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Correspondence.
over , as the deputies of Prussia , Hanover , and Brunswick opposed the motion , did not pass . Since 1801 , every one in the Austrian service must abjure the Order for ever . We find the Order also early established in BAVAEIA , as a Lodge is said to have been established at Manheim ( then a Bavarian city ) as early as 1737 . Later onin 1766 a Scotch Lodge was constituted
, , under the protection of Prince Frederick of Pfalz-Zweibriicken ( Deux Fonts ) by Frenchmen , under the title diaries de V Union ; from whicli proceeded , in 1778 , diaries of Unity ( Karl zur Einigkeit ) , as the Mother Lodge of working tabernacles ( Bauhutten ) at Landau and Kaiserslautern .
This Union came into great discredit from the abuse of its forms by the llluminati . It was , with them , strictly prohibited the 2 nd March , 1784 , by a severe edict , and the 16 th August of the year following , entirel y abolished and prohibited . His successor , the subsequent King Maximilian , renewed this prohibition in 1799 ; but when , in 1807 , he received cession of the principalities of Anspach and Bairenth from Prussiahe permitted the continuance of the
ex-, isting Lodges , but with the proviso that all persons in tlie service of the crown should abjure the Order or relinquish their places . And so it is at present ; but it is to be hoped that Louis , who has shown himself the warm friend and admirer of all the arts , will at length acknowledge the EOYAL * one . Freemasonry was planted in Bairenth as early as 1740 bthe Margraf of Baireuthwho had been hiitiated
, y , by his brother-in-law , Frederic the Great , and whose sister he had married . The Order still flourishes there in a Grand Lodge of the Sun ( zur Sonne ) , besides which there are lodges in Niirnberg , Forth , Frankenthal , Hof , Regensburg ( Ratisbon ) , and Erlangen . In BADEN , after Manheim had been joined to her territory , the Lodge of Unity ( zur Einigkeit ) , which had been closed by the
Elector Karl Theodor in 1806 , was not only re-opened by the Grand Duke , but also a G . 0 . erected under the G . M . Prince Karl von Isenburg . In 1813 a prohibition was published against all secret societies , without exception , in consequence of which the Lodge at Manheim remained closed till 24 th August , 1846 , when it and another at
Karlsruhe were again opened , 24 th June , 1847 , in consequence of a government authority . In WUETEMBEEG some early-founded Lodges were at first tolerated , namely , Karl ofthe Tlvree Cedars ( zu den drei Cedern ) , but closed in 1784 by a government decree ; but in 1836 again called to labour with the sanction of his present majesty . In HESSEN CASSEL the Order had early , if not a locus standi , at
least a permissive existence . The Landgraf Frederic was , in 1780 , by the Great National Lodge of the United Netherlands , on account of his great services to them , chosen their protector . Under the
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Correspondence.
over , as the deputies of Prussia , Hanover , and Brunswick opposed the motion , did not pass . Since 1801 , every one in the Austrian service must abjure the Order for ever . We find the Order also early established in BAVAEIA , as a Lodge is said to have been established at Manheim ( then a Bavarian city ) as early as 1737 . Later onin 1766 a Scotch Lodge was constituted
, , under the protection of Prince Frederick of Pfalz-Zweibriicken ( Deux Fonts ) by Frenchmen , under the title diaries de V Union ; from whicli proceeded , in 1778 , diaries of Unity ( Karl zur Einigkeit ) , as the Mother Lodge of working tabernacles ( Bauhutten ) at Landau and Kaiserslautern .
This Union came into great discredit from the abuse of its forms by the llluminati . It was , with them , strictly prohibited the 2 nd March , 1784 , by a severe edict , and the 16 th August of the year following , entirel y abolished and prohibited . His successor , the subsequent King Maximilian , renewed this prohibition in 1799 ; but when , in 1807 , he received cession of the principalities of Anspach and Bairenth from Prussiahe permitted the continuance of the
ex-, isting Lodges , but with the proviso that all persons in tlie service of the crown should abjure the Order or relinquish their places . And so it is at present ; but it is to be hoped that Louis , who has shown himself the warm friend and admirer of all the arts , will at length acknowledge the EOYAL * one . Freemasonry was planted in Bairenth as early as 1740 bthe Margraf of Baireuthwho had been hiitiated
, y , by his brother-in-law , Frederic the Great , and whose sister he had married . The Order still flourishes there in a Grand Lodge of the Sun ( zur Sonne ) , besides which there are lodges in Niirnberg , Forth , Frankenthal , Hof , Regensburg ( Ratisbon ) , and Erlangen . In BADEN , after Manheim had been joined to her territory , the Lodge of Unity ( zur Einigkeit ) , which had been closed by the
Elector Karl Theodor in 1806 , was not only re-opened by the Grand Duke , but also a G . 0 . erected under the G . M . Prince Karl von Isenburg . In 1813 a prohibition was published against all secret societies , without exception , in consequence of which the Lodge at Manheim remained closed till 24 th August , 1846 , when it and another at
Karlsruhe were again opened , 24 th June , 1847 , in consequence of a government authority . In WUETEMBEEG some early-founded Lodges were at first tolerated , namely , Karl ofthe Tlvree Cedars ( zu den drei Cedern ) , but closed in 1784 by a government decree ; but in 1836 again called to labour with the sanction of his present majesty . In HESSEN CASSEL the Order had early , if not a locus standi , at
least a permissive existence . The Landgraf Frederic was , in 1780 , by the Great National Lodge of the United Netherlands , on account of his great services to them , chosen their protector . Under the