. The land of Gilead, with excursions in the Lebanon . orresponding amount of consideration. At all events, I hadthe privilege of seeing not only the old lady and heaping uponher my congratulations, but a young married daughter, whowas dressed in European costume, and whose veil was not toothick or jealously worn to conceal her fair features. I tried, later on in the day, to get my friend the spiritualchief into a quiet corner, and converse with him on the subjectof his religion. But I found the one task as hopeless as theother. The noise penetrated everywhere, but the holy manwas impenetrable
. The land of Gilead, with excursions in the Lebanon . orresponding amount of consideration. At all events, I hadthe privilege of seeing not only the old lady and heaping uponher my congratulations, but a young married daughter, whowas dressed in European costume, and whose veil was not toothick or jealously worn to conceal her fair features. I tried, later on in the day, to get my friend the spiritualchief into a quiet corner, and converse with him on the subjectof his religion. But I found the one task as hopeless as theother. The noise penetrated everywhere, but the holy manwas impenetrable, and skillfully evaded all approach to themysterious topic, so I was forced to have recourse to othersources of information ; and I am chiefly indebted to Dr. Wor- DRUSE THEOLOGY. 313 tabet, of Beyrout, who formed one of our party to Mukhtara,to Captain Phibbs, and to Mr. Chirol, with whom I afterwardtraveled in the country of the Maronites, for the particularscontained in the following chapter in regard to the particularcharacter of Druse MtKHTAKA. CHAPTER XIV. Origin of the Druse Religion—The Imaumat—Connection of Druse Theologywith China—The Origin of Evil—The Transmigration of Souls—DivineManifestations—Druse View of Christ—The Four Ministers of Truth—TheDay of Judgment—Ceremony of Initiation—Secret Organization—Druse^Vomen—Ain llatur. In the preface to the Baron Silvestre de Sacys book on theDruse religion, which was published in 1839, he tells us thatit was written forty years prior to that date, but that he de-ferred publishing it in the hope of receiving from the Eastfresh Druse MSS. which might throw further light upon theirdoctrines. This hope not having been realized, he finally de-cided to publish the only elaborate account Avhich exists of theirreligion, and which is, consequently, more than eighty yearsold. He derived his information principally from the fourvolumes of Hamzas treatise on the Unity of God, in the Na-tional Librar
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