, admits that, if less unjust and violent measures had been adopted, the interest of the State and the safety of the throne might have justified the abolition of 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 ' natural superiors,' and has left no tie twixt man and man but naked self-interest and callous cash payment."The Communis 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 nichil valebat ; 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 à l'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. 

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 Encyclopodia, article on Mandæans. 

67. Grégoire, op. cit., IV. 241. 

68. Jewish Encyclopodia, and Hastings' Encyclopodia of Religion and Ethics, articles on Mandæans. 

69. Codex Nasarous, 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 sapientiam sapiat. Pervertet vero doctrinam Johannis et mutato Jordani baptismo, perversisque justitiæ dictis, iniquitatem et perfidiam per mundum disseminabit." 

70. Article on the Codex Nasarous 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 Nasarous to the eighth century. 

72. Matter, op. cit., III. 118. 

73. Jewish Encyclopodia, 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 that when the Israelites evoked evil spirits, these appeared to them under the form of he-goats and made known to 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). 

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