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Southwood, 33° (P.M 1260, England, and P.M. 120, Dublin), as a token of ‘ m „ regard and esteem , by the Authors. ;ted Words by Bro. X A WADE, E.S./ ded WRS (No. 2> Scotland). j. • Music by Bro. LOUIS HONIG, ll r (Lodge of Asaph, 1319). aced late Price Four Shillings. / ^ LONDON : Ibl* PUBLISHED BY THE COMPOSE 1 ^ At his Academy of Music, 725, COMMERCIAL ROAD, E, m kly And to be obtained of x , ppo- .Messrs. STILLWELL & SON, 6, Little $ r y of tlie ,cts of the . J- -L- . JU F -tL «.n*.Y of the Sublime Architect of the Usiyebse. T & PRIMITIVE RITE OF MASONRY, IN AND FOB THE Xing dom of Great Britain and Ireland, and its Dependencies. 3VEREIGN SANCTUARY, 33°. itrioua and Fnliyhtemd Masons throiiyhout the World, Union . Prosperity, Friendship, Fraternity. tient and Primitive Pile of Masonry, Disciples of was founded as a Grand Lodge at Montauban, ,i the year 1S14, by the Illustrious Brothers Gabriel Tarconis de Negre : Samuel Honis, of Cairo ; Baron ypolite Labrunie : Marquis de Baroque: J. Pettitt. «, and is an incorporation of the various Primitive ;ed in the preceding century, and notably the Primitive biladelphes of Narbonne, to which the Antient and v! e Pi ite refers for the origin of its principles and form of . menf. The seven classes into which its degrees are divided t schools for the study of Masonic knowledge, physics jsophy, aud possessed originally ninety-five rituals, action of more than a quarter of a century of assiduous nd research, concerning all known Masonic Bites, rand Lodge of the Disciples of Memphis, after an of sleep, recommenced work at Brussels, in L8MS, and in 1839, when it pnbliched its statutes ; hut, in 1-41. '*d Master, Hierophant, the Illustrious and Enlightened Jacques Etienne Marconis, 33-97°. was forced by an government to put all the Lodges in France asleep — *wever, establishing a Council, or Regency', of seven rs, for the preservation of the Archives, and the revival Bite under a more liberal regime. Jn 184S our Order its work at the Orient of Paris, and continued to , establishing itself in America, Egypt, Boumania, and other countries. America received it joyfully in i$5(j, I860 the New York Council of the Bite included the r of 10o Past Masters, under the rule of the Illustrious r David MacClellan ; Egypt accepted it in I860. 02 the Illustrious Grand Master, Hierophant, united our and Primitive Bite with the Grand Orient of France, * High Grades continued to be cooferred by the recog- rand Council of Bites of the Grand Orient, and a formal iat was promulgated by the said Grand Orient, and the ms Grand Master, J. E . Marconis, 33-97°, which arranged itive values of the degrees of our Bite with those of i, the Antient and Accepted, and other Rites, recognized aid Grand Council of Bites. this, in the same year, 1862. the Illustrious Grand J. E. Marconi*, 33-97°. acting in conjunction with J Magnan, 3*°, the Grand Master of the Grand Orient, rly constituted the Sovereign Sanctuary of America, ?. Shortly after the degrees of the Bite were reduced t5°, to 33°, by simply eliminating those whicli were con- only by name, but retaining all ceremonial grades. The Orient of France continued to exchange Representatives le Sovereign Sanctuary of America, and lists thereof will id in the French Official Calendar, until 18(59, when in icnceof the invasion of American territory by the recog- pf a spurious Council of the Antient and Accepted Rite, the Americans withdrew from Representation, e year 1872 several Illustrious Bretlnen who had ly received the 33-95°, obtained a Charter for the imentof a Sovereign Sanctuary, in and for Great Britain land, with Illustrious Brother John Yarker as Grand General, 33-96°, and in the same year received many j, members of ihe Royal Grand Council of Antient me immemorial, meeting since last century, and more under H.B.H. the Duke of Sussex, Grand Master ; 1874 the Jerusalem Chapter of Antiquity, H.R.M. — I., was formally amalgamated with the Palatine , No. 2, and Seuate No. 2, of the Antient and Primitive Masoniy, thus giving the Rite the prestige of a time rial association in England, the earliest resolutions passed by the new Sovereign v was for the establishment of an Order of Merit, of 1st, for Saving Life ; 2nd, Presence of Mind; General Merit. The decoration is a bronze i star, the three classes being distinguished by ribbons of different ! colours. Besides this, the Rite possesses five Decorations, 1st, the Grand Star of Sirius, or Hope : 2nd, the Cross of Alidee, or Truth : 3rd. the Cross of the Third Series ; 4th, the Lybic Cham ; 5th, the Golden Branch of Eleusis, or Charity. These decora- tions are exclusively the reward of Merit, and are confeired in a Grand Chancery, one in consecutive order every year. A full history of the Rite, with the narrative of its early struggles, on its introduction to England, may be obtained fr« m the Grand Secretary General, and as a contribu- ! tion to Masonic history is well worth perusal. Few, indeed, could rise from the stud} r of its straightforward narrative of events, easily proved by the references given, with- out the conviction that our Rite has not only a legitimate Masonic standing, second to none in the world, but that it has also the fur higher claim to universal Masonic recognition. It is almost the only Rite which has had the courage to face, for previous years, the privations and trials inseparable from the poveity attendant upon spending every peuny of its limited funds in the completion of its Rituals, and the world wide ex- tension of the Truth, resting content with the conviction that, sooner or later, its value must be recognised by every thoughtful Mason, as a means whereby Masonry ma} r be restored to its pristine purity, and man to his intelkctual birthright. To those : who linger fondly over the attractions of a sumptuous banquet and grudge the time spent in labour as a theft from the precious hours given to indulgence of the senses, we offer nothing that 1 will be prized, but to the intellectual Mason, the earnest searcher ' after truth, we ofier a banquet that never satiates, a feast from which comes no repletion, a feast of reason, leaving an unfailing | appetite, and no sad remembrances for the morrow. In conclusion, a few words as to the practical principles of the Antient aud Primitive Rite of Masonry; — It is universal, and open to every Master Mason who is in good standing under some constitutional Grand Lodge, and believes in the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man. The only other qualification which it requires from its Neo- phyte is probity and honour, and it esteems Masonic worth, ability, and learning, above social and personal distinctions, j seeking by means of its comprehensive ceremonials to extend j Masonic Knowledge, Morality, and Justice, and enforce all • those great principles which distinguish true Masons of all time. Its Rituals are thirty in number, and are based upon those of I the craft universal ; they explain its symbols, develope its mystic ! philosophy, exemplify its morality, examine its legends, tracing them to their primitive source, and dealing fairly and truthfully j with the historical features of symbolical Masonry. They con- i tain nothingin their teaching but what Mahommedan, Christian, | Jew, Buddhist, Brahmin, or Parsee may alike acknowledge. The government of the Rite is elective in its character, and 1 it extends the hand of brotherhood to all legitimate Rites. It is in coi dial union with a number of grand bodies of its own or similar Rites, with whom it has representatives established, and j its i nfluence is silently extending over the face of the whole globe. The ceremonials of the Rite are divided into three series and | the Masters of each section receive the 31 and 32°, and consti- tute the Judicial Tribunal, 31 °, and the Mystic Temple, 32°, of whicli the Presiding Officer, or Grand Master of Light, receives the 33°, to enable him to represent his Province in the Sovereign Sanctury, 33-95°. It is ordered by the Sovereign Sanctuary 1 . That Dispensations may be given to any individual Mem- ber of the Rite in any town, where no subordinate body exists, to receive a sufficient number of Brethren to form a Chapter, Senate, or Council. 2. That Chapters of the Rose Croix (11-18°) ; Senates of Hermetic Philosophers (20-33°) ; Councils of Sublime Masters of the Great Work (30-90°) ; and Mystic Temples (32-94°) ; may be Chartered throughout our jurisdiction, in accordance with the General Statutes. 3. That Grand Mystic Temples— Councils General, may be constituted in any of the Colonies and possessions of the United Kingdom, subject to the General Statutes of the Order, with privileges similar to the Grand Mystic Temples— Councils General, of England, Ireland, and Scotland. 4. Applications tobe made to the Grand Secretary General (or to the Grand Chancellor Generator Grand Master General), who will furnish all information as to fees or the mode of proceeding. - • Published under the Authority of the Sovereign Sanctuary for Great Britain and Ireland, Edited by the GRAND SECRETARY-GENERAL. VOL. II., No. 20-21.] AUG. AND SEPT., 1882. (Subscription, p^frte, 1,. Od. per [MoNTHLy . ORATA REPOA. 5° In a recent paper the writer pointed out that the Primitive Mysteries were essentially caste cere- monies. The Crata Repoa is based on this view. The first three degrees are founded upon Geometry, which was the ancient term for Masonry ; the coffins were made of wood, and required careful measurements ; they were also carved, painted, and decorated. The next two degrees are Military in their character, whilst those which follow this, the 5°, are Priestly. All nations that had certain re- ceptions for the artizans and priests had also a military ceremony or initiation. The Celts and Irish had such a ceremony upon the coming of age of their youths, and it is upon these ancient initia- tions in the Ulster clans that the degree of Red Branch Knights is founded. The Gothic nations had similar ceremonials which, when the church passed into possession, became the orders of Knight- hood. Fifth Grade. — Balahate. towards the monster without allowing himself to be in the least discouraged by his dreadful aspect, threw him down and overwhelmed him. He then decapitated him, and threw the corpse into a cavern, which still continued to vomit flames. He then in silence exhibited the hideous heads. This ceremonial terminated by the instruction which was given to the Balahate , and which included the explanation of this allegorical scene. It was explained that Typhon symbolized fire, which is one of the most terrible agencies, notwithstanding which nothing in the world can be done without it. Horns represented industry and labour, by the aid of which man performed great and useful enterprises in subduing the violence of fire, directing its power, and appropriating its force. The Chistophores was* instructed in Chemistry and the art of decomposing substances and combining metals. He had the assistance of masters when he needed the researches and experience which they had in that science. The word of the order was Chymia. The Chistophores had the right to demand and the Demiurcjos could not refuse this Grade. The •candidate was conducted to the entrance where the assembly was held, and he was received by all the members. He was then conducted to another Hall, disposed for a theatrical representation, in which he was, in a way, the sole spectator, for each member took a part. A personage called Horus accompanied the several Balahate who all bore torches ; they marched into the Hall and appeared as if seeking something. Horus drew his sword upon arriving at the entrance of a cavern from which flames proceeded ; at the bottom of it was the murderer Typhon seated with a crestfallen appearance. As Horus approached, Typhon raised himself up, having a* terrifying ap- pearance, a hundred heads reposed on his shoulders, his whole body was covered with scales, and his arms were of immense length. Horus advancj " Sixth Grade. — Astronomer before the Gate of the Gods. The preparations of this degree began by putting the Candidate in irons. The Tliesmophores conducted him to the Gate of Death , which had to be descended by four., steps, because the Cavern of reception was that previously used for the third degree, and which was on this occasion filled with water *n order to row the Barque of Charon. Some coffins placed here and there struck the eyes of the Candidate. He was informed that they enclosed the remains of those members who had been* put to death for betraying the secrets of the society; and they menaced him with a similar fate if he committed the same crimes. He was then led into the midst of the assembly in order to take a new oath. After having pro- nounced it they explained to him the history of the >rigin of the Gods, which were the objects of the ■% THE KNEPH. 158 people’s adoration, and by 'which they amused and directed their credulity ; but they indicated to him at the same time the necessity of conserving poly- theism for the common people. They amplified the ideas which had been presented to him in the first degree, upon the doctrine of a sole Being who embraced all time, presided over the union and regularity of the universe, and who, by his nature, was above the comprehension of the human spirit. The grade was consecrated to the instruction of the Neophyte in the knowledge and practice of astronomy. He was obliged to give the night to observations, and to conform to the labours they exacted. He was advertised to be on his guard against the Astrologers and drawers of horoscopes, whom they looked upon as the authors of idolatry and superstition, for this Mysterious Society held them in aversion. These astrologers had chosen the word Phccnix for the word of the order, and which the Astronomers turned into derision. (Hero- dotus, Hist. Aethiop, lib. 3.) After the reception they conducted the Initiate towards the Gate of the Gods , and introduced him into the Pantheon , where he beheld all the Gods and saw them represented by magnificent paintings. The Demiurgos retraced anew the history, concealing nothing from him. They placed under his inspection a list of all the Chief Inspectors in the chronological order in which they had lived, as also a tabular list of all the members of the society spread over the face of the globe. They taught him the Priestly dance which figured the course of stars. (Lucien, De Salta- tione). * The word of the degree was Ibis y signifying crane, which symbolised vigilance. ^asomcBtograpbp. 550.4. PEINCE EHODOCANAKIS. By John Yarker, P.S.G.W. op Greece. (Continued from page 151.) Three years later Prince Constantine, having re- ceived many pressing letters from the Greeks — who attlie fall of Constantinople and the devastation of the islands of the zEgian Sea, found a refuge in Malaga, Spain — to come to London, he intervened for them with Charles II., who not only permitted them to settle in London, but also presented them for habi- tation a large piece of ground situated outside the City, called Soho Fields, where they builfc them- selves houses and a church dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin, preserved until this day, and named the streets made by them by special names, as Greek Street, Rose Street, Crown Street, Rhodocanaki Street, &c. ^ • While llie plague depopulated London in 1665, Prince Constantine courageously attacked the terrible scourge, and ceased not to lavish his cares upon the sick of all classes, gratuitously distributing to the poorest of them the necessary medicaments with the treatise which he made expressly on the plague, in order to reassure those who believed that the epi- demic would never cease. Charles II., on account of his great fear of the malady, had left his P alace of Whitehall, and took refuge at Hampton Court, where he resided until February, 1666; the coura- geous physician visited him there daily, in order to give him news of the state of the plague, and to encourage him and his panic-stricken courtiers. At this epoch Prince Constantine had fallen seriously ill, and his friends advised him when he regained his strength to visit his native land and breathe its invigorating air. He allowed himself to be per- suaded by them, and started at once for Marseilles, where he embarked upon a vessel which was bound for Venice ; from that city he departed for Scio, where he arrived on the 10th of July, 1667, and where three months later he married his cousin Henrietta, only daughter of the Duke Anthony Koressy and of Donna Virginia Visconti. Although the Island of Scio was enjoying, at that time, a prosperity unknown to most parts of the countries which were sighing under the Ottoman yoke, yet the moral and material position of its in- habitants made such a painful impression on the mind of Prince Constantine, that in spite of the strenuous efforts of his eldest brother Pantelis, to dissuade him from his rash intentions, he gathered round him all patriots and organized in unison with them a conspiracy against the Masters of this en- chanting Island, which two centuries later was fated to be cruelly devastated by the Turks, and so to inspire the illustrious poet of the Orientals with such touching strophes. But the revolutionary projects of Constantine were decreed to fail. Betrayed by a Roman Catholic Priest named Andrew Garibaldi, he was seized with other conspirators and sent to Con- statinople in chains. There he was imprisoned and condemned to death, but owing to the all-powerful influence of the Earl of Winchelsea, then Ambassa- dor of England, near the Sublime Porte, he was liberated. As soon as he recovered his liberty he left for Pesaro, in Italy, and passing through Ger- many he arrived at Amsterdam, whence lie sailed for England, where he arrived on the 12th Julv, 1669. On the death of Charles II., in February, 1685, Prince Constantine was exiled from Court by his successor James II., because he expressed his indig-* nation at the execution' of his intimate friend the Duke of Monmouth, a natural son of the late King, who was beheaded as a rebel. This sorrow was followed shortly by a still greater one. Prince Constantine had tne misfortune in the month of January, 1688, to lose his daughter Mary in the tenth year of her age. She was buried in the ^ church of Saint Pancras in the Fields ; this untimely death inspired him to write an elegy in Greek, which is yet preserved. Prince Constantine Rhodocanakis was recalled to Court in September of the same year, by King James IL, and a little later he joined the Count de Lauzun in accompanying Queen Mary and her sou James, so well known in history-by .the name of the Chevalier St. George, to France. (To be Continued.) THE KNEPH. *59 AMERICAN JURISDICTION. To the Editor of “ The Kneph.” Dear Sir and Illustrious Brother, I 11 tlie June number of your Kneph we have a reply from our Illustrious Brother Alexr. B. Mott, 33-96-90°, to a letter of ours in relation to 4 ‘American Jurisdiction,” and the claim which Canadian Brethren make to an independent juris- diction over Canada, and the right to have an independent Sov. Sanctuary. The letters he pro- duced prove clearly that Canadian Brethren did all that were required of them to do to prove their loyalty to the Sov. Sanct. from which they derived their Charters for subordinate bodies. As 111. Bro. Mott says : “ The Canadian Brethren applied in due form and over their signatures, subscribing to the Oath of Fealty in each instance.” This ingenuous testimony of Bro. Mott is invaluable, and proves the desire of the Brethren in Canada to obtain their Charters honestly and legally. The letters prove that the language of the Brethren was most respect- ful to our 111. Bro. Mott. And the latter responded to the wishes of the former on every occasion, without any objection or delay. Insomuch as Bro. Longley, 83°, G-.M. of L., closed his letter (as printed in the Kneph) with the words, “ Thanking you very sincerely for your fraternal kindness and courtesy in so liberally acceding to our wishes in establishing the A. and P. Rite in Canada.” At length the Canadian Brethren found them- selves strong enough to take care of then own territory, and found they could better succeed by having an independent Sov. Sanctuary of then own. They applied to 111. Bro. Mott for that purpose, asking upon what terms he would grant a Charter for an Independent Sov. Sanctuary for Canada. But he never replied. Bro. Longley, who had assumed the office of Grand Master of Light, with Bro. Mott’s knowledge and consent, wrote to the latter again and again, repeating the request in most respectful terms, still Bro. Mott sent no reply. Not a word of assent or dissent , nor a word of explanation, nor the slightest acknowledgment of receiving these repeated applications. Nor has Bro. Mott from that day to the present sent a single word to the Canadian Brethren. Up to this application there was the utmost courtesy, harmony, and readiness to do everything without a day’s delay for the Canadian Brethren. But from the moment this application was sent, Bro. Mott has utterly forsaken them, and not a word has been received from him since that date. The Brethren considered themselves virtually abandoned, and the jurisdiction of Canada abandoned also. After a sufficient time had elapsed, all the members of the A. and P. Rite in Canada were notified to meet in Convention to determine what should be done. The Convention unanimously determined to take the matter in their own hands, and an independent Sov. Sanct. for Canada was organised and instituted. And as Bro. Mott admits having “made three 33° members,” they could so organize. Under the well established fundamental rules of High Grade Masonry, three members of the highest grade can lawfully form a Supreme Body in independent territory, and proceed to work. These “ three 33° members” which Bro. Mott says he made, did so act according to this well established rule for independent and unoccupied territory. And so the Sov. Sanctuary of Canada was formally and lawfully established. The Grand Lodge of Canada, and Grand Chapter of Canada, were formed in precisely the same way, and the jurisdiction of England given up. The fault is Bro. Mott’s in abandoning the Brethren and the sub- ordinate bodies of Canada under his foreign juris- diction. The Brethren pledged then allegiance to him, and kept it, until he abandoned them, and ceased to have any correspondence and association with them. Then withdrawal did not take place until he had withdrawn from them. And when he refused to exercise jurisdiction, and answer the requests of the Brethren, they were forced to act without him, without his advice or consent ; for these he refused to give. They withdrew in a regular legal manner, and informed Bro. Mott of their action, and the organization of an independent Sov. Sanctuary for Canada, expressing a desire for recognition and a change of representatives. But Bro. Mott was silent still ; he made no reply as before, and he has con- tinued in this sublime sphynx-like mood until his letter appeared in The “ Kneph,” in the June number. It is a well established rule in Masonic Juris- prudence, that no one can grant a Charter to a body except for their own country. If its jurisdiction extends over a foreign nation or country, it can only be temporary and conditional ; simply because there can be no jurisdiction over a foreign country where that country is strong enough to have its own independent government and maintain it. Bro. Mott might as well have granted a Charter to the English Brethren for the “ whole Continent of Europe,” as for England, Scotland and Ireland; and if they would not grant Charters to France, Germany, ‘ Russia, Spain, and European Powers generally, then declare all rebels who established an independent Sov. Sanctuary for then own nationality. On what ground does Bro. Mott claim perpetual jurisdiction over all foreign nationalities on the Continent of America ? On what ground does he refuse them an independent jurisdiction for then- own dominion and nationality ? Why has he not stated his reason for claiming perpetual jurisdiction over foreign nationalities *? Were the United States rebels when they declared their “ independence ?” The moment any duly organized body declares its independence, and establishes it, the accomplished fact severs all ties, jj^d obligations of fealty to a foreign power cease>xo become a duty and necessity. The Masons of the G. Lodge of Canada did not violate then* obligations to England, when they declared their own independence. If Bro. Mott is willing to grant to foreign nationalities an in- dependent Sov. Sanctuary, why did he not answer the repeated application of the Canadian Brethren i6o THE KNEPH. for such a body? If he does not claim perpetual jurisdiction over the foreign nationalties of the : Continent of America, why did he not answer the repeated letters of the Canadian Brethren, and granted them a Charter for an independent Sov. Sanctuary *? Why did he grant an independent Sov, Sanctuary to the English applicants, for their , exclusive jurisdiction over England and its in- I dependent Sovereignty ? And why did he refuse '■ an independent Sov. Sanctuary to the Canadian Brethren when they asked for it ? Why was he willing i to grant at once and without delay to England, what he would not grant to Canada ? We cannot tell, simply because Bro. Mott has never sent a word of reply to our repeated application through Bro. Longley, G. M. of L. for Canada. As to the word “Amerique” appearing in the printed Constitution referred to by Bro. Mott, pub- lished in 1874, he ought to /enow that no nationality on this Continent is ever spoken of as Americans , but the people of the United States. Peruvians are not called Americans, nor are Mexicans, Canadians, and any other of the many nationalities on this Continent. Every newspaper is full of what the Americans are doing and saying, and projecting ; of course, none but people of the United States are meant thereby. Even a New Yorker, Philadelphian, Bostonian, will enter his name [and nation ality as an “American” and claim the use of that name as exclusively belong- ing to his nationality. “I am an American” is the almost universal exclamation. People who emigrate, say they are going to America , when they mean the United States. And when 111. G. Master, J. E. Marconis, 33-97°, used the word Amerique in his Charter to Bro. Mott, of the United States, he meant the same as any other European would mean — the United States. British America and South America never claim to use the term America so exclusively as the “ Americans ” (United States) do. And Bro. Mott is only setting up an exclusive claim for this word, as every American does, and has done, the world over, before him. We shall now close our case with this letter. We have an active, self-supporting, independent Sov. Sanctuary, and we are determined to make it equal to that of the United States, both in active work and in numbers. We have said our say, and did our best to obtain the consent of Bro. Mott, to obtain from him a Charter for an independent Sov. Sanctuary in the regular way. Will Bro. Mott state why he did grant the application of our English Brethren, and would not grant , or did notyrant, the application of the Canadian Brethren*? Will he also tell us whether he claims a perpetual jurisdiction over the foreign nationalities of the Continent of America? If not, why did he never reply to the application of the Canadian Brethren, nor grant them their request ? Il he was willing to grant it, why did he not do it when asked ? And if not willing, why did he not say so. Sincerely and fraternally yours, * S. BESWICK, 33-90-95°, Sov. G. M. G. of C. r— - THE GREAT PYRAMID AND ITS TEACHINGS. In a former number of this journal we presented a short descriptive sketch of this wonderful structure, aud in a subsequent number we reprinted an article from the Contemporary Review on the same subject. We are induced to recur to it again, because, m the first place, the subject is by no means exhausted ; and, in the second place, we wish to direct our reader’s attention specially to its claim to be a Stone Bible or pillar of witness. “ In that day there shall be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the border thereof to the Lord. And it shall he for a sign and a witness unto the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt.” (Isaiah xix. 19, 20.) . _ Built undeniably by an inspired agent 150 years before the time of Abraham, and 670 years before that of Moses, the chain of divine communication to Adam, Noah, Pliilitis, Abraham, Moses, and Solomon, appears lucidly expressed to the student of the Bible, and the manifold interpretations of, and coincidences with, divine truth, dispensations, aud prophecies — found in this “ altar in the midst of Egypt ” — and repay and enrich the devout believer in Revelation with light and truth, even as that which filled the soul of the Seer of Patmos with apocalyptic effulgence. It may be asked who was Philitis? We find from Herotodus that Philitis was a liyksos, or shepherd king, sojourning in Egypt in the reign of the first dynasty king, Cheops. Manetho trans- lates the term “hyksos” as meaning in the sacred language “ hyk,” a kiug ; “ sos,” a shepherd ; aud goes on to describe those shepherd kings as invaders who subdued the Egyptians without a battle — by some mysterious power they possessed — and proceeds to recount “ that eventually they quitted Egypt by capitulation with all their families and effects, and proceeded to Judea, numbering some 240,000 souls, where they built a city and called it Jerusalem.” Now, taking Philitis as the leader of that exodus aud keeping dates in view, we find that the then king of Jerusalem was a very peculiar personage, a king without written ancestral pedigree, of whom no death record was preserved, and who was high priest as well as king — he to whom Abraham paid tithes, the Melcliizedek of Scripture ; hence the inference approaches certainty that Philitis and | Melcliizedek were the same person. Until within the last thirty years, there prevailed among all western peoples a belief that this structure, in common with the others passing under the same name, was merely a tomb — a mighty mausoleum — of the fourth dynasty king, Cheops or Shofo ; a belief strengthened, if not originated, by the fact that all the latter pyramids were meant for and used as sepulchral monuments. We will admit for the sake of argument that Cheops did resolve to have a tomb built, and (follow- ing tiie traditional account given by the Egyptian priests to Herotodus 1725 years after its erection) grant that he confided the execution of this order THE KNEPH. 161 to the architect, Philitis, who accepting the order, designed and built a structure which, while it might be' used as a tomb , did nevertheless contain, though not exhibit to the men of that age, a series of cosmic truths of the highest order, and in the most accurate manner ; truths, not of a local or temporary kind, but suited in their relation to nations of a very high state of intellectual cultivation ; for it is, in fact, only in proportion to the growth of modern science that men have been enabled to recognise the exist- ence of those truths built into the structure of the great pyramid, not in language, but in number, weight, and measure. "We find, in the first place, that the architect chose for the point of erection, a place which was eminently inconvenient for constructional purposes, as the .rocky outcrop of the Jeezeh Hill had to be cut down and levelled, but which position was essential to a transcendental geodesic design, it being in the thirteenth parallel of latitude, the very parallel which has to the north and south of it an equal distribution of ter rest ial semi- surface ; while the pyramid’s site itself is the very point on the earth’s surface about which the dry land, or man-inhabit- able portion of the globe, is equally arranged, and is also on the very best line for meridional zero which could be chosen for all nations. Next we find that this structure was designed and built on a plan so scientifically perfect, that the sum of the measured four sides of base bears , within the nearest possible practical approach , the same relation to the measure of its vertical height that the circumfer- ence of a circle bears to its radius. We next find that a certain standard measure was used by the archi- tect in the construction ; that of 5 by 5 pyramid inches ; and when one side of the square base is measured it is found to contain this cubit 365 times with a fraction plus ; thus giving our sidereal year of days, and the plus fractions of the four sides giving in their sum, the equivalent of one day in four years, or leap year. We next discover that this huge pile of masonry covers an area of thirteen English acres ; that it has a substance of five million tons of stone ; and rises to the height of 486 feet, and that it was built to a microscopical closeness, accurately square, and astronomically oriented. Further investigation reveals to us, that the vertical height of this pyramid, which has already spoken in its practical manner of the time of the earth’s circulation around the sun in its annual orbit does likewise speak of the radius of that orbit; for the vertical height, as measured in terms of any linear measure, when multiplied by its own indicated numbers 10 9 , gives in the same terms, the mean distance of the sun from the earth, a most extraordi- nary knowledge exhibitive 4,000 years ago, when we reflect that even in the time of Herodotus the sun distance was supposed to be not more than ten or twelve miles, increased through successive centuries to 14,000, 3,000,000, 36,000,000, 78,000,000, until at the end of the eighteenth century 95,000,000 was the received distance ; later observation has cor- rected this to 91,837,500 miles. The pyramid measurement shows 91,837,497 miles, an approxi- mation marvellous, considering that an error of 3,000,000 miles would depend on observation of three-tenths of a second of space, a breadth equal to a fine hair at 100 feet distance. Next it appears that the cubit of 25 pyramid inches bears an exact relation to the only true and unchanging standard in the knowledge of man, viz., the polar axis of the earth, of whose semi-length or distance from the earth’s centre to either pole this sacred cubit of the pyramid architect is the precise ten- millionth part. Again, we find that the pyramid inch is critically the five hundred- millionth part of the earth’s axis length, and that when the length of the diagonals of the base is fou»d in such inches their sum exactly expresses the precession of the equinox in an inch to a year— viz., 25,827 years. Further, we find in the entrance passage a very remarkable angle of 26° 27'. Sir John Herschel showed that such an angular position pointed to the transit of the then Polar Star, a. Draconis, below the pole, and a distance of 8° 42' therefrom, and thereby enabled the building to tell its own absolute date of erection. This fact, almost infinitely precious for true chron- ology, has since been remarkably fixed and confirmed by the late Astronomer Royal for Scotland having shown that that peculiar position for a. Draconis to be taken in, viz., below the pole, was chosen to allow a more important star for chronology, viz., n. Tauri, the chief star of the Pleiades group, to be taken above the pole, equally on the meridian at the same instant, and not only so, but with the vernal equinoc- tial point, the beginning cf all reckoning of longitudes and right ascensions in the sky simultaneously there as well. Let us consider. In an age absolutely without astronomical knowledge, and so far as we know without mathematical science, we have this particular angle arranged for one particular midnight in a cycle of 25,827 years, for not for 21,770 years from the present shall have been told off on the great celestial dial of precessional rotation will this stellar and equinoctial relation occur. Is all this chance coin- cidence, as sceptics would have us believe, or is it not rather Divine inspiration, which has placed this pentateuch of stone as a standing witness against unbelief and a rebuke to the vanity of our knowledge- worshipping age by showing that even in cosmic truth, the highest reach of the most advanced modern science has failed to grasp the everlasting truths plainly and potently expressed by the inspired architect of the great pyramid? {To be continued.') SWEDENBORGIAN RITE. We are requested to state that Bro. Charles Monk Wilson, j > p > 33 95°. VI 0 ., has been appointed Grand Treasurer General of the Swedenborgian Rite. All the various bodies under the Grand Lodge and Temple are requested to make a return of their dues to his address : — Rose Villa, North Strand, Limerick, Ireland. THE KNEPH. 162 Dittoes to Cormptknts. To facilitate information as to tlie reception of Master Masons in good standing iuto the A. and P. Rite, enquiries may be made either personally or by letter — In Manchester, of the Sov. Gd. Master Genl., Bro. John Yarker, 33 \ 9G, the “Poplars,” Burton-road, Withington, Manchester. In London, of the Gd. Trea. Genl., Bro. J. H. Southwood, 33°, 98, Houudsditch ; or of the Gd Sec. Genl., Bro. James Hill, 33 3 , 91, Clarence-road, Clapton. In Lublin, of too Gd. Expert Genl., Bro. Dr. Davies, 33°, 10, Lower Sackville-streei. In Limerick, ot the Gd. Inspector Genl., Bro. C. Monck Wilson, 33°, Rose Villa, North Strand. In Glasgow, of the Gd. Examiner Genl., Bro. T. M. Campbell, 33°, 10, Carrick -street. In Burnley, Lancashire, of the Gd. Administrator Genl., Bro. S. P. Leather, 33'. In Havant, Hants, of the Gd. Keeper of the Golden Book, Bro. Jabez N. Hillman, 33°, Bedhampton. In Paris, of Bro. A. 0. Munro. 32", 77, llue Rivoli. Forms for the return of members are supplied to each body gratuitously on application. Deed iration forms in Books of 50, 2 (> each. Journals, «&c., received, with thanks : Chainc d' Union ; La Re- publir/ur Macon niqtw ; llulietitio Ojficiale , Tunis ; Triongl , lloumau .. . The future Nos. of Kneph will be issued in a neat grey wrapper, for which Advertisements will be received at 2s. 6d. per inch, column wide ; front of cover, 5s. per inch. Address the Publish! The Subsciottion will remain, as before, Is. Gd. per annum for one repy. post free. To countries not in the Postal Union. Gd. per annum extra. We arc requested to state that the following are suspended from Masonic Rights — 1st — Max de Saiwurk, (JunJ, 33°, Member of the Chapter Steaoa Moldovei Orient of Koumania; for having acted against instructions in constituting the Lodge Cuiza- Voda, Or. Lrroin — (suspended). 2nd — Antoine Andreas Septelici, 18°, of tlie same Chapter, for having violated his O.B. — (excluded for ever from the Order*. 3rd — Hugo Franz Duzinkiewicz, 30°, Member of the Chapter Balkanii, Val. Rusciuk, (Bulgaria), for having cheated a Brother — (exclude I for ever from the Order). ■Jth — Joan Panvan. 7°, Member of the Lodge Xr8jan, Or. de Beveriu — (suspended'. In consequence, all Brethren are requested to suspend Masonic relations with the above named. The Gd. Sec. Genl., Or. of Rouraania, Dr. N. THEOLORESCU, 33°. Augnst 17///, 1882. London, August and September, 1882. THE EDITOR TO IIIS READERS. At a period of the year when all the world is holiday-making, it may not be out of place if the Editor of this journal also pleads the necessity of a little relaxation, and in the absence of any staff to whom the duties of supervision can be confided, to ask his good friends to accept the numbers for August and September under one cover. The absolute dearth of Masonic news at this period may well be his excuse, but in truth he thinks he may fairly assume that his readers will benefit by the short respite as well as himself, and that when he has the pleasure of again addressing them in October, it will be with renewed vigour on his part and freshened interest on theirs. THE GRAND LODGE OF IRELAND AND THE HIGH GRADES. We regret to learn from our Dublin correspon- dents that some of the members of the Grand Lodge of Ireland, with more zeal than discretion, are desirous to engage that august body in a con- fiict, from which it could not possibly emerge with laurels, and might probably suffer disastrous loss. It is easy to read between the lines of the pro- posed motion, which under cover of enforcing prerogatives, which the Craft Grand Lodge never did nor ever can possess, seeks to establish an usurped authority, not only over the various bodies of High Grade Masons, but through its Grand Officers over Craft Masonry itself. We shall not err to any great extent, we believe, if we fix upon the Supreme Council 33°, or some of its more prominent members, the design of making the Grand Lodge of Ireland its cat’s-paw in this matter, and by inducing that body to extend its claims to a jurisdiction beyond its law- ful authority, thus to get rid of a dangerous rival whom it cannot reach in any other way. Will the great body of past Masters of the Craft, of whom the Grand Lodge is composed, lend themselves to this precious scheme, in order to bolster up the inordinate pretensions of the Supreme Council ? We think not. As we under- stand the matter, the Grand Lodge of Ireland, as does the Grand Lodge of England, exercises Masonic jurisdiction only over the first three degrees of Craft Masonry. The Royal Arch and Mark degrees have a governing body of their own ; the Templars are again distinct, and so are the several bodies of Rose Croix, Kt. Kadosh, Princes of the Royal Secret, and the Gd. Chapter of Prince Masons. And there is likewise a Council of Grand Inquisitor Commanders 33°, Antient and Accepted Rite — all these several bodies being independent of the Grand Lodge and of each other. It is true that a sort of agree- ment exists between them, in so far as to recognise each other’s degrees, and the Grand Lodge of Ireland has extended to them a sort of quasi re- cognition, but it has of itself no inherent right to do even so much as that ; since the Craft Lodges that founded the Grand Lodge of Ireland could THE KNEPH. 163 not possibly give it what they themselves did not possess, hence the necessary distinctions between Craft and Capitular Masonry. It may be true, and doubtless is so, that members of the Grand Lodge hold also, in many cases at least, corres- ponding offices in Capitular or High Grade Masonry ; but they hold these positions, not by virtue of their rank as Grand Officers of the Craft, but in virtue of their position in the several Capitular or high grade bodies who have elected or otherwise called them to fill those offices. How, then, can the Grand Lodge of Ireland interfere with the government or working of a High Grade body, of which it has not, and cannot, have any official cognizance at all \ If the Grand Lodge of Ireland claimed, as many Foreign Gd. Orients do, to have within its bosom a Supreme Council, or Consistory, or any High Grade Grand body, it would surely ex- change representatives, with the Foreign Supreme Councils in the same way that it exchanges repre- sentatives with their Grand Lodges. Does it do so ? It does not. Again, if the Grand Lodge of Ireland was in a position to recognise the Capitular and High Grade bodies, it must permit the jewels of those degrees to be worn by the members entitled in its Craft Lodges. Does it do so ? The outcome of the whole matter is simply this, the promoters of this ungenerous and most un- masonic attack on the liberties and rights of their Brethren, are pursuing the very self-same blunder which was perpetrated in England ten years ago, and which not only signally failed, but covered its authors with ridicule and disgrace. We have a very great respect- for the Grand Lodges of England, Ireland, and Scotland, and should very much regret to see either the one or the other take up a position with regard to High Grade Masonry, which would not only be unte- nable, but would be a flagrant violation of good faith and indirect opposition to the constitutions of these Grand Bodies, and also, we believe, to the welfare of the Craft. We are glad to see that our views are sha red by the Provincial Grand Lodges, several of whom have already expressed their opinions on the proposed innovation in no uncertain terms ; and much as we should deplore anything having a tendency to set Mason against Mason (the certain result of such a motion if pressed upon Grand Lodge), we should deem it incumbent on every High Grade Mason to resist to the last any attempted inter- ference with the rights and privileges enjoyed by them, as we should also resist any desire by the High Grade Bodies to assert a supremacy over the Craft degrees. Wherever this last has been attempted, it has invariably led to strife ; happily the founders of the Antient and Primitive Rite fore- saw the danger and avoided it, and thus in no instance has this Rite ever conflicted with the Grand Lodges of various countries in which it has established itself. Based, in principle, upon Craft Masonry, and drawing its members only from legally constituted Lodges, it has sought always to act in peace and harmony with its Craft Brethren. No allegation of improper proceedings or unlawful teachings has ever been made against it, even by its avowed enemies. Whence comes, then, this attempt to prejudice the Antient and Primi- tive Rite in the eyes of Craft Masons ? Not from the Craft, whose rights it protects by opening up the High Grades to ev ei*y good and true Mason who may wish to obtain them : not from the old and independent bodies of High Grade Masons, whose separate existence it is the interest of the Supreme Council (so called) to extinguish. To neither of these do we owe this attempted inter- ference with Masonic liberty of action. Whence, then, if not from the Supreme Council itself ? Professions of honour, charity, and justice are all given to the winds as empty phrases whenever they conflict with that love of power and despotic sway, which appears to be the ruling spirit of (so called) Scottish Rite Masonry. Wherever a Supreme Council of the A. and A. Rite is estab- lished it never rests until it has absorbed or brought under its influence every independent body of High Grade Masons which may have previously existed. Its history in France, America, England, Italy, and elsewhere, tells always the same sickening tale of arrogant pretensions, and successful, because unscrupulous, intrigue, until one is tempted to ask, “ Is Masonry other than an idle dream ? ” Is all our boasted freedom to end thus ? Is the grand old sodality, which success- fully withstood the persecutions of the ignorant, the rapacity of kings and nobles, and the ridicule" of infidels, which preserved intact for many cen- turies its grand traditions and elevated philosophy, when science, art, literature, and religion were alike plunged in Cimmerean gloom, to be, as regards its higher developments at least, suflei'ed to exist only at the dictum of a handful of men claiming a divine right to work mischief, which even princes have long since ceased to pretend to ? What mad presumption is this, to seek, in this age of progress and liberty, to fasten the shackles of a clique despotism on the sturdy pio- neers of intelligence and progress ! “ Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.” The warning has been heard before and passed un- heeded ; not so the consequences. Wrong always engenders wrong ; tyranny begets lawlessness ; long may it be before Masonry in Great Britain and° Ireland at least comes under the domination of a class ; or surrenders its time-honoured 164 the kneph. liberties to the keeping of a self-elected Oligarchy. Rather let it perish while the lustre of its glorious traditions are yet undimmed ; its grand heritage of freedom yet intact. ANCIENT FREEMASONRY. Dr. Le Plongeon has discovered in Mexico the ruins of an ancient Masonic Temple. He states that the Lodge of the First Degree fronts to- wards the North ; that of the Second and Third Degrees points to the South. He also found a few of the mystical dice, a stone on which is carve.d an apron with a hand on it, and a Cabalis- tic stone, similar in appearance to one found in the Temple of Heliopolis. He purposes trying to establish the relation between these Masonic at- tributes and those found at Memphis and Thebes, and suspects a similar relation with the emblems discovered by Goringe on the pedestal of Cleopatra’s Needle, now in the Central Park, New York. It is very interesting to members of the Antient and Primitive Rite to find this confirmatory evi- dence of the universality of the Masonry of antiquity and its identity with the Egyptian mysteries continually cropping up, and affords additional proof that the history and traditions of our Rite, as related in our ceremonies, have an indisputable basis of truth which every recent research has demonstrated with startling emphasis. The late learned Bro. Dr. Oliver and Bro. Godfrey Higgins, and we believe the Duke of Sussex, also held these opinions, and but for the prevailing ignorance of the Masons of their day and the general disposition to consider Masonic gatherings only under a festal aspect, Masonry in its higher sense as a connecting link between the philosophy of the Old World and the Sacred revelations inspiring the purer philosophy of the Christian era, would have been better understood. The one redeeming feature of modern Free- masonry, and to which we believe it owes its present vitality, is its large-hearted charity, which in Masonry, as in religion, covers a multitude of sins. May we not hope that charity may as well be associated with philosophy as with festivity, that we may conserve all that is good and yet dispense with much that is harmful, that we may in the intervals of Lodge-work seek the know- ledge that is really hidden in our mysteries, and no longer be open to the reproach, that as Free- masons we know nothing of the science we profess. LIBRARY. 111. Bro. Joseph Hawkins has contributed several very in- teresting French pamphlets. KIT’S COTY HOUSE. This celebrated remnant of antiquity, recently standing near Maidstone, in Kent, seems to have- been part of a temple dedicated to the Druidical goddess, Ked (the British Ceres). The portion recently standing appears to have been the dark chamber of probation ; the name Cetti (Ketti) or Cotti means Ark or Chest, and refers probably,, not to the diluvian Noah, but to the mysteries of Osiris imported into the Eleusinian mysteries from Egypt by the Greeks. The mode of preparation was. almost identical in each system, with the exception, that the time of probation varied from three days- and nights to fifty days and nights of darkness, want of rest, and fasting, that the initiate might* seriously reflect on wliat he was about to undertake, and his mind be prepared for the reception of great and mysterious truths; the whole ceremony con- veying the teaching, that good and virtuous men (represented by the initiate) after death enjoyed eternal happiness in a world of light, but wicked and immoral men (the profane) were plunged into darkness and misery, to suffer the disquietude of their evil conscience. One cannot but be forcibly reminded of the many points of similarity between the mysteries of antiquity and the teachings of Christianity, the very words of the mysteries are frequently quoted by St. Paul, St. James, and St. John to enforce an argument or to illustrate a truth, shoving an intimate acquaintance with the mysteries which could only have been obtained by initiation ; and in no case can we find that the .teachings of the mysteries were condemned, on the contrary the salient 'points were adroitly seized upon by the Apostles as coigns of vantage, on which to display the more extended teachings of revealed religion in contrast with the obscure guesses of the heathen philosophy struggling after light. ORDER CF ST. JOHN CF JERUSALEM IN ENGLAND. St. John’s Gate, Clerkenwell. This Order was founded about the year 1092, for the maintenance of an hospital at Jerusalem ; and, subsequently, the defence of Christian pilgrims on their journeys to and from the Holy Land. It afterwards became a knightly institution ; but ever preserved its hospitals, and cherished the duty of alleviating sickness and suffering. . The Order was first planted in England in the year 1100, and raised the noble structure which once formed the Priory of Clerkenwell, of which the gateway now alone remains to attest the importance of the chief house of the Order in England. The Order held high place in this country until the year 1540, when it was despoiled, suppressed, and its property confiscated by Act of Parliament. In 1557 it was restored by Royal Charter, and much of its possessions re- granted ; but only to be again confiscated within the -subsequent' two years by a THE KNEPH. 165 second statute, which did not, however, enact the re- suppression of the fraternity. Still, with the loss of possessions, and the withdrawal of most of its members to Malta — then the sovereign seat of the Order — it became practically dormant in England. Many fluctuations have marked the fortunes of an institution which played a prominent part in most of the great events of Europe, until its supreme disaster in the loss of Malta, in 1798 ; after which the surviving divisions of the Order had each to per- petuate an independent existence, and to mark out the course of its own future. It is now nearly half a century ago that a majority of five of the seven then existing remnants of the in- stitution decreed the revival of the time-honoured branch of the Order in England ; since which event it has, so far as means permitted, pursued, in spirit, the original purposes of its foundation — the allevia- tion of the sick and suffering of the human race. The Order of St. John has no connection whatever with any of the numerous associations or fraternities now existing for benevolent or other purposes, whether similar or not in name ; nor is it allied with any sect or party of any one religious denomination, but is thoroughly universal — embracing among its members and associates those, who, in the spirit of our Divine Master, are willing to devote a portion of their time or then means to the help of the suffer- ing and the sick. ANTIENT AND PRIMITIVE RITE. IRELAND. Consecration of the Grand Mystic Temple of “Eri.” — This Grand Mystic Temple Council General, which is chartered to meet in Dublin, or elsewhere in Ireland, as directed by the Grand Master of Light, held its first meeting in the City of Limerick. The interesting ceremony of consecration was solemnized on Saturday evening, 29th July, at the Masonic Hall, Limerick, and was attended by the members of three of the four bodies working nn J er Antient and Primitive Warrants already granted in Ireland. Owing to various circumstances, the attendance was necessarily not very numerous, many apologies having been sent in. The ceremony of consecration was conducted by R. 111. Bro. M. L. Davie*, 33°-95°, Representative at the Grand Mystic Temple of the Sovereign Sanctuary, assisted by R. 111. Bro. J. H. Southwood, 33°-95°, Deputy Representative. R: 111. Bro. C. M. Wilson, 33°-95°, Grand Inspector General of the Sovereign Sanctuary, was duly installed as Grand Master of Light, enthroned and proclaimed. The Grand Master of Light then installed the officers of the Grand Mystic Temple of Eri, either in person or by proxy. The Brethren then partook of a supper, at which thanks were duly given to R. 111. Bros. Davies and Southwood for having attended at such a distance from their respective homes, and explanations were given as to the various impedi- ments which prevented more of the Brethren from attending the ceremony. [As the Brethren of the Antient and Primitive Rite are threatened with all maimer of pains and penalties by some of the members of the Grand Lodge of Ireland, names of Brethren in attendance, and from whom apologies were re- ceived, are omitted.] The following is the rule under which it is sought to induce the Grand Ledge of Ireland to interfere in the working of bodies under Charter from the Antient and Primitive Rite in and for Great Britain and Ireland : — “2. The Government of the Fraternity of Freemasons of Ireland is placed in the hands of the Grand Lodge of Ireland and that by virtue of this Rule, should Grand Lodge so wish, it can at any time stop the working of all other warrants under the terms of Rule 28 (page 11). “ The Grand Lodge strictly prohibits as unlawful all assemblies of Freemasons in Ireland, under any title whatever, purporting to he Masonic, not held by virtue of a warrant or constitution from the Grand Lodge, or from one of the other Masonic Grand Bodies recognised by and acting in Masonic union with it. “ Any Brother being a member of any lodge on the registry of Ireland, or otherwise subject to the jurisdic- tion of the Grand Lodge, who shall take any part in such unlawful assembly, or shall join or become a member of any body or society in Ireland, purporting to be Masonic, and not in connection with or sanc- tioned by the Grand Lodge or other Masonic Grand Body recognised by it, shall be liable to suspension, or such other penalty as Grand Lodge may think fit.” Resolutions adopted by Provincial Grand Lodges, 1882. On 27th July, North Munster, Limerick.— “ That this Provincial Grand Lodge has learned that at a meet- ing of the Grand Lodge of Ireland, in July, 1882, the Grand Lodge permitted a resolution to he adopted tending to open up a discussion about Degrees in Masonry outside the first three Degrees of the Craft : and this Provincial Grand Lodge has heard with re- gret that some Report has been required upon the subject, to be made by the Board of General Purposes at their Meeting in October next, and dealing with questions as to the working of Warrants in Degrees of Masonry other than those first three Degrees of the Craft : and we hereby request our two elected representatives to attend the Board of General Pur- poses in October, and secure that the laws and constitutions of the Order are strictly adhered to.” On 21st August, Munster, Cork. — “ Having heard that the Board of General Puposes of the Grand Lodge intend dealing with the subject of Degrees higher than those of the first three Degrees of Freemasonry, we hereby protest against their taking any such action, as wo consider it opposed to the antient teaching and tenets of our Order, and request that our representatives attend the meeting and support this Resolution.” LONDON. On Thursday, 24th August, the R. 111. G.M. of L., Bro. J. H. Southwood. 33°, assisted by R. 111. Bros. Hy. Meyer, 33°, and James Hill, 33°, received into the Antient and Primitive Rite, on the recommendation of Sir Kt. A. C. Fowler, 11°, Bro, Griffith Jenkins Griffith, of Lodge Ashland, No. 294, Pennsyl- vania, U.S.A., who is on a visit to England and returns to America very shortly. The Bro. was carefully taken through the whole of the degrees from 4 to 30, inclusive, the salient points in each being explained. He carries with him letters of introduction to many Brethren in the U.S., to whose fraternal salutations we commend him. Utasninc ftotes anfo (juries. We learn with satisfaction that the Lodge of Utah has refused to admit Mormons into Masonry. Garibaldi was initiated into Freemasonry in a lodge on Staten Island, New York. We should he glad if any of onr American Brethren could favour us with particulars. Babylonian Antiquities. — We learn from the Atherueum that the collection of Antiquities in the British Museum has lately been enriched with thiee beautiful boundary stones from the neighbourhood of Babylon, covered with inscriptions, hieroglyphs (those generally held to he zodiacal signs) and human "figures. One contains the name of Mehsikku, who was King of Babylon about 1175 b.c. Another is dated in the reign of Nabu-Kain-abli, who may probably be set down as reigning at the beginning of the seventeenth century n.c., while the third, which has been engraved with great care, and is covered on one side with the so-called zodiacal signs, is said in the inscription to have been set up by Nebuchadnezzar as a memorial of the taking back of a piece of land from the Elamites, and its restoration to the country of Akkad. The Temple of Diana at Ephesus. — The work of ex- ploration, which has been suspended since 1874, is now again occupying the attention of the scientific world, and a meeting was recently convened by the Lord Mayor with the view to raise a fund by public subscription to continue the work. It may be remembered that Mr. J. T. Wood, in 1869, after a search of six years, discovered its remains at a depth of more than twenty feet below the level. The trustees of the British Museum, who had already supplied the means with which to explore some of the public buildings in the ancient city, authorised the exploration of the Temple, and with the aid of £12,000 from government the work was pro.SecuJted for five years, when owing to the important excavations that were being carried on at Nineveh and Babylon, it was suspended. The British Museum has lately become the fortuuate pos- sessor of a very fine collection of Chaldean Antiquities from the same site as those iu the Louvre, which had previously been obtained by M. do Sauzac, as the result of his explora- tions in Mesopotamia. Errata. — We are requested to say that St. Andrew’s Chapter, Senate and Council, Glasgow, meets at St. Mark’s Hall, 213, Buchanan Street, on 3rd Friday in each month, July only excepted, and that 111. Bro. Jno. M. Buchanan, 30°, is Sec. Also that 111. Bro. Richard Higham, 32°, has been appointed Gd. Annalist of the Mystic Temple, Prov. of Lancashire, a full list of the Officers of which will he published in a future issue. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE OF ITALIAN MASONRY. (Translated from the French of Most III. Bro. St. John B. Pessina, 33-96-90°, by John Yarkek.) ( Continued from paye 156.) Secretary-General, Brother Goodall, to Italy on a tour of inspection ; and on his return, he made a strict report of things Masonic in that kingdom. The f rater Goodall, when in Italy, inspected all the Supreme Councils, and by that egotism which is proverbial with Scottish Rite Masons, was silent as to the existence of this Sovereign Sanctuary of the Autient and Primitive Rite of Mizraim ; it would have been well if Brother Goodall had reported our existence, but like the ostrich, he buried his head in the saud that he might not behold us. He, howeyer, gave an account of his inspection, and declared that the only and sole legal body to be found in Italy which had reason for its existence in the Scottish Rite, was the Supreme Council of Turin, and in consequeuce the others were by the official Masonic Journal of America (Boston and Charleston) declared illegal, and of no vigour, including the bodies at Palermo, Florence and Naples ; and the same was confirmed at the Congress held in September, 1875, at Lausanne, constituting Turin the Sole Masonic Power of the Scottish Rite in Italy. Following this American decision, the body at biorence refused its submission to it, and organized a rebellion of diver3 dependent Lodges from the other centres, and took occasion of the transfer of the capital to Rome to assemble these dependent bodies. These dependent bodies, whether it be from ignorance or deceive! by lying promises, hastened at the call, rebelled against their respective Supreme Councils, and hastened to constitute the Gran 1 Orient of Rome, calling itself Supreme Masonic Power in Italy, and professing all Rites, and main- taining the strange pretension of wishing to rule even the Brothers and Masonic holies of whi Clapton, Lon., E.C. R. 111. Gd. Keeper of Sane., A. D. Lowenstark, 33-95°. P.M. 99 Edward Harrison, 32“ ,, Mr. of Cer. if if ft Jno. Harrison, 32° „ Guard If If 19 Harry Trigg, 32° ,, Organist Jf 95 ff Louis Honig, 32° Dep. Representative at Paris A. O. Muxbo, 32° for South of England Cor. G. Adames, 3*2° METROPOLITAN GRAND TRIBUNAL 31-93° (With its Grand Liturgical Council , 31-92°) Gd. Judge Gd. Defender ... ,, Arbitrator ... ,, Orator ,, Censor ,, Registrar ... „ Overseer ... ,, Marshal „ Pursuivant... V. III. Bro. R. Palmer Thomas, 32° J. E. Greexhill, 31° Thos. Sims, 31° MEETING ON SUMMONS FROM GRAND ANNALTS r J ANNUAL MEETING-JULY. €»rand iftgstic temple (Orri), Jukr*' Meeting at DUBLIN or elsewhere in IRELAND. Gd. Master of Light ... Rt. III. Bro. C. Monck Wilso: _ 33° P ’Z. ,, Orator ... V. „ ,. Joseph WoNroR, r ^ „ Treasurer ... „ „ „ Rich. John Lee,' ,, Examiner ... „ ,, „ Aug. Mouhlct, „ Annalist ... ,, ,, „ Wm. Steele Stt 32° ,, Keeper of Rites ... „ ,, „ W. F. Lawler, „ Conductor ... „ „ „ „ Mr. of Cer. ... „ „ ,, „ Guard ,, Representative Deputy „ ... Eri — G d. Tribunal, 31-93°. With its Gd. Liturgical Council, 31-92$. (Officers not yet Appointed.) ^ MEETING ON SUMMONS OF GRAND ANN R. III. Maurice L. Davies, M.D ' SCOTLAND. In charge of R. 111. Bro. T. M. Campbell, 33°, Gd. Bej Gd. Annalist, V. 111. Bro. Colin McKenzie, 32° This Grand Body is in course of formation. .... • fcvTSS tOBT THE KNEPH. itlgstir Ccmplc, PROVINCE OF LANCASHIRE. R. III. Bno. J. Hawkins, 33°, G.M.L. V. „ „ Richd. Higham, 32°, Grand Annalist. LONDON. No. 1.— Mount Sinai.— Chapter, Senate and Council. R. III. Bro. A. D. Lowexstark, 33°, Sub Dai (not working.) No. 6.— Rose of Sharon.— Chapter and Senate. R. III. Bno. J. H. Sotjthwood, 33°, M.W. V. „ „ Bernard Meyer, 32% S.G.C. (elect.) B. „ ,, James Hill, 33°. Sec. and Recorder. MEETING at the FREEMASONS’ TAVERN, on 2nd THURSDAY in each Month, August and September excepted. MANCHESTER. No. 2.— Palatine and Jerusalem- Chapter, Senate and Council. R. III. Bro. Joseph Hawkins, 33°, M.W. „ „ R. H. Holt, 32% S.G.C. ,, Richd. Higham, 32% Sub Dai. ,, ,, G. A. Robinson, 30°, Sec. MEETING at the GROSVENOR HOTEL, on MONDAY EVENINGS, MONTHLY. HAVANT. No. 3.— Orion.— Chapter, Senate and Council. R. III. Bro. J. N. Hillman, 33°, Sub Dai. „ „ J. Clay, 32°, S.G.C. „ „ J. Harrison, 32°, M.W. IEETING at the MASONIC HALL, HAVANT, on 4th TUESDAY, March, May, Sept. Nov. No. 4.— Sirius.— Burnley. (Not working.) cl ra lib ilia ex DUBLIN. No. 5.— “Primitive Pilgrims ”— Chapter. V. III. Bro. Aug. Mouillot, M.W. R. III. Bro. Dr. M. L. Davies, 33°, Sec. LIMERICK. ‘.0 . — u Limerick.”— Chapter, Senate and Council. lf .R. III. Bro. C. Moxck Wilson, 33°, Sub. Dai. 'V. „ „ Richd. J. Lee, 32°, S.G.C. V. „ „ W. Steele Studdart, J.P., 32°, M.W. GLASGOW. P r '- 8.—“ Spliynx ’’—Chapter, Senate and Council re i III. Bro. Stephen Roberton, 32°, M.W. Au „ „ W. F. Shaw, 32°, S.G.C. nu »» »» T. M. Campbell, 33°, Sub Dai. Q r „ „ David Chalmers, 30°, Secretary. He TING on 3rd THURSDAY, at MASONIC HALL, ing HOPE STREET. at j ... No. 9— St. Andrew’s —Chapter, Senate and Council. III. Bro. Clyde Duncan, 32% Sub Dai. „ Andrew Holmes, 32°, S.G.C. , Robert Morrison, 32°, M.W. V. „ Jno. McC. Buchanan, 32°, Sec. 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