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Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy By: John Delafield |
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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. BY JOHN DELAFIELD, ESQ., OF MISSOURI,
AUTHOR OF "AN INQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN OF THE ANTIQUITIES OF AMERICA." SAINT LOUIS:
PUBLISHED BY EDWARDS & BUSHNELL, NO. 97 FOURTH STREET, TEN BUILDINGS. 1857. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857,
BY JOHN DELAFIELD,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and
for the
District of Missouri. SAVAGE & McCREA, STEREOTYPERS,
13 Chambers Street, N.Y. TO MY ALMA MATER,
COLUMBIA COLLEGE, NEW YORK,
This Essay is respectfully Inscribed,
BY THE WRITER.
{5} PREFACE. "THE WORD WAS GOD." That "WORD IS TRUTH." Truth can never change, or it
would contradict itself. Past, present, and future, must be governed by
immutable laws. Experience is acquired by the careful study of history, and
the present condition of all things. All is governed now by that same law
of truth, which was from the beginning of the world, and ever shall be.
What serious lessons, then, may be learned by a careful examination of past
ages; and how useful may they not be to us and our children for future
ages? We can only judge of that which is to come hereafter, by studying the
past, and carefully noting the present. This little book has collated some facts, perhaps, somewhat out of the
usual range of reading; but which it is sincerely trusted may be of
practical {6} utility. If it only induces thought, study, or research, by
intellectual and honest minds, its object will have been attained. The
writer can only claim the indulgence of the reader to consider the essay
suggestive not didactic. Many a far abler pen may enlarge upon and carry
out the ideas presented. May it be J. D.
{7} CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Secrecy; its Uses and Abuses. Mystery; its Definition. Mysticism, and its
Definition. ... PAGE 9 CHAPTER II. The Distinction between the Early Elohistic and Jehovahstic Ages of
Primeval Patriarchal Times. The Secrecy of Original Worship on Mountain
Tops. The Collation and Reconciliation of the Patriarchal Traditions
brought together by Moses. The Commencement of the Jehovahstic Age. The
Origin of Mythology. The Magi; their Organization and Modes of
Worship. The Deification of Nimrod, and the Source of Political Power at
its Beginning. The Secret Writings they adopted. The Dead Invokers. The
Mysteries of Egypt, Greece, and Rome. ... 16 CHAPTER III. The Origin of the Cabbalistæ; the Chaldeans, and their Antagonism to
Patriarchal Tradition. The Hand Writing on Belshazzar's Wall. The Secret
Writings of the Cabbalistæ. How Daniel read the Same. Ezra. The Origin
of the Masoretic Text. Zoroaster. His Reformation and Reconstruction of
the Religion of the Magi. Pythagoras, and his "League." The Thugs. The
Druids. ... 41 {8} CHAPTER IV. The Discipline of the Secret in the Origin of the Christian Church. The
Inquisition. The Mystics. The Rise of Monachism. The Mendicant
Orders. The Orders of Knighthood. The Jesuits, their Organization and
History. The Rosicrucians, &c. ... 71 CHAPTER V. The Struggle between an alleged Jus Divinum Regum , and Popular
Sovereignty. And the Efforts now attempted to destroy our Grand Experiment
of Self Government. Practical Results. ... 104
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