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Masonic Jottings.—No. 31.
MASONIC JOTTINGS . —No . 31 .
BY A PAST PROVINCIAL GEAND MASTER . THE GERMAN THEORISTS RIGHT AND WRONG . A learned correspondent thinks that the German Theorists , in their search for the rise of Freemasonry , have clone right in ascending the stream
of time above the year 1717 ; but that they have done wrong in not ascending it above the era of the Antient Company of Stonecutters and the Building Corporations connected with it .
MASONRY AMONGST THE JEAVS . Many think , and not without reason , that there was Masonry amongst the Jews Avhen the build , in g of the first Temple began . Learned men h ave , however , for many years known , that the Masonry could not be true Freemasonry . THE OLD ENGLISH LODGE—THE OLD SCOTCH
LODGE . The Old English Lodge Avith its Operative Masonry and its Speculative Masonry , and the Old Scotch Lodge Avith its Operative Masonry only , resemble two of our great schools .
History , Geography , Mathematics and Classics being taught in the one , and History , Geography and Mathematics , Avithout Classics , in the other .
THE ANTIENT LODGE . The Architect , with the numerous sciences Avhich he practised or studied ; tho Priest Avith religion sometimes pure , sometimes impure ; the Workmen Avith their necessary regulations
taken from the code of Natural Ethicssuch Avas the antient lodge , which on its institution at once produced the undeveloped germ of Speculative Masonry .
SACRED RITES . What Antient Nations called Sacred Bites and Mysteries , we call Speculative Masonry . —Old MS .
MASONIC ALLEGORIES . My acquaintance Avith the history of allegory is very small indeed , and it would he unseemingly presumptive were I to dispute a learned brother ' s assertion that Masonic allegories are of all
allegories the most ancient . Perhaps , however , my brother will be so obliging as to point out a Masonic allegory more ancient than the Biblical allegory , the comparison of Israel to a vine , 80 th Psalm . ( To be continued . }
Masonic Notes And Queries.
MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .
ANOTHER MASONIO KING-. Bro . King Kamehameha IV ., of the Sandwich Islands , patron of Masonry there . Little could Capt . Cook have dreamed that the light of Masonry was to shine in the regions of his discovery . There is a Grand Lodge . The King is W . M . of a Trench lodge . —E . N .
[ Our brother the Bishop of Honolulu , who was initiated , some years since , in the Britannic Lodge , has returned to England . ] EEEEJIASONEY AND QUEEN ELIZABETH ( page 70 ) . As to this , first prove that a Grand Lodge existed 1566 , and thereafter prove that Queen Elizabeth did
send " an armed force to break it up . " There were operative lodges in 1429 , and of course among the Masons , as well as among other trades , there were Masters , Wardens , and Apprentices , but these were not speculative Masons . Even now you may still get Masters , Foremen , Journeymen , and Apprentices in any trade . —W . P . B .
TEE ST . CIAIE CHABTEES . In a recent communication on the antiquity of Freemasonry , Bro . W . P . Buehan quotes 1600 and 1 G 2 S as the dates of the two documents known as the St . Clair Charters . This has been met by a rather pointed contradiction , the brother making it asserting
of the first of these charters that "there is sufficient evidence that it belongs to the early part of the 17 th . century , and to the reign of James VI ., after his accession to the English throne . I have examined the originals of the St . Clair Charters -. both are without date . The first was issued with the consent of
, and is signed hy , William Sehaw , Master of Work , who died in April , 1602 . The crowns of England were not united till the accession of James the Sixth of Scotland as James the First of England , March 24 , 1603 ; consequently the date of the charter in question must have been before that event—probably in
1 G 00-1 . Though the copy of the second charter , which is preserved in the Advocates' Library , is dated 1 G 30 , there is good ground for believing that the deed was executed tAvo years prior to that date . In a communication on this subject which , in 1866 , I made to the Grand Lodge of Scotland , I gave the data
upon which I concluded that there was a strong probability that the second charter was signed betAveen 16 th October , 1627 , and 13 th October , 1628 . From evidence discovered in the course of my present examination of the records of the Lodge of Edinburgh , Mary ' s Cbapcl , the question of date is still farther narrowed . —I ) . M . L .
SOME OE THE MASONS AA'HOM AN OCTOOENAEIAN EEOTHEE HAS KNOAVN . An octogenarian brother writes that some of the worthiest Masons whom he has knoAvn have been incapable of penning correctly tAvo consecutive sentences , andat the same timehave been singularlunaware
, , y of their deficiency . One in particular would readily have undertaken to frame the Queen ' s Speech on the opening of Parliament , or to compose an elaborate history of the Craft . —A PAST PEOVINCIAE GEAND MASTED .
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Masonic Jottings.—No. 31.
MASONIC JOTTINGS . —No . 31 .
BY A PAST PROVINCIAL GEAND MASTER . THE GERMAN THEORISTS RIGHT AND WRONG . A learned correspondent thinks that the German Theorists , in their search for the rise of Freemasonry , have clone right in ascending the stream
of time above the year 1717 ; but that they have done wrong in not ascending it above the era of the Antient Company of Stonecutters and the Building Corporations connected with it .
MASONRY AMONGST THE JEAVS . Many think , and not without reason , that there was Masonry amongst the Jews Avhen the build , in g of the first Temple began . Learned men h ave , however , for many years known , that the Masonry could not be true Freemasonry . THE OLD ENGLISH LODGE—THE OLD SCOTCH
LODGE . The Old English Lodge Avith its Operative Masonry and its Speculative Masonry , and the Old Scotch Lodge Avith its Operative Masonry only , resemble two of our great schools .
History , Geography , Mathematics and Classics being taught in the one , and History , Geography and Mathematics , Avithout Classics , in the other .
THE ANTIENT LODGE . The Architect , with the numerous sciences Avhich he practised or studied ; tho Priest Avith religion sometimes pure , sometimes impure ; the Workmen Avith their necessary regulations
taken from the code of Natural Ethicssuch Avas the antient lodge , which on its institution at once produced the undeveloped germ of Speculative Masonry .
SACRED RITES . What Antient Nations called Sacred Bites and Mysteries , we call Speculative Masonry . —Old MS .
MASONIC ALLEGORIES . My acquaintance Avith the history of allegory is very small indeed , and it would he unseemingly presumptive were I to dispute a learned brother ' s assertion that Masonic allegories are of all
allegories the most ancient . Perhaps , however , my brother will be so obliging as to point out a Masonic allegory more ancient than the Biblical allegory , the comparison of Israel to a vine , 80 th Psalm . ( To be continued . }
Masonic Notes And Queries.
MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .
ANOTHER MASONIO KING-. Bro . King Kamehameha IV ., of the Sandwich Islands , patron of Masonry there . Little could Capt . Cook have dreamed that the light of Masonry was to shine in the regions of his discovery . There is a Grand Lodge . The King is W . M . of a Trench lodge . —E . N .
[ Our brother the Bishop of Honolulu , who was initiated , some years since , in the Britannic Lodge , has returned to England . ] EEEEJIASONEY AND QUEEN ELIZABETH ( page 70 ) . As to this , first prove that a Grand Lodge existed 1566 , and thereafter prove that Queen Elizabeth did
send " an armed force to break it up . " There were operative lodges in 1429 , and of course among the Masons , as well as among other trades , there were Masters , Wardens , and Apprentices , but these were not speculative Masons . Even now you may still get Masters , Foremen , Journeymen , and Apprentices in any trade . —W . P . B .
TEE ST . CIAIE CHABTEES . In a recent communication on the antiquity of Freemasonry , Bro . W . P . Buehan quotes 1600 and 1 G 2 S as the dates of the two documents known as the St . Clair Charters . This has been met by a rather pointed contradiction , the brother making it asserting
of the first of these charters that "there is sufficient evidence that it belongs to the early part of the 17 th . century , and to the reign of James VI ., after his accession to the English throne . I have examined the originals of the St . Clair Charters -. both are without date . The first was issued with the consent of
, and is signed hy , William Sehaw , Master of Work , who died in April , 1602 . The crowns of England were not united till the accession of James the Sixth of Scotland as James the First of England , March 24 , 1603 ; consequently the date of the charter in question must have been before that event—probably in
1 G 00-1 . Though the copy of the second charter , which is preserved in the Advocates' Library , is dated 1 G 30 , there is good ground for believing that the deed was executed tAvo years prior to that date . In a communication on this subject which , in 1866 , I made to the Grand Lodge of Scotland , I gave the data
upon which I concluded that there was a strong probability that the second charter was signed betAveen 16 th October , 1627 , and 13 th October , 1628 . From evidence discovered in the course of my present examination of the records of the Lodge of Edinburgh , Mary ' s Cbapcl , the question of date is still farther narrowed . —I ) . M . L .
SOME OE THE MASONS AA'HOM AN OCTOOENAEIAN EEOTHEE HAS KNOAVN . An octogenarian brother writes that some of the worthiest Masons whom he has knoAvn have been incapable of penning correctly tAvo consecutive sentences , andat the same timehave been singularlunaware
, , y of their deficiency . One in particular would readily have undertaken to frame the Queen ' s Speech on the opening of Parliament , or to compose an elaborate history of the Craft . —A PAST PEOVINCIAE GEAND MASTED .