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Article THE FREEMASONS' LEXICON. ← Page 5 of 9 →
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The Freemasons' Lexicon.
enable us to discover ; and , so far from the secrets of the society being explained , the author candidly acknowledges that he does not know ant has never learned them , although he had been for forty-three years s Freemason , antl notwithstanding that the advertisements term this booh an exposition of the secrets of Freemasonry . That which is new in this book , especially upon the history . of Freemasonry , contains very little truthand that which is true had been published upwards of fifty
, years . There is , for instance , a ritual of the oldest and most obsolete kind ; similar ones are to be found in the German edition of " Anderson ' s Book of Constitutions "—in the " Fraternity of Freemasonry , " & c . & c , by Pritchard , 1736—in "The Ruined Mason , " 1746— "The Freemason discovered and divested of all his secrets , " 1745—and in " The Dissected Freemason , " 1746 . He who knows that there have been and still are upwards of twenty rituals , and that a ritual does not contain the secrets of
Freemasonry , will best know how to value Sarsena . If tbe reading world had not forgotten the old works mentioned above , and had the advertisements not been adorned with the mystical triangle , this book would have made little or no sensation . Bro . Gerlach , in Freiberg , published , in 1817 , an enlightened Sarsena , in which the author of Sarsena was sharply and clearly enlightened . Scaffner . Deacons . —Tn lodges under the English system we find two Deacons , who convey the commands of the Worshipful Master and Wardens . The Senior Deacon is therefore placed in the east , and the Junior Deacon in the west .
Schatsmeister . Treasurer . — -The old founders of the lodges must have intended to collect large sums of money , or very small sums must in those days have been considered large treasures , for they have given the title of treasurer to the brother who has charge of the lodge funds . Every lodge has a treasurer , and it is his duty not only to take care of , but to collect all the lodge dues . Part of the expenditure of the lodge is fixed , and part is voted by the Master Masons for charitable
purposes . Those lod ges which are in the habit of practising the charitable virtues , inculcated so forcibly in Freemasonry , seldom are in possession of large funds ; and lodges which pride themselves upon being rich , seldom enjoy a great reputation in Freemasonry . Schlage , starke . Heavy rap . —The door of a Freemason ' s lodge does not stand open for every one to enter , neither do we call labourers to the work , but those who wish to work with us must voluntarily offer their servicesIf he desires
. to be admitted , he must knock earnestly and manfully . " Ask and ye shall receive , seek and ye shall find , knock and it shall be opened unto you . " He who cannot knock in the full confidence of an honourable feeling , and is not convinced in his own mind that he deserves to be admitted , ought not to have the door of the lodge opened to him . Schldyel und Steinmeissel . —The mallet and chisel are frequentl y used bFreemasonsfor finds
y , every one ' rough stones upon his passage . He who makes a circuit round those stones , and thus leaves them behind him , rough and unpolished as he found them , has not performed his prescribed duty . Schleswig . —St . John ' s Lodge Solomon , at the Golden Lion , founded 1775 . In the year 1801 an hospital for the poor was built here , and in order to enlarge it and add a story to it , especially for the reception of helpless lying-in women and neglected sick , the lodge presented to it , on the 1 st May , 1801 , a piece of land , which had until then produced
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Lexicon.
enable us to discover ; and , so far from the secrets of the society being explained , the author candidly acknowledges that he does not know ant has never learned them , although he had been for forty-three years s Freemason , antl notwithstanding that the advertisements term this booh an exposition of the secrets of Freemasonry . That which is new in this book , especially upon the history . of Freemasonry , contains very little truthand that which is true had been published upwards of fifty
, years . There is , for instance , a ritual of the oldest and most obsolete kind ; similar ones are to be found in the German edition of " Anderson ' s Book of Constitutions "—in the " Fraternity of Freemasonry , " & c . & c , by Pritchard , 1736—in "The Ruined Mason , " 1746— "The Freemason discovered and divested of all his secrets , " 1745—and in " The Dissected Freemason , " 1746 . He who knows that there have been and still are upwards of twenty rituals , and that a ritual does not contain the secrets of
Freemasonry , will best know how to value Sarsena . If tbe reading world had not forgotten the old works mentioned above , and had the advertisements not been adorned with the mystical triangle , this book would have made little or no sensation . Bro . Gerlach , in Freiberg , published , in 1817 , an enlightened Sarsena , in which the author of Sarsena was sharply and clearly enlightened . Scaffner . Deacons . —Tn lodges under the English system we find two Deacons , who convey the commands of the Worshipful Master and Wardens . The Senior Deacon is therefore placed in the east , and the Junior Deacon in the west .
Schatsmeister . Treasurer . — -The old founders of the lodges must have intended to collect large sums of money , or very small sums must in those days have been considered large treasures , for they have given the title of treasurer to the brother who has charge of the lodge funds . Every lodge has a treasurer , and it is his duty not only to take care of , but to collect all the lodge dues . Part of the expenditure of the lodge is fixed , and part is voted by the Master Masons for charitable
purposes . Those lod ges which are in the habit of practising the charitable virtues , inculcated so forcibly in Freemasonry , seldom are in possession of large funds ; and lodges which pride themselves upon being rich , seldom enjoy a great reputation in Freemasonry . Schlage , starke . Heavy rap . —The door of a Freemason ' s lodge does not stand open for every one to enter , neither do we call labourers to the work , but those who wish to work with us must voluntarily offer their servicesIf he desires
. to be admitted , he must knock earnestly and manfully . " Ask and ye shall receive , seek and ye shall find , knock and it shall be opened unto you . " He who cannot knock in the full confidence of an honourable feeling , and is not convinced in his own mind that he deserves to be admitted , ought not to have the door of the lodge opened to him . Schldyel und Steinmeissel . —The mallet and chisel are frequentl y used bFreemasonsfor finds
y , every one ' rough stones upon his passage . He who makes a circuit round those stones , and thus leaves them behind him , rough and unpolished as he found them , has not performed his prescribed duty . Schleswig . —St . John ' s Lodge Solomon , at the Golden Lion , founded 1775 . In the year 1801 an hospital for the poor was built here , and in order to enlarge it and add a story to it , especially for the reception of helpless lying-in women and neglected sick , the lodge presented to it , on the 1 st May , 1801 , a piece of land , which had until then produced