Chapter Seven - Sufism and the Dervish Orders

Chapter five and six are not that interesting. Chapter seven is about Sufism and the Dervish orders.

According to the book 'The Sufis are a secret society of Persian Mystic Philosophers and Ascetics, whose original religion may have been that of the Chaldeans or Sabeans, who believed in the unity of God and the adoration of heavens/planets.

This is a direct quote from the book

The Sufees, says Sir John Malcolm, represent themselves as devoted to the search after truth, and incessantly occupied in adoring the Almighty, a union with whom they desire with all fervour of divine love. The Creator, according to their belief, is diffused over all creation. He exists everywhere, and in everything. They compare the emanations of his essence or spirit to the rays of the sun, which they conceive are continually darted forth and reabsorbed. It is for this reabsorption into the divine essence, to which their immortal part belongs, that they continually sigh. They believe that the soul of man, and the principle of life which exists through Nature, are not from GOD, but of GOD.

The rest of the chapter is full with Sufi empty meaningless crazy talk.