The Origin Of Freemasonry.

the lore of the Essenes , Assassun , and migatory Arabian tribes , should make use of the Scriptural imagery to veil their holy mysteries from the gaze of the profane , and we find that first the scene is kid in the Temple of Solomon . Yours fraternally , EOSA CEUCIS .

Proyincial Grand Lodge At Cockermouth.

PROYINCIAL GRAND LODGE AT COCKERMOUTH .

TO THE EDITOll CS THE Pr . EEMASONS MAGAZINE AKD MASONIC MIEKOIi . DEAE SIE AND BEOTHEE , —I happened to be at Cockermouth on Wednesday week , and was delighted to Avitness a brilliant Masonic display . The only niatter that militated against it was the entire absence of banners , and a very faint display of " drawn SAvords . " "Where were the Provincial Grand Sword

and Standard Bearers ? I feel sure it was an oversight , and therefore draw attention to the matter . It was the only thiug that spoiled the procession . Provincial Grand Lodge should set the example and soon every individual lodge would " follow suit . " I offer my Avarmest congratulations to the brethren of the province . Yours fraternally , August 31 st , 1865 . FEATEE .

Jews And Freemasonry Abroad.

JEWS AND FREEMASONRY ABROAD .

TO THE EDITOll OF THE FHKE 5 TASONS MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIEROE . DEAE SIE AND BEOTHEE . —I enclose you a letter received from my friend ileinrich Scheyer , the author of the poem "Ein Traumbild , " or VISION , which you published a few Aveeks back . I send you the entire note , though I should ha \ 'e preferred to keep in the shade the few pleasant things he of myselfHis letter

desays . serves the most earnest consideration , and I think you will do Avell to permit your columns to become the vehicle for the full discussion of the question . Mr . Scheyer , as you observe , offers to supply you Avith all material , and there is great satisfaction in having such a correspondent . You implicitlrelon the

may y y accuracy of any and every statement he makes . While in France , and UOAV in England , the Jew is admitted freely and fraternally tho highest poAvers of the State , it is , to say the least of it , most discreditable that in one of our social and civil privileges he should iu Germany be denied admittance .

Eespectfully and fraternally yours , FEASCIS BENNOCII . "Kissingen , BaA'aria , August 18 , 1865 . ' ¦ 'MY DEAE ME . BENNOCII , —I Avas agreeably surprised by your kind letter of the 11 th , and I felt

quite proud when I had read your letter to the editor of the FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIEEOE . Eight years have passed since I Avrote the " Traumbild , " and to see it UOAV , certainly clad in more poetical language , and adorned with many masterly touches , making its appearance in public , made blush

me like a maiden who comes out for the first time in a glittering ball-room . I would never have ventured to send my poem ( if it deserves that name ) to a German Masonic newspaper . I know well it Avas tbe outpouring of mv innermost soul , but neither rhyme nor rhythmical sound make such effusions of the heart a poem ; it requires more—it requires the stamp of genius , Avhich I certainly do not possess . However , it is noAV in print , and I take

Jews And Freemasonry Abroad.

shelter behind your excellent wording ; and I see many instances , Avhere I considered myself at fault , have been most cleverly altered , and do actually say what I feel , but had not the poAver to express . "I thank you most heartily for the flattering manner in which you have mentioned my name in your letter to the editorand I thank you more for

, having spoken a word in favour of the Jew Freemason in Prussia . Whoever has the faintest idea of the rudiments of Freemasonry must feel puzzled , nay offended and grieved , at the manner iu which Freemasonry is handled in Prussia . The Jew is admitted as a casual visitor in the lodges in all the three

degrees , but he cannot be a member of a lodge , or a permanent visitor ot a lodge . Either a Jew is worthy to be initiated in the secrets of the Craft , or he is not . If he is worthy , why is he debarred from a right which he may claim ? or if he is unworthy , why is he received as a casual visitor ? It is one of those

puzzles ( to use a stage phrase ) Avhich certainly no fellah can understand . Freemasonry , Avhich opens its temples to all men , Avhich writes on its doorposts , ' Let us forget that we are separated by differences which national , religious , climatical influences begetlet us remember that we are all children of the Great

Architect of the Universe , and let us all feel as such —Freemasonry iu Prussia has its own peculiar code , and frustrates in its narroAV-mindedness the end and aim of the noble art . I am sickened if I listen to the hypocritical manner in which high-sounding words of brotherly love are used , a love which is said to extend from the rising of the suu to his setting

, and high above to the clouds , and which gives only a miserly crumb to the JBAV . I have given up to visit the lodge at Creuznach . I felt it beneath my dignity to be satisfied to visit it on sufferance , when I felt I possessed all the qualifications to ask as a right my full share . That lodge , I may say it without

transgressing the limits of modesty , owes me some thanks . I have given it my best intellectual and material aid , but it does nothing to acknoAvledge , even in the slightest manner , its obligations towards the Jevr . " I could Avrite you much about the Creuznach Lodge in particularand the Prussian lodges in

, general ; and if the gauntlet should be taken up by the English Masonic press , I am prepared to furnish it with materials ; but I feel UOAV that I am getting excited , and that is the very thing which here , at least , I must avoid . I am here for the sake of nvy healthAA'hich of late has not been A ery goodbut 1

, , hope that the waters here will benefit me . " With many thanks , my dear friend ancl brother , " Yours ever sincerely and fraternally , "HENKY SCHEYEE . "F . Bennoch , Esq ., London . "

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A SixGEXiii . TELEGRAPHIC BLUKDEK . —One of tlie officebearers of tlio Grand Lodge of Scotland ivlio had to attend the ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of the memorial to tlie Duke of Athole , at Logiei-ait , on Thursday , left Edinburgh on Wednesday without his cocked hat . On discovering the omission he telegraphed from a station on the Inverness and Pfii'fch line to his wife in Edinburgh" Send my cocked hat

, with to-morrow . " Our readers may judge of his consternation -when , on the following day , his friend put into his hand not the missing article of attire , but a parcel of " cooked ham , " into which words it appeared the telegraph clerks had transformed the message .