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YXIII . 24 _Masonry are concerned, whether before or after the premier See also:

Grand See also:Lodge was formed, it is most unlikely that such a society as the Freemasons wou:d adopt anything of a really distinctive See also:character from any other organization. In The See also:Muses' Threnodie by H. See also:Adamson (See also:Perth, 1638) are the lines " For what we do presage is See also:riot in See also:grosse, For we are brethren of the Rosie Crosse; We have the See also:Mason Word and second sight, Things for to come we can fortell aright." Dr Begemann considers that possibly during the See also:decade from 1720 to 173o a See also:kind of Rosicrucian or Hermetic See also:influence took See also:place in the lodges of See also:London, some additions to the See also:ritual of that See also:period not having been derived from operative See also:masonry; but in the previous See also:century no such influence is traceable. Several See also:modern See also:societies have been formed from See also:time to time (some of which are still flourishing in See also:Great See also:Britain) for the study of See also:Rosicrucianism and allied subjects, but in no sense are they directly derived from the " Brethren of the Rosy See also:Cross " of the 17th century, though keen followers thereof. By far the most important of these is the " Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia," with headquarters in London. The Supreme Magus, Dr See also:William See also:Wynn See also:Westcott, has written its See also:History (19o0), with other important See also:works on the subject, and the published Transactions of the Society are most valuable. The Rosicrucians, their See also:Rites and Mysteries, by Hargrave Jennings (three See also:editions, 187o–87) ; The Real History of the Rosicrucians, founded on their own Manifestoes and on Facts and Documents collected from the Writings of Initiated Brethren, by A. E. See also:Waite (1887) ; and The Arcane See also:Schools, by See also:John Yarker (1909), may be consulted with See also:advantage, though not authorized publications of the Society. (W. J.

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