Secret Practices of the Sufi Freemasons

“The book is very insightful and I leaned so much. The author does an excellent job conveying the concepts.” * David H., Book Bargains and Previews, May 2013 *“Touching on the spiritual ideas that lie beneath it, its relation to alchemy, and many other topics, Secret Practices of the Sufi Freemasons is a fascinating read for anyone curious about the old ways of the occult in history.” * Midwestern Book Review, May 2013 *

Baron Rudolf von Sebottendorff (1875-1945) was a Freemason and practitioner of alchemy. In 1900 he moved to Turkey where he met the Jewish Termudi family, who introduced him to Rosicrucianism and led to his initiation into a local Masonic lodge. In 1910 he founded a lodge of the Bektashi Order in Constantinople. Returning to Germany, in 1917 he founded the Thule Society, an occult organization that led to the German Workers’ Party–joined in 1919 by Adolf Hitler, who transformed it into the Nazi Party. Sebottendorff left the Thule Society as it became increasingly political, fleeing to Turkey.

Translator Stephen E. Flowers, Ph.D., received his doctorate in Germanic languages and medieval studies from the University of Texas at Austin and studied the history of occultism at the University of Göttingen, Germany. The author of more than two dozen books, including Lords of the Left-Hand Path, he lives near Austin, Texas.