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Correspondence.
CORRESPONDENCE .
[ T HE EDITOE does not hold himself responsible for any opinions entertained hy Correspondents . ] MASONRY IN GERMANY .
TO THE EDITOE , 03 ? THE rEEEMASONS' QUAETEEDY MAGAZINE . Hamburg , May 15 th , 1853 . DEAE SIE AND BEOTHEE , — TEUSTUTQ that a short review and account of the Masonic Lodges of Germany and some other continental countries , to about 1850 , may not be without interest to many of the readers of your valuable
Masonic Miscellany , I beg to hand you the following list : — PRUSSIA . —It was decisive for the establishment of the Order in Germany that Frederick II . ( the Great ) was admitted a Mason , when only crown prince , in 1733 , at Brunswick , by a deputation from the Hamburg Lodge ; immediately on ascending the throne he caused Lodges to be erected ; and that his successor , Frederick William ILby an ordinancedated 20 th Oct . 1798 granted to
, , , , every Lodge within tlie limits of the Prussian monarchy , aggregated to any of the three Grand Lodges in Berlin , the privileges of Corporations . These three Grand Lodges are , — 1 . Tlie Great National Mother Lodge of tlie Three Globes ( zu den drei Weltkugehi ) , sprung , in 1744 , from the St . John's Lodge aux Trois Globes , of 1740 .
2 . The Eoyal York Lodge of Friendship ( zur Freundschaffc ) , founded in 1752 , and declared a Grand Lodge in 1798 . 3 . The Great Territorial Lodge of Germany ( Die grosse Landesloge von Teutschland ) , founded in 1770 , and raised 30 th Nov ., 1773 , to a Grand Orient . Since then , this Lodge is favoured not only with the protection , but with the kindest solicitude from this family of great princes . Frederick William II . was himself a Mason . His
successor , Frederick William III ., was not initiated , but gave utterance to a sublime and influential declaration at a very critical moment . for the Order , and permitted his second son William , the present Prince Royal of Prussia , to receive the degrees ; and he now , in consequence , occupies the Protectorate of the Order within the entire range of the king his brother ' s dominions , and of the influence of the Gr . O . Beneath his Eegis the Order flourishes , spite of the efforts of _ some obscurants ; in proof of which we adduce his threat to retire if the
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Correspondence.
CORRESPONDENCE .
[ T HE EDITOE does not hold himself responsible for any opinions entertained hy Correspondents . ] MASONRY IN GERMANY .
TO THE EDITOE , 03 ? THE rEEEMASONS' QUAETEEDY MAGAZINE . Hamburg , May 15 th , 1853 . DEAE SIE AND BEOTHEE , — TEUSTUTQ that a short review and account of the Masonic Lodges of Germany and some other continental countries , to about 1850 , may not be without interest to many of the readers of your valuable
Masonic Miscellany , I beg to hand you the following list : — PRUSSIA . —It was decisive for the establishment of the Order in Germany that Frederick II . ( the Great ) was admitted a Mason , when only crown prince , in 1733 , at Brunswick , by a deputation from the Hamburg Lodge ; immediately on ascending the throne he caused Lodges to be erected ; and that his successor , Frederick William ILby an ordinancedated 20 th Oct . 1798 granted to
, , , , every Lodge within tlie limits of the Prussian monarchy , aggregated to any of the three Grand Lodges in Berlin , the privileges of Corporations . These three Grand Lodges are , — 1 . Tlie Great National Mother Lodge of tlie Three Globes ( zu den drei Weltkugehi ) , sprung , in 1744 , from the St . John's Lodge aux Trois Globes , of 1740 .
2 . The Eoyal York Lodge of Friendship ( zur Freundschaffc ) , founded in 1752 , and declared a Grand Lodge in 1798 . 3 . The Great Territorial Lodge of Germany ( Die grosse Landesloge von Teutschland ) , founded in 1770 , and raised 30 th Nov ., 1773 , to a Grand Orient . Since then , this Lodge is favoured not only with the protection , but with the kindest solicitude from this family of great princes . Frederick William II . was himself a Mason . His
successor , Frederick William III ., was not initiated , but gave utterance to a sublime and influential declaration at a very critical moment . for the Order , and permitted his second son William , the present Prince Royal of Prussia , to receive the degrees ; and he now , in consequence , occupies the Protectorate of the Order within the entire range of the king his brother ' s dominions , and of the influence of the Gr . O . Beneath his Eegis the Order flourishes , spite of the efforts of _ some obscurants ; in proof of which we adduce his threat to retire if the