Mysticism and Its Results: Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy, as developed in the Instruction and Acts of Secret Societies, Associations, or Confraternities, whether Social, Religious, or Political, from the Beginning of History to the Present Day, and Their Effects on the Masses of Mankind, Then and Now.
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Year: 1857
Entry: Delafield, John. Mysticism and Its Results: Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy, as developed in the Instruction and Acts of Secret Societies, Associations, or Confraternities, whether Social, Religious, or Political, from the Beginning of History to the Present Day, and Their Effects on the Masses of Mankind, Then and Now. Saint Louis: Edwards and Bushnell, 1857. 120 p.
Author/Editor: Delafield, John
Location: St. Louis, MO
Title: Mysticism and Its Results: Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy, as developed in the Instruction and Acts of Secret Societies, Associations, or Confraternities, whether Social, Religious, or Political, from the Beginning of History to the Present Day, and Their Effects on the Masses of Mankind, Then and Now.
Printer/Publisher: Edwards and Bushnell
Language: English
Notes: Speculates on the early rise of Jewish "secret writing" and "the origin of the Cabbalists or Kabbalistæ, a secret society among the Hebrews" (p. 48).