religion of the Druses	188

XXII Religious Ceremonies of the Druses	198

XXIII Religious Creed of the Druses	208

XXIV Resemblance of the Druse Religion to Thibetan Lamaism	234

XXV The Relation of the Druses to Freemasonry	248

The Metawileh	83

X The Sect of the Essenes and Their Tenets	89

XI Pythagoras and His System	98

Origin of the Assassins	107

XIII The Assassins	116

XIV The Mohammedan Creed From an Original Arabic Confession of Faith	123

XV The First Four Caliphs and the Twelve Imaums	133

XVI The Religious System of the Nusairis	140

XVII The Religious System of the Nusairiscontinued	154

XXVI The Yezidis or DevilWorshippers	259

XXVII Modern Arabian Freemasonry	270

XXVIII Syrian Influences on Modern Freemasonry	275

XXIX Syrian Influences on the Order of Knights Templar and the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite	288

Bibliography	297

Appendix	301

Principal Authors Quoted	343

Index	345

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