“In the West much
misinformation has been spread on this subject, first through various Masonic
and
quasi-Masonic groups
(Especially the Grand Orient Lodge founded by Count Cagliostro), and then
through
the various "Occult
Scholars", who in this century were drawn to the legends of The Bee
Keepers like maggots
to a charnel house. I
suppose it would do little harm to relate a bit of the history of the encounter
of "The Mad Arab"
and al Azif with the Bee
Keepers.”
Parchment of the Sarmoung Brotherhood
Sarmoung or Sarman
"The pronunciation is
the same for either spelling and the word can be assigned to old Persian. It
does, in fact, appear in some of the Pahlawi texts...The word can be
interpreted in three ways. It is the word for bee, which has always been a
symbol of those who collect the precious 'honey' of traditional wisdom and
preserve it for further generations. A collection of legends, well known in
Armenian and Syrian circles with the title of The Bees, was revised by Mar
Salamon, a Nestorian Archimandrite in the thirteenth century. The Bees refers
to a mysterious power transmitted from the time of Zoroaster and made manifest
in the time of Christ."
Man is "Persian
meaning as the quality transmitted by heredity and hence a distinguished family
or race. It can be the repository of an heirloom or tradition. The word sar
means head, both literally and in the sense of principal or chief. The
combination sarman would thus mean the chief repository of the
tradition..."
"And still another possible
meaning of the word sarman is... literally, those whose heads have been
purified."
The Mysterious Beekeepers ; Kwajaghan
"For many centuries, a little known côterie
of humans known as the Kwajaghan have intervened in global affairs periodically
in order to disseminate culture in regions where it is lacking. Headquartered
in Afghanistan, members of this secret society possess remarkable telepathic
powers and receive communication from a non-physical directorate. After
studying with them, Abelard of Bath brought astronomy to the western world in
the 8th century C.E. and Sufism was spawned from the teachings of the
Kwajaghan."
THE ENEMY OF THE ILLUMINATI & THEIR DARK BROTHERHOODS
The BeeKeepers - Parchment of the Sarmoung Brotherhood
..........................
Side note ; interesting that Afghanistan has
been besieged for so long by so many countries...
istory of the encounter of "The Mad Arab" and al
Azif with the Bee Keepers.
https://web.archive.org/web/20171003145239/http://tracelesswarrior.blogspot.com/2005/03/real-origins-of-george-bushs-power.html
sarmoung brotherhood links
https://web.archive.org/web/20150103114348/http://www.terrorism-illuminati.com/blog/sufi-conspiracy
http://www.gurdjieff-internet.com/search.php
Why the Orientation of
Pyramids Correlates with Ice Ages
https://mariobuildreps.com/?fbclid=IwAR36zZYZP-LkDGncVumOzvMfZgldmHj4dLz_U059tDOQYpUZsH3MfIemPLA
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Parchment of the
Sarmoung Brotherhood Parchment of the Sarmoung Brotherhood Sarmoung or Sarman "The pronunciation is the same for
either spelling and the word can be assigned to old Persian. It does, in
fact, appear in some of the Pahlawi texts...The word can be interpreted in
three ways. It is the word for bee, which has always been a symbol of those
who collect the precious 'honey' of traditional wisdom and preserve it for
further generations. A collection of legends, well known in Armenian and
Syrian circles with the title of The Bees, was revised by Mar Salamon, a
Nestorian Archimandrite in the thirteenth century. The Bees refers to a
mysterious power transmitted from the time of Zoroaster and made manifest in
the time of Christ." Man is "Persian meaning as the quality
transmitted by heredity and hence a distinguished family or race.It can be the repository of an heirloom or
tradition. The word sar means head, both literally and in the sense of
principal or chief. The combination sarman would thus mean the chief
repository of the tradition..." "And still another possible meaning of
the word sarman is... literally, those whose heads have been purified." "...Ancient Armenian texts, including
the book Merkhavat... referred to the 'Sarmoung Society' as a famous esoteric
school that according to tradition had been founded in Babylon as far back as
2500 B.C. and which was known to have existed in Mesopotamia up to the sixth
or seventh century of the Christian era. The school was said to have
possessed great knowledge containing the key to many secret mysteries. The
date of 2500 B.C. would put the founding of this school several centuries
before the time Hammurabi, the greatest lawgiver of antiquity, but it is not
an impossible one." - John G. Bennett, Gurdjieff: Making of A
New World Around 1886 George Gurdjieff and a friend
traveled "to the silent and abandoned city of Ani, former capital of the
Bagratid Kings of Armenia. Here fate intervened. Digging irresponsibly and
haphazardly in the ruins, the young men made a series of dramatic finds: an
underground passage, a crumbling monastic cell, a wall niche, a pile of
ancient Armenian parchments - and in one of these parchments an obscure but
exhilarating reference to the 'Sarmoung Brotherhood'. Textual analysis
suggested that the Brotherhood has been an Aisorian school, situated 'between
Urmia and Kurdistan' in the sixth or seventh century AD. Gurdjieff's response
was immediate: he 'decided to go there and try at any cost to find where the
school was situated and then enter it'." "Gurdjieff was obliged to make the
journey blindfolded; contemporary maps were defective; and above all he was
sworn to eternal secrecy. Basically what Gurdjieff tells us is that sometime
in 1898 or 1899 he and Soloviev started out from Bokhara with horses, asses,
and four Kara-Kirghiz guides. After crossing rivers and mountains, they
reached their goal at sunset on the twelfth day. Bokhara is...an ancient city
on the Silk Road, to the north of Afghanistan, which had fallen under Russian
Suzerainty in 1873. Given its grim environs, the Sarmoung magic circle can
hardly be more than 500 miles in diameter; and of this we can provisionally
discount the northern and western segments, which verge respectively on the
Kizil Kum and Kara Kum deserts. Indeed Gurdjieff's tantalizing references to
the valleys of the rivers Zarovshan and Pyandzh (or Ab-i-Pandj), point us
directly eastward along 'the golden road to Sarmakand'." "The allegorists...construe
Gurdjieff's entire monastery story symbolically, beginning with a wayside episode
involving a dangerous rope bridge over a deep gorge. The hero on the 'perilous bridge' is
noted as the very stuff of myth and folklore: in the West we have Lancelot's
sword-bridge, and Bifrost the Scandinavian rainbow bridge; in the East there
is Sirat, The Muslims' bridge over hell, and the Awesome Chinvat bridge of
the Zoroastrian last judgment. As the remote and secret spiritual center
ringed by mountains, it is a glyph which, as 'Shambhala', pervades Tibetan
and Mongolian culture..." "...It was under the Samanid dynasty
that Bokhara, in the tenth century, attained its brief and glittering zenith
as a center of civilization, art, and learning, producing amongst others
Avicenna author of the Canon of Medicine. Alternatively the word Sarman in
ancient Persian may be interpreted - by those so predisposed - to suggest the
essence of Zoroastrian tradition and enlightenment. The obvious difficulty
here is that the bearers of all these traditions, certainly in the Emirate of
Bokhara - ended up on the skull piles of Genghiz Kan's Golden Horde in AD
1219." - James Moore, Gurdjieff- Anatomy of a Myth |
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THE SUFI CONSPIRACY
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Having lost touch with its
glorious heritage of classical scholarship, the Muslim world today is divided
in squabbles between two opposing camps, who despite their respective
deviations, are both attempting to usurp the right to represent orthodox Islam.
The Wahhabis and Salafis are the product of a British strategy to undermine
Islamic tradition and create fundamentalism. While the Sufis are their most
vocal and articulate critics, rightly pointing out their corruptions, they
themselves are part of a similar conspiracy, again with close ties to Western
intelligence and the occult.
The New Age movement,
following the teachings of a leading disciple of H. P. Blavatsky, believes that
the coming of the Age of Aquarius will herald the beginning of world peace and
one-world government, headed by the Maitreya, who is said to be awaited also by
Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus and Muslims, though he is known by these
believers respectively as Christ, Messiah, the fifth Buddha, Krishna or Imam
Mahdi. The New Age’s expectation of the Mahdi awaited by the Muslims has been
nurtured through its relationship with Sufism.
Essentially, the pretext of
the occult is that in the future the world will be united in peace by
eliminating all sectarianism, when the world will be brought together under a
single belief system. The basis of that belief will be the occult tradition,
which it is claimed has been the underlying source of all exoteric religions.
As such, since at least the middle of the eighteenth century, occultists have
marketed Sufism as being the origin of Freemasonry.
According to Idries Shah,
the twelfth century Qadiriyya Sufi order was the origin of the Rosicrucians,
the most important occult movement after the Renaissance, who later evolved
into the Freemasons. As detailed in Black Terror White Soldiers, the
Rosicrucians were responsible for orchestrating the advent of Sabbatai Zevi,
who took the Jewish world by storm in 1666 when he declared himself their
expected messiah. However, Zevi disappointed the vast majority of his followers
when he subsequently converted to Islam. Nevertheless, an important segment
followed him into Islam as well, and to this day consist of a powerful
community of secret Jews known as Dönmeh.
The Dönmeh of Turkey
maintained associations with a number of Sufi orders, like Whirling
Dervishes founded by Jalal ad-Din Rumi, and the Bektashis. Strongly
heretical, the Bektashi venerated Ali, the son-in-law of the Prophet Mohammed,
repudiated many of the legal rulings of Islam, and combined Kabbalistic ideas
with elements of ancient Central Asian shamanism.
Through the influence of
Bektashi Sufism, the Dönmeh developed the belief of Pan-Turkism, later adopted
by the Young Turks, a Dönmeh and Masonic organization responsible for
overthrowing the Ottoman Caliphate in 1908. Pan-Turkism begins with Alexander
Csoma de Körös (1784 – 1842), the first in the West to mention mysterious
Buddhist realm known as Shambhala, which he regarded as the origin of the
Turkish people, and which he situated in the Altai mountains and Xinjiang.
Csoma de Körös’s mention of
Shambhala became the basis of the mystical speculations offered by H. P.
Blavatsky, which she regarded as the homeland of the Aryan race. Blavatsky
founded the Theosophical Society, and came to be regarded as an oracle of
Freemasonry and the godmother of the occult. Blavatsky became largely
responsible for initiating the popularity of Buddhism as a font of the Ancient
Wisdom. However, contrary to popular perceptions, Tibetan Buddhism is a strange
amalgam of Buddhist ideas, along with Hindu Tantra and Central Asian shamanism,
it was for this reason that Blavatsky regarded it as the true preservation of
the traditions of magic.
Abdul
Qadir al Jazairi
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Abdul Qadir al Jazairi
The myth of Sufism as the
origin of Freemasonry developed through the influence of Abdul Qadir al Jazairi
(1808 – 1883), an Algerian national hero who led a struggle against the French
invasion of their country in the mid-nineteenth century. Abdul Qadir was
ultimately forced to surrender, and eventually settled in Damacus, Syria, under
a generous pension from the French.
In 1860, he attained
international fame when he and his personal guard saved large numbers of
Christians who had come under attack by the local Druze population. As reward,
the French government bestowed on him the Grand Cross of the Légion
d’honneur and he was also honored by Abraham Lincoln. As well, the
town of Elkaker of Iowa was named after him.
Abdul Qadir had been
initiated into the Naqshbandi, into the Qadiriyya by his own father, and into
the Darqawi branch of the Shadhili Sufi order, by the student of its founder,
al Arabi ad-Darqawi. The Shadhili was branched to the Akbariyya chain, going
back to the “Shaykh Al-Akbar” (Greatest Sheikh), referring to Arab
mystic, Ibn Arabi (1165 – 1240). However, Ibn Arabi was condemned by the vast
majority of orthodox Muslim scholars as a heretic. The reason Ibn Arabi served
the purposes of these Sufi Masons was for his belief in the doctrine of a
“Universal Brotherhood,” which was the core of the mission of Freemasonry and
Theosophy, and the basis of their pretext of establishing a one-world religion.
Abdul Qadir was also
friends with Jane Digby and Sir Richard Burton, the famous British explorer,
spy and fellow Freemason, who had been made consul in Damascus in 1869. Digby,
or Lady Ellenborough (1807-1881), was an English aristocrat who lived a
scandalous life of romantic adventures, having had four husbands and many
lovers. Burton and Digby were also close friends of Wilfred Scawen Blunt and
his wife Lady Anne, a grand-daughter of poet Lord Byron. Blunt was the handler
of British agent Jamal ud Din al Afghani and his disciple, Mohammed Abduh, the
founders of the fundamentalist tradition of Islam known as Salafism, from which
emerged the Muslim Brotherhood.[1]
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Réne Guénon
Burton was also an avid
occultist, and like Abdul Qadir, a member of the Qadiriyya Sufi order, because
“Sufism,” he claimed, is “the Eastern parent of Freemasonry.”[2] Burton
was also a member of the Theosophical Society of Blavatsky, who visited him in
Damascus. According to historian K. Paul Johnson, Afghani was one of
Blavatsky’s “Ascended Masters,” from whom she learned her central doctrines.
Afghani was the reputed head of a mysterious order known as the Hermetic
Brotherhood of Luxor (or Light), which exercised a profound influence over the
occult societies of the period, culminating in the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO)
of the scandalous Aleister Crowley.
Most important to the
transmission of Sufism to the West was Réne Guénon, a one-time member of the
Hermetic Brotherhood of Light. Guénon founded the occult school of
Traditionalism, which suggests that all exoteric religions share a single
underlying occult tradition. Therefore, according to Guénon, one could choose
any religion as one’s outward belief, and so he chose Islam.
Guénon’s initiation was
effected by Swedish convert to Islam Ivan Aguéli, who was also interested in
Kabbalah, and performed under the authority of the friend of Abdul Qadir al
Jazairi, Sheikh Abder Rahman Illaysh al Kabir, a Freemason and head of the
Maliki Madhhab at Al Azhar University. As a Freemason, al Kabir also aimed to
demonstrate the relationship between the symbols of Freemasonry and Islam.[3]
George
Gurdjieff
George I. Gurdjieff
Also promoting the origin
of shamanism as the source of ancient wisdom was the chief propagandist for the
popularization of Sufism within the New Age, George Gurdjieff (1866 – 1949), a
charismatic hypnotist, carpet trader and spy of Armenian origin. Gurdjieff’s
teaching claimed that human beings were helplessly caught in a “waking sleep”
unable to fully perceive reality, but that it is possible for them to transcend
to a higher state of consciousness and achieve their full human potential. He
developed a method for doing so called “The Work” or “the Method.” Because his
method for awakening one’s consciousness was different from that of the fakir,
monk or yogi, his discipline is also called the “Fourth Way.” As Gurdjieff
explained, “The way of the development of hidden possibilities is a way against
nature and against God.”[4]
Gurdjieff’s deceptive and
tyrannical ways led to his reputation as a “rascal guru.” He was widely
referred to as a black magician, and Rasputin was so fearful of him that he was
quoted to have said, “I had been especially careful not to look at Gurdjieff
and not to allow him to look into my eyes...”[5] He
was criticized by many of his former students as being slovenly, gluttonous and
was notorious for seducing his female students and fathering several
illegitimate children. P. D. Ouspensky, his leading student, finally broke with
him, claiming that he was “a very extraordinary man,” but that it was
“dangerous to be near him.”[6] Another
of his famous student, J. G. Bennett, warned that Gurdjieff “is far more of an
enigma than you can imagine. I am certain that he is deeply good, and that he
is working for the good of mankind. But his methods are often
incomprehensible.”[7]
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Karl Haushofer & Rudolf Hess
Louis Pauwels, a former
student of Gurdjieff, in his book Monsieur Gurdjieff, asserts that
one of the “Searchers After Truth” that Gurdjieff speaks of in his book Meetings with Remarkable Men was
Karl Haushofer, "the magician, the secret master," who through his
student Rudolf Hess, influenced the development of Adolf Hitler's geopolitical
strategies. Haushofer was also a leading member of the Thule Society, from
which evolved the Nazi Party, and founded by Baron Rudolf von Sebottendorf, who
had studied Kabbalah in Turkey under Bektashi Sufis who were also Freemasons.
Haushofer was apparently influenced by Gurdjieff's teaching that men are asleep
and waiting for a strong leader to force them to wake up and become supermen.
Haushofer was supposed to have been with Gurdjieff in Tibet, and it was then
that Gurdjieff supposedly advised Haushofer to adopt the symbol of the
swastika.[8]
There has also often been
the suggestion that Gurdjieff and Joseph Dzhugashvili, later known as Stalin,
met as young students while attending the same seminary in Tiflis in the
Caucasus. Gurdjieff’s family records contain information that Stalin lived in
his family’s house for a while.[9] There
are also suggestions that Stalin belonged to an occult "eastern
brotherhood," which consisted of Gurdjieff and his followers.[10]
Gurdjieff’s thought is an
amalgam of Theosophy, Neopythagoreanism, Rosicrucianism and alchemy. According
to James Webb, author of The Harmonious Circle: The Anatomy of a Myth,
the first comprehensive book on Gurdjieff and his movement, Blavatsky’s
Theosophy was his single most important source. Additionally, as K. Paul
Johnson notes, “a comparison of the teachings of Blavatsky and Gurdjieff leads
to the conclusion that both are equally indebted to another source, Ismaili
Shi’ism.”[11] According
to Johnson, Blavatsky’s likely source for this Ismaili influence would have
been Jamal ud Din al Afghani, who was simultaneously the Grand Master of
Freemasonry in Egypt, as well as founder of fundamentalist reform group, known
as Salafism.
Having studied with the
Bektashi Sufis, Gurdjieff also adopted the belief in shamanism as the source of
the Sufi tradition. Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way teachings mentioned a “Universal
Brotherhood” and also a mysterious group of monks called the Sarmoung (also: Sarman,
Sarmouni). Both groups were described as in possession of advanced knowledge
and powers, and as being open to suitable candidates from all creeds. In the
account of Gurdjieff’s wanderings, Meetings with Remarkable Men, he
describes encounters in many parts of the world, including Central Asia, Egypt
and Rome. Gurdjieff then ventures to Central Asia to search out and locate the
mysterious Sarmoung Brotherhood. The chief monastery of the society was said to
be located somewhere in the heart of Asia, about twelve days’ journey by horse
and donkey from Bukhara in Uzbekistan.
J. G. Bennett
From the Sarmoung,
Gurdjieff learns the sacred dances, much like those of the Whirling Dervishes,
which constitute an integral part of his “the work.” According to Gurdjieff’s
leading student J. G. Bennett, who was head of British Military Intelligence in
Istanbul and his friend Idries Shah, the popular author of Sufism, Gurdjieff’s
“Fourth Way” originated with the Khwajagan, a chain of Naqshbandi Sufi Masters
from the tenth to the sixteenth century influenced by Central Asian shamanism.
According to Bennett, the Sufis are the descendants and spiritual heirs of the
old master magicians of Altai, where Central Asia has been their heartland for
forty thousand years or more.
As Bennett relates, the
Sarmoun became active in the rise of Zoroastrianism, and he connects the
influence of the Magi to the Essenes.[12] Gurdjieff
believed that the true teachings of Jesus Christ were corrupted by the
Christian Church, but that a small group of initiates called the “Brotherhood
of the Essenes” were able to secretly preserve them. Likewise, Gurdjieff
believed that Islam as well had deviated from the original teachings of the
Prophet Mohammed. Gurdjieff believed that the esoteric teachings of Islam were
in Bokhara, in Central Asia, which Bennett believes was associated with the
Naqshbandi Sufis who had preserved the true teachings of Islam, and which
represented a synthesis of the inner meaning of all religions.
In 1953, Bennett had
undertaken a long journey to the Middle East, which included a mysterious visit
to Abdullah Faizi ad Daghestani (1891-1973), Shaykh of the Naqshbandi Haqqani
Sufi order, in Damascus.[13] Ad
Daghestani initiated Gurdjieff and allowed him through a dream to “ascend to
the knowledge of the power of the nine points,” which became the basis of his
Enneagram.[14] The
enneagram is a nine-pointed figure usually inscribed within a circle. Gurdjieff
is quoted by Ouspensky as claiming that it was an ancient secret and was now
being partly revealed for the first time, though hints of the symbol could be
found in esoteric literature. It has been proposed that it may derive from the
Kabbalistic Tree of Life, as used in Renaissance Hermeticism, which used an
enneagram of three interlocking triangles, also called a nonagram or a nine-pointed
figure used by the Christian medieval philosopher Raymond Lull.[15]
MK-Ultra
Aldous Huxley
Through the influence of
the Romanian Traditionalist historian, Mircea Eliade, brought forward the idea
that its mystical feats of the shamans of Central Asian were achieved through
the use of drugs, often referred to as “entheogens.” In 1954, Aldous Huxley,
who studied Eliade, wrote the The Doors of Perception, which also
reflected the ideas of Gurdjieff, and claimed that hallucinogenic drugs “expand
consciousness.” Like many of the leading LSD evangelists of the CIA’s MK-Ultra
program, including Huxley, Gerald Heard and Alan Watts, Timothy Leary was
strongly influenced by Gurdjieff.
Gurdjieff believed that the
ascetic practices of monks, fakirs and yogis resulted in the production of
psychological substances that produced their religious or mystical experiences.
Instead of the torturous practices of these mystics, Gurdjieff proposed that
the man who knows the Fourth Way “simply prepares and swallows a little pill
which contains all the substances he wants. And in this way, without loss of
time, he obtains the required result.”[16] Leary
later remarked about receiving a copy of the Fourth Secret Teaching of
Gurdjieff:
For the past twenty years, we Gurdjieff fans had
been titillated by rumors of this Fourth Book, which supposedly listed secret
techniques and practical methods for attaining the whimsical, post-terrestrial
levels obviously inhabited by the jolly Sufi Master [Gurdjieff]. We had always
assumed, naturally, that the secret methods involved drugs. So it was a matter
of amused satisfaction to read in this newly issued text that not only were
brain-activating drugs the keys to Gurdjieff's wonderful, whirling wisdom, but
also that the reason for keeping the alkaloids secret was to avoid exactly the
penal incarceration which I was enjoying when the following essay was
penned."[17]
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Timothy Leary
Leary apparently first
became interested in psychedelics when he read a 1957 article by Gordon Wasson
published in Life magazine titled “Seeking the Magic
Mushroom,” which brought knowledge of the existence of psychoactive mushrooms
to a wide audience for the first time. Wasson, who was a vice president of JP
Morgan and served as a chairman to the CFR, and had close ties to CIA chief
Allen Dulles. Wasson and Henry Luce—Skull and Bones member and creator of Life magazine—were
also long time members of the Century Club, a CIA front, along with John Foster
Dulles, Walter Lippmann, and George Kennan.[18] Time-Life
was created by Henry P. Davison Jr, also a member of Skull and Bones, who was
Wasson's boss at J. P. Morgan.
Wasson was associated with
at least six people suspected of being involved in the JFK assassination,
including C. D. Jackson and Henry Luce. Wasson’s name was found in the address
book that was retrieved from the briefcase of George de Mohrenschildt, a friend
of Lee Harvey Oswald, after his death. The address book also contained an entry
for “Bush, George H. W. (Poppy).” Although de Mohrenschildt denied any Nazi
sympathies, his application to join the OSS during World War II was rejected,
because, according to a memo by former CIA director Richard Helms he was
alleged to be a Nazi spy. In addition to the Bush family, de Mohrenschildt was
also acquainted with the Bouvier family, including Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy.
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Gordon Wasson
Robert Graves
Wasson is considered the
founder of Ethnomycology, the study of psychoactive mushrooms used for
spiritual purposes, inspiring later researchers such as Terence McKenna and
John Allegro. Wasson wrote in Leary’s The Psychedelic Review that
the magic mushroom “permits you to see more clearly than our perishing eye can
see, vistas beyond the horizons of life, to travel backwards and forwards in
time, to enter other planes of existence, even to know God.”[19] In
1967 Wasson would publish Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality,
which proposed that the ancient Vedic intoxicant Soma was the magic mushroom.
Wasson would later discuss the Eleusinian Mysteries, in The Road to
Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries, co-authored with Albert
Hofmann, the Swiss scientist who discovered LSD, who proposed that the special
potion “kykeon,” used in the ceremony, contained psychoactive substances from
the fungus Ergot, from which LSD was developed.
Wasson was also close
friends with Robert Graves, the author of The White Goddess, a key
book for modern Pagans and Wiccans, in which he proposes the existence of a
European deity, inspired and represented by the phases of the moon, and which
is the origin of the goddesses of various European and pagan mythologies.
Graves also wrote the
introduction to Idries Shah’s The Sufis. As the secretary to Gerald
Gardner, one of the key representatives of Wicca, whose rituals he developed
with Aleister Crowley, Shah was responsible for popularizing that European
witchcraft, as well as the occult tradition in general, was derived from
Sufism.
Towards the end of the
1950s, Shah established contact with Wiccan circles in London and served as a
secretary and companion to Gerald Gardner, the founder of Wicca, whose rituals
he formulated with Aleister Crowley. Shortly before his death, Crowley elevated
Gardner to the VII° of the OTO, and issued a charter decreeing that Gardner
could perform its preliminary initiation rituals.[20] After
Crowley’s death in 1947, Gardner was regarded as the chief representative of
the OTO in Europe.
Idries Shah
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Gerald Gardner
Shah met Graves in 1961,
and later wrote to him that he was researching ecstatic religions, and that he
had been “attending… experiments conducted by the witches in Britain, into
mushroom-eating and so on.” Shah also told Graves that he was “intensely
preoccupied at the moment with the carrying forward of ecstatic and intuitive
knowledge.”[21]Graves
encouraged Shah to publish an authoritative book on Sufism for a Western
audiences, which became The Sufis.
Graves’ introduction
described Shah as being “in the senior male line of descent from the prophet
Mohammed” and as having inherited “secret mysteries from the Caliphs, his
ancestors. He is, in fact, a Grand Sheikh of the Sufi Tariqa…” Graves
confessed, however, that this was “misleading: he is one of us, not a Moslem
personage.”[22]
In June 1962, a couple of
years prior to the publication of The Sufis, Shah had also
established contact with members of the movement that had formed around the
mystical teachings of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky. He was eventually introduced to
J. G. Bennett, who became convinced that Shah “had a very important mission in
the West that we ought to help him to accomplish.”[23] Shah
gave Bennett a “Declaration of the People of the Tradition.” Shah declared that
the Guardians belonged to an “invisible hierarchy” that had chosen him to
transmit “a secret, hidden, special, superior form of knowledge.” It convinced
Bennett that Shah was a genuine emissary of Gurdjieff’s “Sarmoung Monastery.”
In The Commanding
Self, Idries Shah, contends that the Enneagram is of Sufi origin, and that
it has also been long known in coded form as an octagram, two superimposed
squares with the space in the middle representing the ninth point. In 1960,
Shah founded Octagon Press, which was named after the octagram. One of its
first titles was a biography titledGerald Gardner, Witch, which Shah
wrote under the pen name of Jack L. Bracelin.
Shah was also a member of
the Club of Rome, a project initiated by the Rockefeller family at their estate
at Bellagio, Italy.[24] The
founders of the Club of Rome were all senior officials of NATO. These included
Aurelio Peccei, the chairman of Fiat who was also chairman of the Economic
Committee of the Atlantic Institute, and Alexander King, the co-founder, who
was Director General of Scientific Affairs of the Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development (OECD).
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In 1965, Shah founded SUFI
(Society for Understanding Fundamental Ideas), and dubbed himself Great-Sheikh,
not only of the Naqshbandi, but of all Sufi orders. Several presentations were
given by scientists like Alexander King to the Institute for Cultural Research
(ICR), which was originally founded by Shah in 1965 as the Society for
Understanding Fundamental Ideas (SUFI).[25] Other
visitors, pupils, and would-be pupils included the poet Ted Hughes, novelists
Alan Sillitoe and Doris Lessing, zoologist Desmond Morris, and psychologist
Robert Ornstein. Over the following years, Shah established Octagon Press as a
means of distributing reprints of translations of Sufi classics. Several of
Shah’s books, Mulla Nasrudin, considered a folkloric part of Muslim cultures,
were presented as Sufi parables, and which were discussed the Rand Corporation.[26]
At a November 1977 Lisbon
conference sponsored by the Interreligious Peace Colloquium, Club of Rome
founder Aurelio Peccei, the chairman of Fiat, conspired with several leading
members of the Muslim Brotherhood, particularly with Seyyed Hossein Nasr of
Teheran University, who was highly active during the Iranian revolution of
1979.[27] Nasr
is a Perennialist in the school of Guénon’s Traditionalism. Nasr was initiated
into the Darqawi Shadhili by Ahmad al-Alawi (1869-1934), who had been
recommended to him by Guénon.
Nasr was a student of
Guénon’s leading disciple Frithjof Schuon who established the Maryamiyya branch
of the Shadhili in Europe and North America. Some of Schuon’s most eminent
students include supposed converts to Islam, Titus Burckhardt and Martin Lings,
best known as the author of a very popular and positively reviewed biography of
Muhammad, first published in 1983. But according to Andrew Rawlinson, in Book
of Enlightened Masters, Schuon was not as a pious Sufi but as a charlatan.
Another known initiate of
the Darqawi Shadhili descended from Ahmad Al-Alawi is a Scottish convert to
Islam named Ian Dallas, a.k.a. Sheikh Abdalqadir al-Murabit. Dallas, who
founded the Murabitun movement, celebrates Hitler as a “great genius and great
vision,” praises Wagner as the “most spiritual of men among men in a age of
darkness,” and regards the black stone of the Kabbah in Mecca as the Holy
Grail. In 1990, he held a symposium in honor of the occultist Ernst Junger, one
of the fathers of Nazi ideology, and which ended with a Masonic ceremonial.
Also in attendance was Albert Hofmann, the scientist who discovered LSD,
associated with the CIA’s MK-Ultra program.[28]
Esalen Institute
Nude therapy at Esalen
Gurdjieff and Shah were
important inspirations behind the hokey “spiritual” practices endorsed by the
Tavistock-affiliated Esalen Institute which, according to Wouter Hanegraaff,
in New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of
Secular Thought, in addition of the Hippies, had been the second major
influence of the 60s counterculture and the rise of the New Age movement.[29] Formed
at Oxford University, in 1920 by the Round Table’s Royal Institute for
International Affairs (RIIA), the sister organization to the Council on Foreign
Relations, the Tavistock Clinic became the Psychiatric Division of the British
Army during World War II. A successor organization, the Tavistock Institute of
Human Relations, was then founded in 1946 under a grant from the Rockefeller
Foundation.
According to a former
British Intelligence agent John Coleman, Tavistock became known as the focal
point in Britain for psychoanalysis and the psychodynamic theories of Sigmund
Freud and his followers. Its clients are chiefly public sector organizations,
including the European Union, several British government departments, and some
private clients. Its network now extends from the University of Sussex to the
US through the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), Esalen Institute, MIT, Hudson
Institute, Brookings Institution, Aspen Institute, Heritage Foundation, the
Center of Strategic and International Studies at Georgetown, US Air Force Intelligence,
and the RAND Corporation.
And, according to BBC
documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis, in The Century of
the Self, “The ideas and the techniques that were taught there
in the 1970s have fundamentally transformed both society and politics as much,
or possibly even more, than any right-wing free market theories.” As Adam
Curtis explains:
[Esalen]
gathered together a group of radical psychoanalysts and psychotherapists and
encouraged them to give classes in their techniques. What united them was the
belief that modern society repressed individuals inner feelings. Because of
this the individuals led narrow, desiccated lives and their true feelings were
bent and warped.
Esalen taught people how to break out of this prison, how to let their
inner feelings out and so become liberated beings. It was a wonderful dream—and
thousands of people who had turned away from radical politics in the 1960s came
to learn how to change society by changing themselves.[30]
Claudio Naranjo
Oscar Ichazo
Esalen’s goal was to assist
in a coming transformation by exploring work in the humanities and sciences, in
order to fully realize what Aldous Huxley had called the “human
potentialities.” Esalen thus represented a fruition of The Human Potential
Movement (HPM), whose founding has often been attributed to Gurdjieff, and
which arose in the 1960s around the concept of cultivating the extraordinary
potential that its advocates believed to lie largely untapped in all people.
Idries Shah’s student,
Claudio Naranjo along with Oscar Ichazo, were important figures in the Human
Potential Movement, and developed the Enneagram of Gurdjieff into a
pseudo-psychological personality profile system. Chilean psychiatrist Naranjo, belonged
to the inner circle at Esalen, where he became one of the three successors to
Fritz Perls, the founder of Gestalt Therapy.
Naranjo was also a member
of the Tavistock-affiliated US Club of Rome, and in 1969 he was sought out as a
consultant for the Education Policy Research Center, created by Willis Harman
at Stanford Research Institute (SRI). Naranjo is regarded as one of the
pioneers of the Human Potential Movement, for integrating psychotherapy and the
spiritual traditions through the introduction of Gurdjieff’s “Fourth Way”
teachings.[31]
Naranjo was also a close
friend of Carlos Castaneda, who is famous for having written a series of books
that describe his alleged training in shamanism and the use of psychoactive
drugs like peyote, under the tutelage of a Yaqui “Man of Knowledge” named Don
Juan. According to Kripal, what Claudio Naranjo became known for was a creative
synthesis of Asian meditation and western psychotherapy. Though his ideas were
developed from Tantric Buddhism, he interpreted them in terms of Shamanism, and
derived from what he called his “tantric journey” which involved a Kundalini
experience, which he compared to both being possessed by a serpent and an
alchemical process. As Kripal explains:
The “inner
serpent” of kundalini yoga is simply a South Asian construction of a universal
neurobiology; it is “no other than our more archaic (reptilian) brain-mind.”
The serpent power “is ‘us’-i.e., the integrity of our central nervous system
when cleansed of karmic interference,” the human body-mind restored to its own
native spontaneity.
Put a bit differently, Naranjo’s “one quest” is a religion of no religion
that has come to realize how “instinct” is really a kind of “organismic wisdom”
and how libido is more deeply understood as a kind of divine Eros that can
progressively mutate both spirit and flesh once it is truly freed from the ego.[32]
When Naranjo became
disillusioned with Gurdjieff, he turned to Sufism and became a student of
Idries Shah. Naranjo co-wrote a book entitled On The Psychology of
Meditation (1971), with Stanford University psychologist professor
Robert Ornstein. Both were associated with the University of California, where
Ornstein was a research psychologist at the Langley Porter Psychiatric
Institute. Ornstein, along with fellow psychologist Charles Tart and eminent
writers such as Poet Laureate Ted Hughes and Nobel-Prize-winning novelist Doris
Lessing, was profoundly influenced by Shah. Realizing that Ornstein could be an
ideal partner in propagating his teachings, adapting them into the language of
psychotherapy, Shah made him his deputy (Khalifa) in the United States.
Ornstein was also president
and founder of the Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge (ISHK),
established in 1969, with the aim of publishing books on ancient and new ways
of thinking for American readers, and become the sole American distributor of
Shah’s works of published by Octagon Press. Ornstein’s The Psychology
of Consciousness (1972) was enthusiastically received by the academic
psychology community, as it coincided with new interests in the field, such as
biofeedback and other techniques to achieve shifts in mood and awareness.[33]
Oscar Ichazo, whose
influence at Esalen is legendary, was heavily involved in psychedelic drugs and
shamanism, and according to John C Lilly, who had been through the first levels
of Ichazo’s Arica training, Ichazo claimed to have “received instructions from
a higher entity called Metatron” and that his group “was guided by an interior
master,” the “Green Qutb.”[34] Lilly,
a friend to Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg, is known for his work on
dolphin-human communication, as well as his experiments using hallucinogens
while floating in isolation tanks. Lilly apparently gave dolphins LSD and told
a story of one dolphin who seduced a man into having sex with her in a holding
tank.[35] The
1980 movie Altered States, starting William Hurt, is partly based
on his life.
Naranjo, who studied with
Oscar Ichazo in Chile, passed on the Enneagram teachings to Jesuit Bob Ochs,
who then brought it into Roman Catholic circles at Esalen, where Naranjo
taught. However, the Christian tradition derived from Gurdjieff was one that
rejected the belief in Jesus as a historical person, and instead insisted that
religious experiences were derived from psychoactive substances.
The
Naqshbandi Sufis
When Bennett, visited
Sheikh ad Daghestani in Damascus in 1953, he gave Bennett an enigmatic message
relating to the coming to his home in the West of “a Messenger from God,” which
Bennett interpreted to mean Bapak Muhammad Subuh, the Indonesian leader of cult
named Subud. Bennett believed that the “The Reappearance of Christ” as the
“Avatar of Synthesis” prophesied by Alice Bailey must refer to Subud, and
Bennett and many followers of Gurdjieff were initiated into the cult. Shah’s
first published mention of Subud appears in his book The Way of the
Sufi, published in the mid 1960s, claiming that Subud is of Qadiriyya and
Naqshbandi origin. Shah slowly separated from Subud and started to gather his
own disciples.
Bapak Muhammad Subuh
When asked as to his cult’s
purpose, Subuh himself had said: “What is the purpose of spreading Subud? Well,
primarily… it concerns the work people have come to call the… United Nations.”[36] At
the time of Subuh’s death in 1987, the chairman of the World Subud Council was
Varindra Tarzie Vittachi. In 1973, he had been appointed director of the UN
World Population Year, after which he became director of information on public
affairs for the UN Population Fund (1974-79). From 1980, until his retirement,
he was deputy executive director of UNICEF, the UN Children’s Fund.
Gurdjieff’s visit to ad
Daghestani and his instruction in the mysteries of the Nine Points was reported
by Sheikh Kabbani, Chairman of the Naqshbandi Haqqani Sufi Order of America, inThe Naqshbandi
Sufi Way: History and Guidebook of the Saints of the Golden Chain, the
foreword to which was written by Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Sheikh Kabbani is the
son-in-law and deputy of Sheikh Nazim al Haqqani, leader of the
Naqshbandi-Haqqani Order, who had also been a student of Sheikh ad Daghestani,
and who went to Britain where made contact with Bennett’s circle from whom he
developed his first group of followers.[37]
Sheikh Nazim Haqqani
Sheikh Kabbani
In 1991, Haqqani made the
first of four nationwide tours of the US, in a number of venues, including
churches, temples, universities, mosques and New Age centers. Reportedly,
during these speeches and Dhikrgatherings thousands of individuals
entered the fold of Islam through his efforts. Regrettably, these are not
converts to Islam, but are attracted to a hippie-dippy version that is more
about Sufism’s vague promises of “spirituality.” The key to Haqqani’s success
is his openness to Muslims as well as non-Muslims, and his flexibility towards
Islamic law. According to Haqqani, “One is not entitled to refute or object to
any of the matters of his sheikh even if he contradicts the pure rules of
Islam.”[38]
Haqqani’s liberalism was
exemplified in his visit in 1999 to Glastonbury in England, where Joseph of
Arimathea was to have concealed the Holy Grail, and which is now a center of
alternative spirituality. Haqqani called on the people to aim for eternity
without regard of their religion, and acknowledged the local legend that Jesus
had visited the site. A Haqqani community subsequently established itself in
the town, engaging in Dhikr meetings, which include musical
performances, Whirling Dervishes and “Sufi meditation” workshops. Haqqani
believes in the coming of the Mahdi is immanent, and gives his followers the
impression that he is in spiritual contact with him.[39]
Dr. Gibril Haddad
Ramadan al-Bouti
Among the vocal opponents
of Wahhabism and Salafism today are important Sufis like Dr. Gibril Haddad and
Muhammad Said Ramadan al-Bouti. Haddad, a well-known scholar and religious
leader of Lebanese-American background who converted to Islam, was listed
amongst the inaugural 500 most influential Muslims in the world. After also
exploring Shadhili Sufism, Haddad became a disciple of Sheikh Nazim Al-Haqqani,
leader of the Naqshbandi-Haqqani Order.
Haddad was also a former
teacher on the traditional online Islamic institute Sunnipath, and is
a major contributor to the website ESheikh.com, which gives traditional
teachings on Islamic spirituality. Sheikh Kabbani supervises Sunnah.org, which touts itself as one
of the top Islamic websites in the world. Also associated with Kabbani’s wing
of Shaikh Haqqani’s Naqshbandi-Haqqani order is Stephen “Suleyman” Schwartz,
Jewish convert to Islam and author who has been published in a variety of
media, including The Wall Street Journal. Schwartz is also a vocal
critic of the “Wahhabi lobby,” having written The Two Faces of Islam:
The House of Sa’ud from Tradition to Terror, and a defense of Sufism
titled The Other Islam: Sufism and the Road to Global Harmony.
Al-Bouti, a highly popular
doctor of Islamic Law from the University of Damascus and a noted critic of Salafism,
is listed among the Top 50 of the 500 most influential Muslims in the world.
Al-Bouti is also affiliated to the Naqshbandi branch in Syria, the only Sufi
organization in the country to be allowed freedom of action by the Asad regime,
with whom it is closely associated. This is despite the fact that the Asad
family are members of the Alawi sect. Sheikh al-Bouti is the leading Islamic
scholar in Syria. An active opponent of the Salafis, al-Bouti is the author
of Abandoning the Maddhabs is the Most Dangerous Bid’ah Threatering the
Islamic Shari’ah.
Also important to note that
Nuh Ha Mim Keller features in this story. Keller belongs to the Darqawi
Shadhili tradition, having been initiated by Al Shaghouri, a student of Ahmed
al-Alawi, who was a friend of René Guénon, which links him indirectly to
Schuon, Seyyed Hosein Nasr.
Although Keller openly
denounces Guénon and Schuon, here merely represents a different branch of
Traditionalism, having adopted its tradition of al Akbariyya, through the
influence of Abdul Qadir al Jazairi, whom he regularly praises. And Keller has
repeatedly attempted to justify Sufism as a legitimate science of Islam by
referring to Ibn Khaldun, who apparently condoned it, but he fails to mention
that Ibn Khaldun heavily chastised much of Sufi tradition as “Biddah”
(heretical innovations) and names Ibn Arabi among the chief innovators. Ibn
Khaldun also wrote a Fatwa declaring that Ibn Arabi’s books should be
burned. [40]
Under the leadership of
Ahmad Kuftaro (1915-2004), Grand Mufti of Syria, the Naqshbandi branch in Syria
has been closely associated with the Muslim Brotherhood. Kuftaro was on good
terms with Shaykh Haqqani, and in particular his deputy Kabbani, who sends some
of his key students to him.[41] Kuftaro
has been long engaged in interfaith dialogue, and upholds the belief that the
three monotheistic religions stem from a common source, and are all different
traditions of the one universal religion. Consequently, Kuftaro has been
involved in an “Abrahamic dialogue,” advocated by many other leading Christians
and Jews.
Reverend Sun Myung Moon and Ahmad Kuftaro
Kuftaro was one of the
editorial advisors alongside an impressive collection of representatives from
all kinds of religions of A World Scripture, that “gathers passages from the
scriptures of the various religious traditions around certain topics,” first
conceived by Reverend Sun Myung Moon. He also participated in the Assisi
interfaith service for peace led by pope John Paul II in 1986. He has
gone as far as praying the Hail Mary with the Cardinal of Baltimore, Cardinal
Keeler, who was the President of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.[42]
In 2000, the UN organized
the Millennium World Peace Summit consisting of more than a thousand religious
leaders from the world’s religions, funded largely by private foundations such
as Ted Turner’s Better World Fund and the Templeton, Carnegie and Rockefeller
Brothers foundations. In addition to Kuftaro, the representatives included
Francis Cardinal Arinze, president of the Vatican’s council for inter-religious
dialogue; Konrad Raiser, secretary-general of the World Council of Churches;
Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, the chief rabbi of Israel; Sheikh Abdullah Salaih
Al-Obaid of the Muslim World League of Saudi Arabia.
The involvement of the
supporters of the most fanatical fringes of Islam in the UN’s interfaith
discussions betrays the true nature of their mission. Like Jamal ud Din al
Afghani before them, they merely use the language of Islamic fundamentalism to
assist their co-conspirators in the West in undermining Islam from within,
towards its eventual replacement with a one-world New Age religion. The
historical basis of this nefarious cooperation dates back to the relationship
between the Templars and the Assassins who, though one being ostensibly
Christian and the other outwardly Muslim, both shared not only an identical
doctrine, that of the Kabbalah, but also a mendacious modus operandi which
recognized the value of employing the guise of religion for manipulating the
masses.
[1] Johnson, Initiates of Theosophical Masters, p.
81.
[2] F.
Hitchman, Burton, Vol. I, p. 286.
[3] “Abder-Rahman Elîsh El-Kebîr,”
Wikipedia, French edition.
[4] P.
D. Ouspensky, In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown
Teaching, (Harcourt, 1949). p. 47.
[5] Colin
Wilson, Rasputin and the Fall of the Romanovs, (Farrar Straus &
Co., 1964), p. 103.
[6] John
G. Bennett Witness: The Autobiography of John G. Bennett (Tucson:
Omen Press, 1974), p. 126.
[7] Ibid.,
p. 244.
[8] Gary
Lachman, Politics and the Occult; James
Webb, The Harmonious Circle (Thames and Hudson: London, 1980).
[9] Luba
Gurdjieff, A Memoir with Recipes (Berkely, CA: Ten Spead
Press, 1993, p. 3; cited in Paul Beekman Taylor,Gurdjieff and Orage:
Brothers in Elysium, (Weiser, 2001), p. x.
[10] Margarita
Troitsyna, “Joseph Stalin's occult knowledge
and experiments,” Pravda (June 23, 2011)
[11] K.
Paul Johnson, Initiates of Theosophical Masters,
(Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995) p. 141.
[12] Victoria
Lepage, "G.I. Gurdjieff & the Hidden
History of the Sufis,” New Dawn (March 1,
2008).
[13] “A New World Sufi Order?” Islamic
Party of Britain (Autumn 1993)
[14] Shaykh
Muhammad Hisham Kabbani, The Naqshbandi Sufi Way: History and Guidebook
of the Saints of the Golden Chain, (KAZI, 1995).
[15] James
Webb, The Harmonious Circle: The Lives and Work of G.I. Gurdjieff, P.D.
Ouspensky, and Their Followers, (New York and London: Putnam USA, and
Thames and Hudson, 2001).
[16] Peter
Ouspensky, In Search of the Miraculous (Harcourt, 1949) p. 50.
[17] Tim
Leary, Changing my mind among others, (Prentice-Hall, 1982) p.
192-3.
[18] Jan
Irwin, “The Secret History of Magic
Mushrooms,” Gnosis Media.
[19] R.
Gordon Wasson, “The Hallucinogenic Fungi of Mexico,” The Psychedelic
Review, vol. 1, no. 1, (June 1963), p. 30.
[20] Morgan
Davis, From Man to Witch: Gerald Gardner 1946, www.geraldgardner.com.
[21]
Paul O'Prey, Between Moon and Moon – Selected Letters of Robert Graves
1946–1972, (Hutchinson, 1984), pp. 213–215.
[22]
Paul O'Prey, Between Moon and Moon – Selected Letters of Robert Graves
1946–1972, (Hutchinson, 1984), pp. 213–215.
[23] John
G. Bennett, Witness: The autobiography of John G. Bennett. (Tucson:
Omen Press, 1974), pp. 355–363.
[24] See
Robert Dreyfuss, Hostage to
Khomeini.
[25] Elizabeth
Hall, “At Home in East and West: A Sketch of Idries Shah,” Psychology
Today 9 (2): 56 (July 1975).
[26] Idries
Shah (Presenter), “One Pair of eyes: Dreamwalkers,”
BBC Television, (19 Dec 1970).
[27] Dreyfuss, Hostage
to Khomeini, [excerpt: http://www.hoveyda.org/aspen77.html]
[28] Othman
Abu-Sahnun the Italian, “The Murabituns & Free Masonry,” Murabitun
Files.
[29] Wouter
J. Hanegraaff, New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the
Mirror of Secular Thought, (Boston, Massachusetts, US: Brill Academic
Publishers, 1996), pp. 38–39.
[30] Adam
Curtis, “The Curse of Tina Part Two:
Learning to Hug.” BBC Blogs: Adam Curtis: The Medium and
the Message. (October 4, 2011).
[31] “Claudio Naranjo, M.D..,” Blue
Dolphin Publishing.
[32] Kripal, Esalen, America and the Religion of No Religion,
p. 177.
[33] David
Westerlund (ed.), Sufism in Europe and North America. (New York,
NY: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004), p. 53.
[34] John
C. Lilly & Joseph E. Hart, “The Arica Training,” Transpersonal
psychologies, edited by Charles T Tart (Routledge, 1975).
[36] “A
New World Sufi Order?” Islamic Party of Britain (Autumn 1993)
[37] Umar
Ibrahim Vadillo, The Esoteric Deviation in Islam, (Cape
Town South Africa: Madinah Press, 2003), p. 447.
[38] Shaykh
Samir Kadi, The Irrefutable
Proof that Nazim al-Qubrusi Negates Islam, p. 4
[39] Itzchak
Weismann, TThe Naqshbandiyya: Orthodoxy and Activism in a Worldwide
Sufi Tradition, (London: Routledge, 2007) p. 170.
[40] Muqaddimah Q
I 201-202, and M. al-Tanji’s edition of the Shifa’ al-Sa’il fi Tahdhib
al-Masa’il, (Istanbul, 1958), pp. 110-11 quoted from James W. Morris,
"An Arab ‘Machiavelli’.”
[41] Umar
Ibrahim Vadillo, The Esoteric Deviation in Islam, (Cape
Town South Africa: Madinah Press, 2003) p. 632.
[42] Pacific
Church News Vol. 153 no. 3, June/July 1997.
COMMENTS
Submitted by hassan arshad (not verified) on Tue, 08/26/2014 - 04:19.
having the beliefs of the
original belief of islam which states in the Quran which is the path of the
ahlul sunnah awl jammah
BUT- all philosophy
All schools of spirituality
all fiqh based institution s
all cultural socio-poitical movements
all pre-religion before islam that has influenced or mixed.... with the belief
of One ILAH(GOD) should be respectected
God has Created US as Humans so be Humans? the original term of sufi is cotton,
hasan al basri may god grant him hannah who was one of the muslims with sound
belief and that tought spirituality to his ppl and he used to wear cotton so
ppl refered him a sufi and not like those who says that he may believe in one
god but does not follow him like as he was a humanist or whatever ...ist which
is not the original teachings of Sufi through Islam in beliefs, if the beliefs
is not clear. then be know u r apostate. As for mixing islam as u ppl regarding
it as terrorist with illuminati, is a concept which should be outspoken as our
original is quran and sunnah if u give me any chains of narration about islam
been mixed with freemasons from the times of the prophet muhammed peace be upon
him his family and sahaba and the salaf. and be known the original salaf us
saliheen is not noted down as the salafi-wahabi-mutazile-najdi, as they r like
house withouts its roof, doors and windows so they don't have any keys to the
answer they have just been rejected the truth and the rest of the community of
such leader or common folk followed them or diluted into it as they again r not
from the ahlul sunnah wa jammah may Allah give victory!!!
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Submitted by YusufRowland (not verified) on Tue, 08/26/2014 - 02:03.
I was surprised to see you
mention Shaykh Abdalqadir alSufi in your article as supporting freemasonry
because he has written against them extensively as he has also written against
Hitler and Nazism.
My surprise was lessened
when I saw that you take your information from the mad Italian, Uthman, who is
a well known murderous psychopath. Please check your sources more carefully.
You can't believe everything you read on the Internet.
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So…. Obama MIGHT be the
AntiChrist?????
Submitted by Boer Warrior (not verified) on Sat, 05/31/2014 - 22:34.
Since this was written it
has been revealed that Barak Hussein Obama, like his mother, is very likely a
Subud follower.
It is also been conjectured that Bapak Mohammad Subuh is his biological
father!!!!
The culmination of all this
is a Sufi president of the United States???!!!!
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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 09/18/2013 - 16:48.
im confused about this
movement i thought they were peaceful and liberal, what the difference between
them and conservatives? What does occult mean?
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Submitted
by Naved (not verified) on Fri, 10/04/2013 - 03:24.
New age
is a spiritual movement that started or was brought in the 1960's by the
Freemasons. The New Age Spirituality is the Envisioned religion for the future.
Here is a great article describing the New Age and its key beliefs. http://endalltyranny.wordpress.com/2013/09/21/the-new-world-religion-for...
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Submitted by Ian (not verified) on Sun, 09/15/2013 - 11:09.
Im still struggling wit the
notion the london nased intel services were that together and so far sighted as
to set up Wahabism as a trojaan horse. The auther William Engdahls concept of
weaponising Islam into destroying itself seems apposite but thats used by him
to describe more current events setting Sunni and Shia ( etc etc) against each
other.
So Im needing some more
evidence re the British involvement
Plus the hippies in a field
thing for post new agers is a sharp point. As a student of Sufism I read
Murshid SAM (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti as was Samuel L Lewis was awarded by some
airforce intel an important medal after WW2 for esoteric services rumoured to
be assisting death camp victims - which would be a worthy enough but I have to
question wether the USAF was likely to award a medal for that ... or something
else.
However SAM wrote a book in
which he called himself 'the new age in person' and thats the title of the book
I think. He also brought a lot of attention to the Sufi message of Inayat Khan
- whose daughter Noor Inayat Khan was killed in a concentration camp for being
a brave unarmed spy
Are all these strands of
Sufism false for you as well
- I understand Sufis
consider the Quran mentions people already exisiting for who the message isnt
so needful
Is the phrase I recall
'people of purity' or such like - Sufis consider they are older than the Quran
and Prophet Mohammed - how do these fit in with your views that it was a
farsighted subtefuge against Islam if it does have a real claim to predate it?
The Abrahamic tradition
meme you refer to was the last shred of inclusive peacemaking I could believe
in re the insanity in the Holy Land - if you are saying its syncretism etc then
I have no peg to hang my hopes on as Sufis seemed to be a 3rd way out of the
Sunni Shia thing-
Any responses most welcome
in regard to viable peacebuilding and general goodwill etc
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Submitted
by David Livingstone on Mon, 09/16/2013 - 09:52.
The
details of the British creation of the Wahhabi sect are found in the Memoirs of Hempher.
Mir’at al Harramin, a
Turkish work by Ayyub Sabri Pasha, written in 1888, made the same claim,
stating that in Basra, Abdul Wahhab had come into contact with a British spy by
the name of Hempher, who “inspired in him the tricks and lies that he had
learned from the British Ministry of the Commonwealth.”
I don't
know if we can say that the British planned the use of Wahhabism that far back.
The British did create other groups as well, like the Sanussi Brotherhood, and
also used many Sufi orders, like the Bektashi. But of all of them, the Wahhabis
likely it proved to be most useful over the centuries.
Also read
Robert Dreyfuss' Hostage to Khomeini [PDF], especially
the chapters on the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as his most recent book, Devil's
Game: How the US Helped Unleash Islamic Fundamentalism.
As for
the Sufism, when they say they are older than the Quran and Mohammed, that is a
dead give-away to their heretical leanings. The only tradition that precedes
Islam is that of the recognized Prophets of the Bible and People of the Book.
What Sufis are referring to in such cases is the occult, showing that their
adherence to Islam is merely a cover.
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Submitted by Stephen Andrews (not verified) on Thu, 08/22/2013 - 13:03.
Just drifted in to your
site and rather than mess about I have purchased BTWS.
Have spent many years
searching Europe for the stories of Mithras, Bulls and other Gods - today
trying to resolve the pressure points down the fault line of europe based
around the burgundian core between Goths/visigoths and the Franks. I was
looking at Scythians this afternoon and the connection with the warlike tribes
of Benjamin and Dan.
At closer to 60 than I
would like it is great fun to have your ideas substantiated (or refuted) even
though someone else got to the answer before you. As you are aware its always
about the research and thought; the journey too perhaps.
It may sound a bit naff
(english expression for something between simple headed / poor taste or in this
case a bit sycophantic) but I am genuinely excited at reading the book that
will arrive from Amazon on 26th. I hope to be your first UK reviewer soon
after.
Kind regards
Stephen
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by David Livingstone on Mon, 09/16/2013 - 09:55.
Thanks
Andrew. Hope you find the information in BTWS valuable. I've expanded some on
the Scythians. Fascinating topic, as is the entire issue of the so-called Lost
Tribes. Whether they existed or not, they were a very important theme
throughout the occult tradition. Interesting to note that Scotland means land
of the Scythians.
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Submitted by Maggie (not verified) on Tue, 08/20/2013 - 20:01.
The white race has been
deliberately “cut off” from its ancestral religion of Hinduism, which was
practiced across prehistoric Europe for thousands of years before the rise of
Christianity. As a result, whites in the world have “lost their Path” and
forgotten “who they are” spiritually, discarding introspection in their wild
pursuit of money and material possessions.
http://www.richardcassaro.com/the-ancient-secret-of-the-swastika-the-hid...
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Submitted by Maggie (not verified) on Tue, 08/20/2013 - 19:57.
Rosicrucians were gnostics.
Sufism,gnosticism and kabalah have roots in the Vedas. Main goddes in Vedas is
Tara (Hill of Tara in Ireland). Another name for Tara is Terra Mari. Mari is
main godddes in original Basque religion, while symbol of Basque religion is
Lauburu what means four heads. It is swastika and I think four animal heads
like horses are origins of swastika.
Back to Tara. Symbol of
Tara is rose. Tara is also goddes of wisdom. Wisdom in greek language is
sophia. Sophia became goddes of wisdom. Symbol of Sophia is rose. If you look
at Hagia Sophia in Istanbul you can see those symbols on wall instead cross.
Put rose on cross means put supreme goddes on cross.
Baphomet in kabalah is
deciphered as Sophia. Is the same person with left hand up and right down as
Tara (Tara should have blonde-golden-red hair and blue eyes= aryan goddes,
sanskrit is aryan language and vedas belongs to aryans.) What is important on
famous picture of Baphomet is tatoo and means Divide and control.
Jesus as essene was no
doubt follower of teachings derived from vedas. Famous Cathars were followers
of essenes. Cathars and templars escaped to Spain where they fought in
reconquista. They met there with judaists and output was: alumbrado aka
illuminati, jesuits and donmehs.
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Submitted by chiller (not verified) on Tue, 08/20/2013 - 11:14.
very interesting article,
it reminds me of how indian peninsula was converted to islam by sufi's who went
among the unbelievers instead of open war.
i have been following the
Esalen/Wasson/Mckenna etc angle as lately publicized by Jan Irvin of gnosticmedia.
i had never thought that the new age would connect this strongly with Sufism.
i have been brought up on
Sufi Music and Rumi etc and really liked their liberal universal way of seeing
the world, and noticed that often they went against orthodox islam in their
poetry.
to me when i still was a
muslim it appealed to me and kept me longer in the fold of religion than i
should have.
later when i started to
really free my mind of brainwashing i also saw the paralells of Qawwaili/Sufi
music and also church gatherings and techniques employed by Cults to hypnotize
their followers and make them stop thinking critically.
Also a lot of Sheiks are
just impostors and predatory types praying on the person who is deperate.
And the techniques they
employ are placebo-effect or partly real Magic, -> talisman, writing verses
from the quran blowing in faces, praying over food, ancestor worship,
djinn/posession excorcism etc. Some use Hasjiesj
now i start to realize
these are the same things used in different strains of Sjamanism.
it's all centered around
changing one's mindstate through trance , and the popular Sufi musicians (
Sabri Bros, Nusrat fateh ali khan etc) have been touring the world and United
states many times since the 70's .
I think after the new ager
goes through the drugs-phase and doesnt find the Fix or illusion they are
chasing after, th sufi path becomes the next thing as a more ''sobered up''
less toxic path.
But for me it is still
brainwashing, altough i have nor found really destructive things in the teachings
except :
that they think it is the
highes ideal to merge with the beloved and rather die then then to live in this
shadowworld.
it reminds me of the
disturbed ascetism professed by the buddha, christian monks, fakirs , gandhi
etc,
and the very negative view of this world we inhabit.
Why not try to live in this
world the best you can instead of trying to flee from it in zikr and other
trance-hypnotic trips without drugs ?
As my experience goes, the
qawwali music does have a strong impact on the mind and fou feel elevation and
lighter and quieter in the mind, but i nowadays rather use my mind and think
critically about things because i'm interested in the world and do not wish to
spend too much time wasting.
my opinion is : a religion
is a big cult and a cult is a small religion. every religion started out as a
conspiratorial cult of a few against the consensus of the time and place.
and after generations when it grows, people become more anchored because it
integrates into culture like a mind-virus. and people do not see the negative
aspects of the particular side of Plato's Cave they happen to live in.
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Submitted
by GDcas (not verified) on Tue, 02/04/2014 - 22:00.
I think
people are missing the point of Sufism.One should not lose oneself, but instead
build awareness of themselves and the world around them.Gurdjieff's belief that
people were asleep means they lacked awareness.
This
awareness is hindered by internal chatter,the dialogue in a persons head that
requires strong effort to control.
This awareness
doesn't really jibe with losing oneself in drug use, etc.
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Submitted
by UmmerFarooq @faro0485 (not verified) on Thu, 08/22/2013 - 19:10.
dhikr
actually comes from the arabic root of ذكر
Some of the derived meanings from that root are:
to
remember/commemorate/recollect, study in order to remember, remind, bear in
mind, mindful, mention/tell/relate, magnify/praise, admonish/warn (e.g. dhikra is
the 2nd declenation and it is stronger than dhikr), preach, extol, give status.
nobility/eminence/honour, fame, good report, cause of good reputation, means of
exaltation.
Male/man/masculine (dhakar, dual - dhakarain, plural - dhukur).
You will
note that the doublespeak version of that word ends up being like sex, drugs
and music i.e. lose yourself and mind and even memory, concentration etc and be
neglectful and carefree. That is the direct opposite of religion as per its
etymology. Which according to Cicero was from relegere meaning re-read. And
also the opposite of negligens ie religiens meaning careful.
But I learned that a certain group of scholars who believed in the idea that
polytheism was the original belief, they pushed another claim of origin. And
you can see that their belief was a bias against the original meaning and
modern compared to Cicero.
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by David Livingstone on Tue, 08/20/2013 - 12:10.
I don't
agree that religion is a cult, but you made a lot of other very good points. I
entirely agree with what you say is the problem about the life-denying
tendencies of asceticism. And mysticism tends to promote aspiring to achieve
"other-worldly" experiences, instead of improving one's role in the
world. And that is the fundamental difference between mysticism and orthodox
tradition, as that, despite its heavy corruption by mysticism, was its original
intent. It's all about social justice, and taking care of the here and now.
Here's a
great quote my famous historian Ibn Khaldun, who explained that there were two
types of Sufis, one was legitimate, and the other deviant. James Morris
explains, Ibn Khaldun denounced the other-worldly aspirations of Sufism, and:
"...the
much more and down-to-earth consequences of diverting substantial societal and
human resources to the pointless, imaginary distractions and pastimes of such
large groups of "simpletons," and the perhaps even more debilitating
long-range consequences of their attempting to lead a moral and religious life
somehow separate from what they allegedly viewed as the "corrupting"
sphere of political and military power and authority." (An Arab “Machiavelli”?)
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Submitted
by chiller (not verified) on Tue, 08/20/2013 - 13:55.
Thank you
for your well thought out reaction.
I think
there is a time and place for some form of sjamanic practise , and psychedelic
plants as they are grown in nature and are so compatible with our
brainchemistry. i believe humanity has used the plants for a very long time
predating civilization as we know it.
But
caveat , it can have a detrimental effect on some people and some predators use
these ´´otherworldly experiences ´´ especially in group settings to control
other less experienced persons.
And that goes also for the sufi practises and thus Gurdjieff´s techniques.
I think
it can be a beneficial tool if it is coupled with a mind wich is trained in
critical thinking and has freed itself of irrational beliefs wich have been
assimilated over a lifetime .
the
problem i have with religion as my experience has been is that most of us are
taught from a very young age on , when our mind is still in ´´copy-paste´´
mode, absorbing everything we get into our subconsciousness uncritically for
most of us.
also if
the core group of a child and the surrounding culture reinforces the
internalized beliefs it becomes hard to ever develop real critical thinking
capabilities in total freedom.
The mind
gets blocked from certain thoughts so one can be trapped in a invisible caged
perception of reality and not even know one is.
the
selfinforced prison as one is it´s own warden and mindpolice and censor.
The
problem I have with Orthodoxie is that it becomes dogmatic in it´s impositions
on society.
I find it very suffocating as i am very curious to the nature of reality and
keep an open mind and the privilige to entertain any idea without fear of
punishment, and i upgrade my beliefs if i gain new insights.
I wish to
keep growing until i die and not become a fossilized tree wich stands still.
I think
that if i do not physically-mentally impose my will on people i am morally
being a good person.
And I have the right to defend myself to survive and reserve the right to take
out predators if my life is threatened. that part of Islam i ascribe to.
I do not really need all the other aspects wich for me take up to much energy
and time.
I think
the Intelligent force wich we call god is just our limited view on something
our wildest imagination could not fully appreciate.
And people in history have seen a glimpse of a valid aspect of this
intelligence and tried to reform society for the better as i believe most of
the prohets of the world have done.
The
problem is that after death and codification of the teachings people get stuck
and the teachings become a wall in stead of a road that needs to grow to get
ahead.
For each
time and place a certain teaching can be an improvement but maybe it´s meant to
be a phase iinto the next one.
and a lot
of teachings of mankind have been very negative and wrong as well , including
sjamanism , and some have perverted into dark magic by some force acting in
humanity.
iIm
wondering why that happens all the time.
I still
commend you for your work in exposing negative aspects of your religion as most
people dont even see them or dare not to be critical in fear of repression from
their peers.
Amar
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Submitted by Maggie (not verified) on Tue, 08/20/2013 - 10:16.
Conspiracy theorists like
myself believe modern history reflects a long-term conspiracy by an
international financial elite to enslave humanity.
Like blind men examining an
elephant, we attribute this conspiracy to Jews, Illuminati, Vatican, Jesuits,
Freemasons, Black Nobility, and Bildersbergs etc.
The real villains are at
the heart of our economic and cultural life. They are the dynastic families who
own the Bank of England, the US Federal Reserve and associated cartels. They
also control the World Bank and IMF and most of the world’s Intelligence
agencies. Their identity is secret but Rothschild is certainly one of them. The
Bank of England was “nationalized” in 1946 but the power to create money
remained in the same hands.
England is in fact a
financial oligarchy run by the “Crown” which refers to the “City of London” not
the Queen. The City of London is run by the Bank of England, a private
corporation. The square-mile-large City is a sovereign state located in the
heart of greater London. As the “Vatican of the financial world,” the City is
not subject to British law.
On the contrary, the
bankers dictate to the British Parliament. In 1886, Andrew Carnegie wrote that,
“six or seven men can plunge the nation into war without consulting Parliament
at all.” Vincent Vickers, a director of the Bank of England from 1910-1919
blamed the City for the wars of the world. (“Economic Tribulation” (1940) cited
in Knuth, The Empire of the City, 1943, p 60)
The British Empire was an
extension of bankers’ financial interests. Indeed, all the non-white colonies
(India, Hong Kong, Gibraltar) were “Crown Colonies.” They belonged to the City
and were not subject to British law although Englishmen were expected to
conquer and pay for them.
The Bank of England assumed
control of the U.S. during the T.R. Roosevelt administration (1901-1909) when
its agent J.P. Morgan took over 25% of American business. (Anton Chaitkin,
Treason in America, 1964)
According to the “American
Almanac,” the bankers are part of a network called the “Club of the Isles”
which is an informal association of predominantly European-based royal
households including the Queen. The Club of the Isles commands an estimated $10
trillion in assets. It lords over such corporate giants as Royal Dutch Shell,
Imperial Chemical Industries, Lloyds of London, Unilever, Lonrho, Rio Tinto
Zinc, and Anglo American DeBeers. It dominates the world supply of petroleum,
gold, diamonds, and many other vital raw materials; and deploys these assets at
the disposal of its geopolitical agenda.
https://centurean2.wordpress.com/2010/10/31/the-jewish-conspiracy-is-bri...
Who are Donmehs? Donmehs or
crypto jews are judaists who were forced to christianity after reconquista in
Spain. Those who setled in Salonika-Thessaloniki created sect called Donmeh.
Spiritual guru was Shabatai Tzvi or Zevi or Zvi. His follower was Jacob Frank
whos nephew Moses Dobrushka aka Iunius Frei was decapitated at guillotine with
Dante.
http://www.dejanlucic.net/Jews%20Plotted%20The%20Armenian%20Holocaust.html
http://www.dejanlucic.net/Muslim%20Jew.html
All freemasons and
illuminati were established and paid by Britain aka East India Company. Karl
Marx described how the East India Company 'conquered India to make money out of
it'.
http://www.redpepper.org.uk/The-mother-of-modern-corporatism/
Britain’s Alliance with the
Jews
Half a century after Dee’s
death, England was under a very different political regime but facing a
remarkably similar security predicament. In the mid-1650s, power rested in the
hands of a Puritan dictator, Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell. Cromwell’s
principle enemies were the royalist partisans of the dethroned Stuarts who
brewed sedition at home and plotted abroad with the Catholic kings of Spain and
France.
At this time there lived in
London a wealthy Portuguese-Spanish merchant named Antonio Fernandez de
Carvajal. In fact, Carvajal was a Marrano or crypto-Jew, a descendent of
Iberian Jews compelled to accept Catholicism in the previous century. Like many
of his secret co-religionists, Carvajal hated Spain and all it stood for. He
also sought to legitimise his and other crypto-Jews’ status in England and
permit other Sons of Judah to live there openly. The obstacle was Edward I’s
1290 Edict of Expulsion which forbade Jews to dwell in England. In 1655,
Carvajal arranged for Rabbi Menasseh ben Israel to come from Amsterdam and make
a personal appeal to Cromwell. The Lord Protector formally repealed the Edict
two years later. Part of the quid pro quo was that Carvajal put Cromwell’s
agents in contact with a far-flung network of “Jewish Intelligencers” who
operated in the Netherlands, the Levant, Spanish America and inside Spain
itself.7 As early as 1656 this secret alliance proved its value when Carvajal’s
agents exposed royalist intrigues in Holland.
Jump ahead 260 years and
British agents in the Middle East, among them a certain T. E. Lawrence, were
being aided by another network of Jewish spies, this one the Zionist NILI ring
which worked against the Ottoman Turks.8 At the same time, Albion’s operatives
spun visions of independence before the Arabs while quietly plotting to divide
up the whole region with France. The leading light of the NILI ring, Aaron
Aaronsohn perished in a mysterious plane crash over the English Channel in 1919.
As in the later cases of the Duke of Kent (1942) and General Wladyslaw Sikorski
(1943), suspicious minds saw the hidden hand of Perfidious Albion ridding
itself of an “inconvenience.”
http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/perfidious-albion-an-introductio...
We have great boox:
*AGENTS OF EMPIRE: Anglo-Zionist International Operations, by Antony Verrier.
*Builders of Empire: Freemasons and British Imperialism, 1717-1927, by Jessica
L. Harland-Jacobs
See illuminati at http://one-evil.org/content/home.html
Who are members of the Club
of the Isles? Dynastic families, heirs of Roman empire and christianity,
descendants of Charlemagne, families: Saxe-Coburg-Gotha-Windsor/
Oranje-Nassaus/Hanover/Hohenzolern.
They created French
revolution to eliminate competition and set East India Company system on
European continent. This system is also called globalization,
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Submitted by Maggie (not verified) on Tue, 08/20/2013 - 08:33.
Sufism, kabalah and
gnosticism have roots in the Vedas. Doctrines of Abrahamic religions are
derived from Vedas and its clones as Zoroastrism.
All started arround 2000 BC with apocalypse at Saraswati river as 2 earth's
plates colided and one get under another and rised it. It was accompanied by
seizmic and volcanic activities. This event actully sparked great movement of
the nations with religious leaders as Ibrahim Zeradust-Ibn Rama-Abe
Rama-Abraham.
Shortly after apocalypse
Harappa-Mohenjo Daro culture new people showed from Anatolia to Egypt. Hyksos
in Egypt on spoked wheel chariots- Aryans, Hittites, Mitani- who spoked
sanskrit and have vedic gods as Mithra, Varuna etc. This era ended up arround
1200 BC by Sea people. Pay attention to Pelesets as they are this days
Palestinians, and Labu/Libu from Libya with blue eyes, blond hair and tatoos.
http://www.salimbeti.com/micenei/index.htm
http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/199503/who.were.the.sea.people.htm
http://bhaktianandascollectedworks.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/heliodorus-a...
http://www.ece.lsu.edu/kak/Akhenaten.pdf
There is couple
scientifically provable floods which would be taken as Vedic flood. Vedic flood
is fundamentaly identical with biblical flood. It's center figure is Manu
(roots of german and english word "man"). Manu build boat and has
sons whom he sent world wide. In Egypt Manu became Menes, in Crete Minos. But
sacred bull slamed in cave and labyrinth stayed in this area till Jesus's times
of Mithraism. Floods: In vedic scripts is stated that Kashmir was lake.
Actually 45,000 years ago mountain ridge broke by seismic activity. Someone was
there, saw it and passed from generation to generation.
Another flood in Aryan lifespace is Black Sea deluge, as 5,500 years ago
seismic activities broke Bosporus and water flooded valley which is this days
The Black Sea. Vedic goddes of water is Danu and all rivers heading to Black
sea bear her name.
From Egypt is also 10 commandements, from chapter 125 of Egyptian book of death
or Papyrus of Ani/Agni. Agni is vedic god, also Etruscans have one.
There is theories that
Jesus went to Bharat-India, also that he was buddhist monk. To understand that
we must answer the fundamental question: what religion was Jesus. Jesus was
Essene, and essenes practiced kabalah, three of life, they were
healers-ayurvedic? Why should Jesus go to Bharat. There is story that
Solomon/Suleiman temple is in Kashmir. Another story is that Jesus's grave is
in kashmir.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shankaracharya_Temple
On web page askwhy.co.uk
can be found whole story of judaism and recreation of vedas into new religion.
Famous by bible are pharisees. Pharisee are Pharsi or Parsi means persians.
Phariseeism became rabinism and rabinism transformed into judaism.
http://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/Religions/iranian/Zarathushtrian/zoroastri...
http://www.theskepticalreview.com/tsrmag/4zoroa94.html
http://veda.wikidot.com/do-you-know
http://www.stephen-knapp.com/art_photo_four.htm
There is lots of evidence
that Mekka was once Shiva's temple.
“The single fact that we
owe not one single truth, not one idea in philosophy or religion to the Semitic
race is, of itself, ample reward for years of study, and it is a fact
indisputable, if I read the Veda and Zend Avesta alright.” Albert Pike
When we believe that modern
technology is really modern, this prejudice makes us question great physicists
like Oppenheimer, the father of modern atomic bomb who on seeing the first
nuclear explosion in the last century said that he had read the description of
a nuclear weapon in Bhagavadgita – the ancient Sanskrit text which says,
“If the radiance of a thousand suns
Were to burst at once into the sky
That would be like the splendor of the Mighty one…
I am become Death,
The shatterer of Worlds.”
When asked about how he felt on exploding the first atomic bomb on earth,
Oppenheimer replied that the explosion was “First in modern times“.
It is not that we cannot believe such things, it is simply that we DO NOT want
to believe this. How can my great grand father be more intelligent than me? It
is our attitude. We forget that it is our great ancestors who taught us how to
count.
We seldom realize the importance of what Einstein said:
“We should be thankful to Indians who taught us how to count without which no
worthwhile scientific discovery would have been possible.”
We fail to recognize the magnitude of the famous British Historian Grant Duff’s
words:
“Many of the advances in
the sciences that we consider today to have been made in Europe were in fact
made in India centuries ago.”
We ignore what the American
Historian Will Durant said:
“ India was the motherland of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe’s
languages. India was the mother of our philosophy, of much of our mathematics,
of the ideals embodied in Christianity… of self-government and democracy. In
many ways, Mother India is the mother of us all.”
Most of us are not even aware of the historical facts which the famous French
philosopher and writer Voltaire knew when he wrote:
“It is very important to
note that some 2,500 years ago at the least Pythagoras went from Samos to the
Ganges to learn geometry…But he would certainly not have undertaken such a
strange journey had the reputation of the Brahmins’ science not been long
established in Europe.”
Mr. W.D. Brown, the British
philosopher, admits in his Superiority of the Vedic Religion as under :
“Vedic religion recognises but one God. It is a thoroughly scientific religion,
where religion and science meet hand in hand. Here theology is based on science
and philosophy.”
Mr. Count Bjornstjerne, the Norway s national poet, who was awarded the Nobel
Prize for literature in 1903, observes :
“These truly sublime ideas cannto fail to convince us that the Vedas recognise
only one God.”
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only Qadyani deny Mahdi and
Jesus
Submitted by Sunni (not verified) on Mon, 08/19/2013 - 13:48.
All the Sunni groups from
salafi to sufi accept Mahdi and Jesus.
Even the shia accept the coming of Mahdi and 2nd coming of Jesus.
There is only 1 group claiming to be Muslim denies Mahdi and 2nd coming of
Jesus, and qadyani have never been
Accepted as Muslims their every attempt to label them selves Muslims failed.
In UK the so called relaxed Muslims sufi's are at the forefront of refuting
qadyani's.
Please when you give reasons on Islam don't quote botanical encyclopedia quran
and hadith are sufficient for us you continue With your belief for us Mahdi and
Jesus is part of our belief.
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Rev. Sun Myung Moon: gangster,
fascist and CIA asset
Submitted by David Livingstone on Sat, 08/17/2013 - 22:12.
Given his assocation with
Ahmad Kuftaro, it's important to take note of Rev. Moon's involvement with the
CIA. Article here: Reverend Moon: Cult leader, CIA
asset, and Bush family friend is dead.
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Majority of Sunni scholars
doubt Mahdi
Submitted by David Livingstone on Sat, 08/17/2013 - 21:42.
Despite the popularity of
interpretations of the coming of the so-called "Mahdi" among Muslims
today, the belief has been regularly condemned by the majority of Sunni
scholars. (Shorter Encyclopedia of Islam, 1961, 310ff)
As explained by the Encyclopedia Britannica,
"The Qurʾān (Islamic sacred scriptures) does not mention him,
and almost no reliable ḥadith (saying attributed to the Prophet Muḥammad)
concerning the mahdī can be adduced. Many orthodox Sunni theologians
accordingly question Mahdist beliefs, but such beliefs form a necessary part of
Shīʿī doctrine."
According to Dr.
Fahimi, author of al-Mahdiyya fi al-islam:
"Muhammad bin Isma’il
Bukhari and Muslim bin Hajjaj Nishaburi the compilers of the two most authentic
books of the Sunni hadith who recorded these traditions meticulously and with
extreme caution in verifying their reliability have not included traditions
about the Mahdi in their Sihah. Rather these traditions are part of the
compilations of Sunan of Abu Dawud Ibn Majah Tirmidhi Nasa’i and Musnad of
Ahmad b. Hanbal. These compilers were not careful in selecting traditions and
their hadith-reports were regarded by scholars like Ibn Khaldun as weak and
unacceptable."(p. 69)
Muwatta
Imam Malik the first of famous Hadith books mentions nothing about Mahdi.
Even the scholars who beleive that traditions about appearence of Mahdi are
true, like the Hanafis, also state that beleif in him being Mahdi is not
required as a tenet of belief (Aqeedah).
Also notable is that Ibn
Khaldoun, a highly respected historian and social scientist, doubted the
appearence of Mahdi and has written a critique of Hadith about Mahdi.
Ibn Khaldun brings twenty
one traditions regarding Imam Mahdi, and casts doubt on the narrators and
chains of each one of them with these words, “These are all the
traditions which the scholars bring about Mahdi and his re-appearance at the
end of time. You have noticed that all these are doubted, and it is improbable
that any has been spared.”
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Submitted
by UmmerFarooq (not verified) on Thu, 08/22/2013 - 19:52.
Where did
you get most of that? I could only find links to shi'ite websites.
And as
for that Encyclopaedia of Islam a highly orientalist collection enjoyed by the
likes of Daniel Pipes et al?
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Submitted
by Sunni Revival Project (not verified) on Mon, 08/19/2013 - 12:05.
Peace be
on him who follows divine guidance,
This is a warning. Your research is useful, however, in your attempt to
differentiate orthodox Islam from universalist/syncretist and more importantly,
occult deviance, you often make the foolish mistake of insulting revivers of
the Orthodox creed, or denying things which are necessary aspects of Islamic
faith, according to the consensus of orthodox Sunni scholars, Ahlus Sunnah Wal
Jamah, which you rarely are witnessed quoting from. It is known among scholars
and students of Islam that anyone who rejects those things which are known by
certain knowledge, meaning that they are mass transmitted hadiths or Quranic
verses, or by the consensus of the scholars, is automatically labelled a
disbeliever and if found guilty of such a belief will have to renew his faith
and his nikah.
1. You
have demonstrated reason to doubt the existence of Al Mahdi according to Sunni
Orthodoxy in the above paragraph.
2. The
evidences you use to deny said belief are inconsequential in regards to
principles of Islamic law and theology and the method of establishing evidence
(istidlal), and therefore you are in danger of being cast outside the fold of
Islam, as whoever denies something known as a necessity of faith is a
disbeliever.
Imam
Ahmed Rida Khan, a stalwart of orthodox Sunnism and authentic Tasawwuf, who you
do not seem to have studied in any serious depth, has quoted in his book
refuting a syncretist group which started under the auspices of the Colonial
government in British India by the name of Nadwa, and quotes prominent Hanafi
scholars to show the verdict concerning one who rejects knowledge known by
necessity of the faith. This book book is called Fatawa al Haramayn.
Paragraph
Four of the seventh page of the edition printed in Istanbul states:
"Whomsoever denies something from the necessities of faith has
disbelieved, and whomsoever doubts his disbelief and his inevitable punishment
has also disbelieved. There is clear, decisive consensus on this, as mentioned
in Fatawa Bazzaziyya, Durr al Mukhtar ofImam Haskafi. Also, it is mentioned in
Ash Shifa of Qadi Iyad, Ar Rawda of Imam Nawawi, and al A'lam bi Qawati' ul
Islam by Ibn Hajar Makki, that: "There is consensus of the disbelief of one
who does not consider a Christian, Jew, or anyone who seperates from the
Islamic religion as a disbeliever, or even if he hesitates to make takfir of
them or doubts it".
Also,
another reviver of the Orthodox tradition, Imam Al Ghazzali states in his book
'Faysal At Tafriqa Baynal Islam waz Zindiqa':
"I
say unbelief is taxing the Apostle with lying with reference to anything of
that which he brought. And belief is believing him with reference to everything
which he brought. There is no takfir on a branch except denial of a basic
religious tenet which is known to derive from the Apostle by impeccable
tranmission. Taxing with unbelief is obligatory even with branches if they
impute lying to the Prophet."
Keeping
these principles in mind, the belief in the Mahdi is affirmed by the consensus
of the Islamic scholars whose words have weight in matters of faith and law,
such as Imam Suyuti and Ibn Hajar Haytami. Imam Suyuti records over 200 hadith
in which the Imam Mahdi is mentioned as an inevitable sign of the end of times,
therefore, it would be unwise for you to deny something upon which there are so
many hadith in favour of your own opinion which is fundamentally lacking
understanding of this subject.
Therefore,
accept belief in the Mahdi or be cast out of the fold of Islam due to your
denial of something known by mutawatir hadith. And no, something does not need
to be included within Bukhari and Muslim to be called Mutawatir, and no, just
because Bukhari and Muslim used the most stringent methodology in codifying hadith
does not mean all other collections are obsolete.
Finally,
the Islamic belief in the Mahdi should be accepted because the Prophet
mentioned this. However, if you still have doubts after that, know that the
Islamic belief in the Mahdi is different from the Zoroastrian 'Saoshyant', is
different from the Shiite Imamate concept, and the Mahdi which Muslims await
will be a military leader. Also, the messiah awaited by Christians and
religio-perennialists is not the same as the Islamic Mahdi, or the Islamic Dajjal,
but is a figment of their own imaginations.
In
Conclusion, the musings of Pseudo Sufis, and the messianic ravings of
perennialists, nor the persian background of the messianic concept are no way
near reasons enough to deny a concept depicted in mass narrated traditions of
Prophet Muhammad.
Email us
for more details. And for a pdf of Imam Suyuti's Al Arf al Wardi Fi Akhbar al
Mahdi, in English trans.
"
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Submitted
by UmmerFarooq @faro0485 (not verified) on Thu, 08/22/2013 - 19:27.
Who are
you oh anonymously hiding in the shadow attacking from many angles, what is
your name?
"Orthodox
tradition, Imam Al Ghazzali ..."
Al
Ghazali revived sufism...
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Submitted by
Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 08/17/2013 - 19:04.
"sheikh nazim"
praises queen elizabeth. http://books.google.ca/books?id=Gh7Q-EsH_EwC&pg=PA45&dq=nazim+queen+eliz...
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The Sarmoung and
the Yezidis
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30, 2004 - 7:18 AM by Jesus |
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Does anyone
know anything about a group called the Yezidis or the Sarmoung Brotherhood? I
believe the Sarmoung Brotherhood was a major topic in one of Gurdjieff's books,
but does anyone know of a possible connection with the Yezidis in the mountains
near Mosul Iraq? I am currently in Erbil, Iraq, about 2 hours away from Mosul,
and unfortunately Didn't bring any books by or about Gurdjieff, and amazon.com
doesn't seem to deliver into this area. Any help at all would be appreciated.
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Yasin
Re: The Sarmoung
and the Yezidis
Thu, June 2,
2005 - 11:29 PM
This much I know. The
Yezidis are an actual religious cult which is based on dualistic Zoroastrian
beliefs. They have no connection, whatsoever, with the "Sarmoung"
which is a mythical group patterned after Theosophical concepts like the
"Great White Bortherhood." Gurdjieff used many mythical paradigms to
illustrate his teachings, and the Sarmoung is certainly one of them. J.G.
Bennett believed that the "root school" of Gurjieff's teaching was
actually the Khwajagan-Naqshbandiyya, remnants of which can still be found in
Afghanistan.
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iona
Re: The Sarmoung
and the Yezidis
Wed, November
9, 2005 - 6:56 PM
The Yezidis are a
pre-xtian devil worship cult, and their grimoire is The Picatrix. It was a
lifework of my artist/bookbinder friend Joel Radcliffe to publish this work,
and he did.
www.renaissanceastrology.com/our...html
Iona
ionamiller.chaosmagic.com
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Shadoan
Re: The Sarmoung
and the Yezidis
Sun, May 11,
2008 - 1:49 PM
I don't know, if this was
published recently then it must be an invented rendition.
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P
Re: The Sarmoung
and the Yezidis
Sun,
September 3, 2006 - 2:46 PM
The main problem I see
with all this is not the lack of wanting to serach, but rather the lack of
self. We are taught so many ideas that if one is to look closer you can see
their flaws. The key to living is in learning to die. Total abandon, walking
without protection. Not wanting to hold on to these old ideas and concepts but
follow ones true nature. Where the heart is there is only truth, and where
there is death there are no lies. The powers of the world (life and death)
don't judge but only guide. If you are willing to listen.
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Ara
Re: The Sarmoung
and the Yezidis
Thu, December
28, 2006 - 10:58 PM
Sarmoun is the name of a
sufi order based around Afghanistan. Sarmoun means "bee" which
relates to the idea of knowledge resembling something like a commodity or
material substance that can be stored and then released again when various
conditions indicate this is right.
You will find various references to the Sarmoun & the Yezidis in books
published by Octagon Press or by Idries Shah. See "Among the
Dervishes" and other works.
o
Re: The Sarmoung
and the Yezidis
Thu, June 21,
2007 - 11:12 AM
I joined this tribe solely
to reply to this post. (Hi, everyone!)
Years ago, I was a big fan of Idries Shah, Gurdjieff, et al. I might suggest
that the Sarmouni are not necessarily a sufi order based around Afghanistan.
The Sarmouni are a universal family who operate on a metaphorically invisible
level. What I mean to say is, as Idries Shah paraphrased from the sufi
tradition:
"The Secret protects itself by virtue of its implausibility."
Just as the so-called "Shamballa Warriors" are mythically connected
through a link of telepathic communication, so the Naqshbandiyya are also
developed in such type of communication. They are the step before the Khwajagan
and finally the universality of the Sarmoun Way. By "universality" I
mean to say that in order to be (traditionally) a "sufi" one is
pretty much required to go through the rigors of the cultural system of Islam.
The Sarmouni, however, do not rely on any cultural form, but cull from the
cream of all great mystical traditions minus any artifice of cultural
prejudice. And--it is said--that they are interconnected invisibly through this
telepathic connection, thereby, the "inivisibility" of it all.
Nonetheless, the pattern is distinguishable within reality itself, if one is
sensitized enough to perceive it.
Years and years ago, I quite by accident obtained a pamphlet called "The
Greater Sufism." This book referred precisely to this property of
universality, yet made no written reference to the Sarmouni.
However--interestingly, and quite mysteriously--on the back of the pamphlet was
a symbol: it was an enneagram with the image of a bee emblazoned upon it.
One really fascinating point is that there is a source right on the internet to
the Sarmoun Way, but it's so outrageous and implausible that most people pass
it off as a crock of proverbial shit. But again, the secret protects itself by
its own implausibility.
Another interesting place to look is Oscar Ichazo's Arica Way. The Hexagonal
design in his "Universal Logos" is a reference to the beehive, I
believe. The cells in a beehive are hexagonal.
(Just as a silly side-note, if you do a google image search on the words
"Saturn" and "Hexagon" you'll discover some remarkable
pictures of of the planet Saturn, and the strange hexagonal shape that was
discovered on its southern pole. Scientists are in duh-mode about it, not
knowing how it possibly could have been formed naturally. )
images.google.com/images
