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...banishment to the world, and the impossibility of putting into words directions for finding the way back. But words were not all the great Rumi had; he taught his followers a way to dance themselves into a state of mystical union with the Divine. They became the famed sect of Mevlevi dervishes, who carried on their mystical method for seven centuries in monasteries throughout the Middle East. Known as the whirling dervishes, they are popularly confused with the Rifais or "howling" dervishes, who inflicted wounds upon themselves and were sometimes ritually trampled under horses' hoofs. In contarst, the Mevlevi...
...Heliodorus himself almost nothing is known except that he was a Hellenized Phoenician who, thinks Translator Hadas, may have had an admixture of Negro blood. There was a probable purpose in his writing: to propagandize for the gentle philosophy of the gymnosophists, an obscure ascetic Hindu sect, and to proclaim the humanity, culture and martial skill of the dark-skinned Ethiopians. Today, nearly 1,700 years after his death, both messages have relevance, but the Ethiopica will mostly be read now, as it always has been, as a rattling good adventure story...
...Berri, off the Champs Elysees. "The services are to be Christian, simply and purely Christian," he wrote at the church's founding. "Except by a violation of compact, the chapel we are erecting can never become exclusively devoted to the forms of any one sect...
...World Congress of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem last week, General Yadin advanced a new theory relating the scrolls to Christianity. Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews, he suggested, was addressed to converted members of the Dead Sea sect, the Essenes. Scholars have long wondered who the "Hebrews" of the epistle were, said Yadin. The answer is to be found in the similarities between the theology of the people Paul was addressing (as it can be deduced from Paul's arguments) and the known theology of the Dead Sea sect. The Essenes believed in the ascendancy of the priestly...
...epistle is full of quotations and references to Pentateuch material, mainly in connection with the sojourn in the wilderness and the tabernacle-matters especially dear to the Essenes. For "when we review all the material in the Dead Sea scrolls literature, we cannot help feeling that the Dead Sea sect organized itself in an exact as possible replica of the life of the tribes of Israel in the wilderness . . . considered the 'period of Belial' similar to the 40 years' wandering, and hoped and believed that in the very near future they would 'reenter...