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On Freemasonry.
impossible to contemplate the magnificence of many of these miscalled Gothic p iles without intense admiration ; we may instance that wonder of human genius the Duomo of Miliam , in sig ht of whose hundred spires we are at this moment writing . The first accounts we have of Great Britain are from
Cajsar ' s Commentaries , who landed in that island about fifty years before the birth of Christ ; we hear little of their progress till the year 77 , when Julius Agricola conquered as far as the isthmus between the friths of Clyde and Forth , which he fortified with a wall of earth against the Picts . A succession of emperors and lieutenants visited who
the country till the time of Carausius , was employed by the joint emperors Dioclesian and Maximilian against the Saxon pirates ; in his reign Albanus , whom he had employed to " " environ the city of Verulam with a wall of stone , established the first grand Lodge in Britain . Such is the account iven bthe old constitutions of the
introg y duction of Freemasonry in England , and generally received by the Craft . But we would ask , with all due respect to the traditions of the Order , what were the race of bards ? can no Masonry be found amongst them ? have the monuments and remains of that extraordinary people been examined , and no trace , no record , no link in the lost chain
of evidence supplied ? We think we may answer not . We ask the reflecting portion of our Brethren to weigh the followino * peculiarities extracted from the Triads of Bardism and similar authorities . What can be more truly Masonic than their faith ? " There are three circles of existence ; the circle of infinity , where there is nothing but God—of but God traverse itThe
livino * or dead , and none can . circle of Indication where all things are by nature derived from death ; this circle hath been traversed by man in his mortal career . And thirdly , the circle of happiness , where all tlmujs spring from life ; this , man shall traverse in heaven . " Does not this system approach in one sense the i The is still
three first degrees of Masonry ' following stronger evidence , and is taken from Owen ' s Llyware-Hen . " By ° a princip le of the Order , a bard was never to bear arms or become a party in any dispute , cither political or religious . No naked weapon ( the weapons of the Britons were generally made of metal ) was to be bared in his presence ! Under the title of Bardd Ynyss Prydain , bard oi the Isle of Britain , he was recognised as the herald of peace-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Freemasonry.
impossible to contemplate the magnificence of many of these miscalled Gothic p iles without intense admiration ; we may instance that wonder of human genius the Duomo of Miliam , in sig ht of whose hundred spires we are at this moment writing . The first accounts we have of Great Britain are from
Cajsar ' s Commentaries , who landed in that island about fifty years before the birth of Christ ; we hear little of their progress till the year 77 , when Julius Agricola conquered as far as the isthmus between the friths of Clyde and Forth , which he fortified with a wall of earth against the Picts . A succession of emperors and lieutenants visited who
the country till the time of Carausius , was employed by the joint emperors Dioclesian and Maximilian against the Saxon pirates ; in his reign Albanus , whom he had employed to " " environ the city of Verulam with a wall of stone , established the first grand Lodge in Britain . Such is the account iven bthe old constitutions of the
introg y duction of Freemasonry in England , and generally received by the Craft . But we would ask , with all due respect to the traditions of the Order , what were the race of bards ? can no Masonry be found amongst them ? have the monuments and remains of that extraordinary people been examined , and no trace , no record , no link in the lost chain
of evidence supplied ? We think we may answer not . We ask the reflecting portion of our Brethren to weigh the followino * peculiarities extracted from the Triads of Bardism and similar authorities . What can be more truly Masonic than their faith ? " There are three circles of existence ; the circle of infinity , where there is nothing but God—of but God traverse itThe
livino * or dead , and none can . circle of Indication where all things are by nature derived from death ; this circle hath been traversed by man in his mortal career . And thirdly , the circle of happiness , where all tlmujs spring from life ; this , man shall traverse in heaven . " Does not this system approach in one sense the i The is still
three first degrees of Masonry ' following stronger evidence , and is taken from Owen ' s Llyware-Hen . " By ° a princip le of the Order , a bard was never to bear arms or become a party in any dispute , cither political or religious . No naked weapon ( the weapons of the Britons were generally made of metal ) was to be bared in his presence ! Under the title of Bardd Ynyss Prydain , bard oi the Isle of Britain , he was recognised as the herald of peace-