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sheim, _The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah_, I. 99 (1883), quoting other Jewish authorities. [18] _Solomon Maimon: an Autobiography_, translated from the German by J. Clark Murray, p. 28 (1888). The original appeared in 1792. [19] Alfred Edersheim, _The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah_, II. 689 (1883). [20] "There exists in Jewish literature no book more difficult to understand than the Sepher Yetzirah."--Phineas Mordell in the _Jewish Quarterly Review_, New Series, Vol. II. p. 557. [21] Paul Vulliaud, _La Kabbale Juive: histotre et doctrine_, 2 vols. (Emile Nourry, 62 Rue des Ecoles, Paris, 1923). This book, neither the work of a Jew nor of an "anti-Semite," but of a perfectly impartial student, is invaluable for a study of the Cabala rather as a vast compendium of opinions than as an expression of original thought. [22] "Rab Hanina and Rab Oschaya were seated on the eve of every Sabbath studying the Sepher Ietsirah; they created a three-year-old heifer and ate it."--Talmud treatise Sanhedrim, folio 65. [23] Koran, Sura LXXXVII. 10. [24] Zohar, section Bereschith, folio 55, and section Lekh-Lekha, folio 76 (De Pauly's translation, Vol. I. pp. 431, 446). [25] Adolphe Franck, _La Kabbale_, p. 39; J. P. Stehelin, _The Traditions of the Jews_, I. 145 (1748). [26] Adolphe Franck, op. cit., p. 68, quoting Talmud treatise Sabbath, folio 34, Dr. Christian Ginsburg, _The Kabbalah_, p. 85; Drach, _De l'Harmonie entre l'Eglise et la Synagogue_, I. 457. [27] Adolphe Franck, op. cit., p. 69. [28] Dr. Christian Ginsburg (1920), _The Kabbalah_, pp. 172, 173. [29] Vulliaud, op. cit., I. 253. [30] Ibid., p. 20, quoting Theodore Reinach, _Historie des Israelites_, p. 221, and Salomon Reinach, _Orpheus_, p. 299. [31] _Jewish Encyclopaedia_, article on Cabala. [32] Adolphe Franck, op. cit., p. 288. [33] Vulliaud, op. cit., I. 256, quoting Greenstone, _The Messiah Idea_, p. 229. [34] H. Loewe, in an article on the Kabbala in Hastings' _Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics_, says: "This secret mysticism was no late growth. Difficult though it is to prove the date and origin of this system of philosophy and the influences and causes which produced it, we can be fairly certain that its roots stretch back very far and that the mediaeval and Geonic Kabbala was the culmination and not the inception of Jewish esoteric mysticism. From the time of Graetz it has been the fashion to decry the Kabbala an
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