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Article SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF THE MARK MASTERS' DEGREE, &c. ← Page 4 of 4 Article MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES. Page 1 of 1
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Sketch Of The History Of The Mark Masters' Degree, &C.
were opened , the degree was worked with a considerable amount of spirit , most of the active Masons , both in the St . John's and the John of Gaunt Lodges taking the degree , as did also our R . W . Prov . G . M ., Earl Howe ancl the late Earl
Ferrers , and with the interesting and beautiful nature of which several brethren expressed themselves highly gratified , especially the Rev . Bro . Picton , who preferred it to either of the other degrees of Craft Masonry , illustrating as it does
the mode of regulating the proceedings of the workmen at the building of King Solomon ' s Temple . After a time , however , a feeling of lukewarmness set in , owing in part I fear to the fact that whilst several brethren in both lodo-es
had got up efficiently the ceremonies of the inferior offices in the lodge , none but myself had worked the ceremonies appertaining to the chair , which are lengthy ancl difficult .
Bro . Underwood and I held office for two years , and our successors were elected and installed , but since that time no meetings have been summoned , no subscriptions collected , and the degree has been in abeyance , although each lodge had about twenty-five or thirty subscribing members .
You are now , brethren , as far as I have the time and opportunity made acquainted with the history and position of the Mark degree , and with the circumstances under which it was introduced again and fell into abeyance in this town ,
and it is now for you to decide ivhether it shall be once more revived , or continue in abeyance amongst us .
For myself I should desire to remain entirel y neutral , and I should not have moved at all in the matter but for the urgent desire manifested by several brethren to obtain the deo-ree here if possible , but if not elsewhere . After the many
years I have been actively connected with Masonry in the province , I should prefer leaving the work in younger hands , but if the brethren desire to resuscitate and work permanently what to my mind is really a beautiful and interesting , deo-ree
, without which , as a link , the chain of Masonry is incomplete , I have still so much zeal in the cause as to promise you every assistance in my power in promoting that end .
PO 3 . TT . GAL has a weekly Masonic journal published at Lisbon .
Masonic Notes And Queries.
MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .
MYSTERIES OT ANCIENT NATIONS . See the communication "Eleusinian Mysteries , " Freemasons' Magazine , No . 406 , April 13 th , 1867 . None of the communications relating to the mysteries of ancient nations there mentioned have yet appeared in the columns of that periodical . The ten ensuing
communications made no part of them . 1 . The Druses , Freemasons' Magazine , vol . 16 , page 328 . 2 . Ancient Mysteries . —Ibid , page 366 . 3 . Ancient Mysteries , Soul ' s Immortality . —Ibid , page 405 . 4 . Allegorical "Writings . —Ibid , page 446 . 5 . Pythagoricians . —Ibid , page 486 . 6 . An Antient Initiation .
—Ibid , page 504 . 7 . Ancient Mysteries . —Ibid , vol . 17 , page 106 . 8 . Secret Societies , Freemasonry . — Ibid . 9 . The Dionvsian Architects . —Ibid , page 189 .. 10 . The Essenians , Pythagorians . —Ibid , page 210 . Answers to the questions of an Oxford Bachelor of Laws on the subject of the mysteries of ancient nations would necessitate labour of which age and feeble health render me quite incapable . —C . P . COOPER .
QTJAETEELY COMMUNICATIONS . How is it that the Lodge of Stability , No . 217 , meetsat the George Hotel , Aldermanbury , the same Wednesday evening as the Grand Lodge of England for Quarterly Communication ? Can this interferewiththe attendance of W . M ., Wardens , and P . M . ' s at
Grand Lodge ?—P . M . BEITISH AND AMERICAN LODGES . Be assured , Bro . " P . B ., " that intelligible discourses , founded on our legends , are altogether bettersuited to British and American lodges than metaphysical disquisitions upon the true , the beautiful , thegood . —C . P . COOPEE .
TAKING WINE . Ought the W . M . of a lodge to take wine with a . visitor , a P . M . for instance , sitting near him , to whom he has not been introduced , and whom he does not know to move in the same sphere of society , say on the Corn Exchange or the Tallow Market ? Might
not the guest possibly prove to he a rogue and a . vagabond , or be detected in not keeping his waggonette , though he might not be known to the W . M .. from moving in a very different class of society ? What does fraternity dictate ?—P . M . CRITICISM .
Beware , Bro . " E . G . C . " lest in eagerness todetect faults your criticism be raised upon a phrase which is nought but an error of the press . —C . P . COOPEE .
KIOSS ' S HISTORIES . My correspondent , " J . H ., " will find the titles of Kloss's two histories of Preemasonry , ancl a statement of the conviction to which the ' learned author has been brought , Freemasons' Magazine , vol . vii ., p . 402 . —C . P . COOPEE .
A TEEE . Dear Monsieur " C . R ., " the tree respecting which you inquire was planted at . . . . some years ago , but producing thorns instead of the promised fruit , it has lately been cut down and used as firewood . —C . P . COOPEE .
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Sketch Of The History Of The Mark Masters' Degree, &C.
were opened , the degree was worked with a considerable amount of spirit , most of the active Masons , both in the St . John's and the John of Gaunt Lodges taking the degree , as did also our R . W . Prov . G . M ., Earl Howe ancl the late Earl
Ferrers , and with the interesting and beautiful nature of which several brethren expressed themselves highly gratified , especially the Rev . Bro . Picton , who preferred it to either of the other degrees of Craft Masonry , illustrating as it does
the mode of regulating the proceedings of the workmen at the building of King Solomon ' s Temple . After a time , however , a feeling of lukewarmness set in , owing in part I fear to the fact that whilst several brethren in both lodo-es
had got up efficiently the ceremonies of the inferior offices in the lodge , none but myself had worked the ceremonies appertaining to the chair , which are lengthy ancl difficult .
Bro . Underwood and I held office for two years , and our successors were elected and installed , but since that time no meetings have been summoned , no subscriptions collected , and the degree has been in abeyance , although each lodge had about twenty-five or thirty subscribing members .
You are now , brethren , as far as I have the time and opportunity made acquainted with the history and position of the Mark degree , and with the circumstances under which it was introduced again and fell into abeyance in this town ,
and it is now for you to decide ivhether it shall be once more revived , or continue in abeyance amongst us .
For myself I should desire to remain entirel y neutral , and I should not have moved at all in the matter but for the urgent desire manifested by several brethren to obtain the deo-ree here if possible , but if not elsewhere . After the many
years I have been actively connected with Masonry in the province , I should prefer leaving the work in younger hands , but if the brethren desire to resuscitate and work permanently what to my mind is really a beautiful and interesting , deo-ree
, without which , as a link , the chain of Masonry is incomplete , I have still so much zeal in the cause as to promise you every assistance in my power in promoting that end .
PO 3 . TT . GAL has a weekly Masonic journal published at Lisbon .
Masonic Notes And Queries.
MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .
MYSTERIES OT ANCIENT NATIONS . See the communication "Eleusinian Mysteries , " Freemasons' Magazine , No . 406 , April 13 th , 1867 . None of the communications relating to the mysteries of ancient nations there mentioned have yet appeared in the columns of that periodical . The ten ensuing
communications made no part of them . 1 . The Druses , Freemasons' Magazine , vol . 16 , page 328 . 2 . Ancient Mysteries . —Ibid , page 366 . 3 . Ancient Mysteries , Soul ' s Immortality . —Ibid , page 405 . 4 . Allegorical "Writings . —Ibid , page 446 . 5 . Pythagoricians . —Ibid , page 486 . 6 . An Antient Initiation .
—Ibid , page 504 . 7 . Ancient Mysteries . —Ibid , vol . 17 , page 106 . 8 . Secret Societies , Freemasonry . — Ibid . 9 . The Dionvsian Architects . —Ibid , page 189 .. 10 . The Essenians , Pythagorians . —Ibid , page 210 . Answers to the questions of an Oxford Bachelor of Laws on the subject of the mysteries of ancient nations would necessitate labour of which age and feeble health render me quite incapable . —C . P . COOPER .
QTJAETEELY COMMUNICATIONS . How is it that the Lodge of Stability , No . 217 , meetsat the George Hotel , Aldermanbury , the same Wednesday evening as the Grand Lodge of England for Quarterly Communication ? Can this interferewiththe attendance of W . M ., Wardens , and P . M . ' s at
Grand Lodge ?—P . M . BEITISH AND AMERICAN LODGES . Be assured , Bro . " P . B ., " that intelligible discourses , founded on our legends , are altogether bettersuited to British and American lodges than metaphysical disquisitions upon the true , the beautiful , thegood . —C . P . COOPEE .
TAKING WINE . Ought the W . M . of a lodge to take wine with a . visitor , a P . M . for instance , sitting near him , to whom he has not been introduced , and whom he does not know to move in the same sphere of society , say on the Corn Exchange or the Tallow Market ? Might
not the guest possibly prove to he a rogue and a . vagabond , or be detected in not keeping his waggonette , though he might not be known to the W . M .. from moving in a very different class of society ? What does fraternity dictate ?—P . M . CRITICISM .
Beware , Bro . " E . G . C . " lest in eagerness todetect faults your criticism be raised upon a phrase which is nought but an error of the press . —C . P . COOPEE .
KIOSS ' S HISTORIES . My correspondent , " J . H ., " will find the titles of Kloss's two histories of Preemasonry , ancl a statement of the conviction to which the ' learned author has been brought , Freemasons' Magazine , vol . vii ., p . 402 . —C . P . COOPEE .
A TEEE . Dear Monsieur " C . R ., " the tree respecting which you inquire was planted at . . . . some years ago , but producing thorns instead of the promised fruit , it has lately been cut down and used as firewood . —C . P . COOPEE .