seen in the Golden Gate
leading into the sacred area of the Temple, which was bricked up by the
Mohammedans, and is bricked up to this day, because they declared that
nobody should enter through that portal until Jesus Christ comes to
judge the world, and this is stated in the Koran." I cannot trace this
passage in the Koran, but much the same idea is conveyed by the Rev.
J.M. Rodwell, who in the note above quoted adds: "The Muhammadans
believe that Jesus on His return to earth at the end of the world will
slay the Antichrist, die, and be raised again. A vacant place is
reserved for His body in the Prophet's tomb at Medina."

[95] Graetz, _Geschichte der Juden_, III. 216-52.

[96] _The Essenes: their History and Doctrines_, an essay by Christian
D. Ginsburg, LL.D. (Longmans, Green & Co., 1864).

[97] Ibid., p. 24.

[98] Edersheim (op. cit., I. 325) ably refutes both Graetz and Ginsburg
on this point, and shows that "the teaching of Christianity was in a
direction the opposite from that of Essenism." M. Vulliaud (op. cit., I.
71) dismisses the Essene origin of Christianity as unworthy of serious
attention. "To maintain the Essenism of Jesus is a proof of frivolity or
of invincible ignorance."

[99] Luke xvii. 7-9.

[100] Ginsburg, op. cit., pp. 15, 22, 55.

[101] Ginsburg, op. cit., p. 12.

[102] Fabre d'Olivet thinks this tradition had descended to the Essenes
from Moses: "If it is true, as everything attests, that Moses left an
oral law, it is amongst the Essenes that it was preserved. The
Pharisees, who flattered themselves so highly on possessing it, only had
its outward forms (_apparences_), as Jesus reproaches them at every
moment. It is from these latter that the modern Jews descend, with the
exception of a few real _savants_ whose secret tradition goes back to
the Essenes."--_La Langue Hebraique_, p. 27 (1815).

[103] Matter, _Histoire du Gnosticisme_, I. 44 (1844).

[104] _Jewish Encyclopaedia_, article on Cabala.

[105] Matter, op. cit., II. 58.

[106] Ragon, _Maconnerie Occulte_, p. 78.

[107] "The Cabala is anterior to the Gnosis, an opinion which Christian
writers little understand, but which the erudites of Judaism profess
with a legitimate assurance."--Matter, op. cit.. Vol. I. p. 12.

[108] _Jewish Encyclopaedia_, article on Cabala.

[109] John Yarker, _The Arcane Schools_, p. 167; Matter, op. cit., II.
365, quoting Irenaeus.

[110] Eliphas Levi, _Histoire de la Magie_, p. 189.

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