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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. [111
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