Masonic Jottings, No. 82.

THE SOUL . The pious and instructed Mason may believe that the stars " will fade away ; " and that the sun " will grow dim with age ; " but he knows that the soul " will flourish in eternal youth . " *

GOOD MEN IN OLD TIMES . Brother , —Good men in old times found Masonry in their own minds , if they found it not in a lodge-THE GRANDIDIER THEORY . The subject of the Grandidier Theory was tho English Freemasonry , first introduced into France in 1725 , and into Germany in 1733 . It is our 1717 Revival Freemasonry .

THE TWO 1717 THEORISTS . TESTIMONY . "If the present system was fabricated in 1717 , there would be , say in 1760 , persons living , and connected with the Order , who could personally testify to the fact ; but can the two 1717 theorists show any such testimony in their favour amongst Masonic writers ?"

CHRISTIAN , JEWISH , AND MAHOMEDAN FREEMASONRIES . A Christian Sect establishes a Freemasonryopening the door of the lodge to the members of their own sect only . But when five years had elapsed they opened the door of the lodge to members of all other Christian sects . And when

twenty years had elapsed they opened the door of the lodge to all men , believers in the Great Architect of the Universe . Now there is nothing which prevents a Jewish sect or a Mahomedau sect from doing what the

Christian sect is decribed to have done . We shall thus have , during five years . Christian , Jewish , and Mahomedan Freemasonries limited to certain sects of Christians , Jews , and Mahomedan s ; and during fifteen years Christian , Jewish ,

and Mahomedan Freemasonries comprehending all sects of Christians , Jews , ancl Mahomedans ; and lastly , twenty years having elapsed , we shall have three Universal Freemasonries .

KRAUSE . Krause has observed that when we find in any nation or age social efforts resembling in aim and organization those of the Freemasons , we are by no means justified in seeing any closer connection

n them , than such as human nature , everywhere and in all ages , is known to have in commonwhich characterestics form the basis of all social intercourse . —Krause .

Masonic Notes And Queries.

MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .

THE GERMAN MASONIC UNION AND BRO . W . P . BUCHAN . The Union of German Freemasons has elected Bro . Buchan , as Corresponding Member , on its tenth anniversary at Darmstadt , and also forwarded its Diploma to him as a token of the acknowledgment of his services to the Craft . As masonic ftuthor he has

been engaged to promote historical truth and the true welfare of the Craft . In electing him like the Brethren , Hughan , Woodford , Lyon , Peck , & c , the Union of German Freemasons , wishes to make a new link between English and German Freemasonry , and to promote the unity of our Masonic family . RIGHT OF ADMISSION INTO THE ENGLISH LODGE .

Every brother regularly initiated into a true Freemasonry , has tbe right of admission into the English Lodge in every part of the Globe . —CHARLES PUBTOS" COOPEE . UNION OF GERMAN MASONS . The following are my answers to the questions

contained in a letter , entitled as above . First . —Ten years have elapsed since the Society was founded . Secondly . —The first meeting took place at Potsdam , 19 th May , 1861 . Thirdly . —In the "Freemasons ' Magazine , " vol XI , page 382 , is an account of the proceedings at that meeting . Fourthly . —The Eev . A . F . A . Woodford , of Swillington ( Ebor , " A Masonic Student ) is a Corresponding Member of the Society . —CHAHI . ES PUHTON COOPEE .

IN WHAT SENSE FREEMASONRY IS A RELIGION . * " God has created man , he preserves him , he makes himself known to him , he judges him . From these relations spring duties , on the part of man , which may be reduced to four principal ones—to believe , to love , to obey to worship .

God has an existence ; all nature proves it ; the reason , the moral sentiment ; the order of the universe . Man is constrained therefore to believe in God .

Man exists , and preserves his existence only by the Will of God . It is to God that he owes intelligence and liberty , which makes him the king of nature . Man therefore is constrained to love God . God , the creator of man , displays himself to him as a power , not only beneficent , but superior . Man

therefore is constrained to obey God . Everything that man possesses is the gift of God . On him he depends , to him he looks up . He owes him then the homage of his being . As a finite and frail being he is constrained to humble himself before the being who is infinite and perfect . He is thus constrained to worship God . "—From a bundle of Masonic Excerpts . —CIIAEXES PUETON COOPEE .

A PLEASANT DISPUTATION . Therp is a pleasant disputation in Masonic Literature , touching what a Contributor thinks fit to call his theory . The parties are a Fellow-Craft , and an Entered Apprentice . The former contends that according to a Contributor's theory , Speculative Masonry did not exist ,