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Article THE ROSICRUCIAN CRUSADE. ← Page 3 of 13 →
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The Rosicrucian Crusade.
" The Original Chapter" thus formed continued working as a private Chapter of Prince Masons till the year 1838 , when it attempted to form itself into a supreme governing body without the adhesion or permission of any other Chapter of Prince Masons , ancl denounced the Grand Chapter as irregular because it did not hold a warrant from it . Such is the casus belli !—such the cause and orig in of this Crusade .
AVe extract in a very condensed form an account of some of the skirmishes which ensued after the formal declaration of the crusade from a book published last year , entitled " A few Words upon the Degree of Prince Grand Rose Croix . " The author of this book is a member of the Irish Bar , and a gentleman well known in the literary world . His estimable character is a sufficient voucher for the truths contained in the pamphlet .
" The Order of Templars in Dublin was only a few years since enrolled as a Grancl Encampment . At the time there was no Council of Rites ; such a soi-disinit body arose self-constituted , and its first act was one oi Masonic violation , by the issuing of hand-bills and advertisements in the newspapers , denouncing the '' Grand Chapter , " and assuming the supremacy of the Order . . " From the first moment of its existence the Council of Rites has
continued to assail the Ancient Chapters of Ireland by open attacks as well as by secret insinuation , ancl by passing a resolution that none but those whose certificates were signed by their President , the Duke of Leinster , were duly authorised as Prince Masons . This resolution was published by them in a hand-bill at the funeral of a Mason , and
circulated as a letter over the United Kingdom . " The Council of Rites thus set the example of adopting the press as a Masonic weapon . But the Grand Chapter did not retaliate until all hope by mild remonstrance and amicable interposition was lost ; in fact , until the attempt to remove dissention by the meeting of a committee from each body hacl failed in its object . " The views of the two bodies presented a singular contrast—the one praying for mutual ancl effective examination into their records , the
other declining to show whatever proofs they bad of any existence , arising probably from the conviction of their defective title . The convention , if such a term can be given to the meetings , broke off . " In August 1840 , the Marquis of Kildare , who had previously been admitted into the Order of Masonic Knights Templar in the Cross of Christ Encampment , London , was received into that of the Pelican and Eagle and Rose Croix by the same authority ; and on the occasion
Bro . Hercules Ellis was introduced as a visitor . An announcement of these circumstances appeared in the Dublin papers . "Two months after such publication the Grand Council of Rites issued a paper { dated Aug . 22 ) , stating that the name ' Hercules Ellis ' did not appear on their registering books , and denying that such a body as ' the Grancl Chapter' existed I—and such paper bears the approval of the Duke of Leinsterunder date September 20 at Paris
, , , where his Crace was at the time . "Bro . Hercules Ellis replied to this attack in a very elaborate explanation of material facts , which drew from the ' official' of the Council of Rites a vulgar and gross missive in the form of a ' Caution to Freemasons . ' " On this Bro . H . F . llis published another letter , ' Addressed to the
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Rosicrucian Crusade.
" The Original Chapter" thus formed continued working as a private Chapter of Prince Masons till the year 1838 , when it attempted to form itself into a supreme governing body without the adhesion or permission of any other Chapter of Prince Masons , ancl denounced the Grand Chapter as irregular because it did not hold a warrant from it . Such is the casus belli !—such the cause and orig in of this Crusade .
AVe extract in a very condensed form an account of some of the skirmishes which ensued after the formal declaration of the crusade from a book published last year , entitled " A few Words upon the Degree of Prince Grand Rose Croix . " The author of this book is a member of the Irish Bar , and a gentleman well known in the literary world . His estimable character is a sufficient voucher for the truths contained in the pamphlet .
" The Order of Templars in Dublin was only a few years since enrolled as a Grancl Encampment . At the time there was no Council of Rites ; such a soi-disinit body arose self-constituted , and its first act was one oi Masonic violation , by the issuing of hand-bills and advertisements in the newspapers , denouncing the '' Grand Chapter , " and assuming the supremacy of the Order . . " From the first moment of its existence the Council of Rites has
continued to assail the Ancient Chapters of Ireland by open attacks as well as by secret insinuation , ancl by passing a resolution that none but those whose certificates were signed by their President , the Duke of Leinster , were duly authorised as Prince Masons . This resolution was published by them in a hand-bill at the funeral of a Mason , and
circulated as a letter over the United Kingdom . " The Council of Rites thus set the example of adopting the press as a Masonic weapon . But the Grand Chapter did not retaliate until all hope by mild remonstrance and amicable interposition was lost ; in fact , until the attempt to remove dissention by the meeting of a committee from each body hacl failed in its object . " The views of the two bodies presented a singular contrast—the one praying for mutual ancl effective examination into their records , the
other declining to show whatever proofs they bad of any existence , arising probably from the conviction of their defective title . The convention , if such a term can be given to the meetings , broke off . " In August 1840 , the Marquis of Kildare , who had previously been admitted into the Order of Masonic Knights Templar in the Cross of Christ Encampment , London , was received into that of the Pelican and Eagle and Rose Croix by the same authority ; and on the occasion
Bro . Hercules Ellis was introduced as a visitor . An announcement of these circumstances appeared in the Dublin papers . "Two months after such publication the Grand Council of Rites issued a paper { dated Aug . 22 ) , stating that the name ' Hercules Ellis ' did not appear on their registering books , and denying that such a body as ' the Grancl Chapter' existed I—and such paper bears the approval of the Duke of Leinsterunder date September 20 at Paris
, , , where his Crace was at the time . "Bro . Hercules Ellis replied to this attack in a very elaborate explanation of material facts , which drew from the ' official' of the Council of Rites a vulgar and gross missive in the form of a ' Caution to Freemasons . ' " On this Bro . H . F . llis published another letter , ' Addressed to the