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Notes Upon Funeral Solemnities.
NOTES UPON FUNERAL SOLEMNITIES .
BY THE AUTHOR OF " THE SYMBOLICAL CHARACTER OF MEDIEVAL HERALDRY AND ITS CONNECTION WITH FREEMASONRY . " IN placing before the Craftand the public generall
, y , these few hasty notes , jotted down from time to time during our lucubrations among the paths of antiquity , our object is not to hold up the instances which we may quote in illustration of our subject , as examples for modern adaptation , but merely to shew , that by a careful comparison of some of the forms and ceremonies attending our funeral rites
with those of the middle ages , we may trace the real meaning and intention of many an item in the mournful panoply of death , which can only be discovered and accounted for by a reference to such sources , as we shall point out . Whilst we give a brief outline ofthe ceremonials attending the entombment of the noble and wealthwhich were
y , thought almost indispensable in the 15 th and 16 th centuries , we do not wish for a moment to hint that any revival of such costly and cumbersome pageantry would be worthy of the present enlightened age , but we do say that there are many little points in our present system of conducting funerals , which demand correctionand we cannot set about
, the task of reformation , without some previous knowledge of the origin of those expressive observances which , through ignorance and indifference , have been allowed to degenerate into pageantry , costly as ever , but unmeaning , and often irreverent .
We hope , before concluding these imperfect notes , to he able , in a future number , to apply our subject more immediately to the objects , to which our Magazine is devoted , by examining the theory and practice of Masonic funerals . From the fact of our being at present very deficient in information upon this subject , and not knowing exactly the best
source whence we may derive some enli ghtenment , wc cannotat present venture upon any remarks upon the ceremonies which has , from time to time , been carried out at the burial
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Notes Upon Funeral Solemnities.
NOTES UPON FUNERAL SOLEMNITIES .
BY THE AUTHOR OF " THE SYMBOLICAL CHARACTER OF MEDIEVAL HERALDRY AND ITS CONNECTION WITH FREEMASONRY . " IN placing before the Craftand the public generall
, y , these few hasty notes , jotted down from time to time during our lucubrations among the paths of antiquity , our object is not to hold up the instances which we may quote in illustration of our subject , as examples for modern adaptation , but merely to shew , that by a careful comparison of some of the forms and ceremonies attending our funeral rites
with those of the middle ages , we may trace the real meaning and intention of many an item in the mournful panoply of death , which can only be discovered and accounted for by a reference to such sources , as we shall point out . Whilst we give a brief outline ofthe ceremonials attending the entombment of the noble and wealthwhich were
y , thought almost indispensable in the 15 th and 16 th centuries , we do not wish for a moment to hint that any revival of such costly and cumbersome pageantry would be worthy of the present enlightened age , but we do say that there are many little points in our present system of conducting funerals , which demand correctionand we cannot set about
, the task of reformation , without some previous knowledge of the origin of those expressive observances which , through ignorance and indifference , have been allowed to degenerate into pageantry , costly as ever , but unmeaning , and often irreverent .
We hope , before concluding these imperfect notes , to he able , in a future number , to apply our subject more immediately to the objects , to which our Magazine is devoted , by examining the theory and practice of Masonic funerals . From the fact of our being at present very deficient in information upon this subject , and not knowing exactly the best
source whence we may derive some enli ghtenment , wc cannotat present venture upon any remarks upon the ceremonies which has , from time to time , been carried out at the burial