Mysticism and its Results - Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Mysticism and its Results, by John Delafield This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy Author: John Delafield Release Date: August 14, 2007 [EBook #22314] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MYSTICISM AND ITS RESULTS *** Produced by Barbara Tozier, Keith Edkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's A few typographical errors have been corrected. They note: appear in the text like this, and the explanation will appear when the mouse pointer is moved over the marked passage. Sections in Greek and Hebrew will yield a transliteration when the pointer is moved over them. 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.