: "The evidence of the
existence of either Satanists or Palladists consists entirely of the
writings of a group of men in Paris." It then proceeds to devote five
columns out of the six and a half which compose the article to
describing the works of two notorious romancers, Leo Taxil and Bataille.
There is not a word of real information to be found here.

[223] Precis of Eliphas Levi's writings by Arthur E. Waite, _The
Mysteries of Magic_, p. 215.

[224] _Jewish Encyclopaedia_, article on Cabala.

[225] _Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie_, II. 220 (1861). It is curious
to notice that Sir James Frazer, in his vast compendium on magic, _The
Golden Bough_, never once refers to any of the higher adepts--Jews,
Rosicrucians, Satanists, etc., or to the Cabala as a source of
inspiration. The whole subject is treated as if the cult of magic were
the spontaneous outcome of primitive or peasant mentality.

[226] _Histoire de la Magie_, p. 289.

[227] Talmud, treatise Berakhoth, folio 6. The Talmud also gives
directions on the manner of guarding against occult powers and the
onslaught of disease. The tract Pesachim declares that he who stands
naked before a candle is liable to be seized with epilepsy. The same
tract also states that "a man should not go out alone on the night
following the fourth day or on the night following the Sabbath, because
an evil spirit, called Agrath, the daughter of Ma'hlath, together with
one hundred and eighty thousand other evil spirits, go forth into the
world and have the right to injure anyone they should chance to meet."

[228] Talmud, treatise Hullin, folios 143, 144.

[229] Hastings' _Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics_, article on Jewish
Magic by M. Caster.

[230] Margaret Alice Murray, _The Witch Cult in Western Europe_, and
Jules Garinet, _Histoire de la Magie en France_, p. 163 (1818).

[231] Hastings' _Encyclopaedia_, article on Jewish Magic by M. Gaster.
See the Zohar, treatise Bereschith, folio 54_b_, where it is said that
all men are visited in their sleep by female devils. "These demons never
appear under any other form but that of human beings, but they have no
hair on their heads.... In the same way as to men, male devils appear in
dreams to women, with whom they have intercourse."

[232] The Rev. Moses Margoliouth, _The History of the Jews in Great
Britain_, I. 82. The same author relates further on (p. 304) that Queen
Elizabeth's Hebrew physician Rodrigo Lopez was accused