Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan . life after several successive transmi-grations, he could make himself known as a true be-liever by means of the purse of faith. When thefather dies, the son, selected by the father (usuallythe eldest), succeeds to the sacred purse, which heis forbidden to open, even in his most urgent a revolt, some years since, a few of
Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan . life after several successive transmi-grations, he could make himself known as a true be-liever by means of the purse of faith. When thefather dies, the son, selected by the father (usuallythe eldest), succeeds to the sacred purse, which heis forbidden to open, even in his most urgent a revolt, some years since, a few of these purseswere found, that had been thus sealed up in parch-ment for hundreds of years, without ever having beenopened. The other children of the deceased fatherreceive each a small black stone of jet or agate, intoken of hope, union, and recognition. There is an order among the Druzes, the membersof which have signs and tohens for Dm iil recogni-tion, which are analogous to those used a,... free-masons. The initiated everywhere recognize eachother; \vlien tv/o Druzes meet, and discover, by certainsigns, that they are both Akals, they proceed to inter-rogate as follows:—One of them inquires: Dost thouknow, in thy country, a plant of peGuliar excellence.
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