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printed on business cards , and linked into advertising mediums . It is prostituting the purposes of Masonry , it is violating its first principles , and , as I view it , expulsion is not too sovorc a punishment for one who will nse them for mercenary purposes , or who by their profuse use will advertise that he is a Mason . —Voice of Masonry .

Transmission Of Masonic Work.

TRANSMISSION OF MASONIC WORK .

rpHE Freemason should often commune with himself in - the council chamber of thought . Masonry is both a science and an art , and he who would master it , and be in truth a Master Mason , must vigorously exercise his intellectual powers . In pursuance of this thought we propose

to consider , firsfc , how the ritual of Freemasonry has been transmitted through the decades of time : and next , how the individual Freemason can best qualify himself for the performance of Masonic work . The true work of Masonry is , and always has been ,

strictly secret . Ifc has never been committed to either writing or printing . Although handed down from year to year by word of mouth , it is , nevertheless , what it was in the beginning . This may seem strange , but it is true . Innumerable instances prove it , analogously in parallel

cases outside of , as well as in all cases within , the Craft . It requires no extraordinary feat of memory to retain a volume of thought reduced to words , and to convey it in all its materiality from generation to generation . This has been proven again and again in the profane world . It

was in this manner that the patriarchs transmitted from one to another the facts of Biblical history , before the employment of writing ; it was thus that one of the most wonderful productions of the human mind , the Illiad , was for generations preserved ; and likewise the famous Vedas

of India , which are four times the length of the Iliad . These and other notable examples , prove thafc the human mind is a storehouse capable of containing a vasfc amount of knowledge , so that , if methodically arranged , it may be drawn upon at pleasure . When memory is the warder of

the brain , the facts which have entered it may depart again at will , to re-enter , and remain in the mind subject to call for ever . Wonderful , wonderful memory ! Under discipline it is God-like . It is not merely for the little events of life , bnt as well for the greatest . True , a cour

tier will remember for ever a smile from his sovereign , or an unfortunate sneer which befell him at court when taking a glass of wine ; but these are paltry employments for fche workshop of the brain . Memory is as necessary in the higher pursuits of life as it is in its commonest transactions .

All have it , or may have it , in sufficient degree to answer every practical purpose , while some have it in extraordinary power . Many examples of this are preserved in history and biography . Seneca , by the mere effort of his natural memory , could repeat two thousand words after

once hearing them , although they had no dependence upon or connection with each other . Cyrus knew every soldier in his army by name , and Scipio all of the people of Rome .

In our own time we are familar with the remarkable feats of memory of the historian Macaulay , and with the linguistic powers of Mezzofanti , who spoke fifty-eight languages . But such abnormal memories as these are not

requisite for the transmission of Masonic work , or the skilful mastery and delivery of the ritual . Ordinary endowments are sufficient for the purposes of the Craft , although extraordinary ones are eminently serviceable , and adorn the Freemason as they do the man .

Sage Dr . Johnson observed , that "the two offices of memory are , collection and distribution . " Some are adequate to the one , without being so to the other . With some the memory is a prison-house , with others a house of entertainment free as airthrough which troop thoughts

, , that are ever at the call of the master . The old saying , that we forget nothing , has been disproved a thousand tames b y Junior Wardens , aye , and by Seniors and Masters . J-he knowledge may all be there . but ifc is nofc always sub ject to beck and call . It is capricious , depending too much

upon the momentary feelings . Some persons cannot always recollect at will what they know . It is only the well-balanced mind that ia master of itself that can use its 0 w " riches , and send them flowing out like a river . The intellectual manner of transmitting its work is one external feature that distinguishes Freemasonry from fche

Transmission Of Masonic Work.

cloud of secret societies that have imitated it , in some degree , but in truth followed it at an immense distance . Many of these latter were contrived by little men for little men—men of contracted powers of mind , and small ability to remember . For such there must be a printed ritual .

They aro not competent to burden their minds , but must depend upon the seeing of the eye rather than the hearing of the ear . We esteem it one of the glories of Freemasonry that ib may boast not only a nobility of thought , but a nobility in the manner of preserving and

transmitting thought . We have always deprecated the employment of any artificial aids , in the nature of keys or mnemonics , as crutches for lame minds ; or the constitution of any body of conservators of the work . Freemasonry is its own conservator , and its regular officers are sufficient

for conducting it . The good old way is the best way . It was good enough for the primitive Scriptures , and the Iliad , and tho Vedas , and for Freemasonry through all past timo , and it will be good enough throughout tho future of the Craft .

Do you ask , What is the best method for a Mason to employ to qualify himself for being a Master in the Craffc ? If he would truly enjoy " the pleasures of memory , " he

must give attention to the work . There is a volume in that word , attention . It means not merely to hear , but to listen—to attend closely with a view to hear , to think while he hears . THE ACCOMPLISHED FKEEMA SOX MUST BE A

LISTENER AND A THINKER , and if he be these , he will bo one of those who will aid in the transmission of the work to the rising generation of initiates , and thereby win for himself both a good report among his brethren in the present , and a reputation that shall itself bo transmitted as a part of the History of Freemasonry . —Keystone .

Justice Lodge of Instruction , No . 147 . —A meeting was held on Thursday , 30 th ult ., at tho Brown Bear , High-street , Deptford . Present—Bros . G . Emblin W . M ., B . II . Banks S . W ., J . S . Miller J . W ., S . R . Speight Secretary , W . Martin S . D ., Penrose J . D ., Ingram I . G ., J . J . Hutchins P . M . Preceptor * and several other brethren . Lodge was opened in first degree , and minutes confirmed . Lodge opened in second and third degrees , and ceremony of raising was rehearsed , Bro . Penrose candidate .

Percy Lodge of Instruction , No . 198 . —We have pieaure in intimating to onr readers tbat tho above Lodge of Instruction resumes its labours this evening , at eight o ' clock , at the Jolly Farmers , Southgate-road , Islington . Bro . R . W . Galer is the Sec retary , and Bro . E . Pearcy P . M . 228 the Preceptor . Both these officers are well known , and appreciated for the zeal they display in the work of the Craft . Brethren are very cordially invited to attend this Lodge .

Kingsland . Lodge of Instruction , No . 1693 . —Held at Bro . Longhurst ' s , Canonbury Tavern , N ., on Monday , 27 th ult Present—Bros . Marks W . M ., Rhodes S . W ., Killick J . W ., Colling , ridge J . D ., Langton I . G . ; also Bros . Fenner , Hall , Galer , and Long , hurst . Lodge waa opened in due form , and the tninntes of last meeting wero read and confirmed . Tbe ceremony of initiation was

rehearsed , Bro . Feuner acting as candidate . Lodge was opened and closed in the second and third degrees . It was proposed b y Bro . Fenner , seconded by Bro . Killick _ . W ., that Bro . Rhodes S . W . fill the chair on Monday , 3 rd September , upon which occasion Bro . Isaac P . M . has promised to rehearse the ceremony of installation . We trust there will be a good attendance .

Bro . Jas . Curtis P . M . 315 , 1797 , P . G . S . B . Sussex , has been selected , out of 25 candidates , for the post of editor to the Odd Felloios' Magazine .

We remind Craftsmen that Bro . H . P . Isaac P . M . 1693 will rehearse the ceremony of installation at the Kingsland Lodge of Instruction , Canonbury Tavern , Islington , on Monday evening next ( 3 rd instant ) , at half past eight . Ifc is to be hoped a numerous attendance of brethren will do our respected brother the honour to attend .

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