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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
THE FREEMASONS ' QUARTERLY REVIEW .
JUNE 30 , 1841 .
ROYAL ARCH MASONRY . WE regret to observe an increasing disposition to make this , the superior Order of Craft Masonry , subordinate to the purposes of the inferior degrees . Not only is it desired that the decisions in Grand Lodge , on subjects concerning
the discipline of the Craft , and involving assumed offences , should be binding on the Grand Chapter , but it is also adopted , as a principle , that honours conferred in the former shal ] carry with them a qualification for similar honours in the latter .
It will be in the recollection of many of our readers , that on a recent occasion , when complaint was made in Grand Lodge that the influence of the Grand Master over the decisions of that body had become disproportionately , not to say unconstitutionally preponderating , by his
long exercise of the privilege of nominating so many Grand Officers , His Royal Highness rather evaded than answered the complaint , by observing that he never invested any Brother with the badge of a Grand Officer who was not qualified to enter the Grand Lodge . Taking this
declaration at its full value , we are at a loss to conceive why the application of a principle , so properly exercised in the Grand Lodge , should be so glaringly departed from in the Grand Chapter ? That this is the case , we need only refer to the appointments made by command of His Royal Highness , as First Grand Principal , in the last VOL . VIII . S
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
THE FREEMASONS ' QUARTERLY REVIEW .
JUNE 30 , 1841 .
ROYAL ARCH MASONRY . WE regret to observe an increasing disposition to make this , the superior Order of Craft Masonry , subordinate to the purposes of the inferior degrees . Not only is it desired that the decisions in Grand Lodge , on subjects concerning
the discipline of the Craft , and involving assumed offences , should be binding on the Grand Chapter , but it is also adopted , as a principle , that honours conferred in the former shal ] carry with them a qualification for similar honours in the latter .
It will be in the recollection of many of our readers , that on a recent occasion , when complaint was made in Grand Lodge that the influence of the Grand Master over the decisions of that body had become disproportionately , not to say unconstitutionally preponderating , by his
long exercise of the privilege of nominating so many Grand Officers , His Royal Highness rather evaded than answered the complaint , by observing that he never invested any Brother with the badge of a Grand Officer who was not qualified to enter the Grand Lodge . Taking this
declaration at its full value , we are at a loss to conceive why the application of a principle , so properly exercised in the Grand Lodge , should be so glaringly departed from in the Grand Chapter ? That this is the case , we need only refer to the appointments made by command of His Royal Highness , as First Grand Principal , in the last VOL . VIII . S