[100] J. Darmesteter, in Récéjac, Essai sur les fondements de la connaissance mystique, p. 124.
[101] In such notions may perhaps be best found the genesis of the present superstitions in regard to "lucky" and "unlucky" numbers, like the number 13, which have such persistence. (Tr.)
[102] See Part Two, [chapter II].
[103] Groos, Die Spiele der Thiere, pp. 308-312.
[104] Mabilleau, op. cit., p. 132.
[105] If we leave out oriental influences and the Mysteries, which, according to Aristotle, were not dogmatic teaching, but a show, an assemblage of symbols, acting by evocation, or suggestion, following the special mode of mystic imagination that we already know.
[106] Récéjac, op. cit., pp. 139 ff.
[107] One at once calls to mind Plotinus, whose highest philosophy is a kind of indescribable ecstacy. (Tr.)
[108] Hartmann, op. cit., vol. I, part 2, chapter IX.