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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 inEurope " at a low price which will facilitate the sales." To this Frederick replies: " You can make use of myprinters according to your desires," etc. (letter of May 5, 1767). I have referred elsewhere to the libelsagainst 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 habituallydenied by the conspiracy of history is nevertheless clearly recognized in masonic circles-applauded bythose of France, deplored by those of England and America. An American manual in my possession containsthe following passage: " The Masons... (it is now well settled by history) originated the Revolutionwith 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 ofJewry."-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 ofthe philosophical degree of the Rose-Croix, in which the sacred formula I.N.R.I., which plays an importantpart in the Christian form of this degree, is interpreted to mean Igne Natura Renovatur Integra-Nature is renewedby fire.-Nouveau Grade de Rose Croix, p. 69. Mackey gives this as an alternative interpretation ofthe 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 theOrder: 1. Nouvelles authentiques des Chevaliers et Frères Initiés d'Asie. 2. Reçoit-on, peut-on recevoir lesJuifs 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 FriedrichMünter 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 isthe 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 einzigewahre und echte Freimaurerei).42. Clavel, Histoire pittoresque, p. 167.43. The Baron de Gleichen, in describing the " Convulsionists," says that young women allowed themselvesto be crucified, sometimes head downwards, at these meetings of the fanatics. He himself saw one nailed tothe 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. Apaper 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 forthe members of the Rit Primitif, I agree with him that Mr. Fabre attributes to them too much guile and failsto substantiate his charge of revolutionary designs. They appear to have been the perfectly honourableNesta H. Webster — Secret Societies and Subversive Movements — Part I— 97 —
dupes of subtler brains. Incidentally Mr. Tuckett erroneously gives the real name of " Eques a CapiteGaleato " as Chefdebien d'Armand; it should be d'Armisson.46. De Luchet, Essai sur la Secte des Illuminés, p. 208. Gould, op. cit., III. 116.47. It is amusing to note that Mr. Waite confuses him with the rightful bearer of the name, Claude Louis,Comte de Saint-Germain, Minister of War under Louis XVI, for in The Secret Tradition in Freemasonry,Vol. II., a picture is appended to a description of the adventurer.48. Biographie Michaud, article on Saint-Germain.49. Souvenirs de la Marquise de Créquy, III. 65. François Bournand (Histoire de Franc-Maçonnerie, p.106) confirms this story: " The man who called himself the Comte de Saint-Germain was in reality only theson of an Alsatian Jew named Wolf."50. Nouvelle Biographie Générale, article on Saint-Germain.51. Frederick Bülau, Geheime Geschichten und rätselhafte Menschen, I. 311. (1850). Eckert, La Franc-Maçonnerie dans sa véritable signification, II. 80, quoting Lening's Encyclopédie des Franc-Maçons.52. Lecouteulx de Canteleu, op. cit., pp. 171, 172.53. Clavel, Histoire pittoresque, p. 175.54. Ibid., p. 175.55. Figuier, Histoire du Merveilleux, IV. 9-11 (1860).56. Mounier, De l'influence attribuée, p. 140.57. Benjamin Fabre, Franciscus Eques a Capite Galeato, p. 24.58. De Luchet, Essai sur la Secte des Illuminés, p. 234.Nesta H. Webster — Secret Societies and Subversive Movements — Part I— 98 —
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policy. A system which, with no oth
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nesses, says the official report, "
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CHAPTER IVTHREE CENTURIES OF OCCULT
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