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What Bro. Pike Believed In 1871 And What He Believes Now.
" The evidence of the antiquity of Masonry consists of hints here and there , and occasionally a word or phrase , which those who have worked over and over again its Rituals have intentionally let alone , not knowing their significance . Its present formulas and Rituals are not old ; its
its lectures and explanations ot symoois are mouero . JO . Mason of 1717 could not gain entrance into an American Lodge in 1867 . If space permitted , I could have trebled extracts to the same effect . Sufficient , however , has been given to show
that while Bro . Pike in 1871 ridiculed the claimed antiquity in behalf of the Tork Rite , and referred with sarcastic contempt to believers of the Bodleian MS ., and in the
patronage of the Saints John , and , while he admitted that the degrees , Rituals , symbols , & c , of the Tork Rite are modern , he at the same time adhered to a belief in the
Masonry of Robert Bruce , in the Rose Croixism of James III . and of Charles Edward Stuart , in the genuineness of the 1786 Charter . In short , he believes in the
antiquity of Scottish Rite Masonry . But in his recent pamphlet—viz ., " Masonic Origins , " Bro . Pike abandons the antiquity even of his pet Scottish Rite . He says : — " The next Rite that made its appearance in Masonry
was that of Perfection , or Heredom ( not in Scotland , but in France ) , composed of the Blue degrees and twenty-two others , " the eighteenth being the Rose Croix , and the twenty-fifth the ' Prince of the Royal Secret . ' Of the authors , or origin , or separate working , before the organisation of the Rite , of any except two or three of the twenty-two degrees , no information whatever has come down to us ; and little reliance is to be placed on what
has been told in regard to these two or three . The degrees had been organised into a Rite before 1762 . One by one they had been invented , worked , communicated by the inventors to others , and at last—how and by whom , nobody knows—had been arranged into a system called a Rite . "
I was informed by a New Tork brother that formerly Bro . Pike believed in the antiquity of all Masonic traditions , including that of Hiram ' s monument , of the " Broken column and tbe Virgin weeping . " But , be that as it may ,
in 1867 Bro . Pike ceased to believe in the antiquity of tho Tork Rite , and now even two or three cherished degrees of the Scottish Rite he admits to be doubtful . Bro . Pike is the best informed American Mason , as far as
Masonic history and literature are concerned . The modernness of all of our degrees has been demonstrated by Bros . Fi ' ndel , Lyon , Hughan , Gould , and others . Such being the case , I think it is high time for every sincere lover of
truth to exert his influence for ridding Masonry of an accumulated mass of fiction , which is alike repugnant to religion and common sense . In short , a clean sweep of
all the rubbish must be made sooner or later , and the sooner it is done the better will it be for the reputation of our Fraternity—that is , if we desire to preserve and deserve the title of " Honourable . " BOSTON , U . S ., 16 th March 1886 .
We have received a copy of a neatly got-up little work , containing a lecture on " The two Pillars at the porchway entrance of King Solomon ' s Temple , " delivered by W . Bro . J . T . Thorp , P . M . 523 , P . P . G . S . W ., at the Union Lodge of Instruction , Freemasons' Hall , Leicester . It forms a
neat little handbook of notes interesting to Masons , shedding much light upon abstruse points in our ritual , the chief endeavour of the writer being to fix the respective positions of the two brazen pillars . He gives a brief
historical account , describing the form and situation , both of tho original Tabernacle and also of the Temple itself , and the little hrochure is accompanied by plans of each . We
commend it to the perusal of all who are desirous of adding to their store of Masonic knowledge , derived from evidence and research .
The following Festivals were celebrated at Freemasons ' Tavorn during the week ending Saturday , 3 rd April 1886 : — l
Monday—Eclectic Chapter . Wednesday — Smeatotiian Society , Lodge of Progress , Italian Ball . Thursday—St . James ' Chapter , Universal Chapter , Victoria Rides Lodge , Westminster and Keystone Lodge . Friday — Britaunic Chapter , Eoyal Kensington Lodge , Thistle Lodge , Odd Volumes , Society de Secour 3 mutuel des Scusses . Saturday—City and West End Soiree .
Reviews.
REVIEWS .
All Books intended for Review should be addressed to the Editor of The Freemason ' s Chronicle , Belvidere "Works , Hermes Hill , Pentonville , London , M " . * n *
" Debrett'a Illustrated Heraldic and Biographical House of Commons and Judicial Benoh , 1886 . " Edited by R . H . Mair , LL . D . Illustrated with armorial bearings . London : Dean and Son , 160 a Fleet Street , E . C .
LIKE all other of Debrett ' s standard works , this elaborate and exhaustive compilation stands alone as a book of reference on the subjects of which it treats . Dr . Mair has brought to his aid all the authentic information which it was possible to obtain down to the present time , with respect to the composition of the lower house of
our Imperial Legislature , and gives a notice of each of the members now sitting in Parliament ; the counties , divisions , universities , boroughs , and borough-wards for which they were returned ; with the names of the unsuccessful candidates , and the numbers recorded at the polls . Against the latter are placed shields , bearing the borough
arms , or corporation seals j and indices are made of newly created boroughs , and of members who did not sit in the last Parliament , or who sat for other constituencies . Divisions of counties and boroughs are given iu alphabetical order by their primary title , under the heading of their respective county , and not in the numerical order iu
which they appear in the "Redistribution of Seats Act . The number of members returned by the several constituencies are indicated , as also are the number of registered electors , aud the number upon the register prior to the extension of the Franohise , while the Parliamentary populations ( based on the last census ) of counties and
divisions are also given in conoise form , most easy for reference . Considerable space is devoted to the names , families , and residences of the Peers and Peeresses of the United Kingdom , to whioh are appended Peers' surnames and eldest sons' titles ; followed by a full and comprehensive list of the Judicial Bench , in the order of
precedence : judges of county courts ; recorders ; metropolitan and stipendiary magistrates ; colonial jadges ; together with a useful explanation of technical Parliamentary expressions , with brief descriptions of the duties of some of the higher officers of State . In addition to these , a list of the Ministry is given ; the public and general Aots passed during the
6 th session of the 10 th Parliament of H . M . Queen Victoria ( 48 and 49 Vic . ) are enumerated ; a list of the High Chancellors and Speakers of the Honse of Commons since the Reform Act of 1832 ; clerks and officers of the Houses of Peers and Commons ; constitutions of the House of Commons ; general elections since the Reform Aot ; duration of
Parliaments , & c , of the United Kingdom ; a list of Administrations since 1715 ; a comparative table showing the differences of population and representation between the present and old constituencies ; Peeresses in their own rights ; representative Peers for Ireland and Scotland ; Peers who are minors , and tbe dates when they attain
their majorities ; dates of adjournments of Pfirliament , 1842-83 j lords-lieutenants of counties ; addresses of clubs , & c . It will thus be gathered that the work before us is a perfect encyclopedia of all that it may be desired to know in reference to the House of Commons and no single item of information on the various points treated has
been overlooked . A considerable amount of care and erudition must have been brought to bear upon this vast work by the editor and compiler , whose efforts are produced in the finest style of the typographic art and binding . The work is not only indispensable as a book of reference to the politician , but forms a pleasing ornament and addition to any library or the drawing-room table .
An ordinary general meeting of the shareholders of the Portsmouth Freemasons' Hall and Club Company was held in the Lodge-room , at the Company ' s premises , Commercial-road , on Tuesday , 30 th nit . Messrs . William
Miles , Henry Croucher , Robert J . Rastrick , and John H . Corke were re-elected Directors , and other formal business having been transacted , the proceedings terminated with the usual votes of thanks .
Bro . J . M . Klenck has been unanimously elected , at a Vestry meeting of St . Helen ' s , Bishopsgate , to be one of thefOverseers of the parish for the ensuing year .
A lecture will be delivered by Bro . S . Valentine P . M . No . 9 , at the Albion Lodge of Instruction , Crown Hotel , Essex Street , Strand , on Friday evening , the 16 bh instant . Subject : " Some Speculations as to the Origin of Freemasonry ; its Signs , Tokens and Words , as suggested by the Bible . "
HOIXOTVAV ' S OIKTMEST AND PiiLS . —Coughs , Influenza . —The soothing properties of these medicaments render them well worthy of trial in all diseases of the respiratory organs . In common colds and influenza the Pills , taken internally , and tho Ointment rubbed over tho chest and throat , are exceedingly efficacious . When influenza is epidemic , this treatment is tho easiest , safest , and surest . Holloway ' s Pills purify the blood , remove all
obstacles to its free circulation through the lungs , relieve the over-gorged air tube ? , and render respiration free , ' without reducing the strength , irritating the nerves , or depressing the spirits ; such are the ready means of saving suffering when any one is afflicted with colds , coughs , bronchitis , and other chest complaints , by which so many persons are seriously and permanently iiillicted in most countries ,
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What Bro. Pike Believed In 1871 And What He Believes Now.
" The evidence of the antiquity of Masonry consists of hints here and there , and occasionally a word or phrase , which those who have worked over and over again its Rituals have intentionally let alone , not knowing their significance . Its present formulas and Rituals are not old ; its
its lectures and explanations ot symoois are mouero . JO . Mason of 1717 could not gain entrance into an American Lodge in 1867 . If space permitted , I could have trebled extracts to the same effect . Sufficient , however , has been given to show
that while Bro . Pike in 1871 ridiculed the claimed antiquity in behalf of the Tork Rite , and referred with sarcastic contempt to believers of the Bodleian MS ., and in the
patronage of the Saints John , and , while he admitted that the degrees , Rituals , symbols , & c , of the Tork Rite are modern , he at the same time adhered to a belief in the
Masonry of Robert Bruce , in the Rose Croixism of James III . and of Charles Edward Stuart , in the genuineness of the 1786 Charter . In short , he believes in the
antiquity of Scottish Rite Masonry . But in his recent pamphlet—viz ., " Masonic Origins , " Bro . Pike abandons the antiquity even of his pet Scottish Rite . He says : — " The next Rite that made its appearance in Masonry
was that of Perfection , or Heredom ( not in Scotland , but in France ) , composed of the Blue degrees and twenty-two others , " the eighteenth being the Rose Croix , and the twenty-fifth the ' Prince of the Royal Secret . ' Of the authors , or origin , or separate working , before the organisation of the Rite , of any except two or three of the twenty-two degrees , no information whatever has come down to us ; and little reliance is to be placed on what
has been told in regard to these two or three . The degrees had been organised into a Rite before 1762 . One by one they had been invented , worked , communicated by the inventors to others , and at last—how and by whom , nobody knows—had been arranged into a system called a Rite . "
I was informed by a New Tork brother that formerly Bro . Pike believed in the antiquity of all Masonic traditions , including that of Hiram ' s monument , of the " Broken column and tbe Virgin weeping . " But , be that as it may ,
in 1867 Bro . Pike ceased to believe in the antiquity of tho Tork Rite , and now even two or three cherished degrees of the Scottish Rite he admits to be doubtful . Bro . Pike is the best informed American Mason , as far as
Masonic history and literature are concerned . The modernness of all of our degrees has been demonstrated by Bros . Fi ' ndel , Lyon , Hughan , Gould , and others . Such being the case , I think it is high time for every sincere lover of
truth to exert his influence for ridding Masonry of an accumulated mass of fiction , which is alike repugnant to religion and common sense . In short , a clean sweep of
all the rubbish must be made sooner or later , and the sooner it is done the better will it be for the reputation of our Fraternity—that is , if we desire to preserve and deserve the title of " Honourable . " BOSTON , U . S ., 16 th March 1886 .
We have received a copy of a neatly got-up little work , containing a lecture on " The two Pillars at the porchway entrance of King Solomon ' s Temple , " delivered by W . Bro . J . T . Thorp , P . M . 523 , P . P . G . S . W ., at the Union Lodge of Instruction , Freemasons' Hall , Leicester . It forms a
neat little handbook of notes interesting to Masons , shedding much light upon abstruse points in our ritual , the chief endeavour of the writer being to fix the respective positions of the two brazen pillars . He gives a brief
historical account , describing the form and situation , both of tho original Tabernacle and also of the Temple itself , and the little hrochure is accompanied by plans of each . We
commend it to the perusal of all who are desirous of adding to their store of Masonic knowledge , derived from evidence and research .
The following Festivals were celebrated at Freemasons ' Tavorn during the week ending Saturday , 3 rd April 1886 : — l
Monday—Eclectic Chapter . Wednesday — Smeatotiian Society , Lodge of Progress , Italian Ball . Thursday—St . James ' Chapter , Universal Chapter , Victoria Rides Lodge , Westminster and Keystone Lodge . Friday — Britaunic Chapter , Eoyal Kensington Lodge , Thistle Lodge , Odd Volumes , Society de Secour 3 mutuel des Scusses . Saturday—City and West End Soiree .
Reviews.
REVIEWS .
All Books intended for Review should be addressed to the Editor of The Freemason ' s Chronicle , Belvidere "Works , Hermes Hill , Pentonville , London , M " . * n *
" Debrett'a Illustrated Heraldic and Biographical House of Commons and Judicial Benoh , 1886 . " Edited by R . H . Mair , LL . D . Illustrated with armorial bearings . London : Dean and Son , 160 a Fleet Street , E . C .
LIKE all other of Debrett ' s standard works , this elaborate and exhaustive compilation stands alone as a book of reference on the subjects of which it treats . Dr . Mair has brought to his aid all the authentic information which it was possible to obtain down to the present time , with respect to the composition of the lower house of
our Imperial Legislature , and gives a notice of each of the members now sitting in Parliament ; the counties , divisions , universities , boroughs , and borough-wards for which they were returned ; with the names of the unsuccessful candidates , and the numbers recorded at the polls . Against the latter are placed shields , bearing the borough
arms , or corporation seals j and indices are made of newly created boroughs , and of members who did not sit in the last Parliament , or who sat for other constituencies . Divisions of counties and boroughs are given iu alphabetical order by their primary title , under the heading of their respective county , and not in the numerical order iu
which they appear in the "Redistribution of Seats Act . The number of members returned by the several constituencies are indicated , as also are the number of registered electors , aud the number upon the register prior to the extension of the Franohise , while the Parliamentary populations ( based on the last census ) of counties and
divisions are also given in conoise form , most easy for reference . Considerable space is devoted to the names , families , and residences of the Peers and Peeresses of the United Kingdom , to whioh are appended Peers' surnames and eldest sons' titles ; followed by a full and comprehensive list of the Judicial Bench , in the order of
precedence : judges of county courts ; recorders ; metropolitan and stipendiary magistrates ; colonial jadges ; together with a useful explanation of technical Parliamentary expressions , with brief descriptions of the duties of some of the higher officers of State . In addition to these , a list of the Ministry is given ; the public and general Aots passed during the
6 th session of the 10 th Parliament of H . M . Queen Victoria ( 48 and 49 Vic . ) are enumerated ; a list of the High Chancellors and Speakers of the Honse of Commons since the Reform Act of 1832 ; clerks and officers of the Houses of Peers and Commons ; constitutions of the House of Commons ; general elections since the Reform Aot ; duration of
Parliaments , & c , of the United Kingdom ; a list of Administrations since 1715 ; a comparative table showing the differences of population and representation between the present and old constituencies ; Peeresses in their own rights ; representative Peers for Ireland and Scotland ; Peers who are minors , and tbe dates when they attain
their majorities ; dates of adjournments of Pfirliament , 1842-83 j lords-lieutenants of counties ; addresses of clubs , & c . It will thus be gathered that the work before us is a perfect encyclopedia of all that it may be desired to know in reference to the House of Commons and no single item of information on the various points treated has
been overlooked . A considerable amount of care and erudition must have been brought to bear upon this vast work by the editor and compiler , whose efforts are produced in the finest style of the typographic art and binding . The work is not only indispensable as a book of reference to the politician , but forms a pleasing ornament and addition to any library or the drawing-room table .
An ordinary general meeting of the shareholders of the Portsmouth Freemasons' Hall and Club Company was held in the Lodge-room , at the Company ' s premises , Commercial-road , on Tuesday , 30 th nit . Messrs . William
Miles , Henry Croucher , Robert J . Rastrick , and John H . Corke were re-elected Directors , and other formal business having been transacted , the proceedings terminated with the usual votes of thanks .
Bro . J . M . Klenck has been unanimously elected , at a Vestry meeting of St . Helen ' s , Bishopsgate , to be one of thefOverseers of the parish for the ensuing year .
A lecture will be delivered by Bro . S . Valentine P . M . No . 9 , at the Albion Lodge of Instruction , Crown Hotel , Essex Street , Strand , on Friday evening , the 16 bh instant . Subject : " Some Speculations as to the Origin of Freemasonry ; its Signs , Tokens and Words , as suggested by the Bible . "
HOIXOTVAV ' S OIKTMEST AND PiiLS . —Coughs , Influenza . —The soothing properties of these medicaments render them well worthy of trial in all diseases of the respiratory organs . In common colds and influenza the Pills , taken internally , and tho Ointment rubbed over tho chest and throat , are exceedingly efficacious . When influenza is epidemic , this treatment is tho easiest , safest , and surest . Holloway ' s Pills purify the blood , remove all
obstacles to its free circulation through the lungs , relieve the over-gorged air tube ? , and render respiration free , ' without reducing the strength , irritating the nerves , or depressing the spirits ; such are the ready means of saving suffering when any one is afflicted with colds , coughs , bronchitis , and other chest complaints , by which so many persons are seriously and permanently iiillicted in most countries ,