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A malevolent faction calling themselves The Brethren (otherwise known as The Tabula) kill all Travelers because they pose a threat to The Brethren's ultimate goal: total control over society.

REVIEW: The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks 2007

Owen came to the role of living prophet late in life, having been designated as such only after the Brethren's previous leader, his brother Rulon, was murdered, in 1977, when rival polygamists from the Church of the Lamb of God went on a killing spree after their leader, Ervil LeBaron, had been excommunicated by his older brother, the leader of another polygamous sect, the Church of the First Born of the Fullness of Time.

The Marrying Kind 2005

According to Georges Vajda (see Vajda 1947, 24-33), more relevant traces might be found in chapter two of the Introduction to the Duties of the Hearth (Hidaya ila fara'id al-qulub), written by the Spanish Jewish author Bahya Ibn Paquda in the period 1050-1080, where there might be some agreements with the Brethren's cosmological doctrines, as well as a very similar style in defending them.

Influence of Arabic and Islamic Philosophy on Judaic Thought Zonta, Mauro 2007

Some traces of the Brethren's doctrine of the procession of beings from the First Intellect, as well as of their numerology, are found in two Yemenite philosophical midrashim, i.e. Judaeo-Arabic interpretations of Biblical texts, written in 1420-1430: the Glad Learning (Midrash ha-hefez) by Zerahyah ha-Rofé

Influence of Arabic and Islamic Philosophy on Judaic Thought Zonta, Mauro 2007

Book of Intellectual Circles (Sefer ha-˜agullot ha-re˜yoniyyot); it was one of the direct sources of a Spanish philosopher and kabbalist, Isaac Ibn Latif, who spoke about the Brethren's doctrine of the five degrees of soul (vegetal, animal, human, sapiential, prophetical) in his Hebrew book The Gate of Heavens (Sha˜ar ha-shamayim), written in the period

Influence of Arabic and Islamic Philosophy on Judaic Thought Zonta, Mauro 2007

As a matter of fact, both these cases do not prove a direct use of the Brethren's work by these two Jewish philosophers.

Influence of Arabic and Islamic Philosophy on Judaic Thought Zonta, Mauro 2007

Also the Brethren's scientific doctrines exerted a considerable influence over 13th-century Jewish authors.

Influence of Arabic and Islamic Philosophy on Judaic Thought Zonta, Mauro 2007

Owen came to the role of living prophet late in life, having been designated as such only after the Brethren's previous leader, his brother Rulon, was murdered, in 1977, when rival polygamists from the Church of the Lamb of God went on a killing spree after their leader, Ervil LeBaron, had been excommunicated by his older brother, the leader of another polygamous sect, the Church of the First Born of the Fullness of Time.

The Marrying Kind 2005

The Spanish Islamic philosopher Ibn al-Sid al-Batalyawsi (from Badajoz, d. 1127) wrote a sort of compendium of the Brethren's doctrines, the Book of the Gardens (Kitab al-hada'iq), which was widespread among Jewish authors

Influence of Arabic and Islamic Philosophy on Judaic Thought Zonta, Mauro 2007

Both the Damascus Declaration AND the Brethren's statement was silent about economic issues for that matter.

Monday, October 31, 2005 As'ad 2005