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Hasan-i-Sabbah was a Persian Twelver who converted to Ismailism and became an enthusiastic missionary for its cause, and a supporter of Nizar. In his youth he studied alongside the future tentmaker, astronomer and poet Omar…
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Others whom the present-day Orders claim to have been early Rosicrucians, annd who were certainly associated with the ideas of the movement, include the mystic Thomas Vaughan (1621-65); the astrologer William Lilly (1602-81); Sir Kenelm…
His [John Dee’s] donation of 4,000 of his own books to a new national library was later one of the starting points of the British Museum. – A Brief History of Secret Societies: An Unbiased…
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