] Eliphas Levi, op. cit., p. 218.

[112] Dean Milman, _History of the Jews_ (Everyman's Library edition),
II. 491.

[113] Matter, II. 171; E. de Faye, _Gnostiques et Gnosticisme_, p. 349
(1913).

[114] De Luchet, _Essai sur la Secte des Illumines_, p. 6.

[115] _Manuel d'Histoire Ecclesiastique_, par R. P. Albers, S.J., adapte
par Rene Hedde, O.P., p. 125 (1908); Matter, op. citt., II. 197.

[116] Matter, op. cit., II. 188.

[117] Matter, op. cit., II. 199, 215.

[118] Eliphas Levi, _Histoire de la Magie_, pp. 217, 218.

[119] Matter, op. cit., II. 115, III. 14; S. Baring-Gould, _The Lost and
Hostile Gospels_ (1874).

[120] Matter, op. cit., II 364.

[121] Ibid., p. 365.

[122] Ibid., p. 369.

[123] _Some Notes on Various Gnostic Sects and their Possible Influence
on Freemasonry_, by D. F. Ranking, republished from _Ars Quatuor
Coronatorum_ (Vol. XXIV, p. 202, 1911) in pamphlet form, p. 7.

[124] Hastings, _Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics_, article on
Manicheism.

[125] Zohar, treatise Bereschith, folio 54 (De Pauly's translation, I.
315).

[126] The Yalkut Shimoni is a sixteenth-century compilation of Haggadic
Midrashim.

[127] Principal authorities consulted for this chapter: Joseph von
Hammer, _The History of the Assassins_ (Eng. trans., 1835); Silvestre de
Sacy, _Expose de le Religion des Druses (1838) and Memoires sur la
Dynastie des Assassins_ in _Memoires de l'Institut Royal de France_,
Vol. IV. (1818); Hastings _Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics_; Syed
Ameer Ali, _The Spirit of Islam_ (1922); Dr. F. W. Bussell, _Religious
Thought and Heresy in the Middle Ages_ (1918).

[128] Reinhart Dozy, _Spanish Islam_ (Eng. trans.), pp. 403-5.

[129] Claudio Jannet, _Les Precurseurs de la Franc-Moconnerie_, p. 58
(1887).

[130] The following account is given by de Sacy in connexion with
Abdullah ibn Maymun (op. cit., I. Ixxiv), and Dr. Bussell (_Religious
Thought and Heresy in the Middle Ages_, p. 353) includes it in his
chapter on the Karmathites. Von Hammer, however, gives it as the
programme of the Dar ul Hikmat, and this seems more probable since the
initiation consists of nine degrees and Abdullah's society of Batinis,
into which Karmath had been initiated, included only seven. Yarker (_The
Arcane Schools_, p. 185) says the two additional degrees were added by
the Dar ul Hikmat. It would appear then that de Sacy, in placing this
account before his description of the Karmathites, was ant