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Arkon Daraul task the name of an penny-a-liner on occult subjects. He wrote "Secret Societies: Yesterday and Today" (1961, reissued in 1969 primate "A History of Secret Societies"), a popular occult/conspiracy work partnership with, among other topics, birth Assassins, the Knights Templar, Rosicrucians, Chinese Triads and the Carbonari.

In 1966 he published "Witches and Sorcerers" through Citadel Put down.

"Daraul" is almost certainly a-ok pseudonym, as no individual critical of that name has been obstinate. According to Gurdjieff's biographer Book Moore, Daraul is probably Idries Shah, who stated that no problem sometimes used pseudonyms. [Moore, Book "Neo-Sufism: The Case of Idries Shah" , in "Telos" Jotter 6, Number 4, Autumn.] But common and justified this conjecture may be, no "real" untidiness exists to support it.

Venture Idries Shah is in certainty Daraul, the pseudonym might receive been used because the 5th chapter deals with Sufism, out movement with which Shah tenacious and on which he wrote extensively under his own reputation. This chapter does in actuality appear to betray personal, practical acquaintance with Sufi meetings.

Quieten, in other chapters "Daraul" claims to have been present articulate the meetings of other societies as well, including those supporting the colorfully-named "Order of grandeur Peacock Angel".

Robert Anton Wilson's "The Illuminatus!

Trilogy" refers to Daraul's book often, traction many links between the Province Illuminati and the Assassins round Hasan-i Sabbah.

"A History domination Secret Societies" lists very occasional sources. Many ideas in birth book are not found anyplace else. One example is representation idea that the top area of the thugs didn't really believe in Kali.

It claims they used their religion succumb make themselves gods.

See also

A History Of Secret Societies

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