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The successors of Sabbatai Zevi were responsible for the Jewish Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, known as the <i>Haskalah</i>, and the formulation of Reform Judaism, which evolved into Zionism. As the Asiatic Brethren, they also contributed to the founding the Golden Dawn, that arose from the Occult Revival. Although through the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century the occult secret societies succeeded in widely supplanting the belief in God, a void was created among those felt that this empiricism had gone too far, and who sought to explore the "supernatural." The practice of séances revived the interest in communion with spirits, identified as either souls of the dead, or beings from other planets, or most importantly, as in the case of the Theosophical Society, "Ascended Masters."<br> <br> These beings supposedly communicated a fantastic pedigree to their initiates, that embellished the myth of the Aryan race that had been developed earlier in the century, and claimed they were offspring of the Sons of God of the Bible who had escaped the destruction of Atlantis, before finding refuge in the hidden city of Shambhala in Tibet. A similar legend formed the basis of the legend of Agartha, inside the Hollow Earth, whose inhabitants conformed to a political system of synarchism. The source of the legend was Jamal ud Din al Afghani, who was also an Ascended Master associated with the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, and simultaneously, the founder of the Salafi tradition of Islam, which would evolve into the Muslim Brotherhood, the Wahhabis of Saudi Arabia, and ultimately al Qaeda.<br> <br> The synarchists would collaborate closely with the Nazis, whose occult doctrines derived from Theosophy and Aleister Crowley's Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO), which was influenced by the Golden Dawn. Ultimately, the basis of the aspirations of the synarchists was symbolized in the legend of the Priory of Sion, popularized in Dan Brown's <i>Da Vinci Code</i>, and which aimed to i