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Article THE FREEMASONS' LEXICON. ← Page 3 of 7 →
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The Freemasons' Lexicon.
devote the new Order of St . John to other necessary and useful objects , especially to the protection of the Hol y Land ancl the sacred sepulchre . In consequence of this , the whole members divided themselves into three classes—knights , priests , and serving-brethren . In the year 1118 , many of those Johnites joined the newly-arrived French noblemen to provide food for the pilgrims upon their pilgrimage , and , shortly after this unionthey built an hospital for themselves near to the Temple of
, Solomon at Jerusalem , whence they afterwards derived the peculiar appellation of Knights of the Temple , or Templars . The Johnites were , towards the end ofthe twelfth century , driven out of Palestine by the Turks and Saracens , on which they conquered Cyprus : they were afterwards driven from thence , ancl , at the commencement of the fourteenth century , they established themselves in the island of Rhodes , which they kept nearly two hundred years . In the year 1522 they lost
Rhodes , went to Candia and other places , until , in 1550 , the island of Malta was given unto them , upon condition that they should keep up a constant war against the infidels . From this time they were commonly called Maltese Knights . From thence they spread themselves into every European country , and divided themselves into tongues or circles , which were subdivided into Balleins . In the year 1798 they also lost the island of Malta , and were deprived of all their possessions in other
countries , and now the Order is merely an Order of honour . Johnson . —An adventurer , whose real name was Leucht , adopted Freemasonry as a disguise , under which he could carry on his impositions . He appeared at Jena , and maintained that he was deputed by the chiefs
in Scotland to reform all the German Lodges . He especially propagated the idea that Freemasonry was a continuation of the Order of the Temple . The Chevaliers Prefers had fled to the Scottish islands , but that the military of Temple should now appear openly , ancl that then the Clerici would no longer conceal themselves , but that they would divide their recovered treasures , and communicate their knowledge of the secret science to the Brethren . At the same time he gave an
unbroken list of their Grand Masters from J . B . Molay down to his own times . He made many proselytes , especially in Jena ; he wrote to all the Lodges , ancl complained that they allowed themselves to be led into error by the Berliners ; maintained that he alone , as lord and master , had the power to dub knights , and required that deputies should be sent to him at Jena . The Freiherr von Hund summoned him to Altenberge , near Jena , and then he discovered , in 1764 , that Johnson
had been formerly secretary in Bernberg , and that he hacl swindled the prince . In the seven years' war he wandered about as ' a Jew , that he had been a servant with a Brother whose papers he had stolen , and , by the means of those papers , had passed himself off for that brother . Upon this Johnson fled , but was apprehended in Magdeburg , ancl was imprisoned as a plunderer of the treasury , coiner , & c , in Wartzburg , by Eisenach , where he died in 1773 . JordanCharles Etienne . —Born at Berlin in 1700 and died in 1745 .
, , Konigl . Preuss . Geheimerrafh and Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences at Berlin . He possessed the confidence of Frederick the Great , who placed a monument to his memory among his Brandenberg curiosities . He was very active at the formation of the Grand Lodge the Three Globes in Berlin . Josaphat das Thai . The valley of Jeosaphat . —Appears in Masonic works , and our ancient Brethren either held a Lodge or buried their
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Lexicon.
devote the new Order of St . John to other necessary and useful objects , especially to the protection of the Hol y Land ancl the sacred sepulchre . In consequence of this , the whole members divided themselves into three classes—knights , priests , and serving-brethren . In the year 1118 , many of those Johnites joined the newly-arrived French noblemen to provide food for the pilgrims upon their pilgrimage , and , shortly after this unionthey built an hospital for themselves near to the Temple of
, Solomon at Jerusalem , whence they afterwards derived the peculiar appellation of Knights of the Temple , or Templars . The Johnites were , towards the end ofthe twelfth century , driven out of Palestine by the Turks and Saracens , on which they conquered Cyprus : they were afterwards driven from thence , ancl , at the commencement of the fourteenth century , they established themselves in the island of Rhodes , which they kept nearly two hundred years . In the year 1522 they lost
Rhodes , went to Candia and other places , until , in 1550 , the island of Malta was given unto them , upon condition that they should keep up a constant war against the infidels . From this time they were commonly called Maltese Knights . From thence they spread themselves into every European country , and divided themselves into tongues or circles , which were subdivided into Balleins . In the year 1798 they also lost the island of Malta , and were deprived of all their possessions in other
countries , and now the Order is merely an Order of honour . Johnson . —An adventurer , whose real name was Leucht , adopted Freemasonry as a disguise , under which he could carry on his impositions . He appeared at Jena , and maintained that he was deputed by the chiefs
in Scotland to reform all the German Lodges . He especially propagated the idea that Freemasonry was a continuation of the Order of the Temple . The Chevaliers Prefers had fled to the Scottish islands , but that the military of Temple should now appear openly , ancl that then the Clerici would no longer conceal themselves , but that they would divide their recovered treasures , and communicate their knowledge of the secret science to the Brethren . At the same time he gave an
unbroken list of their Grand Masters from J . B . Molay down to his own times . He made many proselytes , especially in Jena ; he wrote to all the Lodges , ancl complained that they allowed themselves to be led into error by the Berliners ; maintained that he alone , as lord and master , had the power to dub knights , and required that deputies should be sent to him at Jena . The Freiherr von Hund summoned him to Altenberge , near Jena , and then he discovered , in 1764 , that Johnson
had been formerly secretary in Bernberg , and that he hacl swindled the prince . In the seven years' war he wandered about as ' a Jew , that he had been a servant with a Brother whose papers he had stolen , and , by the means of those papers , had passed himself off for that brother . Upon this Johnson fled , but was apprehended in Magdeburg , ancl was imprisoned as a plunderer of the treasury , coiner , & c , in Wartzburg , by Eisenach , where he died in 1773 . JordanCharles Etienne . —Born at Berlin in 1700 and died in 1745 .
, , Konigl . Preuss . Geheimerrafh and Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences at Berlin . He possessed the confidence of Frederick the Great , who placed a monument to his memory among his Brandenberg curiosities . He was very active at the formation of the Grand Lodge the Three Globes in Berlin . Josaphat das Thai . The valley of Jeosaphat . —Appears in Masonic works , and our ancient Brethren either held a Lodge or buried their