Note 159 — THE TRAVELS OF RABBI BENJAMIN OF TUDELA.
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Kharmath was a famous impostor, founder of a sect called Carmathians, very similar to that of the Assassins. One of the tenets of this sect was, that the soul of the founder transmigrates into the body of his successor, and that the person who held the office of chief among them was the personification of the original founder of the sect. [159]