... is said to have been written down by the disciples of Simon ben Jochai. The Talmud relates that for twelve years the Rabbi Simon and his son Eliezer concealed themselves in a cavern, where, sitting in the sand up to their necks, they meditated on the sacred law and were frequently visited by the prophet Elias. [26] In this way, Jewish legend adds, the great book of the Zohar was composed and...
... committed to writing by the Rabbi's son Eliezer and his secretary the Rabbi Abba. [27] The first date at which the Zohar is definitely known to have appeared is the end of the thirteenth century, when it was committed to writing by a Spanish Jew, Moses de Leon, who, according to Dr. Ginsburg, said he had discovered and reproduced the original document of Simon ben Jochai; his wife and daughter, however...
... demons was established corresponding to the heavenly hierarchy.... Manasseh [ben Israel]'s Nishmat Hayim is full of information concerning belief in demons.... Even the scholarly and learned Rabbis of the seventeenth century clung to the belief." [229] Here, then, it is not a case of ignorant peasants evolving fantastic visions from their own scared imaginations, but of the Rabbis, the...
... the period preceding the institution of Grand Lodge in 1717 it certainly finds confirmation in fact. Thus it is said that in the preceding century the coat-of-arms now used by Grand Lodge had been designed by an Amsterdam Jew, Jacob Jehuda Leon Templo, colleague of Cromwell's friend the Cabalist, Manasseh ben Israel. [333] To quote Jewish authority on this question, Mr. Lucien Wolf writes that...
..., but that they employed any secret or masonic system seems to me perfectly incapable of proof. I shall return to this point later, however, in connection with the Illuminati. As to Cromwell, the only circumstance that lends any colour to the possibility of his connection with Freemasonry is his known friendship for Manasseh ben Israel, the colleague of the Rabbi Templo who designed the coat-of-arms...
... Cambridge in order to discover whether the Protector could possibly be of Jewish descent. [459] This quest proving fruitless, the Cabalist Rabbi of Amsterdam, Manasseh ben Israel, [460] addressed a petition to Cromwell for the readmission of the Jews to England, in which he adroitly insisted on the retribution that overtakes those who afflict the people of Israel and the rewards that await those who "...
... therefore has no positive existence. [470] As a result the followers of Besht, calling themselves the "New Saints," and at his death numbering no less than 40,000, threw aside not only the precepts of the Talmud, but all the restraints of morality and even decency. [471] Another Ba'al Shem of the same period was Heilprin, alias Joel Ben Uri of Satanov, who, like Israel of Podolia, professed to...
...; But elsewhere she asserted that Jesus may have lived during the Christian era or a century earlier "as the Sepher Toldoth Jehoshua indicates" (my italics). And Madame Blavatsky went on to say of the savants who deny the historical value of this legend, that they - either lie or talk nonsense. It is our Masters who affirm it [my italics]. If the history of Jehoshua or Jesus Ben Pandera is...
... false, then the whole of the Talmud, the whole of the Jewish canon law, is false. It was the disciple of Jehoshua Ben Parachia, the fifth President of the Sanhedrim since Ezra, who re-wrote the Bible.... This story is much truer than that of the New Testament, of which history does not say a word. [702] Who were the Masters whose authority Madame Blavatsky here invokes? Clearly not the Trans-Himalayan...
... Lodge of, [133]- [152] "Harnouester," Lord, [145] Hartmann, Franz, [316] Hasan and Husein, [35] Hasan Saba (The Old Man of the Mountain), [44]- [48] Hashishyin (see Assassins) Hasidim, [182], et. seq. Heguerty, Squire, [134] Heilprin (Joel ben Uri), [182] Heindl, Max, [317] Helvetius, [162] Heredom, [112] Hertz, David Moses, [169] Herz, Henrietta, [230] Hesse, Prince Charles of, [125], [129...
... de, [169], [239], et seq., [350] Luciferians, the, [63], [64], [76] Lulli, Raymond, [85] Luria, Isaac, [78] Luther, Martin, and the Jews, [21] Machiavelli, [354], [355] Mackenzie, Kenneth, [90], [189] Maçonnerie d'Adoption, [295] Maçonnique Mixte Internationale, Ordre, [296], [301], et seq. Magic, branches of, [84] Magicians, [172]- [176] Maitland, Edward, [310] Manasseh ben Israel...
... Jeschu (see Toledot Yeshu) Sepher Yetzirah, [7], [313] Shabbethai, Zebi, [181], [183] Shiahs, [36], [37] Simon ben Jochai, [8] Simon Magus, [29] Sixtus IV, [85] Socialism, ch. xiii — and Freemasonry, [273]- [275] Solomon, [106], [109] Solomon, Temple of, [49], [106]- [108], [110], [113], [271] Spedalieri, Baron, [310] Sprengel, Anna, [311]- [313] Star, five-pointed, [111...
... disappears and Freemasonry springs into life with all the possessions of the former.' " - Speculative Freemasonry, an Historical Lecture, delivered March 31, 1883, p. 9; quoted by Gould, History of Freemasonry, II. 138. 332. L'Antisemitisme, p. 339. 333. Jewish Encyclopedia, articles on Leon and Manasseh ben Israel. 334. Article on "Anglo-Jewish Coats-of-arms" by Lucien Wolf in Transactions...
.... 18. On this question see also the pamphlets by Mr. Lucien Wolf: Crypto-Jews under the Commonwealth (1894), Cromwell's Jewish Intelligencers (1891), and Manasseh ben Israel's Mission to Oliver Cromwell (1901), also articles on Cromwell, Carvajal, and Manasseh ben Israel in the Jewish Encyclopedia. 458. Lucien Wolf, "The First English Jew," in Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society...
... of England, II. 20. 459. Tovey, Anglia Judaica, p. 275. 460. The Jewish Encyclopedia, in its article on Manasseh ben Israel, says: "He was full of cabalistic opinions, though he was careful not to expound them in those of his works that were written in modern languages and intended to be read by Gentiles." In its article on "Magic" the Jewish Encyclopedia refers to the "...
...;Nishmat Hayyim," a work by Manasseh ben Israel which "is filled with superstition and magic" and adds that "many Christian scholars were deluded." 461. Tovey, Anglia Judaica, p. 259; Margoliouth, History of the Jews in England, II. 3. 462. Mirabeau (Sur la Reforme politique des Juifs, 1787) thinks they may not have been allowed to return unconditionally until 1664. It was...
..., article on Jews. 467. Diary of Samuel Pepys, date of February 19, 1666 468. Jewish Encyclopedia, article on Shabbethai Zebi B. Mordecai. 469. Henry Hart Milman, History of the Jews (Everyman's Library), Vol. II. p. 445. 470. Jewish Encyclopedia, article on Ba'al Shem Tob. 471. Milman, op. cit, II. 446. 472. Jewish Encyclopedia, article on Heilprin, Joel Ben Uri. 473. Heckethorn, Secret Societies, I. 87...