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Masonic Notes And Queries.
BEO . HARRIS . Although I may lay myself open to A . & A . ' s charge of being , like Bro . Harris , " a well-meaning but ignorant simpleton" (! save the mark , hide thy diminished head , oh ! satiric humour ) , I should be obliged if the misguided brother would help me in
my present strait . Certain brethren—I much fear very ignorant simpletons—desire to be initiated into the mysteries of Misraim . I haA'e placed rituals of the Ninety Degrees at their service , but they do not -wished them read but worked . Now , Bro . Harris , since you have made so glorious an amalgam of the
Chivalric Degrees , can you not come to my aid and unite the whole Ninety Degrees in one . The Eite of Misraim is a real Kite , embracing all the degrees of the A . and A ., so that even A . & A . cannot have a stone to shy at you , ignorant simpleton as you are . "What would to a neiv Order to be called the
you say Ignorant Simpletons ? If you will be G . M ., I shall offer my services as G-. Tyler . I knoiv a host of imbeciles who would willingly take the other offices — THEODOEIC THOMPSON , T . Ill , T . Eel . et T . P . Pr . Gr . President , 90 ° .
SUPREME COUNCIL . A foreign brother , a member of the 33 ° , asks fur information about the Supreme Grand Council of England . I beg to refer him to that admirable little compendium of Masonic intelligence , the " British , Irishand Colonial Masonic Calendar'' from which
, , he Avill glean a good deal respecting the A . & A . Eite . Tlie S . Gr . C . meets in London . AVhen last I attended it was at Freemasons' Hall , but my impression is that the Council now meets at Golden-square . As to the status of its members : three are colonels in the army , one is a P . G . M . and P . G . Commander
of Knights Templar , and another a D . P . G . M . ; two or three are Fellows of the Eoyal Society , avid the others are all more or less celebrated as both bright and learned Masons , Tbe late Dr . Oliver , the most noted Masonic author of modern times , AA'as a member of the 33 ° ; and Dr . Beaumont Leeson , Avho was till recently the M . P . Sov . Grand Commander , is
probably more deeply \* ersed iu the mysteries and history of the higher degrees than any other Freemason in this country . Of the S . P . E . S . 32 ' , one , at least , of my acquaintance is G . M . of his province , aud I Avish other P . G . M . ' s Avhom I could name Avere only half as zealous in the discharge of their duties as he is , then they might hope to be as deservedly popular . In the
list of members of the 31 ° and 30 ° , I find many notable names . The Earl of Carnarvon , Viscount Kilworfch , Lord Leigh , Sir Patrick Colquhoun , and Sir Darnel G-ooch are all members of the 30 ° , and , if I mistake not , Earl Percy has just joined its ranks . There are 24 Chapters of Eose Croix 18 ° under the S . G . C , inat
cluding one Melbourne , another at Gibraltar , and a third afc Constantinople . I daresay some other brother abler than mj ^ self ivill answer the other queries of A 33 ° ; and I am sure Capt . Phillips , the courteous Secretary General to the S . G . C , will be very _ happy to give our forei gn distinguished brother any information he can on the subject > u JE 30 ° .
THE SEVEN EPOCHS OE FREEMASONRX . Is the idea on page 208 of the seven epochs of Freemasonry taken from Mr . Sharpe ' s " Seven Periods of English Architecture ?— "W " . P . B .
Masonic Notes And Queries.
THE DELUSIONS OE EOSA CEUCIS . Corinthian Order . —Eosa Crucis has found in Josephus that the Temple of Solomon had its roof " according to the Corinthian Order . " AVould Eosa Crucis give us the Book , Chapter , and Section , where he makes this notable discovery ? Ifc has
generally been supposed that the Corinthian Order of Architecture was invented many centuries after the days of Solomon and under the following circumstances . A nurse had deposited in a basket on the grave of a departed child the toys which she had amused herself with Avhen alive . The basket was
placed accidentally on the root of an acanthus , and in spring , when the leaves greAv , they curled gracefully round tbe basket , and under a flat stone which Avas laid on the top of ifc formed Avhat may be called volutes , Callimachus , the sculptor , seeing it , caught the ideaand worked out afc Corinth the beautiful
, capital since called after that city . It is a matter of considerable controversy whether Corinth was builfc in the days of Solomon , although legend places the date of its foundation three centuries previous to his reign . One thing , however , has never been
disputed , and that is the invention of tlie Corinthian Order by Callimachus . I suspect Eosa Crucis has confounded Herod ' s Temple with Solomon ' s , as on a previous occasion he confounded ifc with Zerubbabel's . If he turns to Josephus ' s "Antiquities of the Jews , " book xv ., chap . 11 , section 5 , he will find the passages he refers to as relative to Herod ' s Temple . I fear he
will Avait awhile before he finds Josephus making the egregious error of introducing the Corinthian Order into the Temple of Solomon . Masons by Right . —Can Eosa Crucis point to any Grand Lodge which by its Constitutions endorses hia views ou this subject ? If the Grand Lodge of
England did so , the Trinity and not the Unity Avould be invoked at all meetings . It is only brethren who seem to think the so-called Higher Degrees pure Masonry who adopt such a view . Common Masons , like myself , think the higher they get the more confused they become among the cloudy jargon of
bombastic phrases and exploded fables . If Eosa Crucis has nothing better in his Bundle of Masonic Memoranda to bring forth in answer he had better burn it . —ANTHONX ONEAL HAVE .
MYSTIC NUMBERS . Numbers 3 , 5 , 7 , and 9 are great numbers in Masonry . Is Number One an important number?—AN . E . A . TIUNOSOPHES . This is not au uncommon name for French lodges .
Will our learned Bro . Cooper inform us what it means ?—C . M . D . THE " ErVE" ORDERS OE ARCHITECTURE ( pp . 187 , 209 ) versus THE " THREE " ORDERS OE ARCHITECTURE . Afc page 163 I alluded to the absurdity of speaking
about the Five Orders of Architecture as having been in existence in the time of Solomon ( about 1 , 000 years B . C . ) Solomon undoubtedly Avas acquainted with the style of architecture in use amongst the Greeks ; but the Greeks only used Three Orders , viz .: Doric , Ionic , and Corinthian . It ivas not until long after the foundation of Eouie ( 752 B . C . ) that
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Masonic Notes And Queries.
BEO . HARRIS . Although I may lay myself open to A . & A . ' s charge of being , like Bro . Harris , " a well-meaning but ignorant simpleton" (! save the mark , hide thy diminished head , oh ! satiric humour ) , I should be obliged if the misguided brother would help me in
my present strait . Certain brethren—I much fear very ignorant simpletons—desire to be initiated into the mysteries of Misraim . I haA'e placed rituals of the Ninety Degrees at their service , but they do not -wished them read but worked . Now , Bro . Harris , since you have made so glorious an amalgam of the
Chivalric Degrees , can you not come to my aid and unite the whole Ninety Degrees in one . The Eite of Misraim is a real Kite , embracing all the degrees of the A . and A ., so that even A . & A . cannot have a stone to shy at you , ignorant simpleton as you are . "What would to a neiv Order to be called the
you say Ignorant Simpletons ? If you will be G . M ., I shall offer my services as G-. Tyler . I knoiv a host of imbeciles who would willingly take the other offices — THEODOEIC THOMPSON , T . Ill , T . Eel . et T . P . Pr . Gr . President , 90 ° .
SUPREME COUNCIL . A foreign brother , a member of the 33 ° , asks fur information about the Supreme Grand Council of England . I beg to refer him to that admirable little compendium of Masonic intelligence , the " British , Irishand Colonial Masonic Calendar'' from which
, , he Avill glean a good deal respecting the A . & A . Eite . Tlie S . Gr . C . meets in London . AVhen last I attended it was at Freemasons' Hall , but my impression is that the Council now meets at Golden-square . As to the status of its members : three are colonels in the army , one is a P . G . M . and P . G . Commander
of Knights Templar , and another a D . P . G . M . ; two or three are Fellows of the Eoyal Society , avid the others are all more or less celebrated as both bright and learned Masons , Tbe late Dr . Oliver , the most noted Masonic author of modern times , AA'as a member of the 33 ° ; and Dr . Beaumont Leeson , Avho was till recently the M . P . Sov . Grand Commander , is
probably more deeply \* ersed iu the mysteries and history of the higher degrees than any other Freemason in this country . Of the S . P . E . S . 32 ' , one , at least , of my acquaintance is G . M . of his province , aud I Avish other P . G . M . ' s Avhom I could name Avere only half as zealous in the discharge of their duties as he is , then they might hope to be as deservedly popular . In the
list of members of the 31 ° and 30 ° , I find many notable names . The Earl of Carnarvon , Viscount Kilworfch , Lord Leigh , Sir Patrick Colquhoun , and Sir Darnel G-ooch are all members of the 30 ° , and , if I mistake not , Earl Percy has just joined its ranks . There are 24 Chapters of Eose Croix 18 ° under the S . G . C , inat
cluding one Melbourne , another at Gibraltar , and a third afc Constantinople . I daresay some other brother abler than mj ^ self ivill answer the other queries of A 33 ° ; and I am sure Capt . Phillips , the courteous Secretary General to the S . G . C , will be very _ happy to give our forei gn distinguished brother any information he can on the subject > u JE 30 ° .
THE SEVEN EPOCHS OE FREEMASONRX . Is the idea on page 208 of the seven epochs of Freemasonry taken from Mr . Sharpe ' s " Seven Periods of English Architecture ?— "W " . P . B .
Masonic Notes And Queries.
THE DELUSIONS OE EOSA CEUCIS . Corinthian Order . —Eosa Crucis has found in Josephus that the Temple of Solomon had its roof " according to the Corinthian Order . " AVould Eosa Crucis give us the Book , Chapter , and Section , where he makes this notable discovery ? Ifc has
generally been supposed that the Corinthian Order of Architecture was invented many centuries after the days of Solomon and under the following circumstances . A nurse had deposited in a basket on the grave of a departed child the toys which she had amused herself with Avhen alive . The basket was
placed accidentally on the root of an acanthus , and in spring , when the leaves greAv , they curled gracefully round tbe basket , and under a flat stone which Avas laid on the top of ifc formed Avhat may be called volutes , Callimachus , the sculptor , seeing it , caught the ideaand worked out afc Corinth the beautiful
, capital since called after that city . It is a matter of considerable controversy whether Corinth was builfc in the days of Solomon , although legend places the date of its foundation three centuries previous to his reign . One thing , however , has never been
disputed , and that is the invention of tlie Corinthian Order by Callimachus . I suspect Eosa Crucis has confounded Herod ' s Temple with Solomon ' s , as on a previous occasion he confounded ifc with Zerubbabel's . If he turns to Josephus ' s "Antiquities of the Jews , " book xv ., chap . 11 , section 5 , he will find the passages he refers to as relative to Herod ' s Temple . I fear he
will Avait awhile before he finds Josephus making the egregious error of introducing the Corinthian Order into the Temple of Solomon . Masons by Right . —Can Eosa Crucis point to any Grand Lodge which by its Constitutions endorses hia views ou this subject ? If the Grand Lodge of
England did so , the Trinity and not the Unity Avould be invoked at all meetings . It is only brethren who seem to think the so-called Higher Degrees pure Masonry who adopt such a view . Common Masons , like myself , think the higher they get the more confused they become among the cloudy jargon of
bombastic phrases and exploded fables . If Eosa Crucis has nothing better in his Bundle of Masonic Memoranda to bring forth in answer he had better burn it . —ANTHONX ONEAL HAVE .
MYSTIC NUMBERS . Numbers 3 , 5 , 7 , and 9 are great numbers in Masonry . Is Number One an important number?—AN . E . A . TIUNOSOPHES . This is not au uncommon name for French lodges .
Will our learned Bro . Cooper inform us what it means ?—C . M . D . THE " ErVE" ORDERS OE ARCHITECTURE ( pp . 187 , 209 ) versus THE " THREE " ORDERS OE ARCHITECTURE . Afc page 163 I alluded to the absurdity of speaking
about the Five Orders of Architecture as having been in existence in the time of Solomon ( about 1 , 000 years B . C . ) Solomon undoubtedly Avas acquainted with the style of architecture in use amongst the Greeks ; but the Greeks only used Three Orders , viz .: Doric , Ionic , and Corinthian . It ivas not until long after the foundation of Eouie ( 752 B . C . ) that