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Gleanings From Masonry.
is erected : by it we may curiously trace nature through her various windings to her most concealed recesses , and view with amazing delight the beautiful proportions which connect ancl grace this vast machine . Astronomy is that exalted science which enables the contemplative miiid to soar aloft , ancl read the poiver , wisdom and goodness of the Grand Geometrician of the Universe in those sacred pages the celestial hemisphere . These important parts of education cannot now be claimed as
the exclusive property of the fraternity . The rapid strides of education , and the exertions of mind to overcome the trammels of ignorance , have made them the property of all who have leisure or inclination to direct their intellect to the study of nature or art . But Masonry , in this instance , as in every other part of the system , makes use of them for that one great and noble aim , for which the institution was founded . She looks upon themnot as mere accomplishmentsnot as vehicles for
, , the gratification of ambition or luxury , alone ; but uses them as a means to illustrate the poiver and goodness of Him who produced the variegated face of nature at a word , from the dark and dread domain of chaos . Such are the uses to which Masonry turns those noble arts and sciences which the minds of successive generations of great and goocl men have produced . Each step we advance in this noble pursuit of knowledge , is thus made au advance to that true and perfect wisdom which is the
knowledge of God . If the sciences have thus become so generall y diffused as to def y henceforth any exclusive property in them—and God forbid they should ever again become the possession of the few alonenot the less due is our gratitude to them who invented , improved , and saved them from destruction , in the tyled recesses of their Lodges . To our ancient Brethren thanks and veneration is the least tribute the world can offer , for those stupendous works which have been the admiration of
every age ; and those arts which enable us—if not to rival them in magnificence—at least to minister to every want , which nature or usage has made imperative . CATO . ( To be continued ) .
Historical Notes Relative To The Order Of The Temple.
HISTORICAL NOTES RELATIVE TO THE ORDER OF THE TEMPLE .
Translated from thc Dutch of Bro . Iran Lennep , in the Dutch Freemasons' Almanack , . L . 5844 , BY BRO . G . WATSON , ST . JOHN ' S , NO . 95 . THE history of the Knights Templar from the formation of the Order in 1118 , Until the persecutions which it suffered in 1309 , and the death
of Jaques cle Molay , is so well known that a repetition of it here may be considered quite superfluous . The voluminous works of Dupuy , Ranonard , and many others , give us the chronicles of the Temple in a most ample manner until the death of Molay . The notes which will be given here relate entirely to the history of the Temple since that period , which has in our days again become a subject of peculiar antiquarian importance . The persecutionswhich were instituted against the unfortunate Kni ghts did not remain confined to France , but raged through the ivhole of
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Gleanings From Masonry.
is erected : by it we may curiously trace nature through her various windings to her most concealed recesses , and view with amazing delight the beautiful proportions which connect ancl grace this vast machine . Astronomy is that exalted science which enables the contemplative miiid to soar aloft , ancl read the poiver , wisdom and goodness of the Grand Geometrician of the Universe in those sacred pages the celestial hemisphere . These important parts of education cannot now be claimed as
the exclusive property of the fraternity . The rapid strides of education , and the exertions of mind to overcome the trammels of ignorance , have made them the property of all who have leisure or inclination to direct their intellect to the study of nature or art . But Masonry , in this instance , as in every other part of the system , makes use of them for that one great and noble aim , for which the institution was founded . She looks upon themnot as mere accomplishmentsnot as vehicles for
, , the gratification of ambition or luxury , alone ; but uses them as a means to illustrate the poiver and goodness of Him who produced the variegated face of nature at a word , from the dark and dread domain of chaos . Such are the uses to which Masonry turns those noble arts and sciences which the minds of successive generations of great and goocl men have produced . Each step we advance in this noble pursuit of knowledge , is thus made au advance to that true and perfect wisdom which is the
knowledge of God . If the sciences have thus become so generall y diffused as to def y henceforth any exclusive property in them—and God forbid they should ever again become the possession of the few alonenot the less due is our gratitude to them who invented , improved , and saved them from destruction , in the tyled recesses of their Lodges . To our ancient Brethren thanks and veneration is the least tribute the world can offer , for those stupendous works which have been the admiration of
every age ; and those arts which enable us—if not to rival them in magnificence—at least to minister to every want , which nature or usage has made imperative . CATO . ( To be continued ) .
Historical Notes Relative To The Order Of The Temple.
HISTORICAL NOTES RELATIVE TO THE ORDER OF THE TEMPLE .
Translated from thc Dutch of Bro . Iran Lennep , in the Dutch Freemasons' Almanack , . L . 5844 , BY BRO . G . WATSON , ST . JOHN ' S , NO . 95 . THE history of the Knights Templar from the formation of the Order in 1118 , Until the persecutions which it suffered in 1309 , and the death
of Jaques cle Molay , is so well known that a repetition of it here may be considered quite superfluous . The voluminous works of Dupuy , Ranonard , and many others , give us the chronicles of the Temple in a most ample manner until the death of Molay . The notes which will be given here relate entirely to the history of the Temple since that period , which has in our days again become a subject of peculiar antiquarian importance . The persecutionswhich were instituted against the unfortunate Kni ghts did not remain confined to France , but raged through the ivhole of