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the Grrand Master at the time of the persecution , anticipating his own mar % rdomy ap Johanii ^ * he present there has be ^ GvmA Masters ^ T Been tr ^ smittedj is juflieM continued existence , This 0 M lures of the various chiefs of the Tem ^
* ^ o mystery exists our days with respect this Charter . M ; Thory gives ^ minute description of it from personal observation , as well as copies of it , arid of the Statutes , fro was submitted to the inspection of nearly two hundred Knights at the Gpnveht-General held at Paris in 1810 . The written a ^ Duras in 1681 # as ascertained by the late Dr . Morispn iri 1 & 37 y to be genuine , which is impprtsmt ^ as it disconnects the Order with a profligate club established
in France ^ M ^ ^ the undo ^ ted signa proprid mcww , of the Statutes of the Go have been handed clownalong with i & But Clavelj a French Masonic writer , evidently conceiving the Order to be a high grade of Masonry , which it is not , has attacked all its titles with gre ^ aided by two persons who had been divnm
Paihe > who wished to exclude all religion , and the other a bigoted Portuguese who denounced Bernard Raymund documents which they communicated to Glavel are to be found in the handwriting of one of them in the Library of the Grand Lodge of Scotland , arid consist chiefly of exposures of certain relics injudicious lengthy dissertations on the LeviMcoifiy a theological work by Bernard Raymund , with which we have no concern , as it is not one of the titles of the Order . They should be read at the
same time with the Acts of the Convent-General held at Paris in 1836-7 , by which the writer was unanimously expelled the Order , and an official Ritual , in which , years after he had communicated his proofs to Glavel , he still designated himself a Grand Gross and Grand Prior of the Temple . Both these individuals had gone on for above ten years testifying , as high orHce-bearers , to the perfect truth of the Gharter , but they finally ended by representing that it was forged in 1705 , by an Italian Jesuit , named Bonanni , an assertion for which there is
not one tittle of evidence , and cannot be , since , the Order having been handed down in secret through a small number of noble families , history is altogether mute as to the Charter till the death of the Duke de Cosse Brissac . A Belgian writer has replied ably to such mis-statements : —" Les noms les plus illustres de France flgurent dans cette noble serie , et nous ne pouvons souffrir qu'onaccuse d ' avoir invents un riteMaconnique recent le depositaire legal , en 1804 , de cette Charte ,
quelque deplorable abus que cet homme ait fait plus tard du pouvoir qui lui avait ^ te * confie" par ses Freres , et bien que son absurde despotisme ait mis le Temple h deux doigts de sa perte . Les signatures des Grand-Maitres acceptants sont connues et oni He vSrifiSes ; nous en appelleribns an besoin aux ternoignages des savants Miinter et Gre * goire . Ces ternoignages ont ' e ' te * plus d ' une fois imprime ' s ; les contester , contester Fauthenticite' des signatures , c ' est faire injure aux noms les plus respectables , c ' est accuser de faux Philippe d ' Origans et apres lui trois autres
membres de la maison de Bourbon . Philippe d ' OrUans qui , bientdt apres Regent du royaume de Prance , mit sa gloire a garantir de tous les dangers qui Tenvironnaient son royal pupiile efc de"daigna de devenir roi avant son tour , aurait commis un faux pour devenir le Grand-Maitre d'un Ordre chevaleresque apocryphe et oblige * de se cacher ! Qui croirait h , une semblable accusation ? Que dire d ' ailleurs de la sottise de tant de milliers de Chevaliers dupes d ' une aussi grossiere mystification ?"—Essai sur THistoire de l'Ordre des Templiers . Bruxelles , 1840 .
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the Grrand Master at the time of the persecution , anticipating his own mar % rdomy ap Johanii ^ * he present there has be ^ GvmA Masters ^ T Been tr ^ smittedj is juflieM continued existence , This 0 M lures of the various chiefs of the Tem ^
* ^ o mystery exists our days with respect this Charter . M ; Thory gives ^ minute description of it from personal observation , as well as copies of it , arid of the Statutes , fro was submitted to the inspection of nearly two hundred Knights at the Gpnveht-General held at Paris in 1810 . The written a ^ Duras in 1681 # as ascertained by the late Dr . Morispn iri 1 & 37 y to be genuine , which is impprtsmt ^ as it disconnects the Order with a profligate club established
in France ^ M ^ ^ the undo ^ ted signa proprid mcww , of the Statutes of the Go have been handed clownalong with i & But Clavelj a French Masonic writer , evidently conceiving the Order to be a high grade of Masonry , which it is not , has attacked all its titles with gre ^ aided by two persons who had been divnm
Paihe > who wished to exclude all religion , and the other a bigoted Portuguese who denounced Bernard Raymund documents which they communicated to Glavel are to be found in the handwriting of one of them in the Library of the Grand Lodge of Scotland , arid consist chiefly of exposures of certain relics injudicious lengthy dissertations on the LeviMcoifiy a theological work by Bernard Raymund , with which we have no concern , as it is not one of the titles of the Order . They should be read at the
same time with the Acts of the Convent-General held at Paris in 1836-7 , by which the writer was unanimously expelled the Order , and an official Ritual , in which , years after he had communicated his proofs to Glavel , he still designated himself a Grand Gross and Grand Prior of the Temple . Both these individuals had gone on for above ten years testifying , as high orHce-bearers , to the perfect truth of the Gharter , but they finally ended by representing that it was forged in 1705 , by an Italian Jesuit , named Bonanni , an assertion for which there is
not one tittle of evidence , and cannot be , since , the Order having been handed down in secret through a small number of noble families , history is altogether mute as to the Charter till the death of the Duke de Cosse Brissac . A Belgian writer has replied ably to such mis-statements : —" Les noms les plus illustres de France flgurent dans cette noble serie , et nous ne pouvons souffrir qu'onaccuse d ' avoir invents un riteMaconnique recent le depositaire legal , en 1804 , de cette Charte ,
quelque deplorable abus que cet homme ait fait plus tard du pouvoir qui lui avait ^ te * confie" par ses Freres , et bien que son absurde despotisme ait mis le Temple h deux doigts de sa perte . Les signatures des Grand-Maitres acceptants sont connues et oni He vSrifiSes ; nous en appelleribns an besoin aux ternoignages des savants Miinter et Gre * goire . Ces ternoignages ont ' e ' te * plus d ' une fois imprime ' s ; les contester , contester Fauthenticite' des signatures , c ' est faire injure aux noms les plus respectables , c ' est accuser de faux Philippe d ' Origans et apres lui trois autres
membres de la maison de Bourbon . Philippe d ' OrUans qui , bientdt apres Regent du royaume de Prance , mit sa gloire a garantir de tous les dangers qui Tenvironnaient son royal pupiile efc de"daigna de devenir roi avant son tour , aurait commis un faux pour devenir le Grand-Maitre d'un Ordre chevaleresque apocryphe et oblige * de se cacher ! Qui croirait h , une semblable accusation ? Que dire d ' ailleurs de la sottise de tant de milliers de Chevaliers dupes d ' une aussi grossiere mystification ?"—Essai sur THistoire de l'Ordre des Templiers . Bruxelles , 1840 .