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To The Editor Of The Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine.
Neufchald , amongst whose members the famous physiognomist , Lavater , may be numbered . When , in 1777 , by a person named Sidrac , the excrescence of French Masonry was endeavoured to be introduced , it was determined that Helvetic Freemasonry should be governed from its division into languages by Directories ; the German portion by the
ScottishDireetory ; aud the French one by Directoire Fcossais Boman . In 1786 was constituted in Geneva La Grande Loyede Genf ; which , dissolving for political reasons in 1793 , was incorporated into the Grand Oriente , de France .
The second period , from 1 S 03 to 1844 . —War and its horrors caused a cessation of Masonic action from 1793 to 1803 . On the 14 th September , in the latter year , the Grand Orient of France founded at Berne the Lodge of Hope ( zur llqffnung ) which Avas quickly folloAved by more ; at Lausanne , 1 S 05 ; Basle , 1807 ; Solothurn ( Soleure ) , 1819 . In 1 S 10 the former Directory at Lausanne constituted itself independent of France under the title Grand Orient National Helvetique
Boman as a national institution ; and in 1811 reappeared the Directory at Lausanne , Avith all its filials ( Avhich had ceased working since 1793 ) , at Basle , thovigh it was soon transferred to Zurich . In . 1818 , 27 th July , a Provincial Lodge was established at Berne by Peter Ludwig von Tavel , by authority from the Duke of Sussex . By a Concordat agreed to 29 th April , 1822 , in order to abolish the irregularities arising from the Ordre Maconniqiie de Misraim en son
QOeme degre , all these Lodges dissolved and constituted themselves , together with the separating Grand Orient at Lausanne , into a single union , under the name of the Grand Land Lodge ( Grosse Lancles-Loge ) of SAvitzerland , which Avas formally installed on St . John ' s day , ancl worked according to the old English constitution .
Of the four independent Superior Lodges of the middle of tins period , only two , therefore , now existed : the Grand Land Lodge , at Berne ( in 1844 with twelve filials ) , and the Directory of Scottish Masonry with six filials ; both of which it had been attempted , particularly in 1806 , to unite into a single supreme body , which finishes our third period ; for on the 22 nd and 24 th June , 1844 , after numerous conferences at ZurichBerneBasleLocle aud Aarauin which
, , , , the matter was duly Aveighed and beforehand prepared , Avas this longconceived wish carried into execution . All previous supreme authorities Avere , of course , superseded , both of the Directory of the purified Scottish Masonry in Zurich , and of the Grand Land Lodge , at Berne ; and a new single SAVISS GEAND LODGE was constituted by the Grand Master Hottinger , under the title Alpina , to which most
of tbe Provincial Lodges aggregated themselves , and which still flourishes and continues to labour with sixteen filials . VII . TmvKEY . Even amongst the Moslem , Lodges were erected under the Grand Constitution of London , 173 S-48 , at Constantinople , Smyrna , and Aleppo . In Constantinople the then arbitrary government gave orders to close the Lodges , and no one Avas admitted . Iu the present day , however , traces of Freemasonry may again be observed .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
To The Editor Of The Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine.
Neufchald , amongst whose members the famous physiognomist , Lavater , may be numbered . When , in 1777 , by a person named Sidrac , the excrescence of French Masonry was endeavoured to be introduced , it was determined that Helvetic Freemasonry should be governed from its division into languages by Directories ; the German portion by the
ScottishDireetory ; aud the French one by Directoire Fcossais Boman . In 1786 was constituted in Geneva La Grande Loyede Genf ; which , dissolving for political reasons in 1793 , was incorporated into the Grand Oriente , de France .
The second period , from 1 S 03 to 1844 . —War and its horrors caused a cessation of Masonic action from 1793 to 1803 . On the 14 th September , in the latter year , the Grand Orient of France founded at Berne the Lodge of Hope ( zur llqffnung ) which Avas quickly folloAved by more ; at Lausanne , 1 S 05 ; Basle , 1807 ; Solothurn ( Soleure ) , 1819 . In 1 S 10 the former Directory at Lausanne constituted itself independent of France under the title Grand Orient National Helvetique
Boman as a national institution ; and in 1811 reappeared the Directory at Lausanne , Avith all its filials ( Avhich had ceased working since 1793 ) , at Basle , thovigh it was soon transferred to Zurich . In . 1818 , 27 th July , a Provincial Lodge was established at Berne by Peter Ludwig von Tavel , by authority from the Duke of Sussex . By a Concordat agreed to 29 th April , 1822 , in order to abolish the irregularities arising from the Ordre Maconniqiie de Misraim en son
QOeme degre , all these Lodges dissolved and constituted themselves , together with the separating Grand Orient at Lausanne , into a single union , under the name of the Grand Land Lodge ( Grosse Lancles-Loge ) of SAvitzerland , which Avas formally installed on St . John ' s day , ancl worked according to the old English constitution .
Of the four independent Superior Lodges of the middle of tins period , only two , therefore , now existed : the Grand Land Lodge , at Berne ( in 1844 with twelve filials ) , and the Directory of Scottish Masonry with six filials ; both of which it had been attempted , particularly in 1806 , to unite into a single supreme body , which finishes our third period ; for on the 22 nd and 24 th June , 1844 , after numerous conferences at ZurichBerneBasleLocle aud Aarauin which
, , , , the matter was duly Aveighed and beforehand prepared , Avas this longconceived wish carried into execution . All previous supreme authorities Avere , of course , superseded , both of the Directory of the purified Scottish Masonry in Zurich , and of the Grand Land Lodge , at Berne ; and a new single SAVISS GEAND LODGE was constituted by the Grand Master Hottinger , under the title Alpina , to which most
of tbe Provincial Lodges aggregated themselves , and which still flourishes and continues to labour with sixteen filials . VII . TmvKEY . Even amongst the Moslem , Lodges were erected under the Grand Constitution of London , 173 S-48 , at Constantinople , Smyrna , and Aleppo . In Constantinople the then arbitrary government gave orders to close the Lodges , and no one Avas admitted . Iu the present day , however , traces of Freemasonry may again be observed .