[208.] Matter, op. cit., III. 118.
[209.] Jewish Encyclopædia, article on Mandæans.
[210.] Loiseleur, op. cit., p. 52.
[211.] Ibid., p. 51; Matter, op. cit., III. 305.
[212.] Hastings' Encyclopædia, article on Bogomils.
[213.] 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).
[214.] Eliphas Lévi, Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie, II. 209.
[215.] 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
[216.] "Their meetings were held in the most convenient spot, often on mountains or in valleys; the only essentials were a table, a white cloth, and a copy of the Gospel of St. John, that is, their own version of it."--Dr. Ranking, op. cit., p. 15 (A.Q.C., Vol. XXIV.). Cf. Gabriele Rossetti, The Anti-Papal Spirit, I. 230, where it is said "the sacred books, and especially that of St. John, were wrested by this sect into strange and perverted meanings."
[217.] Michelet, Histoire de France, III. 18, 19 (1879 edition).