could pillage the goods and shed the blood of their adversaries with impunity. Peaceful fraternity was thus turned into a wild lust for conquest as the Karmathites became a band of robbers, pillaging and massacring throughout all the surrounding districts. Nesta Webster quotes von Kammer as saying: For a whole century the pernicious doctrines of Karmath raged with fire and sword in the very bosom of Islamism, until the wide spread conflagration was extinguished in blood.* 25 Secret Societies