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>Portrait of Falk, attributed to the mystic landscape artist and set designer, Philip James de Loutherbourg. Falk holds a compass and points to a star depicting the elements, both clear Masonic symbols
>The situation is no doubt muddled by the existence of a separate tradition which asserts (little more) that Falk met Orléans in London, and presented him with a talismanic ring, in this case of lapis lazuli. At the time of his execution the ring was passed on via an intermediary to his son Louis- Philippe. The only eighteenth-century source that I can find for all this is the German occultist Baron von Gleichen who imagined Falk to be "first rabbi of the Jews" [Reading 6]. Most other references derive from unpleasant and suspect nineteenth-century anti-semitic works, though unfortunately the information has also found its way into the article on "Falk" in the Jewish Encyclopedia
>References
>Auguste Viatte, Les sources occultes du romantisme (1928) [For loan on Internet Archive]
>Joscelyn Godwin, The Theosophical Enlightenment (1994), p.101 [Preview on Google Books]
>M.K. Schuchard, "Dr. Samuel Jacob Falk: A Sabbatian Adventurer in the Masonic Underground", Millenarianism and Messianism in early modern European culture (2001) p203-26 https://www.academia.edu/43458620/Falk
>Gordon P.G. Hills, who studied references to Falk in the Rainsford manuscripts in the British Museum, is said to have been informed by Jewish sources that Falk was "in touch with the French Court in the person of 'Prince Emanuel' (/?Swedenborg perhaps), whom he describes as "a servant of the King of France"; he added that the talismanic ring which he gave to the duc d'Orleans "is still in the possession of the family, having passed to King Louis Philippe and thence to the comte de Paris" (Quoted in Nesta Webster, Secret Societies And Subversive Movements - I can't find the original reference)
>Portrait of Falk, attributed to the mystic landscape artist and set designer, Philip James de Loutherbourg. Falk holds a compass and points to a star depicting the elements, both clear Masonic symbols
>The situation is no doubt muddled by the existence of a separate tradition which asserts (little more) that Falk met Orléans in London, and presented him with a talismanic ring, in this case of lapis lazuli. At the time of his execution the ring was passed on via an intermediary to his son Louis- Philippe. The only eighteenth-century source that I can find for all this is the German occultist Baron von Gleichen who imagined Falk to be "first rabbi of the Jews" [Reading 6]. Most other references derive from unpleasant and suspect nineteenth-century anti-semitic works, though unfortunately the information has also found its way into the article on "Falk" in the Jewish Encyclopedia
>References
>Auguste Viatte, Les sources occultes du romantisme (1928) [For loan on Internet Archive]
>Joscelyn Godwin, The Theosophical Enlightenment (1994), p.101 [Preview on Google Books]
>M.K. Schuchard, "Dr. Samuel Jacob Falk: A Sabbatian Adventurer in the Masonic Underground", Millenarianism and Messianism in early modern European culture (2001) p203-26 https://www.academia.edu/43458620/Falk
>Gordon P.G. Hills, who studied references to Falk in the Rainsford manuscripts in the British Museum, is said to have been informed by Jewish sources that Falk was "in touch with the French Court in the person of 'Prince Emanuel' (/?Swedenborg perhaps), whom he describes as "a servant of the King of France"; he added that the talismanic ring which he gave to the duc d'Orleans "is still in the possession of the family, having passed to King Louis Philippe and thence to the comte de Paris" (Quoted in Nesta Webster, Secret Societies And Subversive Movements - I can't find the original reference)
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