The synonyms are known to every schoolboy without the Marquis going to the trouble of explaining them to the Academy; as to the deduction, every Occultist will of course deny it and only smile at its folly. And now we come to the theological conclusion. The _résumé_ of the views of the Latin Church—as given by authors of the same character as the Marquis de Mirville—amounts to this: that the Hermetic Books, their wisdom—fully admitted in Rome—notwithstanding, are “the heirloom left by Cain, the accursed, to mankind.” It is “generally admitted,” says that modern memorialist of Satan in History: That immediately after the Flood Cham and his descendants had propagated anew the ancient teachings of the Cainites and of the submerged Race.(66) This proves, at any rate, that Magic, or Sorcery as he calls it, is an antediluvian Art, and thus one point is gained. For, as he says:— The evidence of Berosius makes Ham identical with the first Zoroaster, founder of Bactria, the first author of all the magic arts of Babylonia, the _Chemesenua_ or Cham,(67) the _infamous_(68) of the faithful Noachians, finally the object of adoration for Egypt, which having received its name Χημεία, whence chemistry, built in his honour a town called _Choemnis_, or the “city of fire.”(69) Ham adored it, it is said, whence the name _Chammaim_ given to the pyramids; which in their turn have been vulgarised into our modern noun “chimney.”(70) This statement is entirely wrong. Egypt was the cradle of Chemistry and its birth‐place—this is pretty well known by this time. Only Kenrick and others show the root of the word to be _chemi_ or _chem_, which is not _Cham_ or Ham, but _Khem_, the Egyptian phallic God of the Mysteries. But this is not all. De Mirville is bent upon finding a satanic origin even for the now innocent Tarot. He goes on to say: As to the means for the propagation of this evil Magic, tradition points it out, in certain runic characters traced on metallic plates [or leaves, _des lames_] which have escaped destruction by the Deluge.(71) This might have been regarded as legendary, had not subsequent discoveries shown it far from being so. Plates were found covered with curious and utterly undecipherable characters, characters of undeniable antiquity, to which the Chamites [Sorcerers, with the author] attribute the origin of their marvellous and terrible powers.(72)