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The Freemason's Lexicon.
THE FREEMASON'S LEXICON .
TO TIIE EDITOR . OF THE FREEMASON ' s QUARTERLY REVIEW . Sin AND BROTHER —I have this journey purchased a work called " The Freemason ' s Lexicon ; " containing Short Treatises upon the Ancient and Modern History , Symbols , Customs , Systems , and Degrees of Freemasonry ; the Secret Orders or Mysteries of the Ancients ; Orders of Modern Times ; Magicians Rosicrucians ; Biographical Notices of
Eminent Freemasons , and many other useful notices to Freemasons , by Brother John Christian Gaaicke , Past-Master of a Lodge in Berlin . There is nothing in the work but what can be printed without the fear of any violation of our ancient laws and customs , but much wliich , according to my humble views , may be very useful to the Brethren . I propose to translate it into English , and will send you , perhaps , a sheet or sofor each Quarterly , as I go on with it , leaving it entirely to your superior judgment to insert them or not , as you may think most conducive to the welfare and prosperity of your work , and of the Craft in general .
Yours fraternally , GEORGE WATSON . Aachen , Aix-la-Chapelle . —In this city is the St . John ' s Lodge , Constancy and Union , affiliated to the Grand Lodge at the Three Globes in BerlinMarch 71816 . It formerlconsisted of two Lod
, , y ges , wliich ivere united under the above name September 15 , 1778 , with a warrant from the Provincial Grand Lodge at Frankfort-on-the-Maine . AVhen the French took Aix-la-Chapelle , they compelled the Lodge to adopt the French ritual , and to work by it until 1816 , when Aix-la-Chapelle again became a free imperial city : it is rendered remarkable by a prosecution of the Lodge and of the Brethren , which deserves commemoration . " The monkI . udwig Greinemanna Dominicanand
, , , lecturer upon theology , in the year 1779 , in the time of the fast ( Lent ) , endeavoured to prove , by a course of sermons from the pulpit , that the Jews who crucified our Saviour were Freemasons ! that Pilate and Herod were wardens in a Mason ' s Lodge !! that Judas , before he betrayed his blaster , was initiated in the synagogue , and that when lie returned tlie thirty pieces of silver , he did no more than pay his fees for initiation into the order ! . ' ! The magistrates having remarked the commotion
thereby raised among the people , thought they would act very prudently by adopting tlie same tone ; accordingly , on the 10 th of March , 1779 , they published the following decree : — " Tiie inhabitants of the free imperial city of Aix-la-Chapelle are reminded how that the sect of Freemasons are already placed under the barm of the church by two popes , and that to those excommunications is appendedipso factoa deprivation of the rightsprivilegesand
-, , , , pro tection of citizenship ; a noble and wise magistracy has determined to add thereto the following temporal punishment , that any one who shall offer a refuge in his house to the so-called Freemasons , or who shall allow them to assemble in his house , shall be punished for the first offence with a fine of 100 florins ; for the second offence 200 florins , and for
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemason's Lexicon.
THE FREEMASON'S LEXICON .
TO TIIE EDITOR . OF THE FREEMASON ' s QUARTERLY REVIEW . Sin AND BROTHER —I have this journey purchased a work called " The Freemason ' s Lexicon ; " containing Short Treatises upon the Ancient and Modern History , Symbols , Customs , Systems , and Degrees of Freemasonry ; the Secret Orders or Mysteries of the Ancients ; Orders of Modern Times ; Magicians Rosicrucians ; Biographical Notices of
Eminent Freemasons , and many other useful notices to Freemasons , by Brother John Christian Gaaicke , Past-Master of a Lodge in Berlin . There is nothing in the work but what can be printed without the fear of any violation of our ancient laws and customs , but much wliich , according to my humble views , may be very useful to the Brethren . I propose to translate it into English , and will send you , perhaps , a sheet or sofor each Quarterly , as I go on with it , leaving it entirely to your superior judgment to insert them or not , as you may think most conducive to the welfare and prosperity of your work , and of the Craft in general .
Yours fraternally , GEORGE WATSON . Aachen , Aix-la-Chapelle . —In this city is the St . John ' s Lodge , Constancy and Union , affiliated to the Grand Lodge at the Three Globes in BerlinMarch 71816 . It formerlconsisted of two Lod
, , y ges , wliich ivere united under the above name September 15 , 1778 , with a warrant from the Provincial Grand Lodge at Frankfort-on-the-Maine . AVhen the French took Aix-la-Chapelle , they compelled the Lodge to adopt the French ritual , and to work by it until 1816 , when Aix-la-Chapelle again became a free imperial city : it is rendered remarkable by a prosecution of the Lodge and of the Brethren , which deserves commemoration . " The monkI . udwig Greinemanna Dominicanand
, , , lecturer upon theology , in the year 1779 , in the time of the fast ( Lent ) , endeavoured to prove , by a course of sermons from the pulpit , that the Jews who crucified our Saviour were Freemasons ! that Pilate and Herod were wardens in a Mason ' s Lodge !! that Judas , before he betrayed his blaster , was initiated in the synagogue , and that when lie returned tlie thirty pieces of silver , he did no more than pay his fees for initiation into the order ! . ' ! The magistrates having remarked the commotion
thereby raised among the people , thought they would act very prudently by adopting tlie same tone ; accordingly , on the 10 th of March , 1779 , they published the following decree : — " Tiie inhabitants of the free imperial city of Aix-la-Chapelle are reminded how that the sect of Freemasons are already placed under the barm of the church by two popes , and that to those excommunications is appendedipso factoa deprivation of the rightsprivilegesand
-, , , , pro tection of citizenship ; a noble and wise magistracy has determined to add thereto the following temporal punishment , that any one who shall offer a refuge in his house to the so-called Freemasons , or who shall allow them to assemble in his house , shall be punished for the first offence with a fine of 100 florins ; for the second offence 200 florins , and for