Secret societies and subversive movements

by Nesta Helen Webster

[118.] Eliphas Lévi, Histoire de la Magie, pp. 217, 218.

[119.] Matter, op. cit., II. 115, III. 14; S. Baring-Gould, The Lost and Hostile Gospels (1874).

[120.] Matter, op. cit., II 364.

[121.] Ibid., p. 365.

[122.] Ibid., p. 369.

[123.] Some Notes on Various Gnostic Sects and their Possible Influence on Freemasonry, by D. F. Ranking, republished from Ars Quatuor Coronatorum (Vol. XXIV, p. 202, 1911) in pamphlet form, p. 7.

[124.] Hastings, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, article on Manicheism.

[125.] Zohar, treatise Bereschith, folio 54 (De Pauly's translation, I. 315).

[126.] The Yalkut Shimoni is a sixteenth-century compilation of Haggadic Midrashim.

[127.] Principal authorities consulted for this chapter: Joseph von Hammer, The History of the Assassins (Eng. trans., 1835); Silvestre de Sacy, Exposé de le Religion des Druses (1838) and Mémoires sur la Dynastie des Assassins in Mémoires de l'Institut Royal de France, Vol. IV. (1818); Hastings Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics; Syed Ameer Ali, The Spirit of Islam (1922); Dr. F. W. Bussell, Religious Thought and Heresy in the Middle Ages (1918).