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1. L'Antisémitisme, p. 335.2. Ibid., p. 328.3. Article by Mr. Lucien Wolf, " The First English Jew," in Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society ofEngland, Vol. II. p. 18. On this question see also the pamphlets by Mr. Lucien Wolf: Crypto-Jews underthe Commonwealth (1894), Cromwell's Jewish Intelligencers (1891), and Manasseh ben Israel's Mission toOliver Cromwell (1901), also articles on Cromwell, Carvajal and Manasseh ben Israel in the Jewish Encyclopædia.4. Lucien Wolf, " The First English Jew," in Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England, II.20.5. Tovey, Anglia Judaica, p. 275.6. The Jewish Encyclopædia in its article on Manasseh ben Israel, says: " He was full of cabalistic opinions,though he was careful not to expound them in those of his works that were written in modern languagesand intended to be read by Gentiles." In its article on " Magic " the Jewish Encyclopædia refers tothe " Nishmat Hayyim," a work by Manasseh ben Israel which " is filled with superstition and magic " andadds that " many Christian scholars were deluded."7. Tovey Anglia Judaica, p. 259; Margoliouth, History of the Jews in England, II. 3.8. Mirabeau (Sur la Réforme politique des Juifs, 1787) thinks they may not have been allowed to return unconditionallyuntil 1664. It was certainly at this date that they were formally granted free permission to livein England and practise their religion (Margoliouth, op. cit., II. 26).9. Margoliouth, op. cit., II. 43.10. The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth, by Lewis Berens, pp. 36, 74.11. Claudio Jannet, Les Précurseurs de la Franc-Maçonnerie, p. 47 (1187).12. Harmsworth Encyclopædia, article on Jews.13. Diary of Samuel Pepys, date of February 19, 1666.14. Jewish Encyclopædia, article on Shabbetai Zebi B. Mordecai.15. Henry Hart Milman, History of the Jews, II. 445.16. Jewish Encyclopædia, article on Ba'al Shem Tob.17. Milman, op. cit., II. 446.18. Jewish Encyclopædia, Heilprin, article on Joel Ben Uri.19. Heckethorn, Secret Societies, I. 87.20. Jewish Encyclopædia, article on Jacob Frank.21. Jewish Encyclopædia, article on Jacob Frank.22. Ibid.23. Milman, op. cit., II. 447.24. Jewish Encyclopædia, article on Jacob Frank.25. Ibid.26. Ibid. Heckethorn, Secret Societies, I. 87.27. Milman, op. cit., II. 448. Cf. description of pomp displayed by another member of the oppressed racenamed Fränkel, who appeared at a parade of Jewry at Prague in 1741 in a carriage drawn by six horses andsurrounded by footmen and horse guards.-Jewish Encyclopædia, article on Fränkel, Simon Wolf.28. Jewish Encyclopædia, article on Falk, of whom a good portrait by Copley given. On Falk see also ArsQuatuor Coronatorum, Vol. XXVI. Part I. pp. 518-105, and Vol. XXX. Part II; Transactions of the JewishHistorical Society, Vol. V. p. 148, article on " The Ba'al Shem of London," by the Rev. Dr. H. Adler, ChiefRabbi, and Vol. VIII, " Notes on some Contemporary References to Dr. Falk the Ba'al Shem of London, inthe Rainsford MSS. at the British Museum," by Gordon P.G. Hills. The following pages are taken entirelyfrom these sources.Nesta H. Webster — Secret Societies and Subversive Movements — Part I— 107 —
29. Falk does not appear to have brought good fortune to the Goldsmid family, for Margoliouth in a passagewhich evidently relates to Falk says that, according to Jewish legend, the suicide of Abraham Goldsmid andhis brother was attributed to the following cause: " Ba'al Shem, an operative Cabalist, in other words athaumaturgos and prophet, used to live with the father of the Goldsmids. On his death-bed he summonedthe patriarch Goldsmid, and delivered into his hands a box, which he strictly enjoined should not be openedtill a certain period which the Ba'al ahem specified and in case of disobedience a torrent of fearful calamitieswould overwhelm the Goldsmids. The patriarch's curiosity was not aroused for some time; but in a fewyears after the Ba'al Shem's death, Goldsmid, the aged, half sceptic, half curious, forced open the fatal box,and then the Goldsmids began to learn what it was to disbelieve the words of a Ba'al Shem." Margoliouth,History of the Jews, II. 144.30. Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society, V. 162.31. Benjamin Fabre, Eques a Capite Galeato, p. 84.32. Benjamin Fabre, op. cit., pp. 88, 90, 98, 110.33. Clavel, Histoire pittoresque, pp. 188, 390. Robison, Proofs of Conspiracy, p. 77.34. The Royal Masonic Cyclopædia describes both Nathan der Weise and Ernst und Falk as prominentworks on Masonry.35. There is, however, the possibility that Lessing may have had in mind another Falk living at the sameperiod; this was " John Frederick Falk, born at Hamburg of Jewish parents, reported to have been head of aCabalistic College in London and to have died about 1824 " (Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society,VIII. 128). But in view of the part which the correspondence of Savalette de Langes shows the Ba'al Shemof London to have played in the background of Freemasonry, it seems more probable that he was the Falk inquestion. At any rate, both were Jews and Cabalists.36. Who can this have been?37. The Duchesse de Gontaut relates in her Mémoires that the Duc d'Orléans was one day driving throughthe forest of Fontainebleau when a man, half clothed and with a demented air, sprang towards the carriage,grimacing horribly. The Duke's suite, taking him for a madman, would have kept him at bay, but the Duke,at that moment awaking from sleep, unbuttoned his shirt and showed his assailant an iron ring suspendedround his neck. At this sight the man took to his heels and disappeared into the wood. The mystery of thisincident was never elucidated, and the Duke, when questioned on the matter, would offer no explanation.Could this ring have been Falk's talisman?38. Margoliouth, op. cit., II. 121-4. See also Life of Lord George Gordon, by Robert Watson (1795) pp. 71,72.39. Friedrich Bülau, Geheime Geschichten und rätselhafte Menschen, I. 325. (1850). The Public Advertiser,August 22, 24, 1786.Nesta H. Webster — Secret Societies and Subversive Movements — Part I— 108 —
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