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Our Architectural Chapter.
for the Senior Deacon and Junior Deacon is to prevent them from being in the way of members sitting behind . At Southport the reform movement has been successful in the Lodge of Unity ; a proposition having been brought forward to consider the propriety of the Lodge meeting in a private room ,
instead of an hotel , it was carried by an overwhelming majority , that the rites be celebrated in a separate room . The Lodge have therefore taken a Lodge-room in the Assembly-rooms iu Lord-street , which is to be called the Masonic Hall , Southport , and the entrance will be decorated with a Masonic device . The place of meeting of the Lodge of Brotherly Love at Yeovil , although in an immasonic building , has been redecorated .
The Illuminati;
THE ILLUMINATI ;
AND THEIR ALLEGED CONNECTION WITH FREEMASONRY . ABOUT the ' year 1775 , or 1776 , Adam Weishanpt , a professor of canon law in the University of Ingolstadt , in Bavaria , in conjunction with a few other men of high position and intellectual attainments , formed a secret society of a more extraordinary character than
modern times had ever known . Of this association the most extraordinary accounts have been given at various periods , in which the romantic clement has combined with malicious exaggeration to distort the few facts which are really known concerning it . Wc are told that the design of the institution was to accomplish the overthrow of
all civil and religious government—the throne and the altar were equally destined to annihilation , and society was to have been completely disorganized . Weishaupt himself is said , by the opponents of his system , to have been an extreme political reformer , and an infidel . But little is known of this person ; the meagre accounts that we
have of him have been written under the influence of strong prejudice ; and there is great reason to doubt whether he or the society which he established deserved the bad character which has been attached to them .
Tho Order of Freemasons has been frequently accused of a connection with the much dreaded , but little known institution of the Illu . minati ; and the world at large has been led to believe that tho French revolution , and all the horrors that followed , were , in a great degree , the result of conspiracies hatched under their united auspices ,
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Our Architectural Chapter.
for the Senior Deacon and Junior Deacon is to prevent them from being in the way of members sitting behind . At Southport the reform movement has been successful in the Lodge of Unity ; a proposition having been brought forward to consider the propriety of the Lodge meeting in a private room ,
instead of an hotel , it was carried by an overwhelming majority , that the rites be celebrated in a separate room . The Lodge have therefore taken a Lodge-room in the Assembly-rooms iu Lord-street , which is to be called the Masonic Hall , Southport , and the entrance will be decorated with a Masonic device . The place of meeting of the Lodge of Brotherly Love at Yeovil , although in an immasonic building , has been redecorated .
The Illuminati;
THE ILLUMINATI ;
AND THEIR ALLEGED CONNECTION WITH FREEMASONRY . ABOUT the ' year 1775 , or 1776 , Adam Weishanpt , a professor of canon law in the University of Ingolstadt , in Bavaria , in conjunction with a few other men of high position and intellectual attainments , formed a secret society of a more extraordinary character than
modern times had ever known . Of this association the most extraordinary accounts have been given at various periods , in which the romantic clement has combined with malicious exaggeration to distort the few facts which are really known concerning it . Wc are told that the design of the institution was to accomplish the overthrow of
all civil and religious government—the throne and the altar were equally destined to annihilation , and society was to have been completely disorganized . Weishaupt himself is said , by the opponents of his system , to have been an extreme political reformer , and an infidel . But little is known of this person ; the meagre accounts that we
have of him have been written under the influence of strong prejudice ; and there is great reason to doubt whether he or the society which he established deserved the bad character which has been attached to them .
Tho Order of Freemasons has been frequently accused of a connection with the much dreaded , but little known institution of the Illu . minati ; and the world at large has been led to believe that tho French revolution , and all the horrors that followed , were , in a great degree , the result of conspiracies hatched under their united auspices ,