soofis

Updated: May 7, 2025

The monks and hermits sought to save themselves by climbing to Heaven by the same ladder that had been sought by the soofis and the fakirs, which delusion had an immense influence in undermining the doctrines of grace. Christianity was fast merging itself into an oriental theosophy. Again the clergy became ambitious and worldly, and sought rank and distinction.

John Lord - The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.