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Article ON THE CONNEXION BETWEEN SPECULATIVE AND OPERATIVE MASONRY. ← Page 6 of 6 Article TO THE EDITOR. Page 1 of 8 →
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On The Connexion Between Speculative And Operative Masonry.
build their castles , churches , and convents , and to re-establish the operations of tlie Craft . The foreign Artists who accepted these invitations , were some of those few who had survived the ravages of the barbarous tribes , and who were Christians , and " most of their leaders or directors were clergymen ;"—which fact is one of the most substantial proofs that can be offered , that it was not for their assistance in the operative art alone they were invited to Englandbut alsothat the
, , Masters and Wardens being clergymen , and , as must be thereby inferred , men of morals ancl learning , they might be the more eminently qualified to teach and instruct the speculative science , whilst the operatives were engaged in the erection of those edifices , which the propagation of speculative Masonry , and the establishment of those laws which will ever throw the brightest lustre on the pious and learned Alfred's reign , rendered necessary .
The principles of speculative Masonry , which has through all ages distinguished the Craft , were confirmed b y Athelstane in his Book of Constitutions , which indeed was formed chiefly from those transmitted to him from the Roman colleges , and the character of which is still to be learned from the Corpus Juris Romani , and Athelstane ' s Book was taken as the grand basis , when the constitutions were remodelled by Anderson , thus handing down the historical connection too clearl y to require any further observations
in elucidation or proof of it necessary . If my zeal for Masonry has led me for a moment from the object I have had in view , it has been occasioned by a desire to render it as comprehensive ancl as elucidatory as the materials I am in possession of has enabled me ; and if , in the perusal of the foregoing observations I shall have afforded amusement to even one Mason , it will be to me an additional gratification and pleasure , to that which I have experienced in endeavouring to add , to the already rich mine , my mite , which , if worthy of acceptation , is at all times at the command of the Craft .
To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
SIR , —Some few years since , when I had a little more time to devote to the Masonic Art than my profession permits me now to do , I found , on looking through some of the manuscripts in the British Museum , two on the subject of Freemasonry : as these have not been published , to my knowledge , I send you the copies of them , with a few original commentaries made by your humble servant and Brother , HYPHILLIPS PMofthe Moira Lod 109
. , .. ge , . 1 , Paragon , New Kent llond . HARLEIAN MSS . VOL . 1942 * . " tThe Almighty Father of heaven , with the wisdom of the glorious Son , through the goodness of the Hol y Ghost , 3 persons in One God-
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On The Connexion Between Speculative And Operative Masonry.
build their castles , churches , and convents , and to re-establish the operations of tlie Craft . The foreign Artists who accepted these invitations , were some of those few who had survived the ravages of the barbarous tribes , and who were Christians , and " most of their leaders or directors were clergymen ;"—which fact is one of the most substantial proofs that can be offered , that it was not for their assistance in the operative art alone they were invited to Englandbut alsothat the
, , Masters and Wardens being clergymen , and , as must be thereby inferred , men of morals ancl learning , they might be the more eminently qualified to teach and instruct the speculative science , whilst the operatives were engaged in the erection of those edifices , which the propagation of speculative Masonry , and the establishment of those laws which will ever throw the brightest lustre on the pious and learned Alfred's reign , rendered necessary .
The principles of speculative Masonry , which has through all ages distinguished the Craft , were confirmed b y Athelstane in his Book of Constitutions , which indeed was formed chiefly from those transmitted to him from the Roman colleges , and the character of which is still to be learned from the Corpus Juris Romani , and Athelstane ' s Book was taken as the grand basis , when the constitutions were remodelled by Anderson , thus handing down the historical connection too clearl y to require any further observations
in elucidation or proof of it necessary . If my zeal for Masonry has led me for a moment from the object I have had in view , it has been occasioned by a desire to render it as comprehensive ancl as elucidatory as the materials I am in possession of has enabled me ; and if , in the perusal of the foregoing observations I shall have afforded amusement to even one Mason , it will be to me an additional gratification and pleasure , to that which I have experienced in endeavouring to add , to the already rich mine , my mite , which , if worthy of acceptation , is at all times at the command of the Craft .
To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
SIR , —Some few years since , when I had a little more time to devote to the Masonic Art than my profession permits me now to do , I found , on looking through some of the manuscripts in the British Museum , two on the subject of Freemasonry : as these have not been published , to my knowledge , I send you the copies of them , with a few original commentaries made by your humble servant and Brother , HYPHILLIPS PMofthe Moira Lod 109
. , .. ge , . 1 , Paragon , New Kent llond . HARLEIAN MSS . VOL . 1942 * . " tThe Almighty Father of heaven , with the wisdom of the glorious Son , through the goodness of the Hol y Ghost , 3 persons in One God-