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Chapter Iv.
three degrees are , and always have been , a novitiate for Rosierucianism ; and I should be glad to see it proved that those occult mysteries do not belong to the three first degrees . / think I can prove that they do . " This reasoning is entirely fallacious . Barruel asserts that he is able to identify these follies with the three first degrees of Masonry . Why has he not done so , when the proof would have been so important a confirmation of his argument ? The reason is clear , —he was unable to do it .
For it is well known to all the fraternity , anil to our opponents also , if they possessed sufficient candour to acknowledge it , that Freemasonry has been completely purged from all such charlatanarie , if ever it formed a part of the system , which is extremel y doubtful , and is presented to the public as a pure and rational institution , which unites science and morals with benevolence and charity , and recommends the practice of virtue to promote human happiness in this world , in tlie hope , if properly regulated , it will lead , in the next , to a house not made with hands , eternal in the heavens .
The Freemasons' Lexicon.
THE FREEMASONS' LEXICON .
[ Translated expressly for the * ' Freemasons' Quarterly Review . " ] ( Conllmtcdfrmn page 250 . ) Tapis Teppich . Floor-cloth representation of Solomon ' s Temple , eye . —In former times , it was not customary to use a floor-cloth , but the necessary figures were drawn upon the floor with chalk or charcoal
, which , when done with , were washed oft ' . This custom was in use here and there till about 1760 . Many lodges now use solid bodies for their floor-cloths , and not paintings . Every good Mason knows what they represent , and what a floor-cloth is . The border by which it is surrounded is an important symbol .
Tcmpel . —The halls in which our lodges are held are called temples . By this word we also understand an inward and spiritual temple . Solomon ' s temple is a very different thing from the temples in which our lodges are held . Tempelherren . Knights Templar . —In the year 1115 , several Knights of St . John united themselves with the French nobility who were in Jerusalem , to protect the pilgrims on their pilgrimages . Shortly after
this union , the society built themselves a dwelling near Solomon ' s Temple , from which they derived the name of Knights of the Temple , or Temple Knights . Pope Jerome II . afterwards formed tin ' s society into an especial order of knighthood , the members of which wore a white mantle with a red cross . During the campaigns which the Knights Templar made through the Holy Land to protect the pilgrims , they became acquainted with the mannerscustomsartsand sciences
, , , of the inhabitants . Greece and Egypt were at that time still the chief abodes of the arts and sciences , and many of the knights sought instruction in them . The higher sciences , especially the so-called liberal arts and sciences—the sure knowledge of the universe , a more definite idea of the being and attributes of the Godhead—were possessed hy very
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Chapter Iv.
three degrees are , and always have been , a novitiate for Rosierucianism ; and I should be glad to see it proved that those occult mysteries do not belong to the three first degrees . / think I can prove that they do . " This reasoning is entirely fallacious . Barruel asserts that he is able to identify these follies with the three first degrees of Masonry . Why has he not done so , when the proof would have been so important a confirmation of his argument ? The reason is clear , —he was unable to do it .
For it is well known to all the fraternity , anil to our opponents also , if they possessed sufficient candour to acknowledge it , that Freemasonry has been completely purged from all such charlatanarie , if ever it formed a part of the system , which is extremel y doubtful , and is presented to the public as a pure and rational institution , which unites science and morals with benevolence and charity , and recommends the practice of virtue to promote human happiness in this world , in tlie hope , if properly regulated , it will lead , in the next , to a house not made with hands , eternal in the heavens .
The Freemasons' Lexicon.
THE FREEMASONS' LEXICON .
[ Translated expressly for the * ' Freemasons' Quarterly Review . " ] ( Conllmtcdfrmn page 250 . ) Tapis Teppich . Floor-cloth representation of Solomon ' s Temple , eye . —In former times , it was not customary to use a floor-cloth , but the necessary figures were drawn upon the floor with chalk or charcoal
, which , when done with , were washed oft ' . This custom was in use here and there till about 1760 . Many lodges now use solid bodies for their floor-cloths , and not paintings . Every good Mason knows what they represent , and what a floor-cloth is . The border by which it is surrounded is an important symbol .
Tcmpel . —The halls in which our lodges are held are called temples . By this word we also understand an inward and spiritual temple . Solomon ' s temple is a very different thing from the temples in which our lodges are held . Tempelherren . Knights Templar . —In the year 1115 , several Knights of St . John united themselves with the French nobility who were in Jerusalem , to protect the pilgrims on their pilgrimages . Shortly after
this union , the society built themselves a dwelling near Solomon ' s Temple , from which they derived the name of Knights of the Temple , or Temple Knights . Pope Jerome II . afterwards formed tin ' s society into an especial order of knighthood , the members of which wore a white mantle with a red cross . During the campaigns which the Knights Templar made through the Holy Land to protect the pilgrims , they became acquainted with the mannerscustomsartsand sciences
, , , of the inhabitants . Greece and Egypt were at that time still the chief abodes of the arts and sciences , and many of the knights sought instruction in them . The higher sciences , especially the so-called liberal arts and sciences—the sure knowledge of the universe , a more definite idea of the being and attributes of the Godhead—were possessed hy very