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64. Matter, Histoire du Gnosticisme, III. 323. 

65. Ibid., III. p. 120. 

66. Jewish Encyclopodia, article on Mandæans. 

67. Grégoire, op. cit., IV. 241. 

68. Jewish Encyclopodia, and Hastings' Encyclopodia of Religion and Ethics, articles on Mandæans. 

69. Codex Nasarous, Liber Adam appellatus, trans. from the Syriac into Latin by Matth. Norberg (1815), Vol. I. 109  "" Sed, Johanne hac ætate Hierosolymæ 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 justitiæ dictis, iniquitatem et perfidiam per mundum disseminabit."" 

70. Article on the Codex Nasarous by Silvestre de Sacy in the Journal des Savants for November 1819, p. 651 ; cf. passage in the Zohar, section Bereschith, folio 55. 

71. Matter, op. cit., III. 119, 120. De Sacy (op. cit., p. 654) also attributes the Codex Nasarous to the eighth century. 

72. Matter, op. cit., III. 118. 

73. Jewish Encyclopodia, article on Mandæans. 

74. Loiseleur, op. cit., p. 52. 

75. Ibid., p. 51 ; Matter, op. cit., III. 305. 

76. 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). 

77. Eliphas Lévi, Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie, II. 209. 

78. 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 (1911). 

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