The text is adapted from an essay by Magnus Bärtås and Fredrik Ekman’s “I Damanhur” (“In Damanhur”) published in a collection of essays titled "Innanför cirkeln — en resa bland yezidier, damanhurianer och swedenborgare" (Inside the Circle: A Journey among the Yezidis, Damanhurians, and Swedenborgians) (Stockholm: Bokförlaget DN, 2005).