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25. Evidently a reference to the seven liberal arts and sciences enumerated in the Fellow Craft's degree-
Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Arithmetic, Geometry, Music, and Astronomy.
26. In 1767 Voltaire writes to Frederick asking him to have certain books printed in Berlin and circulated in
Europe " at a low price which will facilitate the sales." To this Frederick replies: " You can make use of my
printers according to your desires," etc. (letter of May 5, 1767). I have referred elsewhere to the libels
against Marie Antoinette circulated by Frederick's agents in France. See my French Revolution, pp. 27, 183.
27. Eliphas Lévi, Histoire de la Magie, p. 407. The rôle of Freemasonry in preparing the Revolution habitually
denied by the conspiracy of history is nevertheless clearly recognized in masonic circles-applauded by
those of France, deplored by those of England and America. An American manual in my possession contains
the following passage: " The Masons... (it is now well settled by history) originated the Revolution
with the infamous Duke of Orleans at their head."-A Ritual and Illustrations of Freemasonry, p. 31 note.
28. Papus: Martines de Pasqually, p. 150.
29. Benjamin Fabre: Eques a Capite Galeato, p. 88.
30. Souvenirs du Baron de Gleichen, p. 151.
31. Henri Martin, Histoire de France, XVI. 529.
32. Heckethorn, Secret Societies, I. 218; Waite, Secret Tradition, II. 155, 156.
33. " The ceremonial magic of Pasqually followed that type which I connect with the debased Kabbalism of
Jewry."-A.E. Waite, The Secret Tradition in Freemasonry, II. 175.
34. An eighteenth-century manuscript of Les vrais clavicules du roi Salomon, translated from the Hebrew,
was sold in Paris in 1921.
35. Mackey, Lexicon of Freemasonry, p. 156.
36. A.E. Waite, The Doctrine and Literature of the Kabbalah, p. 369. Ragon elsewhere gives an account of
the philosophical degree of the Rose-Croix, in which the sacred formula I.N.R.I., which plays an important
part in the Christian form of this degree, is interpreted to mean Igne Natura Renovatur Integra-Nature is renewed
by fire.-Nouveau Grade de Rose Croix, p. 69. Mackey gives this as an alternative interpretation of
the Rosicrucians.-Lexicon of Freemasonry, p. 150.
37. Ragon, Maçonnerie Occulte, p. 91.
38. Gustave Bord, La Franc-Maçonnerie en France, dés Origines à 1815, p. 212 (1908).
39. Letter from General Rainsford of October 1782, quoted in Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society,
Vol. VIII. p. 125.
40. De Luchet (Essai sur la Secte des Illuminés, p. 212) refers to the following works in connexion with the
Order: 1. Nouvelles authentiques des Chevaliers et Frères Initiés d'Asie. 2. Reçoit-on, peut-on recevoir les
Juifs parmi les Franc-Maçons? 3. Nouvelles authentiques de l'Asie, by Frederick de Bascamp, nommé Lazapoloki
(1787) Wolfstieg, in his Bibliographie der Freimaurischer Literatur, Vol. II. p. 283, gives Friedrich
Münter as the author of the first of the above, and also mentions amongst others a work by Gustave Brabée,
Die Asiatischen Brüder in Berlin und Wien. But none of these are to be found in the British Museum, nor is
the book of Rolling (published in 1787), which gives away the secrets of the sect.
41. Books in Wolfstieg's list refer to the Order as " the only true and genuine Freemasonry " (die einzige
wahre und echte Freimaurerei).
42. Clavel, Histoire pittoresque, p. 167.
43. The Baron de Gleichen, in describing the " Convulsionists," says that young women allowed themselves
to be crucified, sometimes head downwards, at these meetings of the fanatics. He himself saw one nailed to
the floor and her tongue cut with a razor. (Souvenirs du Baron de Gleichen, p. 185.)
44. Barruel, Mémoires sur le Jacobinisme, IV. 263.
45. Franciscus, Eques a Capite Galeato, published by Benjamin Fabre with preface by Copin Albancelli. A
paper on this book appears in Ars Quatuor Coronatorum, Vol. XXX. Part II. The author, Mr. J.E.S. Tuckett,
describes as a book of extraordinary interest to Freemasons. Without sharing Mr. Tuckett's admiration for
the members of the Rit Primitif, I agree with him that Mr. Fabre attributes to them too much guile and fails
to substantiate his charge of revolutionary designs. They appear to have been the perfectly honourable
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