-
Articles/Ads
Article THE ANNALIST.* ← Page 5 of 5 Article NOTITIÆ TEMPLARIÆ. Page 1 of 4 →
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Annalist.*
FIRST LODGE OF INSTRUCTION IN SCOTLAND . —In the year 563 the celebrated St . Colutnb landed in Iona , with twelve Brethren from the north of Ireland , and there founded a seminary , or Lodge of Instruction , from whence the knowledge of the True Light was diffused by degrees , not only through great part of Scotland , but also of England . The society obtained the distinctive appellation of Culdees , from the Irish word cuilceul signifing a sequestered cornerretreator tyled
, y , , lodge , and De , Dia , God , Permanent establishments of the Culdean Fraternity were founded in different provinces at various intervals . One of the most ancient of these seems to have been that at Abernethy ( the capital of the Pictish kingdom ) , constituted about the year 600 . Other provincial grand seats were founded successively at ilunkcld / St . Andrews , Brechin , Dunblane , Dunfermline , Kirkaldy , Culross , Melroseand many other places . That the Free Masonry professed
, and practised by these enlightened Brethren , was such in the genuine sense of the term , is demonstrated by the fact , that they asserted for themselves the right of construing and judging concerning the contents and mysteries of the Covenant , untrammelled by the authorities of foreign councils . Little solicitous to raise architectural structures , whose grandeur should conduct their name and fame to posterity , they sought chiefly to civilize and socialize their Brethren of mankind , by
imparting to them the knowledge of those pure principles which they taught in their Lodges ; freely untyling the door to all who sought for the Truth , and directing them to the sacred source whence they themselves drew the Grand Secret . The adherents of the monk Augustine , by whom Masonry is said to have been patronized in England , were at utter variance with the Culdean Fraternity , refusing to hold any communion with them . The same spirit of intolerance prevailing with the
increase of the dominant hierarch y , the Culdean association was at last extinguished as a distinct body in Scotland . Their complete suppression , however , did not take place till after the lapse of centuries . The last historical mention of them is coeval with the persecution of the Knights Templars . But , like the latter Order , the Culdean system was still secretly cherished and preserved in the breasts of its former professors , and by them it was perpetuated till the flood-gates of Light were again opened in the middle of the 16 th century . Then Freemasonry flourished and spread .
Notitiæ Templariæ.
NOTITI ? TEMPLARI ? .
( No . 10 . ) PR . ECEPT 0 RIES IN PALESTINE AND TitE EAST . JERUSALEM . —On the Mount Moriah , in the Holy City , was the Order of the Knights Templars first reared . Before they had attained to be an influential and numerous body , the original members received an asylum in part of the palace of King Baldwin , situated adjacent to the structures raised by the Emperor Justinian and the Cali ph Omar , the site of the
on supposed Tem ple of King Solomon . At the time of the capture of Jerusalem by the Crusaders , these consisted of two great mosques , which still remain entire , the El Aksa , or Alacsa , ( formerly the Christian church of the Purification ) , and the Sakhara , or Mosque
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Annalist.*
FIRST LODGE OF INSTRUCTION IN SCOTLAND . —In the year 563 the celebrated St . Colutnb landed in Iona , with twelve Brethren from the north of Ireland , and there founded a seminary , or Lodge of Instruction , from whence the knowledge of the True Light was diffused by degrees , not only through great part of Scotland , but also of England . The society obtained the distinctive appellation of Culdees , from the Irish word cuilceul signifing a sequestered cornerretreator tyled
, y , , lodge , and De , Dia , God , Permanent establishments of the Culdean Fraternity were founded in different provinces at various intervals . One of the most ancient of these seems to have been that at Abernethy ( the capital of the Pictish kingdom ) , constituted about the year 600 . Other provincial grand seats were founded successively at ilunkcld / St . Andrews , Brechin , Dunblane , Dunfermline , Kirkaldy , Culross , Melroseand many other places . That the Free Masonry professed
, and practised by these enlightened Brethren , was such in the genuine sense of the term , is demonstrated by the fact , that they asserted for themselves the right of construing and judging concerning the contents and mysteries of the Covenant , untrammelled by the authorities of foreign councils . Little solicitous to raise architectural structures , whose grandeur should conduct their name and fame to posterity , they sought chiefly to civilize and socialize their Brethren of mankind , by
imparting to them the knowledge of those pure principles which they taught in their Lodges ; freely untyling the door to all who sought for the Truth , and directing them to the sacred source whence they themselves drew the Grand Secret . The adherents of the monk Augustine , by whom Masonry is said to have been patronized in England , were at utter variance with the Culdean Fraternity , refusing to hold any communion with them . The same spirit of intolerance prevailing with the
increase of the dominant hierarch y , the Culdean association was at last extinguished as a distinct body in Scotland . Their complete suppression , however , did not take place till after the lapse of centuries . The last historical mention of them is coeval with the persecution of the Knights Templars . But , like the latter Order , the Culdean system was still secretly cherished and preserved in the breasts of its former professors , and by them it was perpetuated till the flood-gates of Light were again opened in the middle of the 16 th century . Then Freemasonry flourished and spread .
Notitiæ Templariæ.
NOTITI ? TEMPLARI ? .
( No . 10 . ) PR . ECEPT 0 RIES IN PALESTINE AND TitE EAST . JERUSALEM . —On the Mount Moriah , in the Holy City , was the Order of the Knights Templars first reared . Before they had attained to be an influential and numerous body , the original members received an asylum in part of the palace of King Baldwin , situated adjacent to the structures raised by the Emperor Justinian and the Cali ph Omar , the site of the
on supposed Tem ple of King Solomon . At the time of the capture of Jerusalem by the Crusaders , these consisted of two great mosques , which still remain entire , the El Aksa , or Alacsa , ( formerly the Christian church of the Purification ) , and the Sakhara , or Mosque