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Masonic And General Tidings.
Masonic and General Tidings .
JIASOXi ' . Y IX HOLLAND . If I" have correctly observed , the general form of Dutch was rather English till the middle of the last century rather FrenchOur however
wild and political tendency ivhich the French Craft unreasonably accused of by ecclesiastical writers . At page 879 of i-our same volume , the information high degrees is not iu all parts correct . Holland is only two provinces ofthe Netherlands . The Grool Oosten ( Grand Orient ) of the Netherlands only the blue degrees . Dutch hi gh degrees , indeed seven , were entirely the Rite , francais moderneworking under the ( Mind
France . The Iloofil Kapiltel ( head Chapter ) assembles at the Hague the day before or after the Grool . after Pentecost . Some years ago there wns passed which I prefer fo speak of fo brethren only who uegrees . Every Dutch Chapter bears the name of the Lodge was connected .
At the Cape of Good Hope ive have still Lodges , Chapters , I think . Qui- Grand Master stands at the head of those doth not often meet with them . He appoints liis presiding ancl affairs . Besides , our Grand Master , Prince Frederik of the somewhat , previous to 1820 introduced the Dutch degrees
and Upper Elected Masters , Uitcerlcoren en Opper Mceslers , which are called divisions of Master degree Lodges belong chambers of those degrees . The ministration assembles at the Hague the day before Grooi Oosten . Often the Grand Master himself presides degrees are not- introduced abroad , nor have they been for the hih ine those
g . imag philosophical , and in some particulars universally Perhaps the making up of them was somewhat connected discovery ofthe Cologne charter ol'lo-Jo , of which the is questioned , especially abroad . Some years ago at Amsterdam , a congregation , Post dissatisfied with Dutch Freemasonry , and not obtaining
Groo [ Oosten the arbitrary innovations it desired , as a Lodge , but without any constitution either at abroad . I think the establishes ivere not entitled cate what they conditionally had received . —Your wishing Brother , T . " W . VAX MAHLE , Presiding . Lodge Le Prejuge Yciincn at Dcvcnter ; . Representative
Grand Eclectic Lod ge at Frankfort O . M . to the Grand the Netherlands . Orient of Dec enter , Netherlands , August . 17 th , 185 ( 1 . HIGH M-XiltEKS . Some ambition for being more than a Master Mason annihilated
. Hi gh degrees , I think , can be very procure an experienced aristocracy who take their forms and means for recognizing and assembling , for promoting true Masonry , for critically segregating symbols and proprieties from what fancy and history intruded . The amendment of all profane systems for of society and future timesmust be
, preceded by reasonably interpreting the royal art ; and this lie preceded by a right comprehension of the matter . I think the parallelism is the very analogy and allegory between both lines , the operative and the T . "IV . "Tv ., MAI : J - .
I'l'OAC ' . HED 'I'll IJI'XAJ .. What is "broached thitrnal ? " Should it be in lurndla brucella—a little tower , covered with a spire drop , as in primitive gothic . falls directl y to the ground a little ornamental tower , for some purpose in the churches ? But how could a brother thereupon learn
thereupon try the justness of his tools ? Is it the French into a pointed cube?—T . AV . VAN MAKLE A lU . ASONiC Ol . ' . V't'OUIO . Several editions of the Ahiman , Rc ; : on give , at the quite correct ) copy of the elegant oratorio Salomon's formed Dublin to 1709
m prior , to winch the music by . Mr . Richard Broadway , organist of St . Patrick Uierciipon occurs a mention in . your . September part oib . 1 Ins music must be curious and interesting . existing . \ , here and how is it to be found and to it only in unison?—T . AY ' •' VMU-IF
Masonic And General Tidings.
Masonry afterwards AVhen an English Lodge goes to church a French jury's going to mass ? There , not allowed to partake of that preparation
, I think , about our that church ? And how , when those arc inscribed to that church , bnt privatel Is the service on such occasion public preaching clergyman ever a Freemason
directs with opened to the Lodge and its visitors ? attend in full Masonic costume ?— -T . AY . is thought proper that an English Lod Lodge should go to church , brethren
Orient de annually , a week resolution , possess those , in belief , and we have often seen brethren suasion present . The service is public ordinary ; except in the sense that the church is employed . The clergyman always a brother ofthe Order , and usuall for illustration The public
which it no longer degrees , but substitute for . are services , and the brethren wear the insi THE USE OF TRADITIONS Is venturing on risking metaphysical unavoidable in a transition from pretended lig ht of Masonry?—T . AV . VAN MAT . LE
Netherlands , of Elected Uitrerloren To some of ad OKIGIN OF TRAVELLING In Germany , and may be in Denmark craft ( I-Iandiverhsbmschtn ) still use to employment and for learning under places . AA ' as a similar custom prevailing
- after the . Those substituted are partl y ical when the custom of initiating arose ?—T STEPHEN JONES In reply to the queries in your last your correspondent that this worthy
with the authenticity nubila lux . from the itself ; the last ten years of his life , during which acquainted with him . He was the intimate and one of his executors , being also a ( Antiquity , then No . 1 ) . Preston ' s and I think it may be affirmed has never Jones was the compiler of the well
or from communiand hailof the of the Orient of entitled . Sheridan ' s English Dictionary piled a biographical and a geographical useful works . I avail myself of this there exists a copy of the " Prestonian whole of the three degrees , in cipher worthbrother bthe late Bro
cannot be if thev peculiarities as many years held the appointment of was . ! " believe previously and first held seen the MS ., and being acquainted venture to assert that it is iu Jones's manager of the publishing department employcd him in reading proof ' s , I had seeing him during his last andas
" genuine may have the benefit brother ' s must inexhaustible speculative— took him—he being too ill to leave the reading the proofs of an edition of Jones before liis death , either the day , or close of Sussex laid the first stone of the Bro . Jones wrote for the European lished by Bro . James Asperne , and I EncyclopieiUa Londincnsis . He produced Masonic Miscellanies in Poetry find Prose Masonic odesanthems & and
Latin . whose rain-? Was it interior of to workor and others . This volume is dedicated Preston , to whom he acknowledges ho he may have acquired into the true nature The last edition of this work is 1811 . he ivas the editor ofthe Illustrations of my being acquainted with liro . Jones but the occasion of
' by . end , it ( not Temple , percomposed cathedral , regret at the miserable appearance of street iu Peutonvillc , and his evident he had no one to do anything for him ; of wretchedness , there was a single worn table , anil a dirty floor without carpet At no period of my life was I ever more finds" when pain and anguish wring
. 1858 . page Is it still had , were and absence of "the ministering angel , ' neither wife , sister or child about him . ST . ALBAN ' S 1 . 0 IK 1 E . "II . II , " writes— "In your recent
Masonic And General Tidings.
, is it a similar case with Protestants and Jews are . Is , in England , that members all belong to members , or part of them , differ from it in opinion ?
ordinary Is ? Is the service onl y Do the brethren ever . -usr MAIILE . —[ AVhen it ge or Provincial Grand all religious denomiregard to difference : ;
of the Hebrew per-, though certainly notordinary liturgy of the who preaches is almost selects a Masonic topic ,
gnia of the Craft . ] . fictions excusable , as being civilization to the real
MASONS . , the fellows of a handitravel { u-amler " ) for getting several Masters in several in England and Scotland
W . YAN MATSLE , number , I am able to inform brother was what Goldsmith such was his vocation for period I was personally
, , P . M . of Preston's Lodge mantle descended on him . been worn since . Bro , known school dictionary , Abridged . He also comdictionary , besides other opportunity to mention that Lecture" letethe
, , ivhich ivas given to a Thompson , who for Prestonian lecturer , which by Bro . Jones . Having with his penmanship , . ' / handwriting . Being the
of the house that chieflv many opportunities of well as I can remember , I house—a few pounds for ' s Sheridan , a few days
upon , Caledonian Asylum , in 1 , 827 . Magazine , edited and pubhe contributed to tin * a small volume entitled comprising two hundred several bhimself
y his friend , Bro . " A \ illiam indebted for any insig ht and design of alasonry . After Preston's decease , Masonry . At the time of
, visit , I expressed my lod ging , in an obscure want of comfort . He said the room was the extreme out chair , a small deal or covering of any kind . struck by the contrast man brow" in the
woman . Bro . Jones had BHIMIXiaiAM . ou the Craft in War-
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Masonic And General Tidings.
Masonic and General Tidings .
JIASOXi ' . Y IX HOLLAND . If I" have correctly observed , the general form of Dutch was rather English till the middle of the last century rather FrenchOur however
wild and political tendency ivhich the French Craft unreasonably accused of by ecclesiastical writers . At page 879 of i-our same volume , the information high degrees is not iu all parts correct . Holland is only two provinces ofthe Netherlands . The Grool Oosten ( Grand Orient ) of the Netherlands only the blue degrees . Dutch hi gh degrees , indeed seven , were entirely the Rite , francais moderneworking under the ( Mind
France . The Iloofil Kapiltel ( head Chapter ) assembles at the Hague the day before or after the Grool . after Pentecost . Some years ago there wns passed which I prefer fo speak of fo brethren only who uegrees . Every Dutch Chapter bears the name of the Lodge was connected .
At the Cape of Good Hope ive have still Lodges , Chapters , I think . Qui- Grand Master stands at the head of those doth not often meet with them . He appoints liis presiding ancl affairs . Besides , our Grand Master , Prince Frederik of the somewhat , previous to 1820 introduced the Dutch degrees
and Upper Elected Masters , Uitcerlcoren en Opper Mceslers , which are called divisions of Master degree Lodges belong chambers of those degrees . The ministration assembles at the Hague the day before Grooi Oosten . Often the Grand Master himself presides degrees are not- introduced abroad , nor have they been for the hih ine those
g . imag philosophical , and in some particulars universally Perhaps the making up of them was somewhat connected discovery ofthe Cologne charter ol'lo-Jo , of which the is questioned , especially abroad . Some years ago at Amsterdam , a congregation , Post dissatisfied with Dutch Freemasonry , and not obtaining
Groo [ Oosten the arbitrary innovations it desired , as a Lodge , but without any constitution either at abroad . I think the establishes ivere not entitled cate what they conditionally had received . —Your wishing Brother , T . " W . VAX MAHLE , Presiding . Lodge Le Prejuge Yciincn at Dcvcnter ; . Representative
Grand Eclectic Lod ge at Frankfort O . M . to the Grand the Netherlands . Orient of Dec enter , Netherlands , August . 17 th , 185 ( 1 . HIGH M-XiltEKS . Some ambition for being more than a Master Mason annihilated
. Hi gh degrees , I think , can be very procure an experienced aristocracy who take their forms and means for recognizing and assembling , for promoting true Masonry , for critically segregating symbols and proprieties from what fancy and history intruded . The amendment of all profane systems for of society and future timesmust be
, preceded by reasonably interpreting the royal art ; and this lie preceded by a right comprehension of the matter . I think the parallelism is the very analogy and allegory between both lines , the operative and the T . "IV . "Tv ., MAI : J - .
I'l'OAC ' . HED 'I'll IJI'XAJ .. What is "broached thitrnal ? " Should it be in lurndla brucella—a little tower , covered with a spire drop , as in primitive gothic . falls directl y to the ground a little ornamental tower , for some purpose in the churches ? But how could a brother thereupon learn
thereupon try the justness of his tools ? Is it the French into a pointed cube?—T . AV . VAN MAKLE A lU . ASONiC Ol . ' . V't'OUIO . Several editions of the Ahiman , Rc ; : on give , at the quite correct ) copy of the elegant oratorio Salomon's formed Dublin to 1709
m prior , to winch the music by . Mr . Richard Broadway , organist of St . Patrick Uierciipon occurs a mention in . your . September part oib . 1 Ins music must be curious and interesting . existing . \ , here and how is it to be found and to it only in unison?—T . AY ' •' VMU-IF
Masonic And General Tidings.
Masonry afterwards AVhen an English Lodge goes to church a French jury's going to mass ? There , not allowed to partake of that preparation
, I think , about our that church ? And how , when those arc inscribed to that church , bnt privatel Is the service on such occasion public preaching clergyman ever a Freemason
directs with opened to the Lodge and its visitors ? attend in full Masonic costume ?— -T . AY . is thought proper that an English Lod Lodge should go to church , brethren
Orient de annually , a week resolution , possess those , in belief , and we have often seen brethren suasion present . The service is public ordinary ; except in the sense that the church is employed . The clergyman always a brother ofthe Order , and usuall for illustration The public
which it no longer degrees , but substitute for . are services , and the brethren wear the insi THE USE OF TRADITIONS Is venturing on risking metaphysical unavoidable in a transition from pretended lig ht of Masonry?—T . AV . VAN MAT . LE
Netherlands , of Elected Uitrerloren To some of ad OKIGIN OF TRAVELLING In Germany , and may be in Denmark craft ( I-Iandiverhsbmschtn ) still use to employment and for learning under places . AA ' as a similar custom prevailing
- after the . Those substituted are partl y ical when the custom of initiating arose ?—T STEPHEN JONES In reply to the queries in your last your correspondent that this worthy
with the authenticity nubila lux . from the itself ; the last ten years of his life , during which acquainted with him . He was the intimate and one of his executors , being also a ( Antiquity , then No . 1 ) . Preston ' s and I think it may be affirmed has never Jones was the compiler of the well
or from communiand hailof the of the Orient of entitled . Sheridan ' s English Dictionary piled a biographical and a geographical useful works . I avail myself of this there exists a copy of the " Prestonian whole of the three degrees , in cipher worthbrother bthe late Bro
cannot be if thev peculiarities as many years held the appointment of was . ! " believe previously and first held seen the MS ., and being acquainted venture to assert that it is iu Jones's manager of the publishing department employcd him in reading proof ' s , I had seeing him during his last andas
" genuine may have the benefit brother ' s must inexhaustible speculative— took him—he being too ill to leave the reading the proofs of an edition of Jones before liis death , either the day , or close of Sussex laid the first stone of the Bro . Jones wrote for the European lished by Bro . James Asperne , and I EncyclopieiUa Londincnsis . He produced Masonic Miscellanies in Poetry find Prose Masonic odesanthems & and
Latin . whose rain-? Was it interior of to workor and others . This volume is dedicated Preston , to whom he acknowledges ho he may have acquired into the true nature The last edition of this work is 1811 . he ivas the editor ofthe Illustrations of my being acquainted with liro . Jones but the occasion of
' by . end , it ( not Temple , percomposed cathedral , regret at the miserable appearance of street iu Peutonvillc , and his evident he had no one to do anything for him ; of wretchedness , there was a single worn table , anil a dirty floor without carpet At no period of my life was I ever more finds" when pain and anguish wring
. 1858 . page Is it still had , were and absence of "the ministering angel , ' neither wife , sister or child about him . ST . ALBAN ' S 1 . 0 IK 1 E . "II . II , " writes— "In your recent
Masonic And General Tidings.
, is it a similar case with Protestants and Jews are . Is , in England , that members all belong to members , or part of them , differ from it in opinion ?
ordinary Is ? Is the service onl y Do the brethren ever . -usr MAIILE . —[ AVhen it ge or Provincial Grand all religious denomiregard to difference : ;
of the Hebrew per-, though certainly notordinary liturgy of the who preaches is almost selects a Masonic topic ,
gnia of the Craft . ] . fictions excusable , as being civilization to the real
MASONS . , the fellows of a handitravel { u-amler " ) for getting several Masters in several in England and Scotland
W . YAN MATSLE , number , I am able to inform brother was what Goldsmith such was his vocation for period I was personally
, , P . M . of Preston's Lodge mantle descended on him . been worn since . Bro , known school dictionary , Abridged . He also comdictionary , besides other opportunity to mention that Lecture" letethe
, , ivhich ivas given to a Thompson , who for Prestonian lecturer , which by Bro . Jones . Having with his penmanship , . ' / handwriting . Being the
of the house that chieflv many opportunities of well as I can remember , I house—a few pounds for ' s Sheridan , a few days
upon , Caledonian Asylum , in 1 , 827 . Magazine , edited and pubhe contributed to tin * a small volume entitled comprising two hundred several bhimself
y his friend , Bro . " A \ illiam indebted for any insig ht and design of alasonry . After Preston's decease , Masonry . At the time of
, visit , I expressed my lod ging , in an obscure want of comfort . He said the room was the extreme out chair , a small deal or covering of any kind . struck by the contrast man brow" in the
woman . Bro . Jones had BHIMIXiaiAM . ou the Craft in War-