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Freemasonry In France.
FREEMASONRY IN FRANCE .
BY BRO . J . H . GABALL . Continued from page 249 . PART II . —PERIOD OF ACTIVITY . Section I . —Of the Right of the Grand Orient of France to govern all the Rites , and especially the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rile .
THE union having been accomplished , the Grand Orient could legitimately claim to be the sole administrator and legislator of the Masonic Order in France , but the Institution no sooner assumed the position to which it was entitled when new dissensions occurred to arrest its development .
Two years after the festival which celebrated the treaty of union between the two Masonic Powers which shared the reins of authority , in France , and as if to destroy its effect , the Lodge " Saint Alexandre d'Ecosse" of the Philosophic
, Scottish Rite , assumed on its own account the pretensions of the Old Lodge known by the name of the " Contrat social . " On the 24 th June , 1801 , says Thory , the Lodge of " Saint Alexandre , " under the title of the Mother Lodge of the
Philosophical Scottish Rite in France , resumed its work , which had been in abeyance during the dispersion of the old members of the Lodge " Contrat social , " and according to the rights granted to it by the general regulations of the Rite ns the most
ancient lodge of the capital . * It is beyond our present purpose to investigate the claims of the Mother Lod ge " St . Alexandre , " which seem more than doubtful ; we shall be content to say that in taking up in continuity the position of
the Lodge " Contrat social , " the Lodge " Saint Alexandre '¦ ' should have respected the treaty which the latter had entered into with the Grand Orient . There were still in Paris at this period some discontented brethren who had witnessed with little pleasure the fusion effected in 1799 . These for the most part
were members of the ancient Scottish bod y , who renounced with regret their titles and their decorations . Soon the secret insinuations of these brethren and some imprudent steps forced the Grand Orient to declare by a decree of the 12 th November 1802
, that it should exclude from correspondence every Lodge , every Chapter and all Masons who those foreign Rites not acknowled ged by the legal power of the Masonic order in France . *
On this account the Lodge "La Reunion des Etrangers" was excluded from the Grand Orient of France for having added to its title that of the "Loge de Saint Jean d'Ecosse , " which it is said it took from the " Loge ecossaise de Zorobabel , " Orient of Denmark , and for having demanded new constitutions from the Mother Scottish
Lodge of Marseilles , which the Grand Orient had never recognised . Repulsed by all the lodges , the brethren of the Scottish Rite occupied a subterranean apartment attached to a house formerly occupied by Mandit , a hotelkeeper on the Boulevard Poissonniere
, where they held their meetings . At this period , in the commencement of the year 1804 , Bro . Haguet , as if to increase the dissensions , arrived in Paris from America , and expounded the ancient Rite of Heredomof twenty-five degreeswhich
, , was practised in New York . This brother established a Council of Scottish High trades in the Lodge rooms of the " Triple Unite " and the " Phcnix , " and a Grand Consistory of Prince Masons for the whole of France .
Three mouths afterwards there arrived from Saint Domingo Bro . Grasse-Tilly , bearing a diploma of Grand Inspector-General , 33 degrees , which had been delivered to him by the Supreme Council held at Charlestown , who gave him power
in the terms of the Constitution granted to Scottish Masonry in 1 ( 86 , by King Frederick of Prussia , to establish Supreme Councils in all states and kingdoms where none already existed . In support of his pretensionsBro . De
, Grasse-Tilly produced a book , entitled " Livre d ' or , " which contained ;—1 st . The power and diploma delivered in 1761 to Bro . Stephen Morins ; 2 nd , His own
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Freemasonry In France.
FREEMASONRY IN FRANCE .
BY BRO . J . H . GABALL . Continued from page 249 . PART II . —PERIOD OF ACTIVITY . Section I . —Of the Right of the Grand Orient of France to govern all the Rites , and especially the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rile .
THE union having been accomplished , the Grand Orient could legitimately claim to be the sole administrator and legislator of the Masonic Order in France , but the Institution no sooner assumed the position to which it was entitled when new dissensions occurred to arrest its development .
Two years after the festival which celebrated the treaty of union between the two Masonic Powers which shared the reins of authority , in France , and as if to destroy its effect , the Lodge " Saint Alexandre d'Ecosse" of the Philosophic
, Scottish Rite , assumed on its own account the pretensions of the Old Lodge known by the name of the " Contrat social . " On the 24 th June , 1801 , says Thory , the Lodge of " Saint Alexandre , " under the title of the Mother Lodge of the
Philosophical Scottish Rite in France , resumed its work , which had been in abeyance during the dispersion of the old members of the Lodge " Contrat social , " and according to the rights granted to it by the general regulations of the Rite ns the most
ancient lodge of the capital . * It is beyond our present purpose to investigate the claims of the Mother Lod ge " St . Alexandre , " which seem more than doubtful ; we shall be content to say that in taking up in continuity the position of
the Lodge " Contrat social , " the Lodge " Saint Alexandre '¦ ' should have respected the treaty which the latter had entered into with the Grand Orient . There were still in Paris at this period some discontented brethren who had witnessed with little pleasure the fusion effected in 1799 . These for the most part
were members of the ancient Scottish bod y , who renounced with regret their titles and their decorations . Soon the secret insinuations of these brethren and some imprudent steps forced the Grand Orient to declare by a decree of the 12 th November 1802
, that it should exclude from correspondence every Lodge , every Chapter and all Masons who those foreign Rites not acknowled ged by the legal power of the Masonic order in France . *
On this account the Lodge "La Reunion des Etrangers" was excluded from the Grand Orient of France for having added to its title that of the "Loge de Saint Jean d'Ecosse , " which it is said it took from the " Loge ecossaise de Zorobabel , " Orient of Denmark , and for having demanded new constitutions from the Mother Scottish
Lodge of Marseilles , which the Grand Orient had never recognised . Repulsed by all the lodges , the brethren of the Scottish Rite occupied a subterranean apartment attached to a house formerly occupied by Mandit , a hotelkeeper on the Boulevard Poissonniere
, where they held their meetings . At this period , in the commencement of the year 1804 , Bro . Haguet , as if to increase the dissensions , arrived in Paris from America , and expounded the ancient Rite of Heredomof twenty-five degreeswhich
, , was practised in New York . This brother established a Council of Scottish High trades in the Lodge rooms of the " Triple Unite " and the " Phcnix , " and a Grand Consistory of Prince Masons for the whole of France .
Three mouths afterwards there arrived from Saint Domingo Bro . Grasse-Tilly , bearing a diploma of Grand Inspector-General , 33 degrees , which had been delivered to him by the Supreme Council held at Charlestown , who gave him power
in the terms of the Constitution granted to Scottish Masonry in 1 ( 86 , by King Frederick of Prussia , to establish Supreme Councils in all states and kingdoms where none already existed . In support of his pretensionsBro . De
, Grasse-Tilly produced a book , entitled " Livre d ' or , " which contained ;—1 st . The power and diploma delivered in 1761 to Bro . Stephen Morins ; 2 nd , His own