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Article HISTORICAL NOTES ON FREEMASONRY. ← Page 9 of 10 →
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Historical Notes On Freemasonry.
The Monastery of St . Salvador , at Hut-rta . . . 1500 The Palace ofl'Infantado , at Guadalafaro . . . . The College of St . Gregoire , at Valladolid . . . SWITZERLAMll . The Cathedral of Bale 1010 to 1019 The Cathedral of Zurich . 14 ' siecle The Cathedral of Fribourg .... .. The Cathedral of Berne ... ... . The Cathedral of Lausanne
ARCH _ OLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS . The monuments of the middle ages , —the last creations of a sublime architecture , for which Ave are indebted to the philosophic Masons , — have , thanks to Christian civilization , suffered nothing from that Vandalism ivhich the anterior ages witnessed , and lve have scarcely had any other degradation to lament on their account than that occasioned b
y the course of time . The greatest care has heen taken , almost everywhere , to repair the records of the past , and to preserve those sublime models to the remotest posterity . If , on the other hand , Ave look at the monuments anterior to the middle ages , Ave only meet with vestiges . The monuments of ancient India are either ruined or abandoned in deserts almost inaccessible . The Babylonian monuments are buried under heaps of rubbish . The sacred edifices of the Egyptians are
despoiled and deserted . The rich and brilliant Temple of Solomon has noAV no other existence than in the text of the Bible . The gigantic palaces of Persopolis lie low on the ground ; they are only knoivn by the capitals and broken shafts of columns scattered on the surface of the soil ; rarely are they visited but at long intervals . The temples of the Greeks and Romans have no longer resounding under their porticos the echo of the sonorous voice of their priests . Everywhere civilization has shown in antiquity that architectural monuments are dead ; they are abandoned to the devastation of men and to the destruction of time .
NOMENCLATURE OF ALL THE GRAND MASTERS UPON THE SURFACE OF THE GLOBE , 1851 . U . G . L . of England , London , The Earl of Zetland . „ St . Andrew of Scotland , Edinburgh , Duke of Athol . „ Ireland , Dublin , Duke of Leinster . „ ¦ , Province of North Munster , M . Furnell .
„ „ „ South Munster , W . A . Chattel-ton . „ „ „ Deny , Sir James Stewart . G . O . de France , Paris * * * * „ „ Bertrand , 2 ' G . M . Adj . „ „ Desanlis , Repres . part , of the G . M . G . L . or Supreme Council for France , Duke of Cazes . „ National of France , Paris , * L . Du Planty . „ Three Globes , at Berlin , Fred . Win . Lewis , Prince of Prussia . „ Royal York a l'Amitie , Berlin , H . F . Link .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Historical Notes On Freemasonry.
The Monastery of St . Salvador , at Hut-rta . . . 1500 The Palace ofl'Infantado , at Guadalafaro . . . . The College of St . Gregoire , at Valladolid . . . SWITZERLAMll . The Cathedral of Bale 1010 to 1019 The Cathedral of Zurich . 14 ' siecle The Cathedral of Fribourg .... .. The Cathedral of Berne ... ... . The Cathedral of Lausanne
ARCH _ OLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS . The monuments of the middle ages , —the last creations of a sublime architecture , for which Ave are indebted to the philosophic Masons , — have , thanks to Christian civilization , suffered nothing from that Vandalism ivhich the anterior ages witnessed , and lve have scarcely had any other degradation to lament on their account than that occasioned b
y the course of time . The greatest care has heen taken , almost everywhere , to repair the records of the past , and to preserve those sublime models to the remotest posterity . If , on the other hand , Ave look at the monuments anterior to the middle ages , Ave only meet with vestiges . The monuments of ancient India are either ruined or abandoned in deserts almost inaccessible . The Babylonian monuments are buried under heaps of rubbish . The sacred edifices of the Egyptians are
despoiled and deserted . The rich and brilliant Temple of Solomon has noAV no other existence than in the text of the Bible . The gigantic palaces of Persopolis lie low on the ground ; they are only knoivn by the capitals and broken shafts of columns scattered on the surface of the soil ; rarely are they visited but at long intervals . The temples of the Greeks and Romans have no longer resounding under their porticos the echo of the sonorous voice of their priests . Everywhere civilization has shown in antiquity that architectural monuments are dead ; they are abandoned to the devastation of men and to the destruction of time .
NOMENCLATURE OF ALL THE GRAND MASTERS UPON THE SURFACE OF THE GLOBE , 1851 . U . G . L . of England , London , The Earl of Zetland . „ St . Andrew of Scotland , Edinburgh , Duke of Athol . „ Ireland , Dublin , Duke of Leinster . „ ¦ , Province of North Munster , M . Furnell .
„ „ „ South Munster , W . A . Chattel-ton . „ „ „ Deny , Sir James Stewart . G . O . de France , Paris * * * * „ „ Bertrand , 2 ' G . M . Adj . „ „ Desanlis , Repres . part , of the G . M . G . L . or Supreme Council for France , Duke of Cazes . „ National of France , Paris , * L . Du Planty . „ Three Globes , at Berlin , Fred . Win . Lewis , Prince of Prussia . „ Royal York a l'Amitie , Berlin , H . F . Link .