ated 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-Maconnerie en Francs, des Origines a_
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 Illumines_, p. 212) refers to
the following works in connexion with the Order:
1. _Nouvelles authentiques des Chevaliers et Freres Inities
d'Asie_.
2. _Recoit-on, peut-on recevoir les Juifs parmi les Franc-Macons_?
3. _Nouvelles authentiques de l'Asie_, by Frederick de Bascamp,
nomme Lazapolski (1787).
Wolfstieg, in his _Bibliograpkie der Freimaurischer Literatur_, Vol. II.
p. 283, gives Friedrich Munter as the author of the first of the above,
and also mentions amongst others a work by Gustave Brabee, _Die
Asiatischen Bruder 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, _Memoires 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 Freemas
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