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This month’s lecture at the Livingston Library will approach Freemasonry from an under appreciated direction: Sufism.
Sufis, according to the great F.E. Peters, one of my favorite professors in my university days, “prefer the knowledge that comes by inspiration, to the exclusion of that acquired by study. Again, they desire neither to study such learning nor to learn anything of what authors have written on the subject; to inspect neither their teachings nor their arguments. They maintain on the contrary that the ‘way’ consists in preferring spiritual combat, in getting rid of one’s faults, in breaking one’s ties and approaching God Most High through a single-minded spiritual effort. And every time those conditions are fulfilled, God for His part turns toward the heart of His servant and guarantees him an illumination by the lights of understanding.”
From the publicity:
A Sufi Perspective
of Freemasonry:
The Bektashi Order
of Dervishes
by Nazmi Mete Talimcioglu
Thursday, November 30
7:30 p.m.
Masonic Hall, Jacobean Room
RSVP here
This talk will be a high-end discussion of Sufism and, in particular, the Bektashi Order of Dervishes, its brief history and organizational structure, and the common elements of its belief system with respect to Freemasonry.
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