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Article THE FREEMASONS' LEXICON. ← Page 4 of 11 →
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The Freemasons' Lexicon.
them even in the grave . Of all the German Sovereigns he was the first who openly protected our Order , and acknowledged himself to belong to it . Without him it is highly probable that the Order would , in many countries , long have suffered under various oppressions , and that it would not even now have been in its present blooming state . Frederick the Great was initiated into the Order a few years before he ascended tho thronewhile upon a journey in Brunswick with his fatherin the niht
, , g between the 14 th and 1 Sth August , 1738 , by a deputation from the Hamburgh Lodge , at ivhich the celebrated Von Bielefeld was present . This initiation must have been truly secret , for they were obliged to keep it unknown to the king , his father . As soon as he ascended the throne , he took a Lodge , which was working secretly at Berlin , named it a Grand Lodge , filled the throne himself , ancl went through several initiations as well in Berlin as in Reinsberg . He held the first Lodge in Berlin on the
19 th June , 1740 . The news of this event spread itself rapidly amongst all Freemasons , so that not only here , but in many foreign places , a number of new Lodges were formed . In the year 1774 he granted the Lodge a formal protection . He also allowed his successor to he initiated into the Order , and although towards the end of his reign , when the cares of government ancl of war harrassed this great man so much , that he did not attend the Lodge as he formerly didhe still continued firml
, y attached to the Order until the day of his death , of which he gave many most incontestable proofs . In the garden of the Grand Lodge a monument has been erected to his memory . Frederick Wilhelm II ., King of Prussia , born . 25 th September , 1744 , and died 16 th November , 1797 . This monarch showed a most
extraordinary attachment to the Order , and frequently visited the Lodge . Yet some members abused the gootlness of his heart , which must pain every good Mason . He , nevertheless , remained graciously inclined to tlie Order until the day of his death . Under his reign the privilege was granted to the Lodges personally to appeal to the tribunals of the kingdom . Funf . Five . —We say that a regular Lodge consists of seven Masters ,
ancl also of five . The last number is derived from the five senses , inasmuch as tlie persons who are united to form a Lodge should be as perfect as a whole , aud work together with as much unanimity as a single man , who is endowed with five healthy senses . G . —The situation of this letter , when alone , is well known to all Freemasons . It cannot allude to the name of God alone in the German Lodges , or it could not be found in the situation in foreign Lodges . It
has a closer affinity to Geometry , which is so necessary to an Architect , and Geometrical certainty and truth is everywhere necessary . Gabalis . —This name appears in many Masonic Works , and yet there is no more to be understood by it than a romance with the title : Comte de Gabalis , on Entretiens sur les Sciences secretes . This book was published in the middle of the seventeenth century by the Abbe cle Villars , and his object was to make the Cabbalaand especiallthe secret sciences
, y , ridiculous . A Count Gabalis is the hero of the romance as au Adept , and what he professes to teach more modern Adepts have pretended to perform , to the injury of the progress of light and science . .. Gassner , Johann Jacob , was born in 1727 , at Bratz , near Pludcntz in Swabia . He was the Roman Catholic priest at Klosterle , iu the Bishopric Chur , ancl was one of the most celebrated exorcists of modern times . The account of the man who was possessed bv the devils , in the Saered
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The Freemasons' Lexicon.
them even in the grave . Of all the German Sovereigns he was the first who openly protected our Order , and acknowledged himself to belong to it . Without him it is highly probable that the Order would , in many countries , long have suffered under various oppressions , and that it would not even now have been in its present blooming state . Frederick the Great was initiated into the Order a few years before he ascended tho thronewhile upon a journey in Brunswick with his fatherin the niht
, , g between the 14 th and 1 Sth August , 1738 , by a deputation from the Hamburgh Lodge , at ivhich the celebrated Von Bielefeld was present . This initiation must have been truly secret , for they were obliged to keep it unknown to the king , his father . As soon as he ascended the throne , he took a Lodge , which was working secretly at Berlin , named it a Grand Lodge , filled the throne himself , ancl went through several initiations as well in Berlin as in Reinsberg . He held the first Lodge in Berlin on the
19 th June , 1740 . The news of this event spread itself rapidly amongst all Freemasons , so that not only here , but in many foreign places , a number of new Lodges were formed . In the year 1774 he granted the Lodge a formal protection . He also allowed his successor to he initiated into the Order , and although towards the end of his reign , when the cares of government ancl of war harrassed this great man so much , that he did not attend the Lodge as he formerly didhe still continued firml
, y attached to the Order until the day of his death , of which he gave many most incontestable proofs . In the garden of the Grand Lodge a monument has been erected to his memory . Frederick Wilhelm II ., King of Prussia , born . 25 th September , 1744 , and died 16 th November , 1797 . This monarch showed a most
extraordinary attachment to the Order , and frequently visited the Lodge . Yet some members abused the gootlness of his heart , which must pain every good Mason . He , nevertheless , remained graciously inclined to tlie Order until the day of his death . Under his reign the privilege was granted to the Lodges personally to appeal to the tribunals of the kingdom . Funf . Five . —We say that a regular Lodge consists of seven Masters ,
ancl also of five . The last number is derived from the five senses , inasmuch as tlie persons who are united to form a Lodge should be as perfect as a whole , aud work together with as much unanimity as a single man , who is endowed with five healthy senses . G . —The situation of this letter , when alone , is well known to all Freemasons . It cannot allude to the name of God alone in the German Lodges , or it could not be found in the situation in foreign Lodges . It
has a closer affinity to Geometry , which is so necessary to an Architect , and Geometrical certainty and truth is everywhere necessary . Gabalis . —This name appears in many Masonic Works , and yet there is no more to be understood by it than a romance with the title : Comte de Gabalis , on Entretiens sur les Sciences secretes . This book was published in the middle of the seventeenth century by the Abbe cle Villars , and his object was to make the Cabbalaand especiallthe secret sciences
, y , ridiculous . A Count Gabalis is the hero of the romance as au Adept , and what he professes to teach more modern Adepts have pretended to perform , to the injury of the progress of light and science . .. Gassner , Johann Jacob , was born in 1727 , at Bratz , near Pludcntz in Swabia . He was the Roman Catholic priest at Klosterle , iu the Bishopric Chur , ancl was one of the most celebrated exorcists of modern times . The account of the man who was possessed bv the devils , in the Saered