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Article THE FREEMASON'S LEXICON. ← Page 4 of 8 →
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The Freemason's Lexicon.
Members of those Lodges are then at liberty to attend the funeral itl full Masonic costume , the Officers being distinguished by carrying white wands , and Avearing their jeAvels , which no one else is permittee ! to do . In the procession , the Lodges are arranged according to their numbers , and the Master of the Lodge , to which the deceased Brother belonged , has the Hol y Bible , square and compass , and constitution
book carried before him . IJehanenden . A persevering Man . —He who perseveres to the end in a good cause , will finally overcome all difficulties ; and those men who are not to be deterred from persevering to the end in a good cause , neither by weakness nor by fear , those are the men whom the Order justly prizes . He who is duly announced as a persevering candidate , and who receives for answer , " He is worthy , " will assuredly not be
debarred from participating in the light . Bekleidung . Clothing . —This consists of an apron , gloves , sword , Lodge jewel , and in many places a cockade . The Officers in open Lodge must be adorned with their official jewels . Benedict der Vicrzehnte Pabst . —Pope Benedict XIV ., born 1675 , and died 5 th May 1758 . He confirmed the bull of his predecessor , according to which , Freemasons were excommunicated , for at that time
it was not permitted for one pope to annul a bull which had been published by another . In the present day , he would probably have acteel as Pius VII . did with the Jesuits . But it is well known that Benedict XIV . soon adopted more rational feelings towards the Order of Freemasonry . One of his favourite courtiers , who was much attached to the Order , endeavoured to change his opinion of the Order , by preparing a serenade of such music as Benedict liked , and as he could not sleep at the time , he went to the window , where he heard the words , —
" O Thou our Shepherd , wilt thou forsake thy faithful sheep ? " No , cried he , from the window , and when he was afterwards informed that the serenade had heen given hy Freemasons , he determined to convince himself of the nature of the Order by being initiated into it . Which actually took place in private , after ivhich he ceased to prosecute the Freemasons in his territory .
A Roman , Br . Tripulo , delivered an address at his initiation . Berlin . —The Lodges at Berlin may be best described in the four following rubricks : — A . Lodges of which there are no traces left . 1 . Dela Ficlelite founded in the seven years ' war , and consisted chiefly of French officers who were prisoners of war . 2 . La Candema French Lodgefounded about 1770 and shortly
, , , after closed . 3 . African Master Builders' Lodge , founded about 1767—closed . 4 . A , so called , Toleration Lodge , which admitted Jews as members . B . Grand Lodge at the Three Globes , founded 13 th September , 1740 , and its Daughter Lodges working in the same hall . 1 . The Universal Ancient Scottish Lodge at the Three Globes
, founded 1797 . a . De 1 'Union , founded 30 th November , 1742 , from which were formed b . De 1 'Harmonic , 1758 . Both were afterwards united under the name of the
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemason's Lexicon.
Members of those Lodges are then at liberty to attend the funeral itl full Masonic costume , the Officers being distinguished by carrying white wands , and Avearing their jeAvels , which no one else is permittee ! to do . In the procession , the Lodges are arranged according to their numbers , and the Master of the Lodge , to which the deceased Brother belonged , has the Hol y Bible , square and compass , and constitution
book carried before him . IJehanenden . A persevering Man . —He who perseveres to the end in a good cause , will finally overcome all difficulties ; and those men who are not to be deterred from persevering to the end in a good cause , neither by weakness nor by fear , those are the men whom the Order justly prizes . He who is duly announced as a persevering candidate , and who receives for answer , " He is worthy , " will assuredly not be
debarred from participating in the light . Bekleidung . Clothing . —This consists of an apron , gloves , sword , Lodge jewel , and in many places a cockade . The Officers in open Lodge must be adorned with their official jewels . Benedict der Vicrzehnte Pabst . —Pope Benedict XIV ., born 1675 , and died 5 th May 1758 . He confirmed the bull of his predecessor , according to which , Freemasons were excommunicated , for at that time
it was not permitted for one pope to annul a bull which had been published by another . In the present day , he would probably have acteel as Pius VII . did with the Jesuits . But it is well known that Benedict XIV . soon adopted more rational feelings towards the Order of Freemasonry . One of his favourite courtiers , who was much attached to the Order , endeavoured to change his opinion of the Order , by preparing a serenade of such music as Benedict liked , and as he could not sleep at the time , he went to the window , where he heard the words , —
" O Thou our Shepherd , wilt thou forsake thy faithful sheep ? " No , cried he , from the window , and when he was afterwards informed that the serenade had heen given hy Freemasons , he determined to convince himself of the nature of the Order by being initiated into it . Which actually took place in private , after ivhich he ceased to prosecute the Freemasons in his territory .
A Roman , Br . Tripulo , delivered an address at his initiation . Berlin . —The Lodges at Berlin may be best described in the four following rubricks : — A . Lodges of which there are no traces left . 1 . Dela Ficlelite founded in the seven years ' war , and consisted chiefly of French officers who were prisoners of war . 2 . La Candema French Lodgefounded about 1770 and shortly
, , , after closed . 3 . African Master Builders' Lodge , founded about 1767—closed . 4 . A , so called , Toleration Lodge , which admitted Jews as members . B . Grand Lodge at the Three Globes , founded 13 th September , 1740 , and its Daughter Lodges working in the same hall . 1 . The Universal Ancient Scottish Lodge at the Three Globes
, founded 1797 . a . De 1 'Union , founded 30 th November , 1742 , from which were formed b . De 1 'Harmonic , 1758 . Both were afterwards united under the name of the