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Freemasonry In France.
0 f the Grand Orient of France ; that , sincerely attached to it , it will as far as in it lies , punctually execute its part of the federal compact , and that the Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Rite be informed that the Grand Consistory of
the Rite of Heredom can have no correspondence with it ; and that a copy of the resolution be forwarded to the Supreme Council and to the Grand Orient of France . " It is therefore very difficult for the
Supreme Council to vindicate the exercise of the Rite of Heredom and the interdict of the Grand Orient of France . It is right to acknowledge that in the preamble of the Grand Constitution , King Frederick of Prussia has declared to
consolidate and re-unite in a single Masonic body ull tho titles of tho Scottish Rite , of which the doctrines are generally acknowledged to be the more identified with those of the particular institutions of which the end is the samebeing principal branches
, of the same tree , differing only in the secret forms which are already shared by several , and which differences can easily he reconciled . These Rites are those known as the " Aneien d'Heredom or
Harodom , " "De Kilwenning" ( sic ) , " d'Orient , " "de Saint Andre , " "des Empereurs d'Orient et d'Occident , " " Princes du Secret Royal ou de la Perfection , " " Philosophique , " and the very modern " Rite Primitif . "
Now , to explain for what reason the Comte Do Grasse-Tilly accomplished in 1804 , in the Grand Lodge of the Scottish Rite , the union of these two Rites ; why , in 1809 , the Supreme Council wished to subject to its jurisdiction the Rite of
Heredom instead of simply declaring it suppressed aud abolished since 1786 , as all other Scottish Rites , and why this Rite has always continued its separate existence since the t & ne it was abolished as the Philosophic Rite in the Grand Orient of
France . Thory , in his " Acta Latornorum , " gives year by year the proceedings of the Philosophic Scottish Rite of the Grand Lodge of Heredom , of the Supreme Council aud ° f the Grand OrientIt is there proved
. that the Grand Orient alone practised the two Rites now vanished , also the " Rite de ¦ Kilwinning " and the " Rite Rectifie . " We
Freemasonry In France.
ask why , under these circumstances , the Congress of Lausanne , composed of able and learned Masons , has thought proper to deny to the Grand Orient of France ( and that without a hearing ) the practice of the Rites which it alone has exercised , and
declared that in the future Masons received in any Rites which- any of the Supreme Councils do not practise will be received only under tolerance . Having historically established the title of the Grand Orient of France to the
Scottish Rites , anterior to the Constitution of 1786 , it remains to us to demonstrate that it has the sole right to practise in France tho Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite ; and that it is the true Supreme Council ia the terms of the Constitutions
upon which the Council of Lausanne has based its pretensions . ( To be continued . )
Lost.
LOST .
ONCE on a time she came to me , As some small star in heaven might flee-To be a mortal ' s soul delight , A love by day a dream by night , The sweetest thing on land or sea , My little darling crept to me .
A trembling , tender , fairy thing , Too grave to smile , too sad to sing , Aware of earth with grieved surprise , An alien from her native skies , A baby angel strange to see , My little darling came to me .
But love and loving taught her smiles , And life and living baby wiles—The way to cling , to coax , to kiss , To fill my soul with deepest bliss ; My heart of hearts , my life , was she , This little love who came to me .
I know not how to tell the grace That dwelt upon her wistful face— . The tinted skin the lip ' s poor bloom , The clearest eyes that knew not gloom , The hair as soft as moth wings he , My little darling showed to me . Alas ! I know that all is gone , That here I sit and grieve alone ,
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Freemasonry In France.
0 f the Grand Orient of France ; that , sincerely attached to it , it will as far as in it lies , punctually execute its part of the federal compact , and that the Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Rite be informed that the Grand Consistory of
the Rite of Heredom can have no correspondence with it ; and that a copy of the resolution be forwarded to the Supreme Council and to the Grand Orient of France . " It is therefore very difficult for the
Supreme Council to vindicate the exercise of the Rite of Heredom and the interdict of the Grand Orient of France . It is right to acknowledge that in the preamble of the Grand Constitution , King Frederick of Prussia has declared to
consolidate and re-unite in a single Masonic body ull tho titles of tho Scottish Rite , of which the doctrines are generally acknowledged to be the more identified with those of the particular institutions of which the end is the samebeing principal branches
, of the same tree , differing only in the secret forms which are already shared by several , and which differences can easily he reconciled . These Rites are those known as the " Aneien d'Heredom or
Harodom , " "De Kilwenning" ( sic ) , " d'Orient , " "de Saint Andre , " "des Empereurs d'Orient et d'Occident , " " Princes du Secret Royal ou de la Perfection , " " Philosophique , " and the very modern " Rite Primitif . "
Now , to explain for what reason the Comte Do Grasse-Tilly accomplished in 1804 , in the Grand Lodge of the Scottish Rite , the union of these two Rites ; why , in 1809 , the Supreme Council wished to subject to its jurisdiction the Rite of
Heredom instead of simply declaring it suppressed aud abolished since 1786 , as all other Scottish Rites , and why this Rite has always continued its separate existence since the t & ne it was abolished as the Philosophic Rite in the Grand Orient of
France . Thory , in his " Acta Latornorum , " gives year by year the proceedings of the Philosophic Scottish Rite of the Grand Lodge of Heredom , of the Supreme Council aud ° f the Grand OrientIt is there proved
. that the Grand Orient alone practised the two Rites now vanished , also the " Rite de ¦ Kilwinning " and the " Rite Rectifie . " We
Freemasonry In France.
ask why , under these circumstances , the Congress of Lausanne , composed of able and learned Masons , has thought proper to deny to the Grand Orient of France ( and that without a hearing ) the practice of the Rites which it alone has exercised , and
declared that in the future Masons received in any Rites which- any of the Supreme Councils do not practise will be received only under tolerance . Having historically established the title of the Grand Orient of France to the
Scottish Rites , anterior to the Constitution of 1786 , it remains to us to demonstrate that it has the sole right to practise in France tho Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite ; and that it is the true Supreme Council ia the terms of the Constitutions
upon which the Council of Lausanne has based its pretensions . ( To be continued . )
Lost.
LOST .
ONCE on a time she came to me , As some small star in heaven might flee-To be a mortal ' s soul delight , A love by day a dream by night , The sweetest thing on land or sea , My little darling crept to me .
A trembling , tender , fairy thing , Too grave to smile , too sad to sing , Aware of earth with grieved surprise , An alien from her native skies , A baby angel strange to see , My little darling came to me .
But love and loving taught her smiles , And life and living baby wiles—The way to cling , to coax , to kiss , To fill my soul with deepest bliss ; My heart of hearts , my life , was she , This little love who came to me .
I know not how to tell the grace That dwelt upon her wistful face— . The tinted skin the lip ' s poor bloom , The clearest eyes that knew not gloom , The hair as soft as moth wings he , My little darling showed to me . Alas ! I know that all is gone , That here I sit and grieve alone ,