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To The Editor Of The Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine.
those who exercise virtues in secret should Avear a public acknowledgment , Avhich they had so richly deserved . This Order consists of the princes of the blood royal , twenty-seven lay members , and three clerical ones , who have equal rank with the Knights Commanders of the other Orders . The jewel of these Latomi emeriti is a crown with a cross dependent from it . All the Lodges are under the great State Lodgeat Stockholmof which a scion of the royal
, , family is always Grand Master . Their doctrine is Christian-mystical , embracing the idea of a yore Christianity , Avith many degrees . Under it are three Provincial Lodges , a Stewart Lodge , seven AndreAv , and sixteen St . John Lodges . Two remarkable men , one Bjornram , secretary of Gustaf III ., who was considered by many as a veritable conjurorby others as a quack
, , the other Karl Adolf Anderson Boheman , had considerable influence on the Order iu this country ; the latter , born 1770 , in Jonkoping , was the chief and apostle of the "Asiatic Brethren , " whose political intrigues caused at the time some sensation . III . RUSSIA . As early as 1731 , a Lodge at Moscow received a constitution from the Grand Lodge at Londonunder the rei of
, gn the empress Anna Ivanowna , but their meetings seem to have been conducted Avith great secresy . In 1761 , Freemasonry was tolerated in the Russian dominions . Kafcherine IL , upon the report of a commission of inquiry , declared herself Protectress of the Lodge Clio , at Moscow , upon Avhich other
Lodges arose , and especiall y at St . Petersburgh , that of " Perfect Unity" ( zur vollkommenen Fini glceit ) , which continued its labours even after the withdrawal of the imperial protection , and numbered many of the nobility amongst its Brethren . Paul , in the first period of his reign was favourable to the Order , but his own coquetting with the Kuights of St . John of Jerusalem , to be chosen their Grand Masterat Maltabacked by the envious
, , insinuations of Graf Liven , a Commander of that Order , caused him to prohibit Freemasonry , as inimical to his favorites ; and its Lodges , therefore , could onl y be held with great circumspection . After his murder , the Emperor Alexander continued at first the proscription , but in 1803 , having at the instigation of Baron Bober again appointed a commission and received its report , when the Order was
permitted , and Alexander himself initiated in 1803 . In 1811 , a Grand Directorial Lodge was erected under the Swedish constitution , called Wladimir of Order ( zur Ordnung ) , chauged , in 1825 , into the Grand-Loge Astrasa , with a more extended toleration of principles . On the 12 th August , 1821 , however , a ukase appeared unexpectedly , in Avhich the Order was forbidden under the severest penalties ' it
; is believed because some concealed Jesuits were thought to have insinuated themselves into the Lodges ; and this is the present condition of Masonry under the Emperor Nicholas . The hammer of the Lodge and the Russian knout are two articles so perfectly irreconcilable , that little relaxation of this rigorous prohibition can be speedily looked for .
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To The Editor Of The Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine.
those who exercise virtues in secret should Avear a public acknowledgment , Avhich they had so richly deserved . This Order consists of the princes of the blood royal , twenty-seven lay members , and three clerical ones , who have equal rank with the Knights Commanders of the other Orders . The jewel of these Latomi emeriti is a crown with a cross dependent from it . All the Lodges are under the great State Lodgeat Stockholmof which a scion of the royal
, , family is always Grand Master . Their doctrine is Christian-mystical , embracing the idea of a yore Christianity , Avith many degrees . Under it are three Provincial Lodges , a Stewart Lodge , seven AndreAv , and sixteen St . John Lodges . Two remarkable men , one Bjornram , secretary of Gustaf III ., who was considered by many as a veritable conjurorby others as a quack
, , the other Karl Adolf Anderson Boheman , had considerable influence on the Order iu this country ; the latter , born 1770 , in Jonkoping , was the chief and apostle of the "Asiatic Brethren , " whose political intrigues caused at the time some sensation . III . RUSSIA . As early as 1731 , a Lodge at Moscow received a constitution from the Grand Lodge at Londonunder the rei of
, gn the empress Anna Ivanowna , but their meetings seem to have been conducted Avith great secresy . In 1761 , Freemasonry was tolerated in the Russian dominions . Kafcherine IL , upon the report of a commission of inquiry , declared herself Protectress of the Lodge Clio , at Moscow , upon Avhich other
Lodges arose , and especiall y at St . Petersburgh , that of " Perfect Unity" ( zur vollkommenen Fini glceit ) , which continued its labours even after the withdrawal of the imperial protection , and numbered many of the nobility amongst its Brethren . Paul , in the first period of his reign was favourable to the Order , but his own coquetting with the Kuights of St . John of Jerusalem , to be chosen their Grand Masterat Maltabacked by the envious
, , insinuations of Graf Liven , a Commander of that Order , caused him to prohibit Freemasonry , as inimical to his favorites ; and its Lodges , therefore , could onl y be held with great circumspection . After his murder , the Emperor Alexander continued at first the proscription , but in 1803 , having at the instigation of Baron Bober again appointed a commission and received its report , when the Order was
permitted , and Alexander himself initiated in 1803 . In 1811 , a Grand Directorial Lodge was erected under the Swedish constitution , called Wladimir of Order ( zur Ordnung ) , chauged , in 1825 , into the Grand-Loge Astrasa , with a more extended toleration of principles . On the 12 th August , 1821 , however , a ukase appeared unexpectedly , in Avhich the Order was forbidden under the severest penalties ' it
; is believed because some concealed Jesuits were thought to have insinuated themselves into the Lodges ; and this is the present condition of Masonry under the Emperor Nicholas . The hammer of the Lodge and the Russian knout are two articles so perfectly irreconcilable , that little relaxation of this rigorous prohibition can be speedily looked for .