ly torn
asunder all the many-coloured feudal bonds which united men to their
'natural superiors,' and has left no tie twixt man and man but naked
self-interest and callous cash payment."--_The Communist Manifesto_.

[174] Eliphas Levi, _Histoire de la Magie_, p. 273.

[175] E.J. Castle, op. cit., _A.Q.C._, Vol. XX. Part I. p. 11.

[176] Ibid., Part II. p. 24.

[177] Loiseleur, op. cit., pp. 20, 21.

[178] _Histoire de la Magie_, p. 277.

[179] Dr. F.W. Bussell, _Religious Thought and Heresy in the Middle
Ages_, p. 803.

[180] _Les Sectes et Societes Secretes_, p. 85.

[181] _History of the Assassins_, p. 80.

[182] F. T. B. Clevel, _Histoire Pittoresque de la Franc-Maconnerie_, p.
356 (1843).

[183] Loiseleur, op. cit., p. 66

[184] Ibid., p. 143.

[185] Ibid., p. 141.

[186] "Dixit sibi quod non crederet in eum, quia nichil erat, et quod
erat quidam falsus propheta, et nichil valebat; immo crederet in Deum
Celi superiorem, qui poterat salvare."--Michelet, _Proces des
Templiers_, II. 404. Cf. ibid., p. 384: "Quidem falsus propheta est;
credas solummodo in Deum Celi, et non in istum."

[187] Loiseleur, op. cit., p. 37.

[188] Raynouard, op. cit., p. 301.

[189] Wilhelm Ferdinand Wilcke, _Geschichte des Tempelherrenordens_, II,
302-12, (1827).

[190] Eliphas Levi, _Histoire de la Magie_, p. 273.

[191] J.M. Ragon, _Cours Philosophique et Interpretatif des Initiations
anciennes et modernes_, edition sacree a l'usage des Loges et des Macons
SEULEMENT (5,842), p. 37. In a footnote on the same page Ragon, however,
refers to John the Baptist in this connexion.

[192] J. B. Fabre Palaprat, _Recherches historiques sur les Templiers_,
p. 31 (1835).

[193] Ibid., p. 37.

[194] Eliphas Levi, _Histoire de la Magie_, p. 277.

[195] Eliphas Levi, _La Science des Esprits_, pp. 26-9, 40, 41.

[196] Raynouard, op. cit., p. 281.

[197] Matter, _Histoire du Gnosticisme_, III. 330.

[198] Eliphas Levi, _Histoire de la Magie_, p. 275.

[199] M. Gregoire, _Histoire des Sectes religieuses_. II. 407 (1828).

[200] Matter, _Histoire du Gnosticisme_, III. 323.

[201] Ibid., III. p. 120.

[202] _Jewish Encyclopaedia_, article on Mandaeans.

[203] Gregoire, op. cit., IV. 241.

[204] _Jewish Encyclopaedia_, and Hastings' _Encyclopaedia of Religion and
Ethics_, article on Mandaeans.

[205] _Codex Nasaraeus_, Liber Adam appellatus, trans. from the Syriac
into Latin by Matth. Norberg (1815), Vol. I. 109: "Sed,