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Masonic Jottings.—No. 34.

MASONIC JOTTINGS . —No . 34 .

BY A PAST PROVINCIAL GRAND MASTER . RELIGION OF ENGLISH FREEMASONRY AS A PARTICULAR FREEMASONRY . The Records and Proceedings of Grand Lodge sufficiently show the Reli gion of English Freemasonry as a Particular Freemasonry .

EVIDENCE . A learned Brother writes that a Philosophical reader of history will assume that the Builders of the first Temple at Jerusalem , the Jews and the Syrians , had their lodges and their Masonries .

Evidence of matters appertaining to the construction of all great edifices is by no means necessary .

EMBLEM . Bro . * * * , —In works on Freemasonry ^ " Emblem" is sometimes used in a sense synonimons with " Symbol . " The wider word is Symbol . In the recently-published " Dictionnaire

Encyclopedie" it is said " Aujourd'hui ce terme ( Embleme ) designe une sorte de figure symbolique qui , par la representation d un objet connu , conduit a la connaissance d ' un autre objet , ou a celle d ' une idee morale . Oette figure est le plus souvent seule , et presente alors une tres grande analogie avec le syrnbole . "

DISAPPEARANCES . —REAPPEARANCES . A Brother says there have been sundry disappearances and reappearances of our Speculative Masonry , and he thinks that minute historical research will one day show the epochs of those disappearances and reappearances .

THE GOD OF THE SPECULATIVE MASON . The Speculative Mason is sometimes a Natural Theist ; sometimes a Christian , Parsee , Hebrew , Mahommedan Theist . But his God is ever one and the same God , the God of Socrates , the God of Sir Isaac Newton , the Glorious Architect of Heaven and Earth .

SYJIBOLOGY—A QUESTION . A learned Brother inquires whether the Masonry which , previously to the year 1717 , cultivated S ymbology in its lodges , was Operative Masonry or Speculative Masonry ?

A USEFUL EXERCISE . Brother G . G . M ., you are altogether wrong ,, A judicious student of Speculative Masonry considers that to trace the magnificent groin of the Gothic Cathedral to the simple Roman tunnel vault is a useful exercise , both mentally and morally .

ESTHETICS . The science of Esthetics belonged to our Speculative Masonry before it belonged to Philosophy generally .