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Article THE FREEMASONS' LEXICON. ← Page 2 of 9 →
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The Freemasons' Lexicon.
the common road to fame . He was continually travelling , and hy his importunity , ostentation , and the gift of perceiving and taking the advantage of the weak side of those to whom he was introduced , he forced his way into the company of royalty . According to his own account , he was three hundred and fifty years of age ,- a water of life , as he said , kept him in good health , and was so strong that , by its means , he could transform an old dame into a young woman . That puzzling
problem to all adepts , the making of precious stones , he was fortunate enough to discover , in the year 1753 , in his second journey to India ; and in the year 1773 , he pounded a very valuable diamond , as he said of his own manufacturing , at the French ambassador ' s at the Hague , after he had sold a similar one for 5500 Louis d ' or . The secrets of futurity were also unveiled before his eyes , and he foretold the death of Louis XV . He subjected serpents to the power of music . Among the
qualifications he did possess , belonged the rare gift of writing with both hands upon two sheets of paper anything which was dictated to him , in such a manner that it was impossible to find any difference in the two writings . He played the violin in such a masterly manner as to make the audience think they heard several instruments . Generally speaking , he was neither deficient in talent nor in learning , and would have been a celebrated man had he not preferred being a despised one .
Saint Nicaisse . —This hero , like the hero of the Gabalis , owes his existence to a book which is frequently mentioned in Freemasonry . The full title of the work is : " St . Nicaise ; or , a Collection of Remarkable Masonic Letters , from the French . Frankfort ( Leipzic ) , ] 7 S 6 . " As a false place of publication is printed , so is it also false that it is a
translation from the French : it is of German origin , and the author , probably , was the chief court chaplain , Stark . Br . Kessler , of Sprengeissen , wrote in answer , an Anti-Saint Nicaise . The book professes to contain the letters of a French Freemason , who was travelling on account of Freemasonry at the time of the Strict Observance , the Rosicrucians , and the Clerikers . He learnt the manner of working in London and in Germany , but was everywhere dissatisfied , and finally found content in a cloister in France ; but where situatedand in what it consistedhe does not say .
, , He praises the Holy Macarius and Thomas a Kempis , as good mystics , from which we may judge from whence he derived his information . Salomo . —Solomon , son of David , by Bathsheba , at whose request he was declared by his father to be heir to the throne of the Hebrews , thereby setting aside his elder brother : he enjoyed during a long and peaceful reign , from 1015 to 975 before Christ , the fruits of the deeds of his father . To establish his thronehe caused his brother Adonaiand
, , some discontented noblemen of his kingdom , to be murdered . But the wisdom of his judicial decisions , as also the improvement and perfection of the system of government he introduced , gained him the love and admiration of the people ; and his fame is immortalized by the building of the Temple , which , for size , magnificence , and beauty , far exceeded all the works of architecture ever before seen . This Temple is one of the most sublime symbols in the Order of Freemasonryfor which
, reason Solomon ' s name has been introduced here . The forty year ' s reign of King Solomon , which he ended weaker and less gloriously it is true than he began , are , on account of their splendour and their happy peacefulness , still prized by the Israelites as the brightest portion of their history ; and the whole eastern nations behold in it a golden age , in the pictures of which , drawn by oriental poetry , the wisdom of this king is
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Lexicon.
the common road to fame . He was continually travelling , and hy his importunity , ostentation , and the gift of perceiving and taking the advantage of the weak side of those to whom he was introduced , he forced his way into the company of royalty . According to his own account , he was three hundred and fifty years of age ,- a water of life , as he said , kept him in good health , and was so strong that , by its means , he could transform an old dame into a young woman . That puzzling
problem to all adepts , the making of precious stones , he was fortunate enough to discover , in the year 1753 , in his second journey to India ; and in the year 1773 , he pounded a very valuable diamond , as he said of his own manufacturing , at the French ambassador ' s at the Hague , after he had sold a similar one for 5500 Louis d ' or . The secrets of futurity were also unveiled before his eyes , and he foretold the death of Louis XV . He subjected serpents to the power of music . Among the
qualifications he did possess , belonged the rare gift of writing with both hands upon two sheets of paper anything which was dictated to him , in such a manner that it was impossible to find any difference in the two writings . He played the violin in such a masterly manner as to make the audience think they heard several instruments . Generally speaking , he was neither deficient in talent nor in learning , and would have been a celebrated man had he not preferred being a despised one .
Saint Nicaisse . —This hero , like the hero of the Gabalis , owes his existence to a book which is frequently mentioned in Freemasonry . The full title of the work is : " St . Nicaise ; or , a Collection of Remarkable Masonic Letters , from the French . Frankfort ( Leipzic ) , ] 7 S 6 . " As a false place of publication is printed , so is it also false that it is a
translation from the French : it is of German origin , and the author , probably , was the chief court chaplain , Stark . Br . Kessler , of Sprengeissen , wrote in answer , an Anti-Saint Nicaise . The book professes to contain the letters of a French Freemason , who was travelling on account of Freemasonry at the time of the Strict Observance , the Rosicrucians , and the Clerikers . He learnt the manner of working in London and in Germany , but was everywhere dissatisfied , and finally found content in a cloister in France ; but where situatedand in what it consistedhe does not say .
, , He praises the Holy Macarius and Thomas a Kempis , as good mystics , from which we may judge from whence he derived his information . Salomo . —Solomon , son of David , by Bathsheba , at whose request he was declared by his father to be heir to the throne of the Hebrews , thereby setting aside his elder brother : he enjoyed during a long and peaceful reign , from 1015 to 975 before Christ , the fruits of the deeds of his father . To establish his thronehe caused his brother Adonaiand
, , some discontented noblemen of his kingdom , to be murdered . But the wisdom of his judicial decisions , as also the improvement and perfection of the system of government he introduced , gained him the love and admiration of the people ; and his fame is immortalized by the building of the Temple , which , for size , magnificence , and beauty , far exceeded all the works of architecture ever before seen . This Temple is one of the most sublime symbols in the Order of Freemasonryfor which
, reason Solomon ' s name has been introduced here . The forty year ' s reign of King Solomon , which he ended weaker and less gloriously it is true than he began , are , on account of their splendour and their happy peacefulness , still prized by the Israelites as the brightest portion of their history ; and the whole eastern nations behold in it a golden age , in the pictures of which , drawn by oriental poetry , the wisdom of this king is