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[420] Papus, _Martines de Pasqually_, p. 146 (1895).
[421] Evidently a reference to the seven liberal arts and sciences enumerated in the Fellow Craft's degree--Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Arithmetic, Geometry, Music, and Astronomy.
[422] In 1767 Voltaire writes to Frederick asking him to have certain books printed in Berlin and circulated in Europe "at a low price which will facilitate the sales." To this Frederick replies: "You can make use of my printers according to your desires," etc. (letter of May 5, 1767). I have referred elsewhere to the libels against Marie Antoinette circulated by Frederick's agents in France. See my _French Revolution_, pp. 27, 183.
[423] Eliphas Lévi, _Histoire de la Magie, p_ 407. The rôle of Freemasonry in preparing the Revolution habitually denied by the conspiracy of history is nevertheless clearly recognized in masonic circles--applauded by those of France, deplored by those of England and America. An American manual in my possession contains the following passage: "The Masons ... (it is now well settled by history) _originated the Revolution_ with the infamous Duke of Orleans at their head."--_A Ritual and Illustrations of Freemasonry_, p. 31 note.
[424] Papus, _Martines de Pasqually, p_. 150.
[425] Benjamin Fabre, _Eques a Capite Galeato_, p. 88.
[426] _Souvenirs du Baron de Gleichen_, p. 151.
[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:
1. _Nouvelles authentiques des Chevaliers et Frères Initiés d'Asie_.
2. _Reçoit-on, peut-on recevoir les Juifs parmi les Franc-Maçons_?
3. _Nouvelles authentiques de l'Asie_, by Frederick de Bascamp, nommé Lazapolski (1787).
Wolfstieg, in his _Bibliograpkie der Freimaurischer Literatur_, 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.