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Article ANCIENT MASONS' MARKS. ← Page 7 of 9 →
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Ancient Masons' Marks.
honorary members were occasionally received into the Order of Jerusalem . What were the necessary qualifications in one particular instance may be shown , by giving an inscription taken from a slab in the floor of a chapel in Fort Manoel , Malta . It is as follows : —
D . O . M . Hie in arce quam condiderat juxta ejus ultima vota Jacet Carolns de Mondion Parisien . S . R . H . Architectus Polemicus Ob morum suavitatem et ingenii dotes inter equites V . Linguae Franciae Adscriptur . Obiit An . D . N . 1 . 1733 Die 25 Decembr .
Previously to entering into this long digression , the fortifications of the seventeenth century had come under observation , and the different marks alluded to which appear upon them ; at the commencement of the eighteenth century , however , Masonry began to attract the attention of the world at large , and from that period , down even to the present day ,
attacks upon it were numerous and constant . Even bodies so different as the Church of Rome and the Associate Synod of Scotland were found for once prosecuting the same object , and using the same means to secure the end . We find , then , that the Grand Master of the Order at Malta caused , in the year 1740 the bull of Pope Clement XII . to be published
, , and laid an interdict upon Masonic meetings . What were the consequences ?—A great number of the inhabitants left the island . " Un grand nombre d'habitants prirent a , cette occasion le parti de s ' eloigner cle l'isle . " Nevertheless , the Lodges continued to meet . Another power of a darker nature now stepped in—a power ever ready in persecution
—, the Inquisition , interfered ; but the G . Master , moderating the rigour of the sentences which it had awarded , contented himself with sentencing to perpetual banishment six knights , who had been taken , as it were , red-handed , —in the words of our author , " se contenter d ' exiler a perpetuite six chevaliers qui avaient ete pris en flagrant delit de maconnerie . " * The
Lodge to which those knights belonged was most probably that which held its meetings at La Maison , a house and garden , situated in a very secluded place , on the outer rampart of Floriana , near a celebrated skewed arch in one of the bastions . Now , the fact of a great number of the inhabitants leaving the island after this bull was published , shows that Masonry must
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Ancient Masons' Marks.
honorary members were occasionally received into the Order of Jerusalem . What were the necessary qualifications in one particular instance may be shown , by giving an inscription taken from a slab in the floor of a chapel in Fort Manoel , Malta . It is as follows : —
D . O . M . Hie in arce quam condiderat juxta ejus ultima vota Jacet Carolns de Mondion Parisien . S . R . H . Architectus Polemicus Ob morum suavitatem et ingenii dotes inter equites V . Linguae Franciae Adscriptur . Obiit An . D . N . 1 . 1733 Die 25 Decembr .
Previously to entering into this long digression , the fortifications of the seventeenth century had come under observation , and the different marks alluded to which appear upon them ; at the commencement of the eighteenth century , however , Masonry began to attract the attention of the world at large , and from that period , down even to the present day ,
attacks upon it were numerous and constant . Even bodies so different as the Church of Rome and the Associate Synod of Scotland were found for once prosecuting the same object , and using the same means to secure the end . We find , then , that the Grand Master of the Order at Malta caused , in the year 1740 the bull of Pope Clement XII . to be published
, , and laid an interdict upon Masonic meetings . What were the consequences ?—A great number of the inhabitants left the island . " Un grand nombre d'habitants prirent a , cette occasion le parti de s ' eloigner cle l'isle . " Nevertheless , the Lodges continued to meet . Another power of a darker nature now stepped in—a power ever ready in persecution
—, the Inquisition , interfered ; but the G . Master , moderating the rigour of the sentences which it had awarded , contented himself with sentencing to perpetual banishment six knights , who had been taken , as it were , red-handed , —in the words of our author , " se contenter d ' exiler a perpetuite six chevaliers qui avaient ete pris en flagrant delit de maconnerie . " * The
Lodge to which those knights belonged was most probably that which held its meetings at La Maison , a house and garden , situated in a very secluded place , on the outer rampart of Floriana , near a celebrated skewed arch in one of the bastions . Now , the fact of a great number of the inhabitants leaving the island after this bull was published , shows that Masonry must