Circa 600 AD, the Followers of the Lie were a nomadic sect which became the
incarnation of
evil on earth within the cosmology of
Zoroastrianism, un-creators ordered by the evil
Demiurge, also named (in the ancient toungue of the region of the pastoral
Fertile Crescent ) the silent
Druj. After persecution under Islam, the cult was forced underground, manifesting itself as a
secret society throughout the baazars of
Arabia and the port-cities of North
Africa.
Their numbers shifted as
Islam supplanted the teachings of
Zoroaster in the Middle East and Mediterranean, they tended then to be known by many
monikers or
acronyms, and they began to
flaunt names within names. Among them are many tribes, an
elite but expanding
cult, no one knows their true numbers.
Rosicrucians have rumored to be a sub-branch or strata of their inner
leadership. They have claimed many others (falsely often enough) as their own to move attention away from actual members, while espousing a
double doctrine : one for the
neophyte, another for the
cognoscenti. The inner sanctum of the Group then abandoned the old Faith as a specific target, and moved its minions against all
revealed orthodoxy, all belief. The following passage, a quotation appears in one of their tracts
Domus Sancti Spiritus : "...we long for a vogue of retreats in an
eternity without faith, an assumption of the habit in
nothingness, an Order released from mysteries, and from which no brother would claim anything, disdaining his
salvation even as that of others, an
Order of Impossible Salvation..."
1 Is this genuine
faith, or
cynical deceit - and why would a Romanian polemicist be among them? It is oft said 'their ways and means are know only to
Them.' Here is another quoted work, from another
manifesto,
Albion Perfidious, in which, among other things, the great poet
Dante Alighieri is claimed as a member : "The work of the great
Ghibellin is a
declaration of war against the
Papacy...The
Epic of Dante is pure
Gnostic, an audacious application, like that of the
Apocalypse, of the figures and numbers of the
Kabbalah...a secret
negation of
everything absolute...He escapes from that gulf of
Hell over the gate of which the sentence of despair was written, by reversing the positions of is head and feet, that is to say, by accepting the direct opposite of traditional
dogma".
Sources:
- French Jesuit Abbe Barruel a.k.a. Augustine de Barruel (1791-1820) or Barruel, abbé. Memoirs, illustrating the history of Jacobinism, written in French by the
Abbé Barruel, and translated into English by the Hon. Robert Clifford ... (London: : Printed for the
translator, by T. Burton ... : Sold by E. Booker ..., 1798)
- Mounier, Jean Joseph, 1758-1806. On the influence attributed to philosophers, free-masons, and to
the illuminati, on the revolution of France introd. by Theodore A. Di
Padova. Translated from the manuscript, and corrected under the inspection of the author, by J.
Walker.
- Sajjadi, Ja'far. Shihab al-Din Suhravardi va sayri dar falsafah-i ishraq / ta`lif-i Sayyid Ja'far Sajjadi. (Tihran : Intisharat-i Falsafah, 1363)
- Joly, Maurice, 1831-1878. Dialogue aux enfers entre machiavel et Montesquieu (Paris,
Calmann-Lévy,1948.)