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Knights Templars.
building the Abbey of Kilwinning , " ( which is throughout the article improperly spelt Kilruiming , ) about A . . 1150 . " " Robert I . ( the Bruce , ) King of Scotland , is said to have founded the Grand Lodge of Ileredom , of Kilwinning , m the year 1314 . _ This synchronizes remaikably with Llorente s account of the Knights Templars founding an establishment in that year and agrees with his statement of Robert Bruce being their patron . 'I he Kilwinning Lodge , b decision of the Grand Lodge
in 1744 , " feeling itself aggrieved" y a . , " withdrew from its controul , and established the Grand Chapter of the RovalOider of H eredom of Kilwinning , reserving the power of conferring all the higher degrees , and leaving to the Lodge ' of St . John , ( the Grand Lodo-e , ) the superintendence of the symbolic or common degrees . In connexion with the subject of this letter , I wish to observe , that to be anomalin the in which the Masonic
there appears an y way Templars stand in regard to Masonry . I allude to the degree which is commonly called the Degree of Knights Templars and is given in En-land , and in Ireland , next after that of the Royal Arch . But tins decree is not so much as named , so far as I can understand , m the list of " the thirty-three acknowledged degrees of Scotch Masonry , either by Dalcho , in the copy which he has published of the manifesto of the G . General bRosenbergin his Masonic Chart . At the
Inspectors , or y , same time , that degree , I must confess , appears to me to he a very important one , both to Masonry and to the Order ; and I am not now to learn that among those thirty-three degrees , the Order of Knights Templars is still perpetuated . Perhaps , however , it may be m your nower or that of some of your correspondents , to explain how this is . in
indeed , the difference among the different bodies ot Masons , regain to the numbers of degrees in the Order , and the dependence of one degree upon another , is extremely puzzling , and much to be regretted Thus , while in France thirty-three degrees are recognized—in England only three are acknowledged by the Grand Lodge , besides the hoyal Arch , although Orders of Knig hthood are tolerated , and several unrecognised degrees are given by many Lodges or Chapters ; and in Ireland , bthe most scientific members
where the Scotch system is acknowledged y of the Order , very few indeed of its numerous degrees are ever worked in , and members pass , therefore , per salt urn , oyer seven or eight at once ; while in the country districts , if not in Dublm itself , many degrees are added which are not connected with Scottish Masonry ; and , indeed to say truth , very little connected with any Masonry whatever . I trust these observations not be unacceptable and that they may be the
may , means of producing more information on the subject from some Brother better informed than myself . ,...,, I am yours very faithfully , NOACHIDA DALHTJADICUS .
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Knights Templars.
building the Abbey of Kilwinning , " ( which is throughout the article improperly spelt Kilruiming , ) about A . . 1150 . " " Robert I . ( the Bruce , ) King of Scotland , is said to have founded the Grand Lodge of Ileredom , of Kilwinning , m the year 1314 . _ This synchronizes remaikably with Llorente s account of the Knights Templars founding an establishment in that year and agrees with his statement of Robert Bruce being their patron . 'I he Kilwinning Lodge , b decision of the Grand Lodge
in 1744 , " feeling itself aggrieved" y a . , " withdrew from its controul , and established the Grand Chapter of the RovalOider of H eredom of Kilwinning , reserving the power of conferring all the higher degrees , and leaving to the Lodge ' of St . John , ( the Grand Lodo-e , ) the superintendence of the symbolic or common degrees . In connexion with the subject of this letter , I wish to observe , that to be anomalin the in which the Masonic
there appears an y way Templars stand in regard to Masonry . I allude to the degree which is commonly called the Degree of Knights Templars and is given in En-land , and in Ireland , next after that of the Royal Arch . But tins decree is not so much as named , so far as I can understand , m the list of " the thirty-three acknowledged degrees of Scotch Masonry , either by Dalcho , in the copy which he has published of the manifesto of the G . General bRosenbergin his Masonic Chart . At the
Inspectors , or y , same time , that degree , I must confess , appears to me to he a very important one , both to Masonry and to the Order ; and I am not now to learn that among those thirty-three degrees , the Order of Knights Templars is still perpetuated . Perhaps , however , it may be m your nower or that of some of your correspondents , to explain how this is . in
indeed , the difference among the different bodies ot Masons , regain to the numbers of degrees in the Order , and the dependence of one degree upon another , is extremely puzzling , and much to be regretted Thus , while in France thirty-three degrees are recognized—in England only three are acknowledged by the Grand Lodge , besides the hoyal Arch , although Orders of Knig hthood are tolerated , and several unrecognised degrees are given by many Lodges or Chapters ; and in Ireland , bthe most scientific members
where the Scotch system is acknowledged y of the Order , very few indeed of its numerous degrees are ever worked in , and members pass , therefore , per salt urn , oyer seven or eight at once ; while in the country districts , if not in Dublm itself , many degrees are added which are not connected with Scottish Masonry ; and , indeed to say truth , very little connected with any Masonry whatever . I trust these observations not be unacceptable and that they may be the
may , means of producing more information on the subject from some Brother better informed than myself . ,...,, I am yours very faithfully , NOACHIDA DALHTJADICUS .