Sabian is one of the world's largest manufacturers of cymbals. The company was founded in 1981 in Meductic, New Brunswick, Canada by Robert Zildjian, son of Avedis Zildjian III, the head of the Avedis Zildjian Company. Family tradition had it that the head of the company would only pass its secrets down to the oldest son, but Avedis III gave the information to both of his sons, Armand and Robert. This led to a family feud and a legal squabble, resulting in Robert leaving Zildjian to form the rival Sabian company. The settlement ...

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• Sabian - A brief history
• Sabian - Series
• Sabian - Solar
• Sabian - B8
• Sabian - B8 Pro
• Sabian - XS20
• Sabian - Pro / Pro Sonix
• Sabian - AA
• Sabian - AAX
• Sabian - Hand Hammered
• Sabian - HHX
• Sabian - Vault
• Sabian - Signature
• Sabian - Paragon
• Sabian - External link

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• Sabians - Islamic reference
• Sabians - Sabi-Harran connections
• Sabians - Sabi-Mandaean connections
• Sabians - In the Bahá'í writings
• Sabians - New-Age Sabians
• Sabians - Conclusion

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Sabian is one of the world's largest manufacturers of cymbals. The company was founded in 1981 in Meductic, New Brunswick, Canada by Robert Zildjian, son of Avedis Zildjian III, the head of the Avedis Zildjian Company. Family tradition had it that the head of the company would only pass its secrets down to the oldest son, but Avedis III gave the information to both of his sons, Armand and Robert. This led to a family feud and a legal squabble, resulting in Robert leaving ...

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Sabian, Sabian - A brief history, Sabian - Series, Sabian - Solar, Sabian - B8, Sabian - B8 Pro, Sabian - XS20, Sabian - Pro / Pro Sonix, Sabian - AA, Sabian - AAX, Sabian - Hand Hammered, Sabian - HHX, Sabian - Vault, Sabian - Signature, Sabian - Paragon, Sabian - External link

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Sabian - Solar. - manufactured by Sabian under the name of Solar, these are Sabian's bottom line cymbals, and are produced from brass in fairly limited in models and sizes and are alright for the price. Sabian - B8. - Beginner level cymbals made, as the title denotes, from a B8 Bronze alloy. They are VERY good for the money! Sabian - B8 Pro. - These are B8 cymbals with a brilliant finish, resulting in a more smooth, bright sound. B8 Pro cymbals have a slightly wider range of models and sizes and are marginally more e ...

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Sabian, Sabian - A brief history, Sabian - Series, Sabian - Solar, Sabian - B8, Sabian - B8 Pro, Sabian - XS20, Sabian - Pro / Pro Sonix, Sabian - AA, Sabian - AAX, Sabian - Hand Hammered, Sabian - HHX, Sabian - Vault, Sabian - Signature, Sabian - Paragon, Sabian - External link

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The Venus-Sun transit of June 7-8 2004 is a golden opportunity for humankind to gain access to the necessary and special knowledge that ensures human evolution and existence.

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Malvin Artley gives an exciting mythological background to Venus in connection to the forthcoming Venus Transits of 2004 and 2012. A must read if you are interested in the significance of the Venus Transit.

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The Sabaeans were ancient people who lived in what is today Yemen and north of Ethiopia and Eritrea in the 1st millennium BC and spoke an earlier version of a South Semitic language. They may be the same nation as the biblical kingdom of Sheba. They made substantial profits off the spice trade, especially frankincense, and left behind many inscriptions in the musnad (Old South Arabian) alphabet. They were polytheistic, and should not be confused with the Sabians mentioned in the Qur'an, whose name is written with the Arabic let

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Marc Edmund Jones, founder of the Sabian Assembly, described them more or less accurately as "a Muslim group". They worship The Names (El-Esmea) as the stars. The whole debate on who the Sabians were is directly connected to the existence of the following verses from the Qur'an, the Holy Book of Islam. The Qur'an briefly announces the Sabians as people of the book and the Hadith provide further details as to who they were: "Those who believe, and the Jews, and the Christians, and the Sabians, whoever believes in God and the Last ...

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Sabians, Sabians - Islamic reference, Sabians - Sabi-Harran connections, Sabians - Sabi-Mandaean connections, Sabians - In the Bahá'í writings, Sabians - New-Age Sabians, Sabians - Conclusion

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Some scholars have suggested that the Mandaean religion originated with Sabeans, who came under the influence of early Sabian missionaries but preferred their own priesthood. In either case we find in the writings from about 900 AD onward that there are now two Sabians mentioned and are distinguished as the "ancient first or true Sabians", while the Harranians are called the "pseudo Sabians". Thus various religious groups with a connection to baptism (like the Mandaeans) have sought to have the label applied to themselves in the hopes of avo ...

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Sabians, Sabians - Islamic reference, Sabians - Sabi-Harran connections, Sabians - Sabi-Mandaean connections, Sabians - In the Bahá'í writings, Sabians - New-Age Sabians, Sabians - Conclusion

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The Sabians were well known until the ninth century AD. Around this time, the Harranians claimed the name Sabian in order to avoid Islamic persecution. Long ago however, there may have existed some connection between the two groups, since Sabians allegedly had a base in Edessa. One should not confuse either of these groups with Sabaeans - a completely unrelated group. After the conquests of Alexander, Harran came to be a center of intellectual and religious activity, which evolved into a philosophical tradition centered on Hermes Tris ...

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Sabians, Sabians - Islamic reference, Sabians - Sabi-Harran connections, Sabians - Sabi-Mandaean connections, Sabians - In the Bahá'í writings, Sabians - New-Age Sabians, Sabians - Conclusion

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Billy Cobham - Drumsticks. Vic Firth SBC (signature Billy Cobham) Billy Cobham - Drums. Yamaha maple drum kit Yamaha ASD-1460BC (signature Billy Cobham) snare drum Billy Cobham - Cymbals. Sabian cymbals ...

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Billy Cobham, Billy Cobham - Gear, Billy Cobham - Drumsticks, Billy Cobham - Drums, Billy Cobham - Cymbals, Billy Cobham - Discography, Billy Cobham - External link

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Portnoy has used several kits throughout the years, all of which were built by Tama except for the Awake/A Change Of Seasons era kit, which was a Mapex. To date, he has used the following drum sets: When Dream and Day Unite/Images & Words Kit - This Tama Imperialstar kit was bought originally by MP himself through working three jobs. It was used until the end of the Images and Words tour when MP got signed by Sabian and Mapex. Also, this was the kit he used when he was with the band Intruder, although up ...

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Mike Portnoy, Mike Portnoy - Pre Dream Theater History, Mike Portnoy - Influences Awards and other Accomplishments, Mike Portnoy - Equipment, Mike Portnoy - Misc, Mike Portnoy - Quotes, Mike Portnoy - External link

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According to some scholars in Islam, the correct use of the word kafir in Islamic theology does not include either Christians, Samaritans, Jews, and all "Sabians" who are covered by the term Ahl-al-Kitab, or "People of the Book," because they are considered recipients of divine revelation from Allah. However, other scholars, such as those backing militant Islamists, often do not make the distinction in their rhetoric and do often use it to inc ...

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Kafir, Kafir - Etymology, Kafir - Quranic reference, Kafir - According to scholars, Kafir - Acts that invalidate Islam, Kafir - Muslim relations with the Kafir, Kafir - Use Outside Islam

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Within the Middle East, but outside of their community, the Mandaeans are more commonly known as the Ṣubba (singular Ṣubbī). Likewise, their Muslim neighbors will refer to them collectively as the Sabians (Arabic الصابعة aṣ-Ṣābiʻa), in reference to the Ṣabians of the Qur'an. Occasionally, the Mandaeans are also called the "Christians of St. John" (a misnomer, ...

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Mandaeism, Mandaeism - Origin of the term 'Mandaean', Mandaeism - Mandaean beliefs, Mandaeism - Fundamental tenets, Mandaeism - Cosmology, Mandaeism - Mandaean scriptures, Mandaeism - Chief prophets, Mandaeism - Priests and laymen, Mandaeism - Influences, Mandaeism - Other associated terms

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Necromancy may or may not have a relation to shamanism, which calls upon spirits (angles of the elements and such)or 'The Great Spirit/Creator' (God) to heal or help ghosts reach the afterlife. The historian Strabo (Strabo, xvi. 2, 39, νεκρομαντία) refers to necromancy as the principal form of divination amongst the people of Persia; and it is believed to also have been widespread amongst the peoples of Chaldea (particularly amongst the Sabians or star-worshippers), Etruria and Babylonia. The Babylonian necromancers themselves were called Manzazuu or Sha'etemmu an ...

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Necromancy, Necromancy - Necromancy in history, Necromancy - Spread of necromancy, Necromancy - Necromancy in fiction, Necromancy - Necromancy in role-playing games, Necromancy - Sources

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In pre-Islamic Arabia the roles of the genders was never explicitly defined, and varied widely among the numerous tribes. For example, in the prosperous southern region of the Arabian Peninsula the religious edicts of Christianity, Judaism and Zoroastrianism held sway among the Sabians and Himyarites, whereas in cities such as Mecca, the city where the prophet of Islam, Muhammad, was born, a tribal set of rights was in place, in particular amongst the Bedouin, which varied from tribe to tribe. Thus there was no single definition of the roles ...

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Gender roles in Islam, Gender roles in Islam - Historical Background, Gender roles in Islam - Family, Gender roles in Islam - Mosque, Gender roles in Islam - Clothing

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Sabians. Astrolaters, so called; those who worshipped the stars, or rather their "regents ".

(See " Sabianism ".)

(See also: Sabians, Theosophy, Spirituality, Body mind and Soul, Spiritual Dictionary, )

Sabean, Sabaean, Sabian, Sabianism [from Hebrew tsaba host, army, celestial hosts]

A name given by the Shemitic peoples to those who worship the spiritual beings in the universe; and because the celestial bodies were the most evident manifestations of some classes of these spiritual beings, this religion naturally became confused with the worship of the celestial bodies themselves as the dwellings or mansions of the regents above, in, and behind the visible orbs. Hence the Sabeans were called astrolaters or star-worshipers; but it was not the physical bodies of the celestial orbs which were worshiped, but the spiritual entities, powers, or spirits which ensouled these orbs. This was one of the very archaic religions of the human race, found all over the globe in various forms; and in its origins Sabianism was undoubtedly an outpouring of occult teaching from the archaic Mysteries.

The word Sabean itself has come down to us mainly through Greek and Latin writers, but so thoroughly imbued were the ancient Hebrews with this idea of the celestial hosts or cosmic spirits that the Bible is full of references where the context even wrongly endows the celestial hosts with the properties of the Most High God, and it has been so understood by Christian theologians; forgetting, however, that manifested deities, however high, are but the manifestations of the infinite and ineffable Mystery or parabrahman, from which all the celestial hosts flow or emanate. Thus not only ancient and modern Judaism, but Christianity itself, is filled with the thought of the ancient Sabeans.

Sabeanism was unquestionably the main religious belief of the ancient Chaldeans and Assyrians, but likewise the very foundation stone of practically all the great religions of all the great peoples of the past. Upon the authority of the Jewish scholar Maimonides, scholars have considered the Sabeans as an ancient race whose principal religion was that of star-worship and closely affiliated with the Babylonians and Syrians. But the Sabeans were not a race, but those who followed and practiced the divine astrological astrolatry of the hoariest antiquity. Mohammed in the Koran mentions a sect between the Jews and Christians called Sabi una -- to whom certain privileges were granted; older Moslem theologians were agreed that the Sabeans possessed manuscripts which they regarded in the light of a revelation, and the Mandeans came under the same protection granted to the Sabeans; hence the Mandeans also came to be regarded as Sabeans. Another sect of polytheists, the Harranians (830 AD), also affiliated with the Sabeans and shielded themselves under the same privileges; they were a remnant of a Mesopotamian cult, and star-worship had a prominent place in their system.

Certain Arabian writers termed the Sabean language the science of astronomy, but what we now call astronomy was but a minor portion of ancient astrolatry; they also state that Seth or Set was the founder of Sabeanism, and that the pyramids were regarded as the place of sepulture of Seth or Agathodaimon. We see here confusion, reductions of general principles to details, and anthropomorphizations of cosmic principles. Hermes is in many senses the same as Seth, and the pyramids were consecrated to the regents of the stars, rather than to the orbs (SD 2:362).

(See also: Sabean, Sabaean, Sabian, Sabianism, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary)

Sabian symbols

A set of 360 symbols associated with a specific degree of astrological designation

(See also: Sabian symbols, Body Mind and Soul)

Sabianism. The religion of the ancient Chaldees. The latter believing in one impersonal, universal, deific Principle, never mentioned It, but offered worship to the solar, lunar, and planetary gods and rulers, regarding the stars and other celestial bodies as their respective symbols.

(See also: Sabianism, Theosophy, Spirituality, Body mind and Soul, Spiritual Dictionary, )