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22314	Delafield, John	Mysticism and its Results: Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy			.txt	text/plain	28047	1447	67	[42] Lib. i., El. ii., 45. Regarding, then, the off-shoot from patriarchal tradition to be the origin of pagan worship; referring also to the first formation of cities, and of one immense kingdom, by the descendants of Ham (accursed by his prophetic ancestor), by whom an empire was first established; to Nimrod's deification; to the preservation in the priesthood of future political power; to the fact that after his death they would and might thereby perpetuate the same; that wherever thereafter dispersed, they did so by their revelations by mysteries, in which they controlled not only the masses of the people, but those who governed them, in whatsoever nation then known--we arrive at the conclusion that the mysteries were the elements of religious and consequently of political power.	cache/22314.txt	txt/22314.txt
