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27. Ibid., p. 384.28. F. Funck-Brentano, op. cit., p. 396.29. Ibid., p. 387.30. Dean Milman, History of Latin Christianity, VII. 213.31. E.J. Castle, op. cit., Part I. p. 22.32. Thus even M. Mollat admits: " En tout cas leurs dépositions, défavorables à l'Ordre, l'impressionnèrentsi vivement que, par une série de graves mesures, il abandonna une à une toutes ses oppositions."-Les Papesd'Avignon, p. 242.33. F. Funck-Brentano, op. cit., p. 392.34. E.J. Castle, Proceedings against the Templars, A.Q.C., Vol. XX. Part III. p. 3.35. Even Raynouard, the apologist of the Templars (op. cit., p. 19), admits that, if less unjust and violentmeasures had been adopted, the interest of the State and the safety of the throne might have justified the abolitionof the Order.36. Funck-Brentano, op. cit., p. 386.37. " The bourgeoisie, whenever it has conquered power, has destroyed all feudal, patriarchal, and idyllic relations.It has pitilessly torn asunder all the many-coloured feudal bonds which united men to their ' naturalsuperiors,' and has left no tie twixt man and man but naked self-interest and callous cash payment."-TheCommunis Manifesto.38. Eliphas Lévi, Histoire de la Magie, p. 273.39. E.J. Castle, op. cit., A.Q.C., Vol. XX. Part I. p. 11.40. Ibid., Part II. p. 24.41. Loiseleur, op. cit., pp. 20, 21.42. Histoire de la Magie, p. 277.43. Dr. F.W. Bussell, Religious Thought and Heresy in the Middle Ages, p. 803.44. Les Sectes et Sociétés Secrètes, p. 85.45. History of the Assassins, p. 80.46. F.T.B. Clavel, Histoire Pittoresque de la Franc-Maçonnerie, p. 356 (1843).47. Loiseleur, op. cit., p. 66.48. Ibid., p. 143.49. Ibid., p. 141.50. " Dixit sibi quod non crederet in eum, quia nichil erat, et quod erat quidam falsus propheta, et nichilvalebat; immo crederet in Deum Celi superiorem qui poterat salvare."-Michelet, Procès des Templiers, II.404. Cf. ibid., p. 384: " Quidem falsus propheta est; credas solummodo in Deum Celi, et non in istum."51. Loiseleur, op. cit. p. 37.52. Raynouard, op. cit., p. 301.53. Wilhelm Ferdinand Wilcke, Geschichte des Tempelherrenordens, II. 302-12 (1827).54. Eliphas Lévi, Histoire de la Magie, p. 273.55. J. M. Ragon, Cours Philosophique et Interprétatif des Initiations anciennes et modernes, édition sacrée àl'usage des Loges et des Maçons SEULEMENT (5,842), p. 37. In a footnote on the same page Ragon,however, refers to John the Baptist in this connexion.56. J.B. Fabré Palaprat, Recherches historiques sur les Templiers, p. 31 (1835).57. Ibid., p. 37.Nesta H. Webster — Secret Societies and Subversive Movements — Part I— 43 —
58. Eliphas Lévi, Histoire de la Magie, p. 277.59. Eliphas Lévi, La Science des Esprits, pp. 26-9, 40, 41.60. Raynouard, op. cit., p. 281.61. Matter, Histoire du Gnosticisme, III. 330.62. Eliphas Lévi, Histoire de la Magie, p. 275.63. M. Grégoire, Histoire des Sectes religieuses, II. 407 (1828).64. Matter, Histoire du Gnosticisme, III. 323.65. Ibid., III. p. 120.66. Jewish Encyclopædia, article on Mandæans.67. Grégoire, op. cit., IV. 241.68. Jewish Encyclopædia, and Hastings' Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, articles on Mandæans.69. Codex Nasaræus, Liber Adam appellatus, trans. from the Syriac into Latin by Matth. Norberg (1815),Vol. I. 109: " Sed, Johanne hac ætate Hierosolymæ nato, Jordanumque deinceps legente, et baptismum peragente,veniet Jeschu Messias, summisse se gerens, ut baptismo Johannis baptizetur, et Johannis per sapientiamsapiat. Pervertet vero doctrinam Johannis et mutato Jordani baptismo, perversisque justitiæ dictis,iniquitatem et perfidiam per mundum disseminabit."70. Article on the Codex Nasar us by Silvestre de Sacy in the Journal des Savants for November 1819, p.651; cf. passage in the Zohar, section Bereschith, folio 55.71. Matter, op. cit., III. 119, 120. De Sacy (op. cit., p. 654) also attributes the Codex Nasar us to the eighthcentury.72. Matter, op. cit., III. 118.73. Jewish Encyclopædia, article on Mandæans.74. Loiseleur, op. cit., p. 52.75. Ibid., p. 51; Matter, op. cit., III. 305.76. The Sabbatic goat is clearly of Jewish origin. Thus the Zohar relates that " Tradition teaches us thatwhen the Israelites evoked evil spirits, these appeared to them under the form of he-goats and made knownto them all that they wished to learn."-Section Ahre Moth, folio 70a (de Pauly, V. 191).77. Eliphas Lévi, Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie, II. 209.78. Some Notes on various Gnostic Sects and their Possible Influence on Free-masonry, by D.F. Ranking,reprinted from A.Q.C., Vol. XXIV. pp. 27, 28 (1911).Nesta H. Webster — Secret Societies and Subversive Movements — Part I— 44 —
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