Johanne hae
aetate Hierosolymae nato, Jordanumque deinceps legente, et baptismum
peragente, veniet Jeschu Messias, summisse se gerens, ut baptismo
Johannis baptizetur, et Johannis per sapientiam sapiat. Pervertet vero
doctrinam Johannis, et mutato Jordani baptismo, perversisque justitiae
dictis, iniquitatem et perfidiam per mundum disseminabit."

[206] Article on the _Codex Nasaraeus_ by Silvestre de Sacy in the
_Journal des Savants_ for November 1819, p. 651; cf. passage in the
Zohar, section Bereschith, folio 55.

[207] Matter, op. cit., III. 119, 120. De Sacy (op. cit., p. 654) also
attributes the _Codex Nasaraeus_ to the eighth century.

[208] Matter, op. cit., III. 118.

[209] _Jewish Encyclopaedia_, article on Mandaeans.

[210] Loiseleur, op. cit., p. 52.

[211] Ibid., p. 51; Matter, op. cit., III. 305.

[212] Hastings' _Encyclopaedia_, article on Bogomils.

[213] The Sabbatic goat is clearly of Jewish origin. Thus the Zohar
relates that "Tradition teaches us that when the Israelites evoked evil
spirits, these appeared to them under the form of he-goats and made
known to them all that they wished to learn."--Section Ahre Moth, folio
70a (de Pauly, V. 191).

[214] Eliphas Levi, _Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie_, II. 209.

[215] _Some Notes on various Gnostic Sects and their Possible Influence
on Free-masonry_, by D.F. Ranking, reprinted from _A.Q.C._, Vol. XXIV.
pp. 27, 28

[216] "Their meetings were held in the most convenient spot, often on
mountains or in valleys; the only essentials were a table, a white
cloth, and a copy of the Gospel of St. John, that is, their own version
of it."--Dr. Ranking, op. cit., p. 15 (_A.Q.C._, Vol. XXIV.). Cf.
Gabriele Rossetti, _The Anti-Papal Spirit_, I. 230, where it is said
"the sacred books, and especially that of St. John, were wrested by this
sect into strange and perverted meanings."

[217] Michelet, _Histoire de France_, III. 18, 19 (1879 edition).

[218] Michelet, op. cit., p. 10. "L'element semitique, juif et arabe,
etait fort en Languedoc." Cf. A.E. Waite, _The Secret Tradition in
Freemasonry_, I. 118: "The South of France was a centre from which went
forth much of the base occultism of Jewry as well as its theosophical
dreams."

[219] Michelet, op. cit., p. 12.

[220] Ibid., p. 15.

[221] Graetz, _History of the Jews_, III. 517.

[222] Thus Hastings' _Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics_ omits all
reference to Satanism before 1880 and observes