Jorge Elías Adoum
Jorge Elías Francisco Adoum Mago Jefa (March 10, 1897 – May 4, 1958) was born in the Ottoman Empire and migrated to Ecuador where he translated many works from Arabic to Spanish. He also painted, sculpted, composed music, practiced natural medicine and wrote more than forty volumes on occult sciences and Freemasonry which he signed with his pen name "Mago Jefa". He ran a private practice that specialized in hypnotism, magnetism and suggestion. He is reported to have performed numerous healings considered miraculous in his time. After 1945 he traveled to Chile, Argentina, and Brazil. He died in Rio de Janeiro in 1958 at sixty one years of age. He was the father of the Ecuadorian novelist Jorge Enrique Adoum. Translations into English The only work of Adoum's available in English is ''Del sexo a la divinidad'' translated as ''Sex to Divinity'' by Monica Rocha. This work sets forth Dr. Adoum's ideas about the practice of sacred sexuality, expounds upon the origins of the founders o ...
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Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) // CITED: p. 36 (PDF p. 38/338) also known as the Turkish Empire, was an empire that controlled much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia, and Northern Africa between the 14th and early 20th centuries. It was founded at the end of the 13th century in northwestern Anatolia in the town of Söğüt (modern-day Bilecik Province) by the Turkoman tribal leader Osman I. After 1354, the Ottomans crossed into Europe and, with the conquest of the Balkans, the Ottoman beylik was transformed into a transcontinental empire. The Ottomans ended the Byzantine Empire with the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 by Mehmed the Conqueror. Under the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman Empire marked the peak of its power and prosperity, as well a ...
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