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The Freemasons Lexicon.*

a rich marriage he was enabled to retire from business , and devote the remainder of his days to literature in Weimar . About 1793 he translated that important work , Michael Montaigne ' s Thoughts and Opinions upon all Subjects , in six volumes . He contributed to Masonic literature , Scottish Masonry compared with the Three Obligations , and the Secrets of the Knight Templars of the Fourth Century , from the Frenchin two parts . As a Freemasonhe belonged to the convent in

, , Williamsbad . About the year 17 S 0 he joined the Order of the Illuminati , in which Order he obtained the degree of Illuminatus Dirigens . As a Freemason , no one knew the history of the Order better than he did ,, and no private member possessed a richer or more extensive Masonic library ; no one was more diligent in increasing his stock of Masonic knowledge , and opening for himself the richest and the rarest springs of knowledge . He was one of the most active promoters of the

newly introduced system of the Strict Observance , so long as he believed in its correctness , and one of its most indefatigable enemies as soon as he was convinced of its errors . He opposed with all his strength the different errors which had crept into the Order ; but most especially he set himself to root out the errors of superstition , priestcraft , supremacy , & c . & c , and pursued this many-headed hydra , through all its changing forms , into its last retreat of infamy and disgrace .

Bohn Jacob . —It has frequently been asserted that Freemasons adhere to this ancient theosophist and mysticician , and for this reason we dare not pass him over here . Jacob Bohn was born at Obalausita , in 1575 ; in his youth he was a herdsman , and it was while tending cattle that he first became susceptible to the beauties of nature , and the wonderful works of Almighty God . His poor parents afterwards sent him to school , where he was taught to read and write , and then learned the

trade of a shoemaker . He died a master shoemaker in Gorlitz , 26 th November 1624 , in his 49 th year . His sedentary life and diligent study of the Holy Bible made him a religious enthusiast , to which the religious controversies of those days , with which he became acquainted while tramping as a journeyman shoemaker , contributed a great deal . Otherwise he was correct in his conduct , modest in his discourse , patient in suffering , and humble in spirit . His agreeable behaviour had a very

great effect upon very rough men , ancl he was thus enabled , without molestation , to hold meetings for religious purposes . In 1612 he published his first work , under the title of Aurora , or the " Commencement of the Dawn of Day , " followed in 1619 by the" Three Principles of the Supreme Being , " and more than twenty other works . A complete collection of his writings was published at Amsterdam by Von Gichsel , in 1682 , in ten volumes ; and it is from this circumstance that many of Jacob Bohn ' s followers were called Gichtelianians . Another edition of

his works , in six volumes , has the title Theologia Revelata . He found many admirers in England , ancl in Dr . John Pordatel one of his ablest commentators ; and there was afterwards a Bohemian sect established in England , as well as one at Philadelphia , founded in 1697 by Jane Lade , one of his admirers . Braunschweig .. Brunswick . — The Rulers of the Grand Duchy Brunswick Woifenhuttle have always favoured Freemasonry ; many of them have belonged unto the Order . But it is not on this account alone that Brunswick is celebrated in Freemasonry ; it is much more so , because that in Brunswick , the capital , the most extensive system of freemasonry that has ever existed in Germany had its Directory , or

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CONTENTS. Article 1
EXTRA LIMITES. Article 2
THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW. Article 3
ON FREEMASONRY. Article 15
ESSAYS ON EDUCATION—No. IV. Article 24
GLEANINGS FROM MASONRY. Article 27
THE FREEMASONS LEXICON.* Article 31
TO THE GRAND LODGE OF IRELAND.—No. III. Article 44
INSTINCTIVE AVERSION. Article 45
MASONIC ANECDOTE. * Article 46
TWO VENERABLE BROTHERS.* Article 47
THEINVISIBLE SHIELD.† Article 47
THE PRUSSIAN GRAND LODGE AND THE JEWISH FREEMASONS. Article 51
TO DR. JOS. BEHREND , BERLIN. Article 53
MASONIC KNIGHTS TEMPLAR. Article 55
COLLECTANEA. Article 56
GENEROUS LIBERALITY Article 61
POETRY. Article 63
MASONIC INTELLIGENCE. Article 64
UNITED GRAND LODGE OF ENGLAND. Article 66
GRAND CONCLAVE OF THE ROYAL ORDER OF H.R.D.M.K.D.S.H. PALESTINE. Article 69
THE CHARITIES. Article 70
THE REPORTER. Article 71
TESTIMONIAL TO BROTHER E. F. LEEKS, P. M. LODGE OF UNITY. Article 72
MASONIC CHIT-CHAT. Article 73
Obituary. Article 76
PROVINCIAL. Article 77
SCOTLAND. Article 100
IRELAND. Article 105
THE MASONIC DIFFERENCES. Article 108
SUPREME ROYAL ARCH GRAND CHAPTER. Article 112
FOREIGN.* Article 114
AMERICA, (UNITED STATES). Article 116
INDIA. Article 118
REVIEW OF LITERATURE, &c. Article 126
TO CORRESPONDENTS. Article 129
THE COMING YEAR. Article 133
SONNET. Article 134
INDEX. Article 135
THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW. Article 138
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The Freemasons Lexicon.*

a rich marriage he was enabled to retire from business , and devote the remainder of his days to literature in Weimar . About 1793 he translated that important work , Michael Montaigne ' s Thoughts and Opinions upon all Subjects , in six volumes . He contributed to Masonic literature , Scottish Masonry compared with the Three Obligations , and the Secrets of the Knight Templars of the Fourth Century , from the Frenchin two parts . As a Freemasonhe belonged to the convent in

, , Williamsbad . About the year 17 S 0 he joined the Order of the Illuminati , in which Order he obtained the degree of Illuminatus Dirigens . As a Freemason , no one knew the history of the Order better than he did ,, and no private member possessed a richer or more extensive Masonic library ; no one was more diligent in increasing his stock of Masonic knowledge , and opening for himself the richest and the rarest springs of knowledge . He was one of the most active promoters of the

newly introduced system of the Strict Observance , so long as he believed in its correctness , and one of its most indefatigable enemies as soon as he was convinced of its errors . He opposed with all his strength the different errors which had crept into the Order ; but most especially he set himself to root out the errors of superstition , priestcraft , supremacy , & c . & c , and pursued this many-headed hydra , through all its changing forms , into its last retreat of infamy and disgrace .

Bohn Jacob . —It has frequently been asserted that Freemasons adhere to this ancient theosophist and mysticician , and for this reason we dare not pass him over here . Jacob Bohn was born at Obalausita , in 1575 ; in his youth he was a herdsman , and it was while tending cattle that he first became susceptible to the beauties of nature , and the wonderful works of Almighty God . His poor parents afterwards sent him to school , where he was taught to read and write , and then learned the

trade of a shoemaker . He died a master shoemaker in Gorlitz , 26 th November 1624 , in his 49 th year . His sedentary life and diligent study of the Holy Bible made him a religious enthusiast , to which the religious controversies of those days , with which he became acquainted while tramping as a journeyman shoemaker , contributed a great deal . Otherwise he was correct in his conduct , modest in his discourse , patient in suffering , and humble in spirit . His agreeable behaviour had a very

great effect upon very rough men , ancl he was thus enabled , without molestation , to hold meetings for religious purposes . In 1612 he published his first work , under the title of Aurora , or the " Commencement of the Dawn of Day , " followed in 1619 by the" Three Principles of the Supreme Being , " and more than twenty other works . A complete collection of his writings was published at Amsterdam by Von Gichsel , in 1682 , in ten volumes ; and it is from this circumstance that many of Jacob Bohn ' s followers were called Gichtelianians . Another edition of

his works , in six volumes , has the title Theologia Revelata . He found many admirers in England , ancl in Dr . John Pordatel one of his ablest commentators ; and there was afterwards a Bohemian sect established in England , as well as one at Philadelphia , founded in 1697 by Jane Lade , one of his admirers . Braunschweig .. Brunswick . — The Rulers of the Grand Duchy Brunswick Woifenhuttle have always favoured Freemasonry ; many of them have belonged unto the Order . But it is not on this account alone that Brunswick is celebrated in Freemasonry ; it is much more so , because that in Brunswick , the capital , the most extensive system of freemasonry that has ever existed in Germany had its Directory , or

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