The rites of initiation are frightful in the extreme, attended by threats, imprecations and blasphemous oaths, declaring their lives forfeited if they expose the secrets of the order.
They use given signs and questions, by which they salute each other, and ascertain whether a stranger is one of them or not.

In their books they employ the double interlacing triangle or seal of Solomon.

They call each other brethren, and enjoin love and truthfulness, but _only to the brethren_.

In this they are like the Druzes.

So little do they regard all outside their own sect, that they _pray to God to take out of the hearts of all others than themselves, what little light of knowledge and certainty they may possess_! The effect of this secret, exclusive, and selfish system is shown in the conduct of the Nusairiyeh in robbing and murdering Moslems and Christians without compunction.
As it has been said, the Nusairiyeh women are entirely excluded from all participation in religious ceremonies and prayers, and from all religious teaching.