Philosophy Of Masonry
Philosophy Of Masonry. This Expression Opens An Immense Field For The Intelligent Mason To Explore, And One So Rich In Materials That It Can Never Be Exhausted. The Philosophy Of Freemasonry Involves The History Of Its Origin, An Inquiry Into The Ideas That Lie At Its Base, An Investi Gation ...
Priest
Priest, Hebrew, Cohen. One Who Officiates In The Ptblic Worship Of God, Especially In Making Expiation For Sin, Being "ordained For Men In Things Pertaining To God, To Offer Both Gifts And Sacrifices For Sins." • In The Old Testament The Priesthood Was Not Annexed To A Certain Family Until ...
Prince Of Jerusalem
Prince Of Jerusalem. The 16th Degree Of The Ancient And Accepted Rite. The History Of This Degree Is Founded Upon The Incidents That Occurred During The Build Ing Of The Second Temple, At Which Time The Jews Were Much Annoyed By The Constant And Malicious Interference Of The Samaritans, Their ...
Prince Of Rose Croix
Prince Of Rose Croix, Sometimes Called Knight Or The Eagle And Pelican. The 18th Degree Of The Ancier And Accepted Rite. It Is The Most Ancient, Interesting, An I Most Generally Practiced Of The Philosophical Degrees (•1 Masonry. It Is Found In All The Principal Rites, And Whey It Does ...
Prussia
Prussia. Freemasonry Was In Troduced Into Prussia By Frederick Il, Surnamed The Great. Having Been Secretly Initiated, While Crown Prince, At Brunswick, He Soon After Organized A Lodge In The Castle Of Rheinsberg; And When, In 1740, He Ascended The Throne He Himself Wielded The Gavel, And Conducted The First ...
Qualifications Of Candidates
Qualifications Of Candidates. The Masonic Institution, Like Other Societies, Is Composed Of Individual Members, Which, In The Aggregate, Make Up A Body Or Lodge. As The Source Of Power Is, Primarily, Vested In The Members, It Is Important To Consider Who Should Compose The Body Or Be Admitted Into The ...
Questions Of King Henry
Questions Of King Henry Vi. This Curious Docu Ment, Which Has Been Printed In Many Works On Masonry, Has Elicited A Vast Amount Of Discussion Among Masonic Writers As To Its Genuineness. It First Appeared In The " Gen Tlemen's Magazine" For 1753, Where It Purports To Be A Reprint ...
Religion
Religion. " Speculative Masonry Is So Far Interwoven With Religion As To Lay Us Under Obligations To Pay That Rational Homage To The Deity Which At Once Constitutes Our Duty And Cur Happiness. It Leads The Contemplative Mind To View With Reverence And Admiration The Glorious Works Of Creation, And ...
Rhode Island
Rhode Island. December 27, 1749, The Petition Of Several Brethren Residing In Newport Was Presented To St. John's Grand Lodge At Boston, Of Which Thomas Oxnard Was Grand Master, Praying For The Incorporation Of A Regular Lodge There, Which, On Being Read, It Was Voted That A Charter Be Granted ...
Right Of Visit
Visit, Right Of. While The Right Of A Mason To Visit Any Lodge, Where He May Happen To Be, Is Generally Conceded, Various Regulations, Limiting This Right, Have Been Made At Different Times, And In Divers Jurisdictions, Concerning The Propriety And Necessity Of Which Intelligent Masons Enter Tain Quite Different ...
Rite
Rite. This Word Is Defined To Be A Formal Act Of Service Established By Law, Precept Or Custom; A Symbolical Cere Mony And Method Of Representing Ideas. Freemasonry, Although Uniform And Immutable, In Its Principles And Gene Ral Laws, Exists, Nevertheless, In A Variety Of Methods Or Forms, Which Are ...
Rite Of Strict Observance
Strict Observance, Rite Of. This Was The Third Attempt At Innovation Upon The Purer Systems Of Freema Sonry By The Jesuits. It Encouraged In Its Adepts The Hope Of Coming Into Possession Of The Wealth Of The Ancient Templars. The Chronological History Of Its Grand Masters Is Nothing More Than ...
Rite Of The Mystic
Mystic Mason, Rite Of The. The Eighteenth Century, If Considered In Connection With Its Intellectual Activity, The Immense Pro,gress Made In The Sciences And Arts, And In Rela Tion To The General Advancement Of The Human Mind, Must Bo Recognized As The Most Remarkable Epoch In The History Of The ...
Ritual
Ritual. This Word Imports How A Lodge Ought To Be Opened And Closed, And How An Initiation, Passing, Or Raising Ought To Be Conducted; This May Also Be Called The Liturgy Of The Lodge. The Ritual Is Not The Same In All Lodges, Nay, There Are Nearly As Many Different ...
Royal Arch
Royal Arch. Sometimes, And More Properly, Called The Holy Royal Aacu. The Fourth Of The Series Of Degrees Conferred In A Royal Arch Chapter, And The Seventh In Grade Known As The York Rite, As Practiced In The Order Wherever That Rite Is Established. Dr. Oliver Says That It Is ...
Royal Master
Royal Master. The First Of The Degrees In The Council, Or Cryptic System. It Is Immediately Associated With The Degree Of Select Master, And, With It, Is Explanatory Of The Royal Arch Degree, And Was Originally Conferred In A Chap Ter Of Royal Arch Masons. Its Ritual Is Highly Interesting. ...
Royal Order Of Herodem
Herodem, Royal Order Of. Dr. Oliver Claims That This Order Was Instituted By Robert Bruce, After The Battle Of Bannockburn, Which Took Place On St. John's Day, 1314. He Says: "the Royal Order Of H. R.. D. M.—herodem—had Formerly Its Seat At Kilwinning, And There Is Reason To Think That ...
Scotland
Scotland. The Early History Of Freemasonry In This Country, Like That Of England And Germany, Is Surrounded With The Misty Haze Of Legendary Lore. The First Reliable Information We Have Touching The Fraternity Dates Back To The Early Part Of The Fifteenth Century. They, At That Period, Acknowledged Their King ...
Solomon
Solomon. This Celeorated Monarch Was The Son Of David By Bathsheba, Thrown Whose Influence He Inherited He Jewish Throne, In Preference To His Elder Brothers. During His Long And Peaceful Reign—from B. C. 1015 To 975- The Hebrews Enjoyed Their Golden Age. His Remarkable Judicial Decisions, And His Completion Of ...
Sorrow Lodges
Sorrow Lodges. In This Country Lodges Of Sorrow Are Somewhat Rare. They Are, However, Of Very Frequent Occurrence In Europe, Particularly In Germany, Where, Shortly After The Death Of A Worthy Brother, The " Trauer Loge" Is Held, When The Virtues, Memory, And Intellectual Qualifications Are Commemorated, And The Funereal ...
South Carolina
South Carolina. There Is No Evidence, By Record Or Tradition, Of The Existence Of A Masonic Lodge In The Province Of South Carolina Anterior To The Year 1736. Oct. 28, Of That Year, The First Lodge Of Masons In South Carolina Was Opened In The City Of Charleston, Then Known ...
Sovereign Co3131ander Of The
Sovereign Co3131ander Of The Temple, Some Times Called Knight Commander Of The Temple, Is The 27th Degree Of The Ancient And Accepted Rite. The Assemblage Is Called A Chapter. The Degree Is Entirely Chivalric. The Presiding Officer Is Styled Commander-in Chief; The Wardens Are Called Marshal And Turcopilier; The Members ...
St John The Baptist
St. John The Baptist. He Was The Forerunner Of Jesus, A Son Of The Jewish Priest Zacharias And Of Elizabeth, Who, As A Zealous Judge Of Morality And Un Daunted Preacher Of Repentance, Obtained Great Celebrity, First In His Native Country, Then In The Mountains Of Judea, And Afterwards Among ...
Standard
Standard. A Staff With A Flag Or Colors, Under Which Men Are United Or Bound For Some Common Purpose. From The Earliest Antiquity All Nations Have Been In The Habit Of Using Peculiar Standards Or Banners, By Which They Were Distinguished From Each Other In Peace, And Rallied To Action ...
Sublime Knight Elect
Sublime Knight Elect, Sometimes Called Twelvii Illustrious Knights. The Llth Degree Of The Ancient And Accepted Rite. This Degree Completes The Series Of Elect Degrees, Viz: Elect Of Nine, Elect Of Fifteen And Sublime Knight Elect. The Legend Of This Degree Specifies That After Vengeance Had Been Taken On The ...
Sublime Prince Of The
Sublime Prince Of The Royal Secret. The 32d Degree Of The Ancient And Accepted Rite, And For Many Years, Or Until The Institution Of The 33d Degree, This Was The Highest Degree, Or Ne Plus Ultra Of Masonry. The Body Is Styled A Consistory, And Should Be Held In A ...
Sweden
Sweden. Freemasonry Was In Troduced Into This Country In 1735, Oy Charter From The Grand Orient Of France, Granted To The Governor, Count Sparre. But Little Is Known Of This Lodge, As Its Operations Were Closed In 1738 By Royal De Cree, Forbidding Masons To Meet On Pain Of Death. ...
Swedish Rite
Swedish Rite. This Rite Was Composed In 1767, For The Grand Lodge At Stockholm, By Count Zinnendorf, Who Had Created A Similar Rite For The National Grand Lodge Of Germany, At Berlin; He Preserving, However, In The Swedish Rite Something Of The Religious System Of The Philosophic Mason, Swedenborg. It ...
Switzerland
Switzerland. The Intro Duction Of The Order Into Switzer Land Began In 1737, By Warrant From The Grand Lodge Of England, To Sir George Hamilton, As Provincial Grand Master, By Authority Of Which He Established A Provincial,grand Lodge At Geneva. In 1739 The Duke Of Montacute, Grand Master Of England, ...
Symbolic Teachings
Teachings, Symbolic, Of The Degrees. Freemasonry Teaches By Symbols And Symbolical Ceremonies, And Hence Each Degree, Through These Agencies, Illustrates And Inculcates Some Particular Virtue, Or Commemorates Some Important Event. The Following Is An Analytical Summary Of The Ideas, Which The Several Degrees Of The Order Seek To Enforce; Thus ...
Symbols Of Pythagoras
Pythagoras, Symbols Of. The Esoteric Or Secret Instructions Of Pythagoras Were Explained With The Aid Of Symbols, As The Readiest And Most Efficient Method Of Im Pressing Upon The Mind Of The Candidate For The Mysteries The Sublime Truths And Moral Lessons For Which The School Of That Justly Celebrated ...
Tabernacle
Tabernacle. The Hebrew Word Properly Signifies Handsome Tent. There Were Three Public Tabernacles Among The Jews Previous To The Building Of Solomon's Temple. The First, Which Moses Erected, Was Called "the Tabernacle Of The Congregation." In This He Gave Audience, Heard Causes, And Inquired Of God. The Second Was That ...
Talmud
Talmud. A Word Derived From The Hebrew Verb Lamed, Be Has Learned. It Means Doctrine. Among The Modern Jews, It Signifies An Immense Collection Of Illus Trative Of Their Laws And Usages, Forming Twelve Folio Volumes It Consists Of Two Parts--the Mishua And The Gemara. The Mishua Is A Collection ...
Temple
Temple. An Edifice Erected For Religious Purposes. As The Grand Symbols Of Freemasonry Are A Temple And Its Ornaments, And To Construct Temples Was The Business Of The Original Masons, Some Remarks Upon These Structures Cannot But Be Instructive. The Word Temple Is Derived From The Latin Templum, And This ...
Temple Of Solomon
Temple Of Solomon. When Solomon Had Matured His Design Of A Temple To Be Consecrated To The Most High, He Found It Impossible To Carry That Design Into Execution Without Foreign Assistance. The Hebrew Nation, Constantly Struggling For Its Material Existence, And Just Rising To The Condition Of A Civilized ...
Texas
Texas. The Introduction Of Masonry Into Texas Began By Dis Pensation From John H. Holland, Grand Master Of Louisiana, Under The Name Of Holland Lodge,dec.17, 1835, At Brazoria. Soon After Hostili Ties Broke Out Between Mexico And Texas, When The Lodge Was Obliged To Close Its Operations. Brazoria Was Abandoned; ...
Traveling Freemasons
Traveling Freemasons. As Early As The Time Of Solomon The Tyrian And Sidouian Builders Traveled To Foreign Countries, To Exercise Their Calling. They Visited Judea And Built The Temple At Jerusalem. They Went To Rome, And Furnished The Idea And Form Of The Colleges Of Artists And Builders, Whose History ...
Trestle Board
Trestle-board. "as The Operative Mason Erects His Temporal Building In Accordance With The Designs Laid Down Upon The Trestle-board By The Master-workman, So Should We, Both Operative And Speculative, Endeavor To Erect Our Spiritual Building In Accordance With The Designs Laid Down By The Supreme Architect." What Is Here Masonically ...
Triad
Triad. Three In One. An Important Symbol In Free Masonry. The Number Three Was Thought Holy In The Earliest Antiquity. Numbers, Six. 12, Furnishes An Instance. This Must Have Its Reason In The Nature Of The Number. It Repre Sents To Us Unity And Opposition, The Principle And Its Development ...
Twelve Grand Points Of
Twelve Grand Points Of Masonry. "there Are In Masonry," Say The Ancient Lectures, "twelve Original Points Which Form The Basis Of The System, And Comprehend The Whole Ceremony Of Initiation. Without The Existence Of These Points, No Man Ever Was, Or Can Be, Legally And Essen Tially Received Into The ...
Virginia
Virginia. Writers On The Early History Of Freemasonry In The United States, Particularly Of The Time When They Were Colonies Of The British Government, Are Often Em Barrassed In Their Researches, And Are Unable To Furnish The "tangible Proof" Of The First Introduction Of The Order Into Certain Well-estab Lished ...
Wages Of A Mason
Wages Of A Mason. The Operative Mason, In Ancient Times, Received, As Compensation For His Labor, Corn, Wine And Oil—the Products Of The Earth—or Whatever Would Contribute To His Physical Comfort And Support. His Labor Being Material, His Wages Were Outward And Material. The Free And Accepted Mason, On The ...