- Nouvelles authentiques des Chevaliers et Frères Initiés d'Asie.
- Reçoit-on, peut-on recevoir les Juifs parmi les Franc-Maçons?
- Nouvelles authentiques de l'Asie, by Frederick de Bascamp, nommé Lazapolski (1787).
Wolfstieg, in his Bibliograpkie der Freimaurischer Ltteratur, Vol. II. p. 283, gives Friedrich Münter as the author of the first of the above, and also mentions amongst others a work by Gustave Brabée, Die Asiatischen Brüder in Berlin und Wien. But none of these are to be found in the British Museum, nor is the book of Rolling (published in 1787), which gives away the secrets of the sect.
[437.] Books in Wolfstieg's list refer to the Order as "the only true and genuine Freemasonry" (die einzige wahre und echte Freimaurerei).
[438.] Clavel, Histoire pittoresque, etc., p. 167.
[439.] The Baron de Gleichen, in describing the "Convulsionists," says that young women allowed themselves to be crucified, sometimes head downwards, at these meetings of the fanatics. He himself saw one nailed to the floor and her tongue cut with a razor. (Souvenirs da Baron de Gleichen, p. 185.)
[440.] Barruel, Mémoires sur le Jacobinisme, IV. 263.
[441.] Franciscus, Eques a Capite Galeato, published by Benjamin Fabre with preface by Copin Albancelli. A paper on this book appears in Ars Quatuor Coronatorum, Vol. XXX. Part II. The author, Mr. J. E. S. Tuckett, describes it as a book of extraordinary interest to Freemasons. Without sharing Mr. Tuckett's admiration for the members of the Rit Primitif, I agree with him that M. Fabre attributes to them too much guile and fails to substantiate his charge of revolutionary designs. They appear to have been the perfectly honourable dupes of subtler brains. Incidentally Mr. Tuckett erroneously gives the real name of "Eques a Capite Galeato" as Chefdebien d'Armand; it should be d'Armisson.
[442.] De Luchet, Essai sur la Secte des Illuminés, p. 208. Gould, op. cit., III. 116.
[443.] It is amusing to note that Mr. Waite confuses him with the rightful bearer of the name, Claude Louis, Comte de Saint-Germain, Minister of War under Louis XVI, for in The Secret Tradition in Freemasonry, Vol. II., a picture of the real Count is appended to a description of the adventurer.
[444.] Biographic Michaud, article on Saint-Germain.