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Published under the Authority of the Sovereign Sanctuary for Great Britain and Ireland. 
Edited by BRO. KENNETH R. H. MACKENZIE, IX 0 . LL:D., 32 0 . 


VOL. I, No. 2.] FEBRUARY 1st, 1881. [Monthly. 


EDITORIAL.— THE KNEPH. 

When, last month, we launched this Journal, 
we were well aware of a difficulty likely to beset 
us. And that difficulty consisted in the strange, 
unheard of title that the promotors had bestowed 
upon it. -We think it right, therefore, as soon as 
possible, to show that this title is quite reason- 
able, by no means inappropriate, and that actually 
no better title could have been bestowed. That 
it is reasonable, can be proved by the fact that 
The Knepii is the most valued and ancient 
symbol, not only in Antient and Primitive 
Masonry, but in the archaeological systems of 
Egyptians', Hindus, and Japanese. That it is 
by no means inappropriate, will be admitted 
when it is considered in its grave historical im- 
portance. It is blazoned on every Egyptian temple, 
it is continually alluded to in the Jewish Scrip- 
tures with awe and reverence, it is apostrophised 
by prophet after prophet, and embalmed with 
religious care in the cerecloths of every mummy 
of the Egyptian adepts. Probably, among the 
many emblems of archaeological faith there is 
none so touchingly sacred. 

It has pleased the S. A.O.T.U. to constitute the 
innumerable galaxy of worlds in such a way that 
the sphere and ovoid form the two truest mathe- 
matical and physical facts in* Nature. Whether 
we search microscopically or telescopically, we 
find these two forms eternally repeating them- 
selves, and, combined with the archetypal idea of 
motion, symbolized by our Egyptian brethren in 
the Winged Sphere, we find a complete reve- 


lation of matter in motion guided by the Eternal 
Hand. 

Within the spheroid or ovoid of the Kneph 
exist the possibilities of infinite good, and it is, 
therefore, the fitting emblem of an Order, whose 
watchwords are Peace, Tolerance, and Truth, and 
it would be a very bold person indeed who would 
deny the appositeness of the emblem. Whether 
we look at one form of faith or another, we con- 
tinually find the Egg held in high esteem, and if 
we look into the Kingdoms of material nature, 
the same shape is given to the germs of the 
countless creations of the Almighty from the 
very beginning. This is equally true of the 
mineral as of the animal and vegetable kingdoms. 
Nor is it in any way modified by the doctrines 
of crystallography, for although a multiplicity of 
mathematical forms of a highly interesting nature 
are assumed by different bodies in a variety of 
chemical conditions, they are plainly the result 
of secondary combinations, the original atomic 
forms of each and every of them being subject 
to the attrition of motion, and so spheroidally or 
ovoidally reformed. 

It is in such wise that we justify the title of 
our Journal ; we are supported, theologically, by 
the Sacred Scriptures, archaeological ly, by the 
true history and traditions of the most anciently 
recorded civilized communities of Egypt and 
Hindustan, and scientifically, by the researches 
of Galileo, Leuwenhoeckh, and Dalton, as well as 
by the speculations of Behmen, Swedenborg 
Mesmer, and many others. We shall return 
to this. 



IO 


THE KNEPH. 


PRIMITIVE AND ORIGINAL RITE OF 
FREEMASONRY, OR SWEDEN BORGI AN 
RITE. 

REPORT. 


With best wishes for the continued prosperity of the 
Rite, I remain, 

Fraternally yours, 

JOHN YARKER, VI 0 ., 

Withington, Manchester. S.G.M. 


Enlightened, Sublime and Perfect Brethren, 

The same cause which necessitated my reporting 
upon the financial condition of another body with which 
I am connected, namely, the ill health of the Treasurer 
General, has called upon me to interfere in duties out of 
my province, in this Rite also. 

The progress of the Primitive and Original Rite was 
rapid up to the end of 1879, ^ ut f° r l ast twelve 
months nas somewhat fallen off. There is no assignable 
reason for this, as the Supreme Grand Secretary has 
applied himself with great diligence and self-devotion to 
the duties of his office. 

The Rite, during four years, has constituted eleven 
working Lodges and Temples and one of Instruction ; of 
these two were in Liverpool and have since united. 

The entire receipts of the Society amount to £73 12 9 
in fees and dues; this income has been dealt with both 
by the Supreme Grand Treasurer (Bro. S. P. Leather, IV°) 
and the Supreme Grand Secretary (Bro. K. R. H. Mac- 
kenzie, I V°); and owing to this circumstance two accounts 
are necessary. 

There are no funds in hand (with the exception of a 
trifle, £2 17 8, which has been handed to the Supreme 
Grand Secretary for postages and petty expenses) nor has 
the Rite any debts whatever Its present working capital 
is as follows : — 

Supreme Warrant, £10 ; 22 Blank Charters, £2 10; Consti- 
tutions (i.ooo), &c., £4; Great Seal, £4; 34 Blank Certificates, 
£1 10, making a total of £22. 

The warrant of the Supreme Body, and the Blank 
Charters are in my hands, and the Constitutions, Seal, 
and Certificates lie with the Supreme Grand Secretary. 

After allowing for this Stock, the balance of the income 
of the Society, I find, upon examination, has been dis- 
posed of as follows : — 

Charitable Contributions, £4 ; Printing Certificates, £4. 18 6 ; 
Printing Charters, £3 15 ; Printing Balustres, books and other 
forms, -£846; Sup. Grand Secretary’s Fees, £15; General 
Expenses, Postages, Stationery and Petty Cash, ^15 14 o, 
making a total working expenditure of £51 12 9, since the 1st 
January, 1877, or for the four years during which the Rite has 
existed in this country. 

The arrangement made at the opening of the Rite with 
the Treasurer and Secretary, in order to simplify the 
labour and responsibility, was, that the former was to 
receive the Charter fees of £3, and apply the same to 
charitable purposes, and the latter to receive the Certificate 
fees of 7s. 6d. each member, as a fund for printing, postage, 
and office charges, and to be not exceeded. This tempor- 
ary arrangement does not seem to work well in practice ; 
and I would suggest that the Rite should, without delay, 
elect a new Treasurer, in whom it has full confidence, to 
receive all income and pay out all claims against it, and 
act with the Secretary, so as to obviate the necessity of 
my being called upon to interfere in financial affairs. I 
shall be glad to receive the nomination of a brother for 
this office who will give the necessary attention to its 
duties. He will begin with a straight edge, having 
neither cash balance in hand, nor debts to pay. 

I am glad to say that the Rite is in a sound state, with 
all its working essentials, and has in it the requisite 
qualities of a powerful and valuable Masonic organization, 
and I hope that it will soon have reached that position 
when I can resign my duties into more able hands, as the 
position is a heavy tax upon my time, and my health is 
not so good as it formerly was. 


Financial Statement of the Supreme Grand Treasurer : 
Receipts : — 

1876. £ s * ^ 

Dec. 31st. Members, Nos. 1 and 2 Lodge*.. •• 910 

1877. * 

May 10th. Edina, No 5. (per Bro. Yarker.) • • 420 

June 14th. Liverpool, No. 6. „ . . 4 ro o 

June 14th. Cagliostro, No. 7. (per Bro. Mackenzie.) 600 

Dec. 7th. Royal Oscar, No. 9. „ 5 5° 

1879. 

April 17th. Britannia, No. 10 (per Bro. Yarker) .. 3 5° 

No. 2, G. P. B. „ 7 6 

Total Receipts. £32 11 o 


Payments: — 

1877. £ s * 

Jan. gth. Supreme Warrant 10 o o 

Mar. 20th. 50 Certificates and Litho., Mr, Watson 200 
„ Framing Warrant, carriage, postages, &c. o g 8 
May 15th. Seal and 50 impressions, Mr. Hatchett 380 
Oct. 15th. 50 Certificate* and New Litho., Mr. 

Watson . . . . . . . . 2 16 o 

Dec. 4th. Printing Constitution, &c., Mr. Gosden 7 7 6 
Treasurer’s postages See 024 

1879. 

April 17th. Tweddell testimonial (per Bro. Ellis) . . 100 

1880. 

Mar. 10th. 21 Warrants, postages, carriage, &c. .. 2 9 10 

Dec. 17th. Paid Supreme Grand Secretary, for 

Petty Cash, the balance.. .. 2 17 8 


Total payments. ^32 n o 


Financial Statement of the Supreme Grand Secretary : — 


Receipts : — 

1877. £ s. d. 

June 6th. Swedenborg, No. 4 .. .. ..426 

June 19th. St. John, No. 3. .. .. .. . . 5 13 6 

Aug. 13th. Hermes, No. 8. .. .. .. .. 3 15 o 

Dec. 22nd. Sundry dues to date .. .. .. 6 15 6 

1878. 

Nov. 20th. Sundry dues to date .. .. .. 11 10 6 

Dec. 8th. St. Hilda, No. 12.. .. .. ..450 

1880. 

Jan. 15th. Sundry dues to date .. .. .. 306 

„ Constitutions, books, &c.. . .. .. 090 

July 29th. Dues of No. 10. . . * 1 10 3 


Total Receipts £41 1 9 


Payments : — 

1877. £ s. d. 

June 22nd. Mr. Gosden, Printing account .. .. 146 

June 23rd. „ Hatchett, Seal impressions.. .. o 14 6 

June 19th. ,, Holmes, Warrants and Stone , . 3 15 o 

Dec. 28th. „ Aydon, Altering seal press .. .. 076 

1878. 

June 28th. „ Lyon, Replica ditto .. o 10 6 

July 28th. „ Gosden, Printing account .. .. o 19 o 

Oct. nth. „ Watson, 50 Certificates .. .. 1 12 6 

1880. 

Mar. 24th. „ Gosden, Printing account . . * . . 1 13 o 

,, Charities .. .. .. .. ..300 


July 2gth. Secretary’* fees, 120 Certificates, 2/6 . . 15 e o 
Dec. 17th. Postages and stationery to date, (4 years) 1253 


Total Payments. £41 1 9 


the kneph. 


CLEOPATRA’S NEEDLE. 

We will, in future numbers, re-produce an 
account of the late discoveries of Masonic sym- 
bolism at the base of Cleopatra’s Needle. These 
discoveries are, we apprehend of great im- 
portance as going a long way to prove the 
traditional history of our Rite, and its claim to 
be the true and genuine Rite from which all the 
others are derived. 

The Antient and Primitive Rite of Masonry 
gives several instances in which the Freemasonry 
of the last century was effected by initiation into 
these Oriental Societies, which practise in secret, 
under Masonic forms, various systems of religion 
or Theosophical mysteries. In more ancient times, 
Paracelsus by Oriental initiation, modified the 
Rosicrucianism of the west ; also the high grade 
Masonic Rites of the Continent were modified 
by Paschalis, Swedenborg, Mesmer, Cagliostro, 
St. Germain, Honis, and Marconis de Negre ; 
some of these had, it is stated, received initiation 
into the Oriental mysteries, and others were in- 
structed by those who had. Those who are 
acquainted, even superficially, with Oriental 
Initiation and our Rite, will see at once that this 
statement is true, and that the compilers of the 
Antient and Primitive Rite, had an acquaintance 
with the secret and mystical Rites of the middle 
ages, which are derived from the more ancient 
mysteries of Brahma, Osiris and Bacchus ; and 
by this means they obtained the facility of inter- 
preting the Egyptian monuments so judiciously 
that our ceremonies have not been in the least 
affected by modern archaeological discovery, a fact 
which proves the reliability of our system. 


The following extract from the Chaine d } 
Union , by Bro. Hubert, is caviare to the ordinary 
Craft Mason, but will be well understood by the 
expert members of our Rite. 

“Twenty years ago, our Bro. Malapart informed us 
that certain of the inscriptions of the Sarcophagi preserved 
in the Museum of the Louvre, as well as the Jewels placed 
in the glass cases of the Museum, and a certain number 
of rituals, related to the ceremony of initiation of profanes, 
and the instruction given to those who were received. 
He cited specially the collars of different colours, to which 
the working tools of the Companions still hang as well as 
other symbols. We behold the profanes approach the 
doorkeepers of the Temple; the Masters of Ceremonies 
are represented as seizing them and placing them in a 
state of nature, before they undergo the physical and 
moral probations ; and these purifications all proceed 
clearly and in regular order. At length the profane ap- 
proaches the Mastagogue,who is seated on his throne and 
directs his attention to the scales of justice, which 
represent the good and bad acts of his life. If the virtues 
are most weighty, reception takes place ; otherwise the 
audacious aspirant is driven away from the assembly. ,, 

Our initiates know that these pictures conceal 
a double sense, that of the initiatory death to vice 


ii 


and rebirth to virtue, as compared with the future 
of the ‘‘second death we cannot explain these 
mysteries more distinctly here. Bro. Godfrey 
Higgins discovered the truth of this, without 
haying approached our Mystic Temple, and 
writes thus — 

“ I believe the higher class of Masons were originally 
persons who were admitted into the mysteries of Eleusis 
and Egypt, and that they were Chaldaens and Mathe- 
matici. I am of opinion that a certain class of persons 
initiated into the higher mysteries of the ancients, were 
what are called Carmelites, Therapeutae, and Essenes, 
or that they constituted a part of, or were formed out of 
these sects, and were what we now call Chaldei or 
Mathematici.” 

We are indebted to the Freemason , for again 
pointing out this; we opine the valuable extracts 
fell flat on all but the members of our Rite. 

JOHN YARKER. 


REFORMED EGYPTIAN RITE. 

This Rite is employing itself in the relief of 
the distress occasioned by the terrible storm at 
Reggio in Calabria. We regret that owing to the 
heavy expenses attending the establishment of our 
Rite, it cannot render more substantial assistance 
in this good work, but we will gladly forward any 
subscriptions which may be sent to us. A con- 
federation of all the Egyptian Rites under the 
patronage of their leading member, the Illus- 
trious Brother General Guiseppe Garibaldi, 33° 
Premier Mason of Italy, would create them into 
a compact family. We are not politicians, but 
we are cosmopolitans and humanitarians, and if 
the American Sovereign Sanctuary would unite 
with ours in grasping the hand of fellowship held 
out to us, we should encircle Great Britain, u 
America, Africa, Italy, Spain and France. We 
will allude to this again. 


OBITUARY NOTICE. 

We regret to learn from our contemporary, “The 
Athenaeum,” of the death at Monte Video, of 111. Bro. 
G. E. Tuson, 32 0 P.M.W., of “ Palatine ” Chapter, No. 2. 
Our late esteemed Bro. rendered good service to the 
A. & P. Rite at the time of its introduction into this 
Country. He was, in fact, the second member admitted 
into the Rite at Manchester, our M. 111. Bro. John Yarker 
being the first. Our late Bro., the son of Mr. Tuson, the 
Anatomist, attained considerable eminence as an artist. 
His picture “The Reception by the Sultan in Buckingham 
Palace, of the Corporation of Manchester,” now hangs 
in the New Town Hall of that City. He also excelled in 
portraiture, one of his finest effoits in that branch, being 
a portrait of the late Bro. Wm. Romaine Callender, M.P. 
He visited and painted views of the remains of the Seven 
Churches of Asia. It is stated that he died of apoplexy, 
induced by the heat of the climate. He designed gra- 
tuitously, the certificate plate of the Antient and Primitive 
Rite of Masonry. 


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THE KJNEPH. 


(ftomsponimiJCf. 

We do not hold ourseLves responsible for the opinions expressed by our 
correspondents, but we wish in a spirit of fair play to all, to permit 
free discussion. Communications for the Editor should be addressed 
Clyde House, Wellington Road, Hounslow. 


TO THE EDITOR OF THE KNEPH. 

Dear Sir and Bro., 

Many Members of the A. & P. Rite who are 
enthusiastic Students of Masonry, and are located, like 
myself, at a distance from working bodies of the Rite, 
would be glad of the opportunity of discussing symbolical 
and historical points with each other. 

This applies equally to the interesting Swedenborgian 
Rite, the symbolism of which will repay the most extended 
study. 

There are also Students, not members of the above 
Rites, who would rejoice to be placed in communication 
with kindre- 1 spirits 

To supply this want, I would suggest that a Masonic 
Correspondence Society (three Societies divided as above, 
if sufficient members are forthcoming) be established on 
the plan of the Law Students’ Corresponding Societies. 

I need not take up space to enter into the plan at length 
here. I may say that beyond each Member providing his 
own paper, and paying his own postages, no expense 
need be incurred. The advantages of such Societies are 
so apparent to all who have felt their want, that I need 
not detail them. 

If desired I will gladly undertake the organizing of 
such a Society, and 1 have no doubt the Editor will 
kindly forward me any letters addressed to me at his 
office, respecting the same. 

Yours fraternally, 

MASONIC HERMIT, 32 0 


Dear Sir and Brother, 

Do you know anything of Adoptive 
Masonry ? It is practised, I think, in France and America, 
and possibly in Spain. I should like to know if any 
Masonic Body in England confers degrees on Ladies, 
and if so, where they may be obtained. 

Fraternally, 

The Editor of Kneph. T.A.U. 

[We have a short note on this in another column- — 
Ed. K.] 



LONDON, FEBRUARY 1, 1881, 


There is nobody belonging to the Craft who 
would not be gratified at the enormous progress 
the three Charities have realized in the years of 
1879 anc * 1880. The return for the Girls’ School, 
the Masonic Benevolent Institution, and the 
Boys’ School, did not appear until after our 
January number was issued, or we should not 
have failed to note such a pleasing state of things. 


Even nowit is not too late for a monthly magazine 
to mention the totals respectively received, viz : — 

Royal Masonic Girls’ School ... ... 17,787 10 11 

Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution 16,301 4 10 

Royal Masonic Boys’ School ... 15,673 15 * 8 

Grand Total... £49, 7 62 11 5 


This sum has been realized in gross from the 
Voluntary Charity of the Fraternity, the items 
we need not specify. 

There is, however, another side to this magnifi- 
cent picture, and that is the question of how it is 
applied to the needs of the recipients. What is to 
be deducted for Collectors’ poundages, Secretary's 
travelling expenses, and the thousand and one 
pulls at the pagoda tree? Of this we hear 
nothing, nor is this the worst. We know very 
well that the benevolent donors of a great part 
of these amounts, receive back in the way of 
contracts for coals, provisions, clothes, furniture, 
books, and for buildings, repairs, maintenance, 
and so forth, very nearly the whole of the amount, 
with a good profit on their benevolence. Now 
this should not be, and no benefactor to any one 
of the Charities, should be allowed to participate 
in profits, or else, where, in the name of all that is 
wonderful, is the Charity of the transaction ? It 
is not long since a member, an honourable and 
gallant member, of a similar Masonic speculation, 
retired in disgust with his friends, because he 
was not allowed to share in the re-distribution 
of the assets. Like Achilles, he has remained 
supine in his tent ever since ; is it just possible 
that he actually did so in honest disgust ? 

* * * 

Evidently the influence exerted by the Sweden- 
borgian Rite is' beginning to frighten the oppo- 
nents of that beautiful and philosophical Rite. 
One brother, in the north of England, rather 
than abandon it, has actually resigned one o( his 
Craft Lodges, and thus shown effectually to the 
enemies of pure Masonry, that if necessary there 
are not a few willing to sacrifice the empty esteem 
of a convivial club for conscience sake. Such a 
brother in such a position is to be envied, and 
not condemned. We hope to hear of more 
martyrs of a similar kind. 

* * * 

We have to cordially thank the Craft for the 
way in which our unpretending periodical has 
been received. Although it was almost unknown 
to everyone that so small a contributi n to 
Masonic Journalisrrf was about to appear, il has 
somehow found a congenial public and a sphere 
of usefulness very encouraging to its founders. 
What we have to i<y rgtuna -for this cordial 
reception, is to continue to merit it, by increased 
exertion in every way. 


THE KNEPH. 


13 


FEATHERS OF THE SAT BHAI. 

THE SACRED LOTUS. 

In India, China, and other Eastern countries 
which I have visited, where the Brahminical or 
Buddhist religions prevail, there are, as is well 
known, two species of this plant of peculiar 
interest. The root of the smaller, and the seeds 
of the larger, or true lotus of mythology, are 
edible. The former, however, is insignificant as 
compared with the emerald bucklers, and snowy 
or roseate crested corolla of the latter, which 
moreover, is remarkable for having a curious 
funnel-shaped seed receptacle,- rising from the 
centre of the blossom, in the form of a reversed 
cone, usually about three inches high, and whose 
sides are exactly equal to the diameter of its disc, 
from which the seeds slightly protrude. It is on 
this beautiful flower that Vishnu, the creator of 
the material universe, is represented as enthroned, 
while calling into existence those successive cons, 
which, to a certain extent, correspond with the 
periods of the geologist ; but it is only the petals 
of a flower, on which the Hindu god is seated, 
that are visible, and, apparently, not without 
design. 

The veneration of the lotus, it is allowed, 
originated with the Aryan race, which, in what 
may be called, the youth of mankind, read the 
book of Nature with a spiritual insight, and 
scarcely required any special revelation to teach 
it, that, perhaps, the best sermons may be found 
in stones, and “ books in the running brooks — ” 
for inanimate Nature is full of hieroglyphics, 
quite as remarkable as those of the celebrated 
Letter-tree of Thibet. Yet, the “ primrose by 
the river’s brim ” may be, to one “ a yellow prim- 
rose and no more, ” while to another, it is a note, 
if not a page, in the golden book. 

One may in fancy picture, at the first flush of 
the Oriental dawn, the prehistoric Aryan, by the 
margin of some Asian lake, breaking his fast on 
the seeds of the wondrous lily, whose peltate, 
leaves are floating on the still and shadow)^ ex- 
panse before him, and contemplating the peculi- 
arity of their exhausted receptacle, until when, 
on his mind flashed the first light of mathematical 
science, he invested with a divine interest, the 
circle and equilateral triangle combined in its 
form, and then glorified the flower whose fruit, 
by two pure signs, admitted him into the arcana 
of the material universe. 

But in course of time, to veil the true signifi- 
cation of the object of their veneration, the early 
priests showed only the petals of the blossom to 
the vulgar, and reserved for their own order a 
knowledge of the inner and true throne of the 
god. — S. P. — J • H. L. A. 

N. & Q, 5th S., II, 461. 


WHICH OF THE GODS WAS SERAPIS? 

By Illustrious Brother Charles James, 33 0 
( Continued from our last.) 

But Osiris and Apis had yet another point of 
contact. Each succeeding King was said not to 
be the son of his predecessor, the husband of his 
mother, but a Son of the Gods, “ Son of the Sun,” 
by overshadowing of the Spirit, (Kneph-ka) and 
immaculate conception, as exemplified in the tablet 
recording the birth of Rameses III., whereon is 
depicted the annunciation, overshadowing, immacu- 
late conception, birth, and magi adoration, as well 
as other circumstances, afterwards imported into 
the New Testament, and attributed to the birth of 
Jesus, in the Christian scheme. Thus each King, 
like Apis, was born without father, by the over- 
shadowing of his mother, and being thus divinely 
born, was compared to the Bull, the tail of which 
animal all the kings are represented as wearing, to 
show both their divine origin, and kingly authority, 
and each one was moreover termed “The Royal 
Bull of his mbther,” and as Osiris is King, or Lord 
of Gods and men, he is termed, “ Bull of the West,” 
that is of the abode of the Gods, or heaven. 

It was for reasons such as these that at Memphis, 
Osiris came to be, some times, represented with a 
Bull’s head, to express his two-fold character ; and 
when thus represented, the figure was called Osiris- 
Apis, or Apis-Osiris indiscriminately. But to this 
compound deity, no particular worship was offered, 
nor did he rank as a separate God, honoured with 
regular rites and ceremonies, till after the complex 
tion of the city of Alexandria, by Ptolemy the First, 
and then the worship and attribute were so changed 
and distinct, that they possess no connection with 
the older rites of either Osiris or Apis, and it was 
at this new city and not at Memphis, that the 
worship of Serapis was celebrated. That this 
worship was unknown in earlier times is strikingly 
exemplified in the silence of Herodotus, who, al- 
though he gives an exhaustive account of all the 
other Egyptian deities, does not mention Serapis, 
nor is there any historical account of this God be- 
fore the time of Ptolemy, though, from the following 
historical circumstances, it is quite evident that 
up to the beginning- of th^t , reign, the worship of 
Apis was continued separately and distinct from 
that of any other deity. 

For when Cambyses, after his conquest of Lower 
Egypt, endeavouring to penetrate southward, met 
with defeat, and returned to Memphis, he found the 
people of that city rejoicing at having, after a long 
interval, obtained an Apis, which Cambyses, with 
his usual mad fanaticism, ordered to be brought 
into his presence, and in ridicule and derision 
struck with his dagger, and commanded the cere- 
mony to be stopped and the priest to be scourged. 
This Bull afterwards died from the wound, and 
though its body was embalmed, it was buried 
privately. Again when Darius led his army into 
Egypt to put down the rebellion of Aryandes, he 
found the people of Memphis were engaged in the 


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funeral solemnities of a dead Apis, and he, more 
wise and tolerant than his predecessor, did not in- 
terfere with the religious ceremonies of the 
country, and thereby run the risk of exasperating 
the people; but on the contrary, offered a large sum 
of money to assist them in finding a successor. 
Though Artaxerxes Ochus, when at Memphis, fol- 
lowing the example of Cambyses, caused the 
Sacred Bull to be slain, which act was instrumental 
in bringing about his own death, as he was after- ; 
wards assasinated by a fanatical Egyptian eunuch, 
named Bojoas. In these instances we find no 
mention of Serapis, but only of Apis, and of him 
as a distinct and separate deity. Also when Alex- 
ander, whose custom it was to do homage to the 
Gods of the countries he conquered, and who we 
find worshipping at the shrines of Amun-Ka, and 
Kneph-Ka at Thebes, and causing himself to be 
styled “ Son of the Sun,” in imitation of the an- 
cient kings of Egypt, and who, when at Memphis, 
sacrificed and did honour to the local God, Apis, 
which fact is minutely and particularly recorded, 
yet no mention is made of a Serapis, or of his pay- 
ing any honour to such a God’ though had so 
popular a deity then existed, the politic Alexander 
would not have failed to do him homage; and early 
in the reign of Ptolemy himself, an Apis died, and 
it is expressly stated, he died of old age, showing 
that even at that time, it had not become customary 
to sacrifice the animal, which, when he formed but 
a part of the Serapic mystery, was his fate. 
Ptolemy so far honoured the popular belief upon the 
occasion as to spend £8,500 in the celebration of 
the funeral, and a large sum in endeavouring to 
obtain a successor. 

(To be Continued.) 


Reports of JHasorax gobies. 


LONDON, ROSE OF SHARON, SENATE K.H.P. No. 6. 

The inclement weather prevailing in the Metropolis on 
Tuesday, 18th ulto., had the effect of preventing a full atten- 
dance at this Meeting, many of the Brethren being snowed 
up at various places cn route. It is proposed therefore to hold 
a Meeting on Tuesday, 15th February, when it is hoped that 
Members who were prevented attending the January Meeting, 
will endeavour to be present. The Meetings for instruction 
which were discontinued during the Christmas and New Year 
festivities, were resumed on the 25th ulto. 

GLASGOW. 

A meeting of St. Andrew, Rose Croix Chap., No. 9, was 
held in St. Mark’s Hall, 213, Buchanan Street, Glasgow, on 
the evening of 21st January, 1881, 111 . Thos. W. Brownlee, 
M.W., 32 0 , 111 . Robert Morrison, S.W., 31 0 , 111 . Wm. Brown 
acting J.W., 30°. when Bros. James Rice, of Lodge Scotia, 
178, and John Smiles Adamson, St. John’s, Selkirk, No. 32, 
were perfected in the degree of Rose Croix. A vote of thanks 
was awarded to several of the brethren for handsome presents 
of furniture given to the Chapter. A Benevolent fund in 
connection with the Chapter was inaugurated, the amount 
collected to be lodged in Bank, the fund to accumulate for 
three years. After spending a pleasant evening the Chapter 
was duly closed in A. and P. form. 

We hear it is proposed to charter Glasgow as a Grand 
Mystic Temple Council General for Scotland. Our Scottish 
Brethren have done so well that we shall be glad to find their 
Masonic Constitution complete in all its parts. Meanwhile 


the following Illustrious Brethren perform executive duties : — 
Colin Mackenzie, 32 0 , Gd. Annalist, Thos. M. Campbell, 32 0 , 
Gd. Treasurer, T. L. Shaw, 33 0 , Gd. Representative. 

CANADA. 

Wc are glad to learn that the Antient and Primitive Rite 
of Masonry is flourishing in Canada, under the Grand 
Mastership of 111 . Bro. George Canning Longley. When 'our 
Rite was first started in Canada it encountered great opposi- 
tion from the Supreme Council of the Antient and Accepted 
Scottish Rite, our Canadian Brethren, however, manfully held 
their own, and in the result the Members of the two Rites are 
now living together in community and goodwill ; in mutual 
toleration, if not in absolute friendship. 

This speaks volumes for the good sense of Canadian 
Masons, and should be imitated by Brethren wherever the 
two Rites happen to come in contact. We shall be glad at 
all times to hear from our Brethren in the Dominion. 

SWEDEN BQRGI AN RITE. 

St. Hilda Lodge and Temple No. 12. The Installation 
Meeting of this flourishing Lodge and Temple, was held at the 
Lodge Rooms, Lofthouse-in-Cleveland, North Yorkshire, on 
Tuesday, the nth January. The Brethren assembled at the 
early hour of 5.30 p m., under the presidency of Bro* J. Monk- 
man Collier, W.M., G.M., North Yorkshire, who, after the 
Lodge and Temple had been opened in due form, had presen- 
ted to him Bro. Thomas Allen, the W.M. elect for installation, 
which ceremony was duly performed, the Installing Master 
impressively addressing the W.M. on the nature and impor- 
tance of his duties. The W.M. then appointed and invested 
Bro. Robert Dyson Nutt as S.W. and Bro. William Hicks as 
J.W., and appointed the remaining officers of the Lodge. 
After which the ceremony of the IV°, was worked for the 
benefit of a Bro. who had previously received the Degrees of 
the Rite, (in conformity with the Statutes of the Rite), by 
communication. After a solemn benediction the Temple was 
closed, and the Lodge resumed in the IV 0 . when several 
business matters received attention, and the Lodge was closed. 
At 7 p.m., the Brethren, on the invitation of the I.P.M., sat 
down to a substantial repast. This having been disposed of, and 
the usual Masonic toasts duly honoured, two hours were spent 
in frienilly Masonic discussion, and an enjoyable gathering 
was brought to a close at 10 p.m. As is customary in the 
Swedenborgian Rite, no elaborate Banquet was held. 


ADOPTIVE MASONRY. 

According to the system of the Antient and Primitive 
Rite, this order consists of twelve degrees, divided into 
three classes. We cannot advocate its introduction, as 
it would be too great an innovation, and most of the Breth- 
ren would object to it, especially in the North. Many breth- 
ren however insist that something should be done for the 
Ladies, and advocate the desirability of allowing every 
Member ,of our Rite, to confer upon his wife, sister, or 
daughter, a grade corresponding with his own, which 
' would entitle the recipient to a sash and jewel for adorn- 
ment at our balls. The matter requires grave consider- 
ation, but there can be no objection to the brethren them- 
selves being made acquainted with it. It has been a part 
of the system of the Grand Orient of France for a century. 

From a letter just received by the Editor, we are 
enabled to announce that in the course of 1881, some 
. valuable historical information relative to the early history 
of Craft and High Degree Masonry, in the State of 
Massachusetts is to be very shortly anticipated from the 
pen of Bro. Frank W. Hale, W.M., of the St. John’s 
Lodge, Newburyport, Massachusetts. Among other 
items, some account of the admission of General De La 
Fayette to the higher degrees may be expected. 

From Germany, we hear that Bro. Count Wartensleben 
is rapidly approaching the completion of his elaborate 
report on English Masonry. 


THE K N E P H. 


i5 


NOTICES OF MEETINGS OF BODIES OF THE 
ANTIENT AND PRIMITIVE RITE FOR FEBRUARY. 


ROSE CROIX CHAPTERS. 


London. Rose of Sharon, No. 6. 1st Tuesday at 774 
Bighopsgate Street Within, at 7 p.m. 

Liverpool. Lily of the Valley, No. 7. 3rd Friday at 
40 Castle Street, at 7 p.m. 

Holyhead. Primitive Pilgrims, No. 5- An emergency 
chapter will be held early in February, in order to admit four 
neophytes, to the degree of Rose Croix. The meeting for the 
installation of new officers will take place in March. 

INSTRUCTION. 

London. Rose of Sharon as above at 7 p.m. 2nd Tuesday, 
Senate Degrees, 12 and 13 ; 3rd Tuesday, Senate Degrees, 14 
and 15 ; 4th Tuesday, Chapter Degrees, 4, 5, 6. 

Note. — Knt. Templars are admitted to the Senate degrees 
of the A. and P. Rite by permission of S.G.C. Royal Arch. 
Comp, and Royal Select Masters to 4, 5, 6 Chapter Degrees, 
by permission of the M.W. 

Glasgow. St. Andrew, No. 9. 3rd Friday at St. Mark’s 
Hall, at 7 p.m. 

We shall be glad to receive information of other Chapters of 
instruction, when their arrangements are complete. 


ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 

Neophyte. Yes, the rituals are all in print, and are supplied 
to well known Members of the Rite only, on the recommend- 
ation of the presiding officer of the particular body to which 
they belong. The price, 5s. each class. In like manner, 
Chapters, Senates, and Councils, can be supplied with extra 
copies that may be required, the price being 5s. each series, 
(Chapter 5s., Senate 5s., and Council 5s.) Before issuing a 
ritual to a private member, it is expressly required that the 
registered number of the brother to whom it is issued, should 
be written in the copy, and that he should be O.B. to the care- 
ful use of the same. This system of registration is intended 
to prevent any lax use of the privilege which could then be 
traced with certainty to the careless brother inculpated. 

Forms for the return of members are supplied to each body 
gratuitously on application. Declaration forms in Books of 
100, 4s. each. Forms of petition for Dispensation or Warrant 
for a Chapter, Senate, or Council, under the Antient and 
Primitive Rite of Masonry, (where no such bodies exist). The 
above, and all information requisite will be supplied by the 
Grand Secretary General of the Rite. 


1 Clothing. — We have recently had submitted to us 

f. sets of remarkably well got up clothing for the degrees of 

^ the A. and P. Rite at a reduction of about 25 to 30 per 

, e cent, in cost. The difference appears to be principally, 

if not wholly in the lace employed in the embroidery. 
of That used on the best quality being technically gold, and 

1C that on the cheaper kind gilt. To an ordinary observer 

> s however it would be difficult to make the distinction, and 

er as many of the brethren have, like Gilpin’s wife, “a 

a frugal mind,” it is not at all unlikely but Messrs. Stilwell 

and Son will have many applicants at the lower price by 
preference. When we mention that a suit for 30° costs 
In only 35/ and that for 1 1° but 32/6 we feel sure that on the 

score of expense at least nothing need stand in the way 
of members of the A. and P. Rite being properly clothed. 


i&etotetos. 


Cosmopolitan Masonic Calendar , Diary and Pocket Book for 
1881. Second Edition. London : Kenning. 

This valuable vide mecum of Masonry has now entered upon 
the eleventh year of its existence, and has been most carefully 
corrected up to the latest date by competent authorities. 
Members of the Antient and Primitive Rite will find in it the 
fullest information as to the various Chapters, Senates and 
Councils of the Rite, and it will be seen that great progress 
was made during the past year. Brother Kenning deserves 
the thanks of the Craft at large for his untiring energy in 
accumulating from so many countries such varied information 
concerning Freemasonry all over the world. With this in- 
dispensible companion at hand, any traveller abroad can at a 
glance perceive the situation of any European Lodge, and the 
list of French, German, Italian and Spanish Lodges and 
Chapters is particularly full and satisfactory. Such a work 
actually does more for the general cause of Masonry than 
many a more pretentious volume. The progress made by the 
Higher Degrees of Freemasonry is a fact of much significance, 
and when it is contrasted with the condition of Masonry some 
fifty years since, illustrates with silent and practical eloquence 
the spread of the harmonious doctrines of Masonic Science. 
The various Rites are now so fully represented that any 
brother of the mystic tie can select, with a certainty of in- 
tellectual gratification, the peculiar form of working best 
fitted for his mental calibre. No Freemason should be with- 
out it. 

The Freemason's Manual , or Illustrations of Masonry. By 
Jeremiah How, P.M., P.Z., K.T., 300 A. & A. Third 
Edition. London: John Hogg, 1881. 

This exceedingly compact and yet comprehensive book has 
for a long period been out of print, and the changes which 
events have caused in the Masonic world have rendered a 
thorough revision of it imperative. This, Brother Hogg in- 
forms us in a preliminary note, has been accomplished, 
happily with the co-operation of the venerable author, by 
several brethren especially acquainted with the various Rites 
treated of in the course of the work. 

It is pleasant to find that the exceedingly impartial and 
large hearted treatment at first adopted by the author has not 
in any way been departed from. Without pledging himself 
to any special systen), Brother How, in this edition, has 
straightforwardly given a trustworthy account of every one 
of the Rites now interesting the general Masonic public ; and 
while he has thus displayed the greatest good taste, he has 
in no way compromised his fidelity towards these Rites of 
which he has himself been for many years a valued member. 
But when it is remembered that Brother How is at the 
present time one of our oldest Masons, and one who had the 
advantage and happiness of personal communication with 
such men as Dr. Oliver, Brother Gilkes, Brother White and 
Brother Thompson — to say nothing of Brother Stephen 
Barton Wilson, this catholicity of treatment is the more to be 
commended. The tone of the work is not changed thereby, 
but an air of authority, founded upon accurate research, per- 
vades the whole. 

Craft Masonry, with its simple, noble principles underlying 
all forms of the Masonic idea, of course claims Brother How’s 
primary notice ; and after clearly tracing the legendary and 
documentary history of our excellent institution, he proceeds 
in turn to describe the constitution and degrees of the Ancient 
and Accepted Rite, of the Mark Degree, the Red Cross of 
Rome and Constantine, the Swedenborgian Rite, the Masonic 
Order of the Temple, and last, although not least, of our 
Antient and Primitive Rite. To all these in their turn he 
devotes a sufficient space, and gives them fair play in the true 
spirit of a Masonic Historian. Those who desire to acquaint 
themselves with the actual history of the Masonic body, with- 
out reference to the speculations of theorists, will find this 
book a most useful guide, and their labours are materially 
lightened by the addition of a copious reference index, specially 
prepared for this edition. 


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Members desiring the Kneph to be posted to them regularly, 
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Bishopsgatd-street Within, London. A list of subscribers will 
be published in an early number, and Secretaries of Chapters, 
&c., will greatly oblige by sending in before; the 20th of each 
month, any reports intended for publication. The Kneph 
being intended as a medium of communication between the 
Sovereign Sanctuary and the individual Members of the Rite, 
it is particularly requested that Illustiious Brethren will 
co-operate heartily, and endeavooT to extend.. its usefulness, 
by at once sending in their names' afs Subscribers, and by 
circulating it amongst our Brethren oF-ffie^raft- degrees. 

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