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Masonic Notes And Queries.
DEACONS . The authority for the title of Deacon is not yet ascertained . It may have been got from Scotland , but I doubt it . I think it was obtained from s me country guild , perhaps from York . —HYDE CDAEKE .
MASONS' HALL . I shall feel obliged if Bro . Edmund Woodthorpe , who restored Masons' Hall , or some other brother , can inform me as to tbe orientation of this hall , which was , I believe , built by Wren . —T . W .
AMALGAMATION . Brother , the amalgation of which you write is something very different from the amalgamation of which I spoke on the occasion that you mention . You write of an amalgamation of the various Masonic rites in a neighbouring country , the abortive measure
of five years ago , whilst I spoke of the amalgamation of the religion of Freemasonry ( the reli gion of Socrates ) and of Christianity , in times long gone by , when Christianity was young and pure . — C . P . COOPEE .
EISE OE MODERN ENGLISH EKEEMASONET . Are you quite sure , Brother ¦ , that the rise at the end of the seventeenth century of modern English Freemasonry altogether out of ancient English Freemasonry has been explained to the satisfaction of every competent and impartial critic ? The subject is one of ivhich , as you are well aware , I am profoundly ignorant . —C . P . COOPER .
ASHMOLE A MEMBER 03 ? THE WABEINGTON LODGE , 164 G . A correspondant has made a singular blunder . Ashmole became a member of the Warrington Lodge October , 1646 . He was born May , 1617 , and died May , 1692 . —C . P . COOPEE .
THE ILLUMINATI OE GEEMANX . A coi-respondent , before he wrote the letter which I received not long ago , ought to have taken the trouble of consulting his "Conversations—Lexicon . " Had he clone so , be would never have made the silly suggestion that the modern Freemasons of Germany are , to use his own expression , " a smarm thrown off
hy the hive'' of the Illuminati of Germany . There were true Freemasons in Germany several years before that in which ( 1776 ) the Illuminati made their first appearance iu that country . See my communicafcions to the Freemasons' Magazine— " The Illuminati , " vol x ., page 205 ; "Illuminati of Germany , Adam Weishaupt , Freemasonry , '' ibid , page 305 ; and " Brother Professor Weishaupt , " vol . xii ., page 97 . —C . P . COOPEE .
EOSICEUC'IANISM AND MODEEN EXGHSII EEEEMASONEY . In answer to the letter of a brother , I say that , granting Christian Rosenkreutz , who lived in the fourteenth century , not to have been the founder of Rosicrucianism , yet it is clear , from Rosicrucian bibliography , that Rosicrucian existed many years
before modern English Freemasonry . —C . P . COOPEE . SOCEATES . EREEMASO-SEY . My answer to the question of a correspondent is
that , before Socrates taught , true Freemasonry in Europe was not possible . —C . P . COOPEE . ALEEGOEICAE WEITING . Dear Brother , thanks for your letter , which , if not instructive , is , what I know you meant it to be ,
singularly amusing . You will possibly on some future clay permit me to send an extract to the Freemasons' Magazine . Your enthusiasm and yourimagination find traces of Freemasonry not onlv in ail the ancient mysteries and in all the mediaeval secret societies , but in all the allegorical writings which come in your way . —C . P . COOPEE .
TWO MOJITOES . My young friend and brother , you have two monitors—Christianity and Freemasonry . Listen to the latter now thafc , as with much sorrow I have lately learnt , you have altogether ceased to listen to the former . —C . P . COOPEE .
MONOTHEISM—NEWTOJT . The passage in the "Philosophic Naturah ' s Principia Mafchematica " of Sir Isaac Newton mentioned hy me to a brother at is the following . - — " Si stellar fixffi sint centra similium systematum , hesc omnia si mil i consilio , construcfca suberunfc Unius Domino . "—C . P . COOPEE .
SATEEAD EELIGION . Brother is by no means my only correspondent representing that he reads the Freemasons' Magazine regularly , and yet , by the very inquiry he makes , showing that , unless his memory be the most treacherous imaginable , ifc is impossible he can do so .
My brother will find the information he desires in my communication ( as recent as August ISfcb , 1 S 66 )> entitled " Natural Religion — Freemasonry , " Freemasons' Magazine , vol . xv ., page 130 . —C . P . COOPEE .
CHARITY BOX . In many lodges the ancient and laudable practise of passing round the charity box at each meeting is . maintained . In some lodges this course is considered undignified , and there is consequentl y no Charit y Fund at all . There are lodges of the better kind , howeverwhich shamefaced
, are so that they will nott allow visitors to contribute , particularly if the box he passed round at banquet . Surely every brother has aright to contribute to a purpose of charit y connected with the fundamental princi ples of the Order , and Avhat right has any lodge to debar him of his privileges ?—J . D .
A EADY FREEMASON . About once a year inquiry is made in the pao-es of the FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE respecting the imitation of a lady , probabl y by brethren who have but just been admitted to the mysteries . Such a question wasrepeated on June 1 st . ' Should Bro . Dickinson ever A'isifc Jersey , be will have an opportunity of seeing an , engraved portrait ofthe lady in her Masonic costume at the Masonic Temple . —iL II . '
MASONIC POETEAITS . In an old catalogue of engraved portraits by Evans I find the following : —Sir Christopher Wren 8 vo . ' Gd . ; 4 to ., 2 s . ( Kneller and Holloway ) ; fob 3 s . ; 4 to . '
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Masonic Notes And Queries.
DEACONS . The authority for the title of Deacon is not yet ascertained . It may have been got from Scotland , but I doubt it . I think it was obtained from s me country guild , perhaps from York . —HYDE CDAEKE .
MASONS' HALL . I shall feel obliged if Bro . Edmund Woodthorpe , who restored Masons' Hall , or some other brother , can inform me as to tbe orientation of this hall , which was , I believe , built by Wren . —T . W .
AMALGAMATION . Brother , the amalgation of which you write is something very different from the amalgamation of which I spoke on the occasion that you mention . You write of an amalgamation of the various Masonic rites in a neighbouring country , the abortive measure
of five years ago , whilst I spoke of the amalgamation of the religion of Freemasonry ( the reli gion of Socrates ) and of Christianity , in times long gone by , when Christianity was young and pure . — C . P . COOPEE .
EISE OE MODERN ENGLISH EKEEMASONET . Are you quite sure , Brother ¦ , that the rise at the end of the seventeenth century of modern English Freemasonry altogether out of ancient English Freemasonry has been explained to the satisfaction of every competent and impartial critic ? The subject is one of ivhich , as you are well aware , I am profoundly ignorant . —C . P . COOPER .
ASHMOLE A MEMBER 03 ? THE WABEINGTON LODGE , 164 G . A correspondant has made a singular blunder . Ashmole became a member of the Warrington Lodge October , 1646 . He was born May , 1617 , and died May , 1692 . —C . P . COOPEE .
THE ILLUMINATI OE GEEMANX . A coi-respondent , before he wrote the letter which I received not long ago , ought to have taken the trouble of consulting his "Conversations—Lexicon . " Had he clone so , be would never have made the silly suggestion that the modern Freemasons of Germany are , to use his own expression , " a smarm thrown off
hy the hive'' of the Illuminati of Germany . There were true Freemasons in Germany several years before that in which ( 1776 ) the Illuminati made their first appearance iu that country . See my communicafcions to the Freemasons' Magazine— " The Illuminati , " vol x ., page 205 ; "Illuminati of Germany , Adam Weishaupt , Freemasonry , '' ibid , page 305 ; and " Brother Professor Weishaupt , " vol . xii ., page 97 . —C . P . COOPEE .
EOSICEUC'IANISM AND MODEEN EXGHSII EEEEMASONEY . In answer to the letter of a brother , I say that , granting Christian Rosenkreutz , who lived in the fourteenth century , not to have been the founder of Rosicrucianism , yet it is clear , from Rosicrucian bibliography , that Rosicrucian existed many years
before modern English Freemasonry . —C . P . COOPEE . SOCEATES . EREEMASO-SEY . My answer to the question of a correspondent is
that , before Socrates taught , true Freemasonry in Europe was not possible . —C . P . COOPEE . ALEEGOEICAE WEITING . Dear Brother , thanks for your letter , which , if not instructive , is , what I know you meant it to be ,
singularly amusing . You will possibly on some future clay permit me to send an extract to the Freemasons' Magazine . Your enthusiasm and yourimagination find traces of Freemasonry not onlv in ail the ancient mysteries and in all the mediaeval secret societies , but in all the allegorical writings which come in your way . —C . P . COOPEE .
TWO MOJITOES . My young friend and brother , you have two monitors—Christianity and Freemasonry . Listen to the latter now thafc , as with much sorrow I have lately learnt , you have altogether ceased to listen to the former . —C . P . COOPEE .
MONOTHEISM—NEWTOJT . The passage in the "Philosophic Naturah ' s Principia Mafchematica " of Sir Isaac Newton mentioned hy me to a brother at is the following . - — " Si stellar fixffi sint centra similium systematum , hesc omnia si mil i consilio , construcfca suberunfc Unius Domino . "—C . P . COOPEE .
SATEEAD EELIGION . Brother is by no means my only correspondent representing that he reads the Freemasons' Magazine regularly , and yet , by the very inquiry he makes , showing that , unless his memory be the most treacherous imaginable , ifc is impossible he can do so .
My brother will find the information he desires in my communication ( as recent as August ISfcb , 1 S 66 )> entitled " Natural Religion — Freemasonry , " Freemasons' Magazine , vol . xv ., page 130 . —C . P . COOPEE .
CHARITY BOX . In many lodges the ancient and laudable practise of passing round the charity box at each meeting is . maintained . In some lodges this course is considered undignified , and there is consequentl y no Charit y Fund at all . There are lodges of the better kind , howeverwhich shamefaced
, are so that they will nott allow visitors to contribute , particularly if the box he passed round at banquet . Surely every brother has aright to contribute to a purpose of charit y connected with the fundamental princi ples of the Order , and Avhat right has any lodge to debar him of his privileges ?—J . D .
A EADY FREEMASON . About once a year inquiry is made in the pao-es of the FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE respecting the imitation of a lady , probabl y by brethren who have but just been admitted to the mysteries . Such a question wasrepeated on June 1 st . ' Should Bro . Dickinson ever A'isifc Jersey , be will have an opportunity of seeing an , engraved portrait ofthe lady in her Masonic costume at the Masonic Temple . —iL II . '
MASONIC POETEAITS . In an old catalogue of engraved portraits by Evans I find the following : —Sir Christopher Wren 8 vo . ' Gd . ; 4 to ., 2 s . ( Kneller and Holloway ) ; fob 3 s . ; 4 to . '