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Knight Templars.
must be totally abandoned . Let it be ordered that none under the rank of a commissioned officer in the army or navy , nor any civilian not of a corresponding station in society , either by birth or education , shall be admissible , and whether the Order be . Masonic or Chivalric , it will increase in respectability . In the last Review , at page 501 , an account is given of the origin of Freemasons , and the preservation of the Templars by some French
Knights coming to Scotland , under the command of Pierre d'Aumont , disguised as operative Masons . The author ought to have stated that this is the history got up by Baron Hund , about 1754 , for his degree of " Le Templier , " in the Logosdc la stride observance ( see Burncs' History of the Templars , ed . 2 , p . 70 ;; but the whole was refuted a few years after , and the Baron himself acknowledged that the greater portion was pure fiction . Another and more remaikable account of the
preservation of the order in Scotland , but equally fictitious , is given in the degree of Kadosh , as now practised in Holland , which is quite different from the degree known by the same name elsewhere . It is said to have been brought to Holland from the Cape of Good Hope , and to have been taken thereby a Scotch gentleman . My obligation prevents my stating this i ' able , but assuredly neither it , nor Baron Hund ' s , were founded on any tradition in Scotland , or are corroborated by history . 1 am , Sir , yours , & c . January 11 , 11144 . A TEMPLAR .
Winged Words Of Ancient Archers.—Part 11.
WINGED WORDS OF ANCIENT ARCHERS . —PART 11 .
HOMERIC . * ' Far off his coming shone . " WHOEVER has beheld the Apollo Belvedere ( we had almost said worshipped in the presence ) , can never forget the impression of that divine manifestation . Perfect it appears to our eyes as the impersonation of " the heavenly Archer . " And next to that visible and tangible
representation—say rather side by side with it—stands the mental and immaterial one , the Plomerie model of " the god ; " the original revelation of the Argyrotoxus , clad in his character of Avenger . He moves from the seats on high ; and though he moves " like Night , " we see him through Homer ' s vision , all luminous with terrific majesty ; for he is also the Plague-king . Aye ! every arrow that we hear dancing in his quiver , afar off , is tipt with death—each in itself a
fate . Let Python bear witness to their fearful force , writhing round the remorseless shafts—let the children of Niobe , hapless innocents , pierced through with many wounds ( that was a cruel deed of his godship and sister Di ) , tell of their terrors . Ask the mules and the noble hounds—for eloquently can they speak , though dumb—and their masters the much-grieved Greeks , sinking stricken on the sands , and at the ships—nay , impannel a whole jury of both Greeks and Trojans , and they will return an unanimous verdict , " Died by the Visitation of the Arrowy god . " * But lo I he has left the heaveu-tops , and is descend-
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Knight Templars.
must be totally abandoned . Let it be ordered that none under the rank of a commissioned officer in the army or navy , nor any civilian not of a corresponding station in society , either by birth or education , shall be admissible , and whether the Order be . Masonic or Chivalric , it will increase in respectability . In the last Review , at page 501 , an account is given of the origin of Freemasons , and the preservation of the Templars by some French
Knights coming to Scotland , under the command of Pierre d'Aumont , disguised as operative Masons . The author ought to have stated that this is the history got up by Baron Hund , about 1754 , for his degree of " Le Templier , " in the Logosdc la stride observance ( see Burncs' History of the Templars , ed . 2 , p . 70 ;; but the whole was refuted a few years after , and the Baron himself acknowledged that the greater portion was pure fiction . Another and more remaikable account of the
preservation of the order in Scotland , but equally fictitious , is given in the degree of Kadosh , as now practised in Holland , which is quite different from the degree known by the same name elsewhere . It is said to have been brought to Holland from the Cape of Good Hope , and to have been taken thereby a Scotch gentleman . My obligation prevents my stating this i ' able , but assuredly neither it , nor Baron Hund ' s , were founded on any tradition in Scotland , or are corroborated by history . 1 am , Sir , yours , & c . January 11 , 11144 . A TEMPLAR .
Winged Words Of Ancient Archers.—Part 11.
WINGED WORDS OF ANCIENT ARCHERS . —PART 11 .
HOMERIC . * ' Far off his coming shone . " WHOEVER has beheld the Apollo Belvedere ( we had almost said worshipped in the presence ) , can never forget the impression of that divine manifestation . Perfect it appears to our eyes as the impersonation of " the heavenly Archer . " And next to that visible and tangible
representation—say rather side by side with it—stands the mental and immaterial one , the Plomerie model of " the god ; " the original revelation of the Argyrotoxus , clad in his character of Avenger . He moves from the seats on high ; and though he moves " like Night , " we see him through Homer ' s vision , all luminous with terrific majesty ; for he is also the Plague-king . Aye ! every arrow that we hear dancing in his quiver , afar off , is tipt with death—each in itself a
fate . Let Python bear witness to their fearful force , writhing round the remorseless shafts—let the children of Niobe , hapless innocents , pierced through with many wounds ( that was a cruel deed of his godship and sister Di ) , tell of their terrors . Ask the mules and the noble hounds—for eloquently can they speak , though dumb—and their masters the much-grieved Greeks , sinking stricken on the sands , and at the ships—nay , impannel a whole jury of both Greeks and Trojans , and they will return an unanimous verdict , " Died by the Visitation of the Arrowy god . " * But lo I he has left the heaveu-tops , and is descend-