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Article THE FREEMASONS' LEXICON. ← Page 4 of 6 →
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The Freemasons' Lexicon.
very great , and he died about the year 243 . His doctrines were widely propagated by his disciples , amongst whom was Longin , from whom we have still a work extant upon the subli 7 iie . This scholar was also stirnamed the Golden Chain . Under Constantine the Great the Modern
Platonics were scattered into every corner of the earth , until under the Emperor Julian their condition was made more supportable ; finally , Athens was the chief seat of this school , and in the sixth century it was quite destroyed , Christianity had got the upper hand of it . The scholastic philosophy of the fifteenth century awakened the doctrines of the Modern Platonics in the west by Georgius Gemistus Pletho , who died in 14-51 , but it was without success . Nicolai Christian Friedrichcommonly called Frcidrich Nicolai
, , was born at Berlin on the 18 th of March , 1733 , and died there on the Sth of January , 1811 . He was a bookseller and member of the academy of sciences there . Freidrich Nicolai has not only made himself conspicuous in the learned world , but also in the Masonic Order , by his works upon it , and the ingenious and subtle inquiries which are therein contained . His father was a bookseller or publisher in Berlin , and he learned the same business in Francfort-on-the ^
Oder , while he at the same time devoted all his spare time to incessant study , and would most willingly have devoted himself entirely to the sciences , if the death of his elder brother , and the small fortune which belonged to himself and to his sister , had not compelled him to carry on his father s business . We can say here but little of what he has accomplished as a publisher and learned man , when we name Lessing , Mendlesohn , and other great men , and gratefully acknowledge their important services unto literature , we must dearly ever prize our Fr . Nicholai as their associate . Who does not know the " Universal German Bibliothek , " founded by him ? a work which appeared regularly
from 1765 until nearl y the time of his death , which was edited by him , and which has contributed so immensely to explain every science . He wrought equally as powerful against Obscurantism as against Catholicism . His description of Berlin has become a model for all future typographers ; and through his excellent romance , "The Life and Opinions of the Magister Sebaldus Nothanker , " he endeavoured to show the spirit of prosecution of the orthodox in all its naked deformity , to
recommend freedom of thought , to unmask hypocrisy , to lead fanatics to sound reason , and to cure the age of its morbid sensibility . He was an active member of the Lodge the Three Globes at Berlin . His work under the title of " Enquiries into the accusations which have been made against the Order of Knights Templar , and into its secrets , with an appendix upon the origin of Freemasonry , " is strict and well grounded in its citations , but the superfluity of learning he brought unto the task
led him to dangerous inferences and hypothesis . The first part of this work is against Anton ' s defence of the Order of Knights Templar , and the second is against the doubts raised by Von Herder on the same Order . A great deal of his time was devoted to able inquiries into the nature and origin of secret societies , and we principally find the results of those inquiries in his remarks upon the origin and history of the Rosycrucians and Freemasons . Healsoin common with Biesterraised
, , , his voice upon the Order of Illuminati , and we have from him an open declaration of his secret connexion with this Order . We may maintain that he has rendered undoubted and great services to the fraternity . Through his writings he has driven out the whole regiment of , for the VOT ,. V T
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Lexicon.
very great , and he died about the year 243 . His doctrines were widely propagated by his disciples , amongst whom was Longin , from whom we have still a work extant upon the subli 7 iie . This scholar was also stirnamed the Golden Chain . Under Constantine the Great the Modern
Platonics were scattered into every corner of the earth , until under the Emperor Julian their condition was made more supportable ; finally , Athens was the chief seat of this school , and in the sixth century it was quite destroyed , Christianity had got the upper hand of it . The scholastic philosophy of the fifteenth century awakened the doctrines of the Modern Platonics in the west by Georgius Gemistus Pletho , who died in 14-51 , but it was without success . Nicolai Christian Friedrichcommonly called Frcidrich Nicolai
, , was born at Berlin on the 18 th of March , 1733 , and died there on the Sth of January , 1811 . He was a bookseller and member of the academy of sciences there . Freidrich Nicolai has not only made himself conspicuous in the learned world , but also in the Masonic Order , by his works upon it , and the ingenious and subtle inquiries which are therein contained . His father was a bookseller or publisher in Berlin , and he learned the same business in Francfort-on-the ^
Oder , while he at the same time devoted all his spare time to incessant study , and would most willingly have devoted himself entirely to the sciences , if the death of his elder brother , and the small fortune which belonged to himself and to his sister , had not compelled him to carry on his father s business . We can say here but little of what he has accomplished as a publisher and learned man , when we name Lessing , Mendlesohn , and other great men , and gratefully acknowledge their important services unto literature , we must dearly ever prize our Fr . Nicholai as their associate . Who does not know the " Universal German Bibliothek , " founded by him ? a work which appeared regularly
from 1765 until nearl y the time of his death , which was edited by him , and which has contributed so immensely to explain every science . He wrought equally as powerful against Obscurantism as against Catholicism . His description of Berlin has become a model for all future typographers ; and through his excellent romance , "The Life and Opinions of the Magister Sebaldus Nothanker , " he endeavoured to show the spirit of prosecution of the orthodox in all its naked deformity , to
recommend freedom of thought , to unmask hypocrisy , to lead fanatics to sound reason , and to cure the age of its morbid sensibility . He was an active member of the Lodge the Three Globes at Berlin . His work under the title of " Enquiries into the accusations which have been made against the Order of Knights Templar , and into its secrets , with an appendix upon the origin of Freemasonry , " is strict and well grounded in its citations , but the superfluity of learning he brought unto the task
led him to dangerous inferences and hypothesis . The first part of this work is against Anton ' s defence of the Order of Knights Templar , and the second is against the doubts raised by Von Herder on the same Order . A great deal of his time was devoted to able inquiries into the nature and origin of secret societies , and we principally find the results of those inquiries in his remarks upon the origin and history of the Rosycrucians and Freemasons . Healsoin common with Biesterraised
, , , his voice upon the Order of Illuminati , and we have from him an open declaration of his secret connexion with this Order . We may maintain that he has rendered undoubted and great services to the fraternity . Through his writings he has driven out the whole regiment of , for the VOT ,. V T