Kathy, At 08:36 AM 12/1/2003 +1300, you wrote: >>I understand that they were called " The Illuminati". which had connections to Free >>Masonry. I think they were the "spiritual elite " of Free-masonry. I have no idea >>how I know this now. One of those "facts" that has stuck in the mind. from teenage >>years. Long before I found the Baha'i Faith and read Paris Talks..<<
The Illumaniti, a now defunct secret organization (though kept alive through the conspiracies of some ultra-right-wing groups) are different from the Illuminatists (ishrAqI), an Islamic school f ounded by Suhraward� which taught that true wisdom (Arabic, hikmat) was derived from a combination of reason and intuition. Mark A. Foster * http://MarkFoster.net http://CompuServe.m.foster.name ---------- You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Baha'i Studies is available through the following: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.jccc.net/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=bahai-st news://list.jccc.net/bahai-st http://www.escribe.com/religion/bahaist (public) http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (public)
