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 L vi 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 Soci t s Secr tes p 85 45 History of the Assassins p 80 46 F T B Clavel Histoire Pittoresque de la Franc Ma onnerie 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 Proc s 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 L vi Histoire de la Magie p 273 55 J M Ragon Cours Philosophique et Interpr tatif des Initiations anciennes et modernes dition sacr e l usage des Loges et des Ma ons 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 Fabr Palaprat Recherches historiques sur les Templiers p 31 1835 57 Ibid p 37 58 Eliphas L vi Histoire de la Magie p 277 59 Eliphas L vi La Science des Esprits pp 26 9 40 41 60 Raynouard op cit p 281 61 Matter Histoire du Gnosticisme III 330 62 Eliphas L vi Histoire de la Magie p 275 63 M Gr goire Histoire des Sectes religieuses II 407 1828 64 Matter Histoire du Gnosticisme III 323 65 Ibid III p 120 66 Jewish Encyclopodia article on Mand ans 67 Gr goire op cit IV 241 68 Jewish Encyclopodia and Hastings Encyclopodia of Religion and Ethics articles on Mand ans 69 Codex Nasarous Liber Adam appellatus trans from the Syriac into Latin by Matth Norberg 1815 Vol I 109 Sed Johanne hac tate Hierosolym 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 justiti 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 Mand ans 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 L vi 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 The Templars Chapter III Secret Societies and Subversive Movements Nesta Webster