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The FREEMASON is a Weekly Newspaper , price 2 , ( X . It is published every Friday morning , and contains the most important , interesting , and useful information , relating to Freemasonry in every degree . Subscription , including postage : United America , India . India , China . Scc .
Kingdom , the Cor . tinent , Sec . Via Brindisl . Twelvemonths ios . 6 d . 12 s . 6 d . 17 s . 4 d . Six ,, 5 s . 3 d . 6 s . 6 d . 8 s . 8 d . Three „ 2 s . 8 d . 3 s . 3 d . 4 s . 6 d . Subscriptions may bt paid f < jr in stamps , but Post Office Orders or Cheques are preferred , the former payable to GEOltGE KKNNING , CHIEF OFFICE , LONDON ,
the latter crossed London Joint Stock Bank . Advertisements and other business communications should be addressed to the Publisher . Communications on literary subjects and books for review arc to be forwarded to the Editor . Anonymous correspondence will be wholly disregarded , and the return of rejected MSS . cannot be guaranteed . Further information will be supplied on application to hi Publisher , 108 , Fleet-street . London .
Important Notice.
IMPORTANT NOTICE .
It » s very necessary for our readers to advis ns of all money orders they remit , more especially those from the United States of America and India ; otherwise we cannot tell where to credit them . Several P . O . O . ' s are now in hand , but having received no advice we cannot credit them .
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The FREEMASON has a large circulation in all parts of the Globe , its advantages as an advertising medium can therefore scarrelv he overrated . ADVERTISEMENTS to ensure insertion in current week ' s issue should reach the Office , 198 , Fleet-street , by 12 o'clock on "Wednesdays . SCALE OF CHARGES FOR
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Answers To Correspondents.
Answers to Correspondents .
"An Old P . M ., " Hampshire and Isle of Wight , in our next .
BOOKS , & c , HECEIVED . "The Brii . gwater Mercury , " "La Chaine d'Union , " "Hull Packet , " "Tlie Citizen , " "New Yorker Bundes Presse , " " Masonic Advocate , " " Koyal Cornwall Gazette , "
"DerTriangel , " "Alliance News , " " Masonic Eclectic , " "Broad Arrow , " "Voice of Masonry , " " The Warden , " "Le Monde Maconniquc , " " hast and South Devon Advertiser , " " The Hebrew Leader , " " Cincinnati Enquirer , " "Masonic Newspaper . "
Births, Marriages, And Deaths.
Births , Marriages , and Deaths .
[ The charge is 2 s . 6 d . for announcements not exceeding Four Lines under this heading . ]
BIRTHS . GIBBON . —On the 8 th inst ., at Willersey Rectory , Gloucestershire , the wife of the Rev . Houghton Gibbon , of a son . MELLOR . —On the 16 th inst ., at 2 , Ennismore-gardens , S . W ., the wile of Mr . James Mellor , of a daughter , stilllorn .
MARRIAGE . THOMPSON—HEWETT . —On the 12 th inst ., at St . Mary ' s , Marylebone , by the Hev . W . W . Kelly , John Carby , son of Mr . Charles Thompson , of Hammersmith , to Emily , daughter of Mr . James Hewett , of Witney , Oxon .
DEATHS . CASE . —On the 17 th Jul ) , at Mount Lavinia , in Ceylon , William Henry Case , son of Mr . John Case , of Maidstone , solieitor . FINCH . —<' n the 16 th inst ., at Highgate , Forest-row , Sussex , Catherine , wife ot Mr . Henry Finch , of 51 , Bel-• ize-avenue , Hampstead .
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THE FREEMASON . SATURDAY , AUGUST 23 , 1879 .
Freemasonry In The Air.
FREEMASONRY IN THE AIR .
Ts it possible ? Do our eyes not deceive us ? No ! We read , by the courteous remembrance of our distinguished Bro . A . Fabien , of Paris , that a " profane " was actually initiated in the " circumambient aether ! " On the authority of
that interesting letter we print with a translation elsewhere , a lodge was held , not on the " highest hills , " as of old , but amid the " airs of heaven , " and not only a lodge was held , but a profane was actually initiated and received the light and atmosphere of Freemasonrv . A French lodge ,
No . 239 , under the Scottish Rite at Paris , " the true brethren united and inseparable , " went up in a balloon , and after the lodge was opened and closed , and the initiation completed , returned safely to their mother earth , and to suitable refreshment , ( we trust ) , after so daring an excursion and such arduous labours . We are amused
and interested at the same time with the note of our good Bro . Fabien , and congratulate the lodge on so successful an ascent , so safe a descent , and on so amusing and original a summer excursion . We need hardly point out to our many readers that thus in Masonry , as in the world in which
we live , there are always " things not dreamt of " in our " philosophy . " This is a novel and striking way of making our summer "excursions " linger in our memories , being at once scientific and sensational in the highest degree . What new ideas and fresh emotions might come to
some of our good brethren , wearied with the " march of life " and the "sameness of lodge assemblies , " in thus ascending in a balloon , and looking down on that dirty little speck beneath their feet , which we call the earth on which we live , with the dignity of enlightened Masons
and the comp'acency of elevated philosophers . Indeed , we forbear to let our minds dwell on the airy scenes and imaginative regions to which such an excursion might conduct some of our worthy brethren , intent upon an exciting and sensational journey , for fear we should be put
down at once by some of our " heavy squad'' as altogether in " nubibus " ourselves . We simply record the fact , pleased to receive Bro . Fabien ' s letter , and we leave this successful ascent and thiscompleted initiation to the calm consideration and fraternal appreciation of those who have the
benefit aud privilege of reading the Freemason , and thus realizing week by week what Freemasonry is , what it does , what it says , and where it can go to . We have a special gratification in turning away from the untoward strife setting in
for the Rite Ecossais , from malevolent remarks and , angry attacks , to such a pleasant scene of fraternal amity , interest , amusement , good humour , and good will , and we thank Bro . Fabien sincerely once more for communicating the incident to our columns .
The Conflict In The French Rite Ecossais.
THE CONFLICT IN THE FRENCH RITE ECOSSAIS .
In the Chaine d'Union , of August , we note that this deplorable contest is extending and increasing in bitterness , and , we venture to think , in destructive principles of theory and action . Bro . Hubert says himself , the able Editor of the Chaine d'Union , at p . 359 : "We are no longer in
presence of a difference , but we are in presence of a separation , of a revolution . " As that esteemed brother does not seem quite to realize the full bearing of the views we have ventured to express on the subject in dispute , and as we are always anxious to agree with him , we think it well to repeat once more the reasons which have led us
to support the " Administrative Commission " of the Rite Ecossais in this deplorable and inopportune conflict . We may say , as we know Bro . Hubert will believe , that we speak most seriously and carefully , fully weighing our words , aud understanding what we write about . We wish that there should be no possible misunderstanding or misrepresentation of our humble but
The Conflict In The French Rite Ecossais.
honest opinion , and , therefore , we will proceed categorically to state why it is we deem the present agitation in the French B ite E"ossais alike unbefitting , unreasonable , and unjust . We are quite aware of tie professed difference between the reform- ; asked for by the " Premiere Section "
of the . " Gra-ide Loge Centrale " and the alterations carried 011 in the Grand Orient of France . But , as we have shown before , in our opinion , the reforms which are claimed constitute a revolution in the Kite Ecossais , and are neither admissible nor defensible . For our Bro . Hubert
is , we fancy , too far-seeing not to realize , as we do , that after all the motive principle of action , however it be covered over , is the same in both jurisdictions , and that the " idol" of the movement party in the " Grand Orient" is also the " idol " of the movement party in the " Rite
Ecossais . " We think that even our able opponent , Bro . Caubet , will not deny that however Professor Littre " s initiation may have given an impetus to the movement , to Bro . Massol's initiative must be fairly attributed the great revolution eventually accomplished after manv years in the Grand
Orient of France . And though it be the fact , that at present , as Bro . Hubert says , only a " modus vivendi " is sought for by the Symbolic Lodges , or rather , to put it in honest language , the preponderance of the Symbolic Lodges in the Administrative Commission as in the Grande
Loge Centrale , yet , if that be granted , which amounts to a complete annihilation of the superior rank and authority of the Thirty-third Degree , what is to prevent a majority repeating in the Grande Loge Centrale the system of revision , purgation , and revolution , successfully carried
out in the Grand Orient ? At this moment a commission of revision is considering the necessary changes to be made in the ritual of the Grand Orient , and what that report to the approaching "Convent" is likely to be , to accord with the views of an ardent majority , it does not
require a prophet to foretell . It is this exaggeration of views in respect of the teaching and objects of Freemasonry , it is this fanatic intolerance of all opinions , except one which suits an excited majority , which constitute the great danger for
all French Freemasonry . It is this idle cry tor reform , this Jesuitism of assumed intolerance , which render this new movement in the Rite Ecossais , veiled though it be by professed principles of moderation , so full of peril to the Rite Ecossais itself . For where is it to end ? What are its
actual limits of thought and action ? If the Symbolic Lodges are to be paramount , alike in the Grande Loe ; e Centrale as in the Administrative Commission , what is there to prevent a complete modification of the teaching and ritual of the " Rite Ecossais , " an entire approximation
to the " Syllabus " of the Grand Orient ? Is it not the case , that some of the most active brethren in this movement in the Rite Ecossais are warm admirers of Massol ? Do they not also heartily approve of the proceedings and present position of the Grand Orient ? What is to hinder
this childish desire of being , as they say , " in harmony with the principles of the hour , " completely ruling the words and actions of an active and , we fear , inconsiderate party ? What is to save the Rite Ecossais from a Vandal ic overthrow , either by the craze of " Positivism" on the
one hand , or the suicidal folly of the " Morale Independante " on the other ? All Theistic principles must then be disavowed . Behind , then , this seeming vindication of professedly innocent changes , ( but which are tantamount to a revolution ) , lie , in our opinion , the destruction of
lawful authority , the developement of un-Masonic theories , the actual weakening and the eventual dissolution of the Rite Ecossais itself . In saying this we feel sure that we are only expressing the opinion of a large number of the members of the French Rite Ecossais , very anxious at the
present aspect of affairs in that distinguished body . Probably the result of this angry controversy will be , as Bro . Hubert seems to anticipate , the creation of a spurious " Grande Loge Centrale Symbolique , " but in this struggle between
lawful authority and malcontents the sympathy of English Masons , whether Craft or Hig h Grade , will remain actively and warmly with the Administrative Commission . No such body could or would be recognized in England . At a meeting of the " Premiere Section" of the
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To Our Readers
TO OUR READERS
The FREEMASON is a Weekly Newspaper , price 2 , ( X . It is published every Friday morning , and contains the most important , interesting , and useful information , relating to Freemasonry in every degree . Subscription , including postage : United America , India . India , China . Scc .
Kingdom , the Cor . tinent , Sec . Via Brindisl . Twelvemonths ios . 6 d . 12 s . 6 d . 17 s . 4 d . Six ,, 5 s . 3 d . 6 s . 6 d . 8 s . 8 d . Three „ 2 s . 8 d . 3 s . 3 d . 4 s . 6 d . Subscriptions may bt paid f < jr in stamps , but Post Office Orders or Cheques are preferred , the former payable to GEOltGE KKNNING , CHIEF OFFICE , LONDON ,
the latter crossed London Joint Stock Bank . Advertisements and other business communications should be addressed to the Publisher . Communications on literary subjects and books for review arc to be forwarded to the Editor . Anonymous correspondence will be wholly disregarded , and the return of rejected MSS . cannot be guaranteed . Further information will be supplied on application to hi Publisher , 108 , Fleet-street . London .
Important Notice.
IMPORTANT NOTICE .
It » s very necessary for our readers to advis ns of all money orders they remit , more especially those from the United States of America and India ; otherwise we cannot tell where to credit them . Several P . O . O . ' s are now in hand , but having received no advice we cannot credit them .
To Advertisers.
TO ADVERTISERS .
The FREEMASON has a large circulation in all parts of the Globe , its advantages as an advertising medium can therefore scarrelv he overrated . ADVERTISEMENTS to ensure insertion in current week ' s issue should reach the Office , 198 , Fleet-street , by 12 o'clock on "Wednesdays . SCALE OF CHARGES FOR
ADVERTISEMENTS . Whole of back page ... £ 12 12 o Half „ „ 6 10 o Inside pages ... ... ... ... 7 7 o Half of ditto 400 Quarter . itto ... ... 2 10 o
Whole column ... ... ... 2 10 o Half „ 1 10 0 Quarter „ 100 Per inch 050 These prices are for single insertions . A liberal reduction is made for a Mries of 13 , 26 , and 52 insertions . Further particulars may be obtained of the Publisher , 198 , Fleet-street , London .
Answers To Correspondents.
Answers to Correspondents .
"An Old P . M ., " Hampshire and Isle of Wight , in our next .
BOOKS , & c , HECEIVED . "The Brii . gwater Mercury , " "La Chaine d'Union , " "Hull Packet , " "Tlie Citizen , " "New Yorker Bundes Presse , " " Masonic Advocate , " " Koyal Cornwall Gazette , "
"DerTriangel , " "Alliance News , " " Masonic Eclectic , " "Broad Arrow , " "Voice of Masonry , " " The Warden , " "Le Monde Maconniquc , " " hast and South Devon Advertiser , " " The Hebrew Leader , " " Cincinnati Enquirer , " "Masonic Newspaper . "
Births, Marriages, And Deaths.
Births , Marriages , and Deaths .
[ The charge is 2 s . 6 d . for announcements not exceeding Four Lines under this heading . ]
BIRTHS . GIBBON . —On the 8 th inst ., at Willersey Rectory , Gloucestershire , the wife of the Rev . Houghton Gibbon , of a son . MELLOR . —On the 16 th inst ., at 2 , Ennismore-gardens , S . W ., the wile of Mr . James Mellor , of a daughter , stilllorn .
MARRIAGE . THOMPSON—HEWETT . —On the 12 th inst ., at St . Mary ' s , Marylebone , by the Hev . W . W . Kelly , John Carby , son of Mr . Charles Thompson , of Hammersmith , to Emily , daughter of Mr . James Hewett , of Witney , Oxon .
DEATHS . CASE . —On the 17 th Jul ) , at Mount Lavinia , in Ceylon , William Henry Case , son of Mr . John Case , of Maidstone , solieitor . FINCH . —<' n the 16 th inst ., at Highgate , Forest-row , Sussex , Catherine , wife ot Mr . Henry Finch , of 51 , Bel-• ize-avenue , Hampstead .
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THE FREEMASON . SATURDAY , AUGUST 23 , 1879 .
Freemasonry In The Air.
FREEMASONRY IN THE AIR .
Ts it possible ? Do our eyes not deceive us ? No ! We read , by the courteous remembrance of our distinguished Bro . A . Fabien , of Paris , that a " profane " was actually initiated in the " circumambient aether ! " On the authority of
that interesting letter we print with a translation elsewhere , a lodge was held , not on the " highest hills , " as of old , but amid the " airs of heaven , " and not only a lodge was held , but a profane was actually initiated and received the light and atmosphere of Freemasonrv . A French lodge ,
No . 239 , under the Scottish Rite at Paris , " the true brethren united and inseparable , " went up in a balloon , and after the lodge was opened and closed , and the initiation completed , returned safely to their mother earth , and to suitable refreshment , ( we trust ) , after so daring an excursion and such arduous labours . We are amused
and interested at the same time with the note of our good Bro . Fabien , and congratulate the lodge on so successful an ascent , so safe a descent , and on so amusing and original a summer excursion . We need hardly point out to our many readers that thus in Masonry , as in the world in which
we live , there are always " things not dreamt of " in our " philosophy . " This is a novel and striking way of making our summer "excursions " linger in our memories , being at once scientific and sensational in the highest degree . What new ideas and fresh emotions might come to
some of our good brethren , wearied with the " march of life " and the "sameness of lodge assemblies , " in thus ascending in a balloon , and looking down on that dirty little speck beneath their feet , which we call the earth on which we live , with the dignity of enlightened Masons
and the comp'acency of elevated philosophers . Indeed , we forbear to let our minds dwell on the airy scenes and imaginative regions to which such an excursion might conduct some of our worthy brethren , intent upon an exciting and sensational journey , for fear we should be put
down at once by some of our " heavy squad'' as altogether in " nubibus " ourselves . We simply record the fact , pleased to receive Bro . Fabien ' s letter , and we leave this successful ascent and thiscompleted initiation to the calm consideration and fraternal appreciation of those who have the
benefit aud privilege of reading the Freemason , and thus realizing week by week what Freemasonry is , what it does , what it says , and where it can go to . We have a special gratification in turning away from the untoward strife setting in
for the Rite Ecossais , from malevolent remarks and , angry attacks , to such a pleasant scene of fraternal amity , interest , amusement , good humour , and good will , and we thank Bro . Fabien sincerely once more for communicating the incident to our columns .
The Conflict In The French Rite Ecossais.
THE CONFLICT IN THE FRENCH RITE ECOSSAIS .
In the Chaine d'Union , of August , we note that this deplorable contest is extending and increasing in bitterness , and , we venture to think , in destructive principles of theory and action . Bro . Hubert says himself , the able Editor of the Chaine d'Union , at p . 359 : "We are no longer in
presence of a difference , but we are in presence of a separation , of a revolution . " As that esteemed brother does not seem quite to realize the full bearing of the views we have ventured to express on the subject in dispute , and as we are always anxious to agree with him , we think it well to repeat once more the reasons which have led us
to support the " Administrative Commission " of the Rite Ecossais in this deplorable and inopportune conflict . We may say , as we know Bro . Hubert will believe , that we speak most seriously and carefully , fully weighing our words , aud understanding what we write about . We wish that there should be no possible misunderstanding or misrepresentation of our humble but
The Conflict In The French Rite Ecossais.
honest opinion , and , therefore , we will proceed categorically to state why it is we deem the present agitation in the French B ite E"ossais alike unbefitting , unreasonable , and unjust . We are quite aware of tie professed difference between the reform- ; asked for by the " Premiere Section "
of the . " Gra-ide Loge Centrale " and the alterations carried 011 in the Grand Orient of France . But , as we have shown before , in our opinion , the reforms which are claimed constitute a revolution in the Kite Ecossais , and are neither admissible nor defensible . For our Bro . Hubert
is , we fancy , too far-seeing not to realize , as we do , that after all the motive principle of action , however it be covered over , is the same in both jurisdictions , and that the " idol" of the movement party in the " Grand Orient" is also the " idol " of the movement party in the " Rite
Ecossais . " We think that even our able opponent , Bro . Caubet , will not deny that however Professor Littre " s initiation may have given an impetus to the movement , to Bro . Massol's initiative must be fairly attributed the great revolution eventually accomplished after manv years in the Grand
Orient of France . And though it be the fact , that at present , as Bro . Hubert says , only a " modus vivendi " is sought for by the Symbolic Lodges , or rather , to put it in honest language , the preponderance of the Symbolic Lodges in the Administrative Commission as in the Grande
Loge Centrale , yet , if that be granted , which amounts to a complete annihilation of the superior rank and authority of the Thirty-third Degree , what is to prevent a majority repeating in the Grande Loge Centrale the system of revision , purgation , and revolution , successfully carried
out in the Grand Orient ? At this moment a commission of revision is considering the necessary changes to be made in the ritual of the Grand Orient , and what that report to the approaching "Convent" is likely to be , to accord with the views of an ardent majority , it does not
require a prophet to foretell . It is this exaggeration of views in respect of the teaching and objects of Freemasonry , it is this fanatic intolerance of all opinions , except one which suits an excited majority , which constitute the great danger for
all French Freemasonry . It is this idle cry tor reform , this Jesuitism of assumed intolerance , which render this new movement in the Rite Ecossais , veiled though it be by professed principles of moderation , so full of peril to the Rite Ecossais itself . For where is it to end ? What are its
actual limits of thought and action ? If the Symbolic Lodges are to be paramount , alike in the Grande Loe ; e Centrale as in the Administrative Commission , what is there to prevent a complete modification of the teaching and ritual of the " Rite Ecossais , " an entire approximation
to the " Syllabus " of the Grand Orient ? Is it not the case , that some of the most active brethren in this movement in the Rite Ecossais are warm admirers of Massol ? Do they not also heartily approve of the proceedings and present position of the Grand Orient ? What is to hinder
this childish desire of being , as they say , " in harmony with the principles of the hour , " completely ruling the words and actions of an active and , we fear , inconsiderate party ? What is to save the Rite Ecossais from a Vandal ic overthrow , either by the craze of " Positivism" on the
one hand , or the suicidal folly of the " Morale Independante " on the other ? All Theistic principles must then be disavowed . Behind , then , this seeming vindication of professedly innocent changes , ( but which are tantamount to a revolution ) , lie , in our opinion , the destruction of
lawful authority , the developement of un-Masonic theories , the actual weakening and the eventual dissolution of the Rite Ecossais itself . In saying this we feel sure that we are only expressing the opinion of a large number of the members of the French Rite Ecossais , very anxious at the
present aspect of affairs in that distinguished body . Probably the result of this angry controversy will be , as Bro . Hubert seems to anticipate , the creation of a spurious " Grande Loge Centrale Symbolique , " but in this struggle between
lawful authority and malcontents the sympathy of English Masons , whether Craft or Hig h Grade , will remain actively and warmly with the Administrative Commission . No such body could or would be recognized in England . At a meeting of the " Premiere Section" of the