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Randolph would fall into a trance and experience visions. This method was probably developed during his spiritualistic period, although he referred to it as a Tibetan method. During his journeys to Paris, Pascal became aware of several works which were being published in France and Germany dealing with the Ansaireth or Nusairis of Syria. 25 There was much discussion, in the Rosicrucian circles that Randolph traveled in, of the purity and sublimity of the teachings of the Ansaireh. Books by Niebuhr, M. Catafago, Victor Langlois and others told of these mysterious hill dwellers in Northern Syria who were neither Jews, Christians or Muslims. They may well have been the people that modern anthropology has identified as the Yezidi, the devotees of the Peucock god, Melek Ta'aus. PBR tells how the chief of the Ansaireth, Narek El Gebel, arrived at the Rosicrucian Third Dome in Paris with letters of introduction and then, recognizing Randolph's abilities and character, invited him to come to Syria and to study with the Ansaireth. Randolph went to Syria and was initiated into the Ansairetic Brotherhood. Upon his return to America, he established the Priesthood of Aeth based on the Ansairetic Mysteries. 26 Another account credits PBR with undergoing initiation in the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, 27 a secret society that H.P. Blavatsky and Karl Kellner both claimed initiation into. It remains open to question, however, whether these initiations took place on the physical or the mental plane. The following is quoted from one of Randolph's last books, Eulis. It is highly significant as the confession of a man, believing himself to be at death's door, concerning the origins of his teachings. "Very nearly all that I have given as Rosicrucianism originated in my soul; and scarce a single thought, only suggestions, have I borrowed from those who, in ages past, called themselves by that name—one which served me well as a vehicle wherein to take my mental treasure to a market, which gladly opened its doors to that name, but would, and did, slam to its portals in the face of the tawny student of esoterics. "Precisely so was it with things purporting to be Ansairetic. I had merely read Lydde's book, and got hold of a new name; and again mankind hurrahed for the wonderful Ansaireh, but incontinently turned up its nose at the supposed copyist. In proof of the truth of these statements, and of how I had to struggle, the world is challenged to find a line in my thought in the whole 4000 books on Rosicrucianism; among the brethren of that fraternity—and I know many such in various lands, and was, til I resigned the office, grand Master of the only Temple of the Order on the globe; or in the Ansairetic works, English, German, Syriac or Arabic. ' 28 If we consider that Randolph's Rosicrucian and Ansairetic teachings form the basis of modern magical tradition and that they were written some twenty-five years before the founding of the Golden Dawn, his death bed confession may be seen as the key to the origin of modern magic!