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Article THE FREEMASONS' LEXICON. ← Page 2 of 12 →
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The Freemasons' Lexicon.
few , under the name of mysteries . The Kni ghts Templar procured admission , or initiation , into those mysteries ; and the scientific knowledge thus obtained was soon adopted into the constitution of the Order . In course of time , they formed a system of their own , having a special object in view , which they preserved as a mystery amongst themselves , and subjected the candidates for initiation to many severe trials . The peace in which the Order afterwards livedseduced the brethren into
, too great security and enjoyment of sensual pleasures . The greatest part of the knights visited Europe , in order to compensate themselves for the hardships they had suffered in Palestine by living iu ease and luxury on the rich possessions they had by degrees acquired in all European nations . By communicating and propagating a knowledge of the useful arts and sciences which they had acquired in the East , they procured for themselves a great number of admirersfriendsand
, , disciples . This did not endure very long before envy , hatred , and persecution was raised against them everywhere , especially by the priesthood , who finally accused them of the crimes of necromancy , and of having a secret compact with the devil . Phillip the Fair , King of France , allowed himself to be prejudiced against the Templars by these reports , aud finally employed those accusations as a means of satisfying his own avaricehis object being to obtain the rich possessions of the
, Templars in his dominions . He united himself with Pope Clement V . in 1307 , and , by their united influence , they caused the whole of the members of the Order who were in Europe to be arrested and thrown into prison , and those who were in France were most cruelly and barbarously tortured . As soon as the Grand Master of the Order , Jacob
Bernhard Molay , was informed of this event , he hastened to France to defend himself and his companions from the accusations which were brought against them . He had scarcely arrived there before he was arrested , and , on the 22 nd May , 1312 , he , with a great number of his knights , were most cruelly and barbarously executed . The few knights who escaped , or who were at that time not living in Europe , could not support the Order , and it became extinct . ( See article " Strict Observance" p . 254 . )
, Theden . —Johann Christian Anton was born on the 13 th September , 1714 , and died 21 st October , 1797 . He was Senior General Surgeon of the Royal Prussian army . In the eighty-third year of his life , he was very useful to the world , of which his works on practical surgery are the best proofs . As a Freemason , he was most diligent in every epoch of the Order , and was not only a member of the Grand Lodge at the Three Globesbut also W . M . of the lotlge Zur Eintracht in Berlin .
, His statue adorns one of the halls of the said Grand Lodge . In the year 1787 , he had been fifty years in the Prussian service , and this jubilee was celebrated by his brethren , who at the same time caused a medal to be struck , the obverse containing a pillar encircled by a serpent , surrounded with various masonic working tools ; inscription , " 27 th July , 1787 ; and on the reverse the following inscription : T . C . A . Theden , K . Pruss . Gen . Chir . born 13 th September 1714 held his fiftieth
, , ; year ' s jubilee in the midst of Freemasons , who would never lose him from amongst them , if gratitude and love could preserve his life . Tochterlogen . Daughter Lodges . —Those lodges which work under a Grand Lodge or mother lodge , are its daughters . As such , they commonly work according to tbe ritual or system which has been given them by the mother lodge , in order that the mother may be better able
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Lexicon.
few , under the name of mysteries . The Kni ghts Templar procured admission , or initiation , into those mysteries ; and the scientific knowledge thus obtained was soon adopted into the constitution of the Order . In course of time , they formed a system of their own , having a special object in view , which they preserved as a mystery amongst themselves , and subjected the candidates for initiation to many severe trials . The peace in which the Order afterwards livedseduced the brethren into
, too great security and enjoyment of sensual pleasures . The greatest part of the knights visited Europe , in order to compensate themselves for the hardships they had suffered in Palestine by living iu ease and luxury on the rich possessions they had by degrees acquired in all European nations . By communicating and propagating a knowledge of the useful arts and sciences which they had acquired in the East , they procured for themselves a great number of admirersfriendsand
, , disciples . This did not endure very long before envy , hatred , and persecution was raised against them everywhere , especially by the priesthood , who finally accused them of the crimes of necromancy , and of having a secret compact with the devil . Phillip the Fair , King of France , allowed himself to be prejudiced against the Templars by these reports , aud finally employed those accusations as a means of satisfying his own avaricehis object being to obtain the rich possessions of the
, Templars in his dominions . He united himself with Pope Clement V . in 1307 , and , by their united influence , they caused the whole of the members of the Order who were in Europe to be arrested and thrown into prison , and those who were in France were most cruelly and barbarously tortured . As soon as the Grand Master of the Order , Jacob
Bernhard Molay , was informed of this event , he hastened to France to defend himself and his companions from the accusations which were brought against them . He had scarcely arrived there before he was arrested , and , on the 22 nd May , 1312 , he , with a great number of his knights , were most cruelly and barbarously executed . The few knights who escaped , or who were at that time not living in Europe , could not support the Order , and it became extinct . ( See article " Strict Observance" p . 254 . )
, Theden . —Johann Christian Anton was born on the 13 th September , 1714 , and died 21 st October , 1797 . He was Senior General Surgeon of the Royal Prussian army . In the eighty-third year of his life , he was very useful to the world , of which his works on practical surgery are the best proofs . As a Freemason , he was most diligent in every epoch of the Order , and was not only a member of the Grand Lodge at the Three Globesbut also W . M . of the lotlge Zur Eintracht in Berlin .
, His statue adorns one of the halls of the said Grand Lodge . In the year 1787 , he had been fifty years in the Prussian service , and this jubilee was celebrated by his brethren , who at the same time caused a medal to be struck , the obverse containing a pillar encircled by a serpent , surrounded with various masonic working tools ; inscription , " 27 th July , 1787 ; and on the reverse the following inscription : T . C . A . Theden , K . Pruss . Gen . Chir . born 13 th September 1714 held his fiftieth
, , ; year ' s jubilee in the midst of Freemasons , who would never lose him from amongst them , if gratitude and love could preserve his life . Tochterlogen . Daughter Lodges . —Those lodges which work under a Grand Lodge or mother lodge , are its daughters . As such , they commonly work according to tbe ritual or system which has been given them by the mother lodge , in order that the mother may be better able