[238.] See also A.S. Turberville, Mediæval Heresy and the Inquisition, pp. 111-12 (1920), ending with the words: "The voluminous records of the holy tribunal, the learned treatises of its members, are the great repositories of the true and indisputable facts concerning the abominable heresies of sorcery and witchcraft."
[239.] Histoire de la Magie, p. 15.
[240.] The Mysteries of Magic, p. 221.
[241.] A.E. Waite, The Real History of the Rosicrucians, p. 293.
[242.] Histoire de la Magie, p. 266.
[243.] John Yarker, The Arcane Schools, p. 205.
[244.] Drach (De l'Harmonie entre l'Église et la Synagogue, II. p. 30) says that Pico della Mirandola paid a Jew 7,000 ducats for the Cabalistic MSS. from which he drew his thesis.
[245.] Jewish Encyclopædia, articles on Cabala and Reuchlin.
[246.] Ibid., article on Cabala.
[247.] The following résumé is taken from the recent reprint of the Fama and Confessio brought out by the "Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia," and printed by W. J. Parrett (Margate, 1923). The story, which, owing to the extraordinary confusion of the text, is difficult to resume as a coherent narrative is given in the Fama; the dates are given in the Confessio.