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CONTENTS .
Freemasonry in Spain •275 " Provincial Grand Lodge of Berks and Bucks 276 Conclave of Knights Templar in Chicago 277 The Lord Mayor and Truro Cathedra ! ; 277 Exhibition of Civic Plate = 77 Scotland = 7
Ireland = 7 ** REPORTS OF MASONIC MEETINGSCraft Masonry 278 Instruction 2 S 0 Royal Arch = 80 Mark Masonry 2 S 1 Red Cross of Constantinc 2 H 1
France 2 S 1 Literary and Antiquarian Notes 2 S 1 LEADERS 2 S 2 CORRESPONDENCEReply to a Query 2 S 3 Reviews 2 S 3
Masonic Notes and Queries 2 S 3 Obituary 28 4 Cryptic Masonry 28 4 Masonic and General Tidings 2 S 4 Lodge Meetings for Next Week 2 S 6 Advertisements I . to VIII .
Freemasonry In Spain.
FREEMASONRY IN SPAIN .
( Continued from page 203 . ) It has been the long standing reproach of Continental Freemasonry that its votaries have too often used the Craft as a cloak for political intrigue . Indeed , not a few of the popular writers of Germany , Italy , and France seem to have taken it for granted that there must have been a good
and sufficient raison detre for that unrelenting and persevering hostility which despot governments have displayed towards the practice of our ceremonies and the spread of our principles . But the non-. Masonic world must always remember that despotism is , and ever will be , antagonistic to Freemasonry , just as it is , and must be , antagonistic to liberty of conscience in every shape or form . Let them
also bear in mind that it has not been the Freemasons nor the heretics of Roman Catholic lands who have persecuted their opponents—quite the reverse—and thus those whose lot in life has fallen in less pleasant places ( in a political sense ) than our own favoured land must not lightly be charged with a fundamental departure from the landmarks of our Order , simply because they have been , and
still are , proscribed and hunted down , at the instigation of Jesuit priests , by despotic rulers , who so arrogantly claim a sovereign power , "by the Grace of God , " to trample upon all individual rights , and to crush out , with a so-called " Heaven anointed arm , " all freedom of thought and every vestige of conscience amongst their subjects . We would not knowingly give a pretext for the slightest
departure from those lines and landmarks which have hitherto guided , and we trust will ever cuntinuc to guide , Free and Accepted Masons all the world over ; and one of the most deeply chiselled of these lines is that which enjoins the strictest avoidance of politics or sectarian dogma within the precincts of that chair in which the representative of K . S . presides over the practice of our rites . Indeed it
cannot be too often or too forcibly proclaimed to the world at large that Freemasonry in its precepts , as well as in its practice , is tolerant to all men , and is essentially nonpolitical and non-sectarian . It is all-embracing and tolerates every peculiarity of political opinion , as well as every shade of religious belief , however outre that opinion or that belief may be . Freemasonry repudiates nothing but Atheism .
All reference to the affairs of the outer world , all personal distinctions , whether of social position , or creed , or politics , must cease the moment that the brethren enter the portals of a Masonic temple . Whether a man he a Jew or a Mahommedan , a Romanist or an Anglican Catholic , a Hindoo Buddhist or unsectarian Quaker ; whether he is a believer in the Divine Right of emperors or kings , or is the
most pronounced apostle of social democracy , he is a lit and proper person to be made a Mason , providing that he believes in a Supreme Creator ( in theG . A . O . T . U ., the Allseeing Eye ) , and is a just and upright man , free by birth , and of mature age ; but on entering within the mystic circle he must leave behind him every rag and tatter belonging to his own individual faith or political creed . Thus
the practice of our rites not only offers no inducement to , but cniphalicaly repels all " political intrigue . " Moreover , a man from the moment he enters our Order is taught to keep ever in remembrance that as naked he came into the world , so , divested of every token which denominates riches or worldly possessions , he was received into Masonry , and he then finds within a Freemasons' lodge all distinctions of persons do cease , and that he who is placed upon the
lowest spoke of Fortune ' s wheel is equally entitled to Masonic regard with a Royal brother , who for the nonce has exchanged the sceptre for the trowel . Every initiated one feels that he is equal to every other brother present ; and he is taught to bear constantly in mind that liberty , equality , and fraternity should be the lot of every man , and that the time will come , and the wisest amongst us knows not how soon , when ( not only amongst Masons , but also in the profane world ) all distinctions , save those of virtue and of knowledge , will absolutely cease , and death , the great
Freemasonry In Spain.
leveller of human greatness , will reduce all men to the sime level , and the grave will finally receive us into its cold bosom . Freemasonry teaches the useful lessons of natural quality and mutual dependence , but it also teaches that politcal rivalry and polemical discord must not , cannot enter within its portals—such being utterly without the sphere of Masonic work I—and , as a matter of fact , a brother belonging to a constitutional State , where the reign
of law is thc order of the day , whatever his nationality may be , will always be found in the foremost rank of loyal and law-abiding citizens ; but where there is no law ; where there are no constitutional rights ; where an irresponsible despotism prevails , —what then ? Must a man , because he has taken upon himself the obligations of our Order , thenceforwards passively countenance inquisitorial torture , priestly surveillance , and ( in fine ) irresponsible absolution
in high places , which , were he not a Freemason , he would have an abstract right to resist and to overthrow ? Does the obligations of a Freemason demand an abject submission to such a state of things ? The G . A . O . T . U . forbid ! It is hard to believe that the most orthodox upholder of Masonic landmarks will deny the right of oppressed nationalities to secure by force that civil and spiritual independence which is every man ' s birthright : and , granted
this abstract right to a people , who will dare to say that it must be denied to individuals , namely , to such as may have joined our Order ? Thus Freemasonry on the continent of Europe must not be vaguely stigmatised as being " a mere cloak for political intrigue , " because patriotic leaders , who have taken a
foremost part in freeing their Fatherland from the Grand-Dukelings and Kinglings who formerly held them in political , moral , and spiritual thraldrom , have been not only political liberators , hut also members of our Craft ; the truth being that such became political agitators , not because they were Freemasons , but despite the fact that they were Freemasons .
During a varied experience of free Masonic working abroad—in Austria , Prussia , Hungary , Italy , and Spain , as well as in the Spanish Republics of South America—it has often been a matter of surprise to the writer that our brethren whose lot has been cast in priest-ridden lands , or where revolution is rather the rule than the exception , have been able to hold themselves so fairly aloof from political intrigue . And nowhere without the Masonic limits of the
United Kingdom have our brethren remained , as a body , more free from this stigma than in Spain!—although goaded on to desperation , and suffering expatriation , fine , imprisonment , death , for the sake of their Frcemasonic faith . We have already referred to the divided Masonic jurisdiction which now exists in thc Peninsula ; the Grand Orient of Spain ( over whom presides at the present moment His Excellency Bro . Praxedes M . Sagasta ) not
having yet been acknowledged by all the " independent jurisdictions" claiming governing power . We named in a preceding number of the Freemason Jive distinct Masonic jurisdictions as intervening in the kingdom of Don Alphonso All ., but we omitted to include two jurisdictions more , viz ., the Supreme Council of France and the Gran Consistorio Central Masonico , of Malaga . The former of these is , of course , a recognised Masonic power , but the latter juvenile
Masonic corporation , just six months old ( having created itself about the 28 th of December , 1 S 79 ) , is , in all probability , now for the first time named to our readers . This " consistorio" is only "grand" in name , as it consists of two Craft lodges only , viz ., the Lumen and the Decision , both of Malaga , who ceded during the month of
November last from the obedience of Grand Lodge I . usitania , of Lisbon , and incorporated themselves as a grand independent Masonic body under the above high-sounding title . Thus we have in Spain at the present moment eight distinct sources of Masonic inspiration and power . Of these it may be conceded that four jurisdictions , with their respective groups of lodges , are working in proper form ,
viz .: — 1 . El Gran Oricnte dc Espana , of which His Excellency Bro . Sagasta is llustrey l'oderosoSoberano Gran Cornell - dndor of the Grand Council and Mtty Venerable y llustre Gran Maestro over the Craft lodges . It includes on its muster-roll seventy-ei ght Craft lodges and sixteen chapters . I o those we shall refer in detail on a future occasion . 2 . Do Grande Oriente Lusitano-Unido of Portugal . The
number of Craft lodges now active in Spain who work under the warrant of Grand Lodge of Portugal is thirteen . Of these seven conform to the Ancient and Accepted Kite , and the remaining , as , of course , most of our readers arcaware , consisted originally of seven Degrees , viz ., Entered Apprentice , Companion , Master , Knight Elect , Knight Grand Elect , Knight of the East , and Prince Rose Croix ; the seventh corresponding to the iS ° of the
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Kite . But at the present day the Fourth , Fifth , and Sixth Degrees ( although still formally conferred ) are not worked ; and the Rose Croix Degree is practically the Fourth Degree , whilst the Philosophical Degree of Kadosch ranks as the Fifth and highest Degree , corresponding with the . ^ 0 '' of the Scottish Rite . The lodges now working in Spain under warrant from Grand Lodge of Portugal are the Libertad , in Madrid ,
Worshipful Master , Bro . Luis Calvo Revilla ; the Hermanns de la Hunianidad , of Port Mahon ( Balearic Islands ) , W . M ., liro . Geronimo E . Roca ; the Alianza , of Santander , W . M ., Bro . SerapioSanz ; the Hijos de Hiram , of Cadiz , W . M .. Bro . Leonardo Restan ; the Caballeros de la Noche , of / . aragoza , , W . M ., Bro . Mariano A . Gascue ; the Asylo de la Vertud , of Ferrol , W . M ., Bro . Franciso Suarez Garcia ; the Fraternidad , of Malaga , W . M ., Bro . Antonio Luis Carrion ; the Estrella Flamigera , of Cordova ,
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W . M ., Bro . Juan Guerra ; the Menoba , of Malaga , W . M ., Bro . Enrique Carbajal Martin ; the Amor , of Madrid , W . M ., Bro . Gabriel Garcia ; the Legalidad Lusitariia , of Linares , W . M ., Bro . Adolfo Ventero Godos ; the Estrella del Sudoest , of Ciudad Real ; and the Luz de la Verdad , of Sabadell . "
3 . The Supreme Council of France , to whom four lodges in Spain owe their Masonic allegiance , viz .: the iris de Paz , of San Sebastian , W . M ., Bro . Juan Sanchez Diez ; the Fe y Abnegacion , of Cadiz , W . M ., Bro . Cayctano del Toro ; the Hospitalario , of Madrid , W . M ., Bro . Julio Jribe ; and the Piramedcs , of Cadiz , W . M ., Bro . Diego Campos Gomez . These are doing quiet Masonic work , and are entirely neutral as regards all
the other Masonic jurisdictions in Spain . 4 . The Confederacion Masonico del Congreso de Sevilla , which now includes thirteen lodges , who , as we have said before , legally withdrew from allegiance to Grand Lodge of Portugal to place themselves under the official protection of the Supreme Council of Lausanne . The names of these thirteen lodges are the Fraternidad lberica , of Seville , W . M ., Bro . Vicente Santolino faen ; the Numantina , of
Seville , W . M ., Bro . Jose L . Padilla ; the Tolerancia y Fraternidad , of Cadiz , W . M ., Bro . Jose Arizmendi ; the Cosmopolita , of Seville , W . M ., Bro . Ramon Badia ; the Neptuno , of Seville , W . M ., Bro . Esteban L . Miniet ; the Verdad , of Cadiz , W . M ., Bro . Amado G . Bourlie ; the Esperanza de Orotava , of Puerto de la Cruz ( Canarias ) , W . M ., liro . Agustin Espinosa Estrada ; the Paz Augusta of Badajos , W . M ., Bro . Juan Garcia Chaves ; the Fenix
Graco , of Seville , W . M ., Bro . Josd Maria Valdespino ; the Fraternidad , of Bornos , W . M ., Bro . L . de Mesa ; and the Taoro , of Orotava ( Canarias ) , W . M ., Bro . Lucio Diaz Gonzalez . The whole of these lodges have been working hitherto in due Masonic form , and they resigned their allegiance to the Portugese Grand Lodge in a legal and loyal manner . They were amongst the seventy-two lodges which have
been duly warranted by Portugese Grand Lodge , and which have worked under the protection and supervision of Portugal during the years iS 0 S-iS 7 g ( inclusive ) . They withdrew in a body in November , 1 S 79—at the same time as the Lumen and Decision ( now incorporated as the Gran Consistorio Central , of Malaga ) . Brethren who may desire to ascertain more fully how this body of Masons have acted may consult thc number for November , 1 S 79 , of the
" Boletin Official do Grande Oriente Lusitano-Unido , Supremo Consellio da Maconaria Portugueza , " wherein they will find a decree ( dated the 25 th November , 18 79 ) declaring that the above-named lodges , together with the Lumen and the Decision , had given in their resignation to Lusitanian Grand Lodge in a proper and constitutional manner , and that they were free to transfer their allegiance to any other duly authorised Masonic power ,
conformably , of course , with the general statutes and regulations of our Order . The decree further announced that all brethren then inscribed upon the roll of these lodges will be entitled to re-admittance at any future time should they , or any of them , desire to return to their obedience to the Grand United Lusitanian Orient . Thus wc think that the Confederacion Masonico , of Seville , the Gran Oriente de Espana , and those lodges
now working under warrants from the Grande Oriente Lusitano-Unido and the Supreme Council of France , are all entitled to full and formal recognition by their brethren in the United Kingdom and elsewhere . We have now to deal with the remaining four Masonic bodies which claim jurisdiction over the Craft in Spain . Of these the . so-called " Gran Orientes " of Bro . the Marquis de Seoane and of ex-Grand Master de la Somera may be
dismissed from further notice , at any rate for the present , as they are too insignificent to be able in any way to influence the future consolidation of thc Order under one national Orient and head . And as regards the innocent freak of the brethren belonging to the newly-fledged Gran Consistorio Central Masonico de Malaga , we believe that they may very safely be left to themselves for the present . The " Gran Consistorio " will assuredly find its own Masonic
level ; our brethren of the Lumen and the Decision are onl y influenced by an excess of Masonic zeal , desiring to keep themselves entirely aloof from any national Masonic jurisdiction until such shall have been formally recognised by the heads of the Order in the United Kingdom . So soon as the Gran Oriente of Spain shall have been so acknowledged there is little doubt but that both the Gran Consistories of Malaga and the Confederacion Masonica of Seville will collapse in
a natural way , and the brethren now working under their shadow will become absorbed in the National Orient . But the eighth and last remaining Orient , viz ., that of Bro . Juan Antonio Perez , requires special attention at our hands . First of all it is necessary to state that Bro . Perez does not seem to have put in a claim to succeed to the chair vacated by Bro . Ruiz Zorrilla ( the first duly qualified Most Worshipful Grand Master of a National Orient of Spain ) .
On the contrary , he ignores the Grand Lodge , which was reconstituted in the spring of 1 S 70 , and claims to be not the Grand Master of the Grand Orient of Spain , but the Grand Master of the Grand Orient of Perez . Bro . Juan Antonio Perez , at the time when Bro . ex-Grand Master la Somera resigned the Grand Mastership on the 27 th of December , 1 . S 75 , was not a Mason of any standing in
the Order . He was then in the chair of a lodge warranted by the Supreme Council of France . He was furthermore a member of the 3 c ? . But when Grand Master Sagasta was regularly and solemnly elected to succeed Bro . la Somera , _ it began to be rumoured in Masonic circles in Madrid that Bro . Juan Antonio Perez had dubbed hims elf an Inspector-General of the 33 ° , and that he had
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Contents.
CONTENTS .
Freemasonry in Spain •275 " Provincial Grand Lodge of Berks and Bucks 276 Conclave of Knights Templar in Chicago 277 The Lord Mayor and Truro Cathedra ! ; 277 Exhibition of Civic Plate = 77 Scotland = 7
Ireland = 7 ** REPORTS OF MASONIC MEETINGSCraft Masonry 278 Instruction 2 S 0 Royal Arch = 80 Mark Masonry 2 S 1 Red Cross of Constantinc 2 H 1
France 2 S 1 Literary and Antiquarian Notes 2 S 1 LEADERS 2 S 2 CORRESPONDENCEReply to a Query 2 S 3 Reviews 2 S 3
Masonic Notes and Queries 2 S 3 Obituary 28 4 Cryptic Masonry 28 4 Masonic and General Tidings 2 S 4 Lodge Meetings for Next Week 2 S 6 Advertisements I . to VIII .
Freemasonry In Spain.
FREEMASONRY IN SPAIN .
( Continued from page 203 . ) It has been the long standing reproach of Continental Freemasonry that its votaries have too often used the Craft as a cloak for political intrigue . Indeed , not a few of the popular writers of Germany , Italy , and France seem to have taken it for granted that there must have been a good
and sufficient raison detre for that unrelenting and persevering hostility which despot governments have displayed towards the practice of our ceremonies and the spread of our principles . But the non-. Masonic world must always remember that despotism is , and ever will be , antagonistic to Freemasonry , just as it is , and must be , antagonistic to liberty of conscience in every shape or form . Let them
also bear in mind that it has not been the Freemasons nor the heretics of Roman Catholic lands who have persecuted their opponents—quite the reverse—and thus those whose lot in life has fallen in less pleasant places ( in a political sense ) than our own favoured land must not lightly be charged with a fundamental departure from the landmarks of our Order , simply because they have been , and
still are , proscribed and hunted down , at the instigation of Jesuit priests , by despotic rulers , who so arrogantly claim a sovereign power , "by the Grace of God , " to trample upon all individual rights , and to crush out , with a so-called " Heaven anointed arm , " all freedom of thought and every vestige of conscience amongst their subjects . We would not knowingly give a pretext for the slightest
departure from those lines and landmarks which have hitherto guided , and we trust will ever cuntinuc to guide , Free and Accepted Masons all the world over ; and one of the most deeply chiselled of these lines is that which enjoins the strictest avoidance of politics or sectarian dogma within the precincts of that chair in which the representative of K . S . presides over the practice of our rites . Indeed it
cannot be too often or too forcibly proclaimed to the world at large that Freemasonry in its precepts , as well as in its practice , is tolerant to all men , and is essentially nonpolitical and non-sectarian . It is all-embracing and tolerates every peculiarity of political opinion , as well as every shade of religious belief , however outre that opinion or that belief may be . Freemasonry repudiates nothing but Atheism .
All reference to the affairs of the outer world , all personal distinctions , whether of social position , or creed , or politics , must cease the moment that the brethren enter the portals of a Masonic temple . Whether a man he a Jew or a Mahommedan , a Romanist or an Anglican Catholic , a Hindoo Buddhist or unsectarian Quaker ; whether he is a believer in the Divine Right of emperors or kings , or is the
most pronounced apostle of social democracy , he is a lit and proper person to be made a Mason , providing that he believes in a Supreme Creator ( in theG . A . O . T . U ., the Allseeing Eye ) , and is a just and upright man , free by birth , and of mature age ; but on entering within the mystic circle he must leave behind him every rag and tatter belonging to his own individual faith or political creed . Thus
the practice of our rites not only offers no inducement to , but cniphalicaly repels all " political intrigue . " Moreover , a man from the moment he enters our Order is taught to keep ever in remembrance that as naked he came into the world , so , divested of every token which denominates riches or worldly possessions , he was received into Masonry , and he then finds within a Freemasons' lodge all distinctions of persons do cease , and that he who is placed upon the
lowest spoke of Fortune ' s wheel is equally entitled to Masonic regard with a Royal brother , who for the nonce has exchanged the sceptre for the trowel . Every initiated one feels that he is equal to every other brother present ; and he is taught to bear constantly in mind that liberty , equality , and fraternity should be the lot of every man , and that the time will come , and the wisest amongst us knows not how soon , when ( not only amongst Masons , but also in the profane world ) all distinctions , save those of virtue and of knowledge , will absolutely cease , and death , the great
Freemasonry In Spain.
leveller of human greatness , will reduce all men to the sime level , and the grave will finally receive us into its cold bosom . Freemasonry teaches the useful lessons of natural quality and mutual dependence , but it also teaches that politcal rivalry and polemical discord must not , cannot enter within its portals—such being utterly without the sphere of Masonic work I—and , as a matter of fact , a brother belonging to a constitutional State , where the reign
of law is thc order of the day , whatever his nationality may be , will always be found in the foremost rank of loyal and law-abiding citizens ; but where there is no law ; where there are no constitutional rights ; where an irresponsible despotism prevails , —what then ? Must a man , because he has taken upon himself the obligations of our Order , thenceforwards passively countenance inquisitorial torture , priestly surveillance , and ( in fine ) irresponsible absolution
in high places , which , were he not a Freemason , he would have an abstract right to resist and to overthrow ? Does the obligations of a Freemason demand an abject submission to such a state of things ? The G . A . O . T . U . forbid ! It is hard to believe that the most orthodox upholder of Masonic landmarks will deny the right of oppressed nationalities to secure by force that civil and spiritual independence which is every man ' s birthright : and , granted
this abstract right to a people , who will dare to say that it must be denied to individuals , namely , to such as may have joined our Order ? Thus Freemasonry on the continent of Europe must not be vaguely stigmatised as being " a mere cloak for political intrigue , " because patriotic leaders , who have taken a
foremost part in freeing their Fatherland from the Grand-Dukelings and Kinglings who formerly held them in political , moral , and spiritual thraldrom , have been not only political liberators , hut also members of our Craft ; the truth being that such became political agitators , not because they were Freemasons , but despite the fact that they were Freemasons .
During a varied experience of free Masonic working abroad—in Austria , Prussia , Hungary , Italy , and Spain , as well as in the Spanish Republics of South America—it has often been a matter of surprise to the writer that our brethren whose lot has been cast in priest-ridden lands , or where revolution is rather the rule than the exception , have been able to hold themselves so fairly aloof from political intrigue . And nowhere without the Masonic limits of the
United Kingdom have our brethren remained , as a body , more free from this stigma than in Spain!—although goaded on to desperation , and suffering expatriation , fine , imprisonment , death , for the sake of their Frcemasonic faith . We have already referred to the divided Masonic jurisdiction which now exists in thc Peninsula ; the Grand Orient of Spain ( over whom presides at the present moment His Excellency Bro . Praxedes M . Sagasta ) not
having yet been acknowledged by all the " independent jurisdictions" claiming governing power . We named in a preceding number of the Freemason Jive distinct Masonic jurisdictions as intervening in the kingdom of Don Alphonso All ., but we omitted to include two jurisdictions more , viz ., the Supreme Council of France and the Gran Consistorio Central Masonico , of Malaga . The former of these is , of course , a recognised Masonic power , but the latter juvenile
Masonic corporation , just six months old ( having created itself about the 28 th of December , 1 S 79 ) , is , in all probability , now for the first time named to our readers . This " consistorio" is only "grand" in name , as it consists of two Craft lodges only , viz ., the Lumen and the Decision , both of Malaga , who ceded during the month of
November last from the obedience of Grand Lodge I . usitania , of Lisbon , and incorporated themselves as a grand independent Masonic body under the above high-sounding title . Thus we have in Spain at the present moment eight distinct sources of Masonic inspiration and power . Of these it may be conceded that four jurisdictions , with their respective groups of lodges , are working in proper form ,
viz .: — 1 . El Gran Oricnte dc Espana , of which His Excellency Bro . Sagasta is llustrey l'oderosoSoberano Gran Cornell - dndor of the Grand Council and Mtty Venerable y llustre Gran Maestro over the Craft lodges . It includes on its muster-roll seventy-ei ght Craft lodges and sixteen chapters . I o those we shall refer in detail on a future occasion . 2 . Do Grande Oriente Lusitano-Unido of Portugal . The
number of Craft lodges now active in Spain who work under the warrant of Grand Lodge of Portugal is thirteen . Of these seven conform to the Ancient and Accepted Kite , and the remaining , as , of course , most of our readers arcaware , consisted originally of seven Degrees , viz ., Entered Apprentice , Companion , Master , Knight Elect , Knight Grand Elect , Knight of the East , and Prince Rose Croix ; the seventh corresponding to the iS ° of the
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Kite . But at the present day the Fourth , Fifth , and Sixth Degrees ( although still formally conferred ) are not worked ; and the Rose Croix Degree is practically the Fourth Degree , whilst the Philosophical Degree of Kadosch ranks as the Fifth and highest Degree , corresponding with the . ^ 0 '' of the Scottish Rite . The lodges now working in Spain under warrant from Grand Lodge of Portugal are the Libertad , in Madrid ,
Worshipful Master , Bro . Luis Calvo Revilla ; the Hermanns de la Hunianidad , of Port Mahon ( Balearic Islands ) , W . M ., liro . Geronimo E . Roca ; the Alianza , of Santander , W . M ., Bro . SerapioSanz ; the Hijos de Hiram , of Cadiz , W . M .. Bro . Leonardo Restan ; the Caballeros de la Noche , of / . aragoza , , W . M ., Bro . Mariano A . Gascue ; the Asylo de la Vertud , of Ferrol , W . M ., Bro . Franciso Suarez Garcia ; the Fraternidad , of Malaga , W . M ., Bro . Antonio Luis Carrion ; the Estrella Flamigera , of Cordova ,
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W . M ., Bro . Juan Guerra ; the Menoba , of Malaga , W . M ., Bro . Enrique Carbajal Martin ; the Amor , of Madrid , W . M ., Bro . Gabriel Garcia ; the Legalidad Lusitariia , of Linares , W . M ., Bro . Adolfo Ventero Godos ; the Estrella del Sudoest , of Ciudad Real ; and the Luz de la Verdad , of Sabadell . "
3 . The Supreme Council of France , to whom four lodges in Spain owe their Masonic allegiance , viz .: the iris de Paz , of San Sebastian , W . M ., Bro . Juan Sanchez Diez ; the Fe y Abnegacion , of Cadiz , W . M ., Bro . Cayctano del Toro ; the Hospitalario , of Madrid , W . M ., Bro . Julio Jribe ; and the Piramedcs , of Cadiz , W . M ., Bro . Diego Campos Gomez . These are doing quiet Masonic work , and are entirely neutral as regards all
the other Masonic jurisdictions in Spain . 4 . The Confederacion Masonico del Congreso de Sevilla , which now includes thirteen lodges , who , as we have said before , legally withdrew from allegiance to Grand Lodge of Portugal to place themselves under the official protection of the Supreme Council of Lausanne . The names of these thirteen lodges are the Fraternidad lberica , of Seville , W . M ., Bro . Vicente Santolino faen ; the Numantina , of
Seville , W . M ., Bro . Jose L . Padilla ; the Tolerancia y Fraternidad , of Cadiz , W . M ., Bro . Jose Arizmendi ; the Cosmopolita , of Seville , W . M ., Bro . Ramon Badia ; the Neptuno , of Seville , W . M ., Bro . Esteban L . Miniet ; the Verdad , of Cadiz , W . M ., Bro . Amado G . Bourlie ; the Esperanza de Orotava , of Puerto de la Cruz ( Canarias ) , W . M ., liro . Agustin Espinosa Estrada ; the Paz Augusta of Badajos , W . M ., Bro . Juan Garcia Chaves ; the Fenix
Graco , of Seville , W . M ., Bro . Josd Maria Valdespino ; the Fraternidad , of Bornos , W . M ., Bro . L . de Mesa ; and the Taoro , of Orotava ( Canarias ) , W . M ., Bro . Lucio Diaz Gonzalez . The whole of these lodges have been working hitherto in due Masonic form , and they resigned their allegiance to the Portugese Grand Lodge in a legal and loyal manner . They were amongst the seventy-two lodges which have
been duly warranted by Portugese Grand Lodge , and which have worked under the protection and supervision of Portugal during the years iS 0 S-iS 7 g ( inclusive ) . They withdrew in a body in November , 1 S 79—at the same time as the Lumen and Decision ( now incorporated as the Gran Consistorio Central , of Malaga ) . Brethren who may desire to ascertain more fully how this body of Masons have acted may consult thc number for November , 1 S 79 , of the
" Boletin Official do Grande Oriente Lusitano-Unido , Supremo Consellio da Maconaria Portugueza , " wherein they will find a decree ( dated the 25 th November , 18 79 ) declaring that the above-named lodges , together with the Lumen and the Decision , had given in their resignation to Lusitanian Grand Lodge in a proper and constitutional manner , and that they were free to transfer their allegiance to any other duly authorised Masonic power ,
conformably , of course , with the general statutes and regulations of our Order . The decree further announced that all brethren then inscribed upon the roll of these lodges will be entitled to re-admittance at any future time should they , or any of them , desire to return to their obedience to the Grand United Lusitanian Orient . Thus wc think that the Confederacion Masonico , of Seville , the Gran Oriente de Espana , and those lodges
now working under warrants from the Grande Oriente Lusitano-Unido and the Supreme Council of France , are all entitled to full and formal recognition by their brethren in the United Kingdom and elsewhere . We have now to deal with the remaining four Masonic bodies which claim jurisdiction over the Craft in Spain . Of these the . so-called " Gran Orientes " of Bro . the Marquis de Seoane and of ex-Grand Master de la Somera may be
dismissed from further notice , at any rate for the present , as they are too insignificent to be able in any way to influence the future consolidation of thc Order under one national Orient and head . And as regards the innocent freak of the brethren belonging to the newly-fledged Gran Consistorio Central Masonico de Malaga , we believe that they may very safely be left to themselves for the present . The " Gran Consistorio " will assuredly find its own Masonic
level ; our brethren of the Lumen and the Decision are onl y influenced by an excess of Masonic zeal , desiring to keep themselves entirely aloof from any national Masonic jurisdiction until such shall have been formally recognised by the heads of the Order in the United Kingdom . So soon as the Gran Oriente of Spain shall have been so acknowledged there is little doubt but that both the Gran Consistories of Malaga and the Confederacion Masonica of Seville will collapse in
a natural way , and the brethren now working under their shadow will become absorbed in the National Orient . But the eighth and last remaining Orient , viz ., that of Bro . Juan Antonio Perez , requires special attention at our hands . First of all it is necessary to state that Bro . Perez does not seem to have put in a claim to succeed to the chair vacated by Bro . Ruiz Zorrilla ( the first duly qualified Most Worshipful Grand Master of a National Orient of Spain ) .
On the contrary , he ignores the Grand Lodge , which was reconstituted in the spring of 1 S 70 , and claims to be not the Grand Master of the Grand Orient of Spain , but the Grand Master of the Grand Orient of Perez . Bro . Juan Antonio Perez , at the time when Bro . ex-Grand Master la Somera resigned the Grand Mastership on the 27 th of December , 1 . S 75 , was not a Mason of any standing in
the Order . He was then in the chair of a lodge warranted by the Supreme Council of France . He was furthermore a member of the 3 c ? . But when Grand Master Sagasta was regularly and solemnly elected to succeed Bro . la Somera , _ it began to be rumoured in Masonic circles in Madrid that Bro . Juan Antonio Perez had dubbed hims elf an Inspector-General of the 33 ° , and that he had