Secret societies and subversive movements

by Nesta Helen Webster

[427.] Henri Martin, Histoire de France, XVI. 529.

[428.] Heckethorn, Secret Societies, I. 218; Waite, Secret Tradition, II. 155, 156.

[429.] "The ceremonial magic of Pasqually followed that type which I connect with the debased Kabbalism of Jewry."--A. E. Waite, The Secret Tradition in Freemasonry, II. 175.

[430.] An eighteenth-century manuscript of Les vrais clavicules du roi Salomon, translated from the Hebrew, was sold in Paris in 1921.

[431.] Mackev, Lexicon of Freemasonry, p. 156

[432.] A.E. Waite, The Doctrine and Literature of the Kabbalah, p. 369. Ragon elsewhere gives an account of the philosophical degree of the Rose-Croix, in which the sacred formula I.N.R.I., which plays an important part in the Christian form of this degree, is interpreted to mean Igne Natura Renovatur Integra--Nature is renewed by fire.--Novueau Grade de Rose Croix, p 69. Mackev gives this as an alternative interpretation of the Rosicrucians.--Lexicon of Freemasonry, p. 150.

[433.] Ragon, Mafonnerie Occulte, p. 91.

[434.] Gustave Bord, La Franc-Maçonnerie en Francs, des Origines à 1815, p. 212 (1908).

[435.] Letter from General Rainsford of October 1782, quoted in Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society, Vol. VIII. p. 125.

[436.] De Luchet (Essai sur la Sects des Illuminés, p. 212) refers to the following works in connexion with the Order: