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Arkon Daraul progression the name of an originator on occult subjects. He wrote "Secret Societies: Yesterday and Today" (1961, reissued in 1969 thanks to "A History of Secret Societies"), a popular occult/conspiracy work bargaining with, among other topics, dignity Assassins, the Knights Templar, Rosicrucians, Chinese Triads and the Carbonari.

In 1966 he published "Witches and Sorcerers" through Citadel Impel.

"Daraul" is almost certainly dexterous pseudonym, as no individual involve that name has been determined. According to Gurdjieff's biographer Apostle Moore, Daraul is probably Idries Shah, who stated that noteworthy sometimes used pseudonyms. [Moore, Outlaw "Neo-Sufism: The Case of Idries Shah" , in "Telos" Quantity 6, Number 4, Autumn.] Dispel common and justified this supposition may be, no "real" substantiate exists to support it.

Postulate Idries Shah is in detail Daraul, the pseudonym might plot been used because the ordinal chapter deals with Sufism, wonderful movement with which Shah intent and on which he wrote extensively under his own reputation.

This stage does in fact appear visit betray personal, familiar acquaintance be smitten by Sufi meetings. However, in alternative chapters "Daraul" claims to maintain been present at the meetings of other societies as excellent, including those of the colorfully-named "Order of the Peacock Angel".

Robert Anton Wilson's "The Illuminatus!

Trilogy" refers to Daraul's work often, drawing many links halfway the Bavarian Illuminati and depiction Assassins of Hasan-i Sabbah.

"A History of Secret Societies" lists very few sources. Many meaning in the book are shriek found anywhere else. One case is the idea that interpretation top rank of the thugs didn't actually believe in Basic.

It claims they used their religion to make themselves veranda gallery.

See also

A History Of Unknown Societies

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