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Freemasonry In Europe During The Past Century.
educated by a Mason ) to republish the laws of his father , and declared Freemasons guilty of treason , although they had conformed to previous orders , and delivered all their papers , & c , to the authorities . The Queen of Ferdinand , ' ¦ ' Caroline , " daughter of Francis the First of Germany , appears as the guardian angel of the Craft , and highly should her name he prized and her memory revered ; to her then was Freemasonry indebted for protectionand ultimately for support . Success
, attended her kind and generous consideration , and all the previously arranged and prejudiced enactments were by her influence withdrawn . On the 28 th January , 1783 , Tanucci by command , publicly at the meeting of the Junta , notified the same , although he concluded his remarks by exhorting them to watch narrowly into their actions , & c , ns the Freemasons might become dangerous to the state and to religion . In a minute-book ofthe Grand Lodge of the Two Sicilies , which called
itself "DelZello , " we find , on the 7 th December 1775 , four constituted and three irregular Lodges ; one of the latter afterwards received a warrant . The other parts of Italy are a mere repetition of sufferings , persecutions and misfortunes , the Members of the Craft being continually under punishment , through the intolerance of the priests and interference of the civil power . The neighbourhood of the Pope is not congenial to the development of the higher attributes of manand therefore
, it is not to be supposed that Freemasonry could flourish . Venice , in November 1772 , had a Lodge , and Verona boasted of one ; but a very short career is assigned to them . The year 1785 produced a decree of the Senate against Freemasonry , and many families were transported ; ( this , however , Professor Siebenkees denies . ) France again introduced enlightened views and liberal acts , and justice not execution , followed her , at least such was in most cases the result of her wild and
ungovernable career , compelling us to be pleased rather than grieved at her power . Under Joseph Buonaparte and Murat the Lodges grew to strength and honour : Murat conducted the arrangements for a Grand Lodge , in which he was duly installed 24 th June , 1809 ; but in August 1816 , March 1821 , and May , same year , galley slavery was awarded to those who so shortly before Napoleon ' s abdication were thus highly esteemed . What shall we say of men who knew , and those who did not know the workings of the Order . It is said that in 1820 a Lodge existed in Messina , but we are disposed to doubt it . Of later years nothing has been heard of Lodges in Italy .
SWITZERLAND , Is inhabited and divided by two widely different sects , the Catholic and Protestant . This division will at once lead us into two distinct Masonic histories of the same country ; the one friendly and the other inimical ; the one for the extirpation , the oilier for the progress of Freemasonry . Thus even Christianity is made to take extreme opinions , opposing itself and attempting to carry out its views by very different systems . The first Lodge was founded in Geneva by
Provincial G . M . George Hamilton , in 1737 ; the second in Lausanne , by warrant of the Duke of Montague , in 1739 , in which place likewise a Grand Lodge was immediately formed . Accession to Freemasonry was forbidden , but no particular regard paid to this decree . The Council of Berne , in 1745 , passed a law with certain degrees of punishment for Members of Lodges , but it was not enforced , neither was the law very nicely observed ; it was , however , renewed in 1782 . The pure working became subjected to adulteration ; -for Basle in 1766 , and
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Freemasonry In Europe During The Past Century.
educated by a Mason ) to republish the laws of his father , and declared Freemasons guilty of treason , although they had conformed to previous orders , and delivered all their papers , & c , to the authorities . The Queen of Ferdinand , ' ¦ ' Caroline , " daughter of Francis the First of Germany , appears as the guardian angel of the Craft , and highly should her name he prized and her memory revered ; to her then was Freemasonry indebted for protectionand ultimately for support . Success
, attended her kind and generous consideration , and all the previously arranged and prejudiced enactments were by her influence withdrawn . On the 28 th January , 1783 , Tanucci by command , publicly at the meeting of the Junta , notified the same , although he concluded his remarks by exhorting them to watch narrowly into their actions , & c , ns the Freemasons might become dangerous to the state and to religion . In a minute-book ofthe Grand Lodge of the Two Sicilies , which called
itself "DelZello , " we find , on the 7 th December 1775 , four constituted and three irregular Lodges ; one of the latter afterwards received a warrant . The other parts of Italy are a mere repetition of sufferings , persecutions and misfortunes , the Members of the Craft being continually under punishment , through the intolerance of the priests and interference of the civil power . The neighbourhood of the Pope is not congenial to the development of the higher attributes of manand therefore
, it is not to be supposed that Freemasonry could flourish . Venice , in November 1772 , had a Lodge , and Verona boasted of one ; but a very short career is assigned to them . The year 1785 produced a decree of the Senate against Freemasonry , and many families were transported ; ( this , however , Professor Siebenkees denies . ) France again introduced enlightened views and liberal acts , and justice not execution , followed her , at least such was in most cases the result of her wild and
ungovernable career , compelling us to be pleased rather than grieved at her power . Under Joseph Buonaparte and Murat the Lodges grew to strength and honour : Murat conducted the arrangements for a Grand Lodge , in which he was duly installed 24 th June , 1809 ; but in August 1816 , March 1821 , and May , same year , galley slavery was awarded to those who so shortly before Napoleon ' s abdication were thus highly esteemed . What shall we say of men who knew , and those who did not know the workings of the Order . It is said that in 1820 a Lodge existed in Messina , but we are disposed to doubt it . Of later years nothing has been heard of Lodges in Italy .
SWITZERLAND , Is inhabited and divided by two widely different sects , the Catholic and Protestant . This division will at once lead us into two distinct Masonic histories of the same country ; the one friendly and the other inimical ; the one for the extirpation , the oilier for the progress of Freemasonry . Thus even Christianity is made to take extreme opinions , opposing itself and attempting to carry out its views by very different systems . The first Lodge was founded in Geneva by
Provincial G . M . George Hamilton , in 1737 ; the second in Lausanne , by warrant of the Duke of Montague , in 1739 , in which place likewise a Grand Lodge was immediately formed . Accession to Freemasonry was forbidden , but no particular regard paid to this decree . The Council of Berne , in 1745 , passed a law with certain degrees of punishment for Members of Lodges , but it was not enforced , neither was the law very nicely observed ; it was , however , renewed in 1782 . The pure working became subjected to adulteration ; -for Basle in 1766 , and