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Masonic Notes And Queries.
BRO . HUGHAN AND MASONIC PERSONAL DECOEATIONS . Will you allow me to put on record an expression of public opinion contained in Bro . Hughan ' s expositions , but to which our Bro . Hughan gives no decided adhesion : — " It is the opinion of several distinguished Masons
that the multiplicity of rituals , clothing , jewels , and ceremonials of so many rites and degrees tends to clog the advancement of genuine ancient Freemasonry . " This is the growing opinion of Masons competent to form a judgmenteven of such as have themselves
, entered upon other than Craft degrees . The first step towards accomplishing a better state of affairs will be the concentration of jurisdiction in the hands of the G . M . of England , as in Ireland and Scotland . —SIMPLEX .
BOSICEUCIANS . Not very well understanding your announcement and the remarks of F . H ., I do not form any distinct idea of the operations of the Rosicrucians of London , and the names of Zelators and Aspirants are new to me . While admitting that any practical mode of
increasing the circulating medium is just now most desirable , I do not at all conceive how this or any practical end is to be accomplished . Granted this may be done hythe Earl of Jersey issuing cheques on his own bank for any public or charitable object as the Boys' Schoolbut he cannot want the machinery
, of Aspirators and Zelators for that . A banker ' s clerk with a wooden shovel in his hand would do as well , or better . For the same reason much auruin potabile , or the philosopher ' s stone , cannot be very easily expected to be got out of temporary furnaces , such as stated by F . H . particularly if worked in a
, tavern or public-house . Such furnaces are only portable and temporary . The processes , as stated in the old books in the Rosicrucians , are very long and cannot be well got through at a sitting . I have read much about the Rosicrucians , but no reading or discourses can be of any use without practical instruction
in the laboratory . A learned writer has been stated to be the Master-General ; but , with all the explanations of F . H ., I entertain grave doubts whether he or the medical gentlemen associated with him have sufficient chemical and philosophical practice to work out or demonstrate any of the intricate
operations in the books . The society can scarcely be of any practical utility in its present shape , and I doubt also whether it will produce much gold . — P . G . S . W .
PBINCE OE WALES . The indecency and impudence of the application to the Prince of Wales to become a Mason are enhanced by the fact that a G . M . has the prerogative of " making Masons at sight , " one which is exercised in the case of Princes , and no lodge has the right to
tout for Royal Masons in derogation of this prerogative . —A DEPUTY . BEO . HAEEIS AND HIS COMPEESS £ D OEDEES . It is but justice to Bro . Harris to say that his views of rapidly propagating his various degrees are by no means impractical . He hardly goes far enough . He and Sir Knight Jones conferred upon each other all kinds of orders and degrees on a hearthrug , as
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appears on his own confession . In the same number of the Freemasons' Magazine it is stated that Bro . Burdett received at Richmond , in one sitting , all " the priestly and princely orders " in a concern styled the Red Cross Knights of Constantino . There was no making two bites of a cherry in this case . I wish him luck of it . —INSPECTOR-GENERAL .
THE SACEED SWOBD-SONG . In what collection is this song to be found ? It looks very much like American Masonic poetry . I recognise the flavour of it . —READEE . A MASONIC LIBRAEY . Your correspondents need not fear about the
establishment of a Masonic Library in Loudon if Grand Lodge has neglected it , and has no librarian or anyone else to look after it . Yet , if I am rightly informed , at 33 , Golden-square , they will already find a valuable collection of books ancl M . SS ., with the courteous assistance of accomplished Masons . A notice cf motion for next Grand Lodge Communication appears very desirable . —? .
THE COEINTHIAN OEDEE . Callimachus , the sculptor and architect , was born at Corinth during the 6 th century B . C . Callimachus , the poet , at Cyrene , during the Srd century B . O . ( Blackie and Son ' s publications ) . I am not aware that they have yet been deemed authorities .
Pictus will excuse me differing with him in every other view he has expressed with regard to architecture . Chamber ' s Encyclopedia , the Brittauica , and others support my views . Has R . T . ever read Bro . D . R . Hay ' s " Orthographic Beauty of the Parthenon" or any of his works upon " Form ? " I
, had the privilege of knowing Bro . Hay for many years ; and , from all I have heard and know , he was considered by small learned men here and elsewhere a rather good authority upon other subjects than " sound " and " colour , " more especially upon " Greek art . "—ANTHONY ONEAL HAYE .
EIDICULUS MUS . Bro . Harris , P . M ., is so overcome by his own selfappreciation , and the plaudits of a very small admiring circle of small friends as to believe everything he does to be a matter of great moment . He , or his friend for himremonstrated stronglabout gentle
, very y my remarks ,- but , if he were not led astray by such influences as I have intimated , he would hardly rely on Sir Knight Jones and his aristocratic connexions , or tell us so much about his weak gin and water . I am still of opinion that such proceedings as those of Bro . Harris and the conferring of innumerable
hihg sounding degrees in the name of Masonry is an abuse of Masonry . This I say , notwithstanding I am a member of the A . & A . Rite with its 33 Degrees . It is well enough known that the major part of these are practically suppressed , and I took my 18 th Degree in the practical suppression of the others . Such is
now the general practice , and they are not professed to be given in many places , so that while an old Order like the A . & A . llite is weeding out its degrees , titles , and ceremonials , others like Bro . Harris , Jones and their co-mates are engaged in inventing new ones to flutter and to perish . —A . & A .
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Masonic Notes And Queries.
BRO . HUGHAN AND MASONIC PERSONAL DECOEATIONS . Will you allow me to put on record an expression of public opinion contained in Bro . Hughan ' s expositions , but to which our Bro . Hughan gives no decided adhesion : — " It is the opinion of several distinguished Masons
that the multiplicity of rituals , clothing , jewels , and ceremonials of so many rites and degrees tends to clog the advancement of genuine ancient Freemasonry . " This is the growing opinion of Masons competent to form a judgmenteven of such as have themselves
, entered upon other than Craft degrees . The first step towards accomplishing a better state of affairs will be the concentration of jurisdiction in the hands of the G . M . of England , as in Ireland and Scotland . —SIMPLEX .
BOSICEUCIANS . Not very well understanding your announcement and the remarks of F . H ., I do not form any distinct idea of the operations of the Rosicrucians of London , and the names of Zelators and Aspirants are new to me . While admitting that any practical mode of
increasing the circulating medium is just now most desirable , I do not at all conceive how this or any practical end is to be accomplished . Granted this may be done hythe Earl of Jersey issuing cheques on his own bank for any public or charitable object as the Boys' Schoolbut he cannot want the machinery
, of Aspirators and Zelators for that . A banker ' s clerk with a wooden shovel in his hand would do as well , or better . For the same reason much auruin potabile , or the philosopher ' s stone , cannot be very easily expected to be got out of temporary furnaces , such as stated by F . H . particularly if worked in a
, tavern or public-house . Such furnaces are only portable and temporary . The processes , as stated in the old books in the Rosicrucians , are very long and cannot be well got through at a sitting . I have read much about the Rosicrucians , but no reading or discourses can be of any use without practical instruction
in the laboratory . A learned writer has been stated to be the Master-General ; but , with all the explanations of F . H ., I entertain grave doubts whether he or the medical gentlemen associated with him have sufficient chemical and philosophical practice to work out or demonstrate any of the intricate
operations in the books . The society can scarcely be of any practical utility in its present shape , and I doubt also whether it will produce much gold . — P . G . S . W .
PBINCE OE WALES . The indecency and impudence of the application to the Prince of Wales to become a Mason are enhanced by the fact that a G . M . has the prerogative of " making Masons at sight , " one which is exercised in the case of Princes , and no lodge has the right to
tout for Royal Masons in derogation of this prerogative . —A DEPUTY . BEO . HAEEIS AND HIS COMPEESS £ D OEDEES . It is but justice to Bro . Harris to say that his views of rapidly propagating his various degrees are by no means impractical . He hardly goes far enough . He and Sir Knight Jones conferred upon each other all kinds of orders and degrees on a hearthrug , as
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appears on his own confession . In the same number of the Freemasons' Magazine it is stated that Bro . Burdett received at Richmond , in one sitting , all " the priestly and princely orders " in a concern styled the Red Cross Knights of Constantino . There was no making two bites of a cherry in this case . I wish him luck of it . —INSPECTOR-GENERAL .
THE SACEED SWOBD-SONG . In what collection is this song to be found ? It looks very much like American Masonic poetry . I recognise the flavour of it . —READEE . A MASONIC LIBRAEY . Your correspondents need not fear about the
establishment of a Masonic Library in Loudon if Grand Lodge has neglected it , and has no librarian or anyone else to look after it . Yet , if I am rightly informed , at 33 , Golden-square , they will already find a valuable collection of books ancl M . SS ., with the courteous assistance of accomplished Masons . A notice cf motion for next Grand Lodge Communication appears very desirable . —? .
THE COEINTHIAN OEDEE . Callimachus , the sculptor and architect , was born at Corinth during the 6 th century B . C . Callimachus , the poet , at Cyrene , during the Srd century B . O . ( Blackie and Son ' s publications ) . I am not aware that they have yet been deemed authorities .
Pictus will excuse me differing with him in every other view he has expressed with regard to architecture . Chamber ' s Encyclopedia , the Brittauica , and others support my views . Has R . T . ever read Bro . D . R . Hay ' s " Orthographic Beauty of the Parthenon" or any of his works upon " Form ? " I
, had the privilege of knowing Bro . Hay for many years ; and , from all I have heard and know , he was considered by small learned men here and elsewhere a rather good authority upon other subjects than " sound " and " colour , " more especially upon " Greek art . "—ANTHONY ONEAL HAYE .
EIDICULUS MUS . Bro . Harris , P . M ., is so overcome by his own selfappreciation , and the plaudits of a very small admiring circle of small friends as to believe everything he does to be a matter of great moment . He , or his friend for himremonstrated stronglabout gentle
, very y my remarks ,- but , if he were not led astray by such influences as I have intimated , he would hardly rely on Sir Knight Jones and his aristocratic connexions , or tell us so much about his weak gin and water . I am still of opinion that such proceedings as those of Bro . Harris and the conferring of innumerable
hihg sounding degrees in the name of Masonry is an abuse of Masonry . This I say , notwithstanding I am a member of the A . & A . Rite with its 33 Degrees . It is well enough known that the major part of these are practically suppressed , and I took my 18 th Degree in the practical suppression of the others . Such is
now the general practice , and they are not professed to be given in many places , so that while an old Order like the A . & A . llite is weeding out its degrees , titles , and ceremonials , others like Bro . Harris , Jones and their co-mates are engaged in inventing new ones to flutter and to perish . —A . & A .