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Article TO THE GRAND LODGE OF IRELAND.—No. IV. ← Page 3 of 4 →
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To The Grand Lodge Of Ireland.—No. Iv.
differ with them on some points , but this scurrilous conduct will probably cause my retirement . " If it be asked how I have become thus acquainted with the opinions of others , my reply will be that having some time since been engaged in preparing my exposition of the " Casus Belli , " I was in the course of correspondence with many Brethren , ivhich had not ceased when this " brief history" made its appearance;—it naturally became a subject of
comment . The disgusting farrago purports to be " a Brief History of the Anti-Masonic League of Dublin , & c . & c . " by VERAX ! and is contained in twenty-four closely printed pages , but without the name of a printer attached . It has been pretty extensively circulated ; and the parties who receive it by post are mulcted of fourpence , being the double penalty of twopence ; so that the principle of dishonesty sticks to the supporters of the soi-disant original Chapterfrom their first purloining of the
, property of the Grand Chapter in regular succession clown to this slimy production . MENDAX—for I really cannot bring myself to call him by his borrowed or stolen title—commences liis attack in the true style of his genus , and assumes that the first gentleman to be attacked is a " British Agent , " ancl afterwards a member of the original Chapter ; and follows up his hue and cry by quoting a letterfrom the party , wherein it is stated
"that several companies of the London Encampments , have met in conference , under the hope of resuscitating the Grand Conclave of England , " & c , and on the strength of these words , at once states that the Duke of Leinster was correct in asserting that the " Marquis of Kilclare was made a Rose-Croix in a Chapter not duly authorised . " May it please you to pause a moment , and reflect on this point . Is it not clear that if you , the Grand Lodge of Ireland , were to become in abeyance for thirty years , or for thirty centuries , private Lodges
might meet and continue to uphold the Order ? You must well know that all Masonic power emanates from the Masters of Lodges , and that if you were in abeyance , the private Lodges would possess the power to resuscitate you ; ancl they might—they probably ivould act on the principle of the Humane Society , and gently enkindling a spark , apply its motto " lateat scintillula forsan . " The analogy is good in the case of endeavouring to resuscitate the Grand Conclave of England;—the private Encampments had never ceased to work .
1 next beg to draw your attention to a fact that will not be easily controverted , viz ., that the Marquis of Kilclare was initiated at Oxfordexalted there , and at his own request installed a Kni ght Templar in the Cross of Christ Encampment , wherein he also received the still higher degrees ; in fact he was from the first step to the last , affiliated in the English system . The farce of re-making had better have been spared .
The indifference of the late Duke of Sussex to the higher degrees I am not ignorant of ; but I shall not at present enter into the ' subject further than to observe , ; hat the observations of " Mendax" thereon are in good keeping with his case ; they prove his title to the soubriquet . It is brought against the Review that its Editor should have given the palm to the working of the original Chapter , and a charge of inconsistency is founded thereon . What a straining at a gnat ! However , as the limits of this paper will allow but a brief allusion , I shall merely state my belief that the Editor never was the agent for the I'OL in . u
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To The Grand Lodge Of Ireland.—No. Iv.
differ with them on some points , but this scurrilous conduct will probably cause my retirement . " If it be asked how I have become thus acquainted with the opinions of others , my reply will be that having some time since been engaged in preparing my exposition of the " Casus Belli , " I was in the course of correspondence with many Brethren , ivhich had not ceased when this " brief history" made its appearance;—it naturally became a subject of
comment . The disgusting farrago purports to be " a Brief History of the Anti-Masonic League of Dublin , & c . & c . " by VERAX ! and is contained in twenty-four closely printed pages , but without the name of a printer attached . It has been pretty extensively circulated ; and the parties who receive it by post are mulcted of fourpence , being the double penalty of twopence ; so that the principle of dishonesty sticks to the supporters of the soi-disant original Chapterfrom their first purloining of the
, property of the Grand Chapter in regular succession clown to this slimy production . MENDAX—for I really cannot bring myself to call him by his borrowed or stolen title—commences liis attack in the true style of his genus , and assumes that the first gentleman to be attacked is a " British Agent , " ancl afterwards a member of the original Chapter ; and follows up his hue and cry by quoting a letterfrom the party , wherein it is stated
"that several companies of the London Encampments , have met in conference , under the hope of resuscitating the Grand Conclave of England , " & c , and on the strength of these words , at once states that the Duke of Leinster was correct in asserting that the " Marquis of Kilclare was made a Rose-Croix in a Chapter not duly authorised . " May it please you to pause a moment , and reflect on this point . Is it not clear that if you , the Grand Lodge of Ireland , were to become in abeyance for thirty years , or for thirty centuries , private Lodges
might meet and continue to uphold the Order ? You must well know that all Masonic power emanates from the Masters of Lodges , and that if you were in abeyance , the private Lodges would possess the power to resuscitate you ; ancl they might—they probably ivould act on the principle of the Humane Society , and gently enkindling a spark , apply its motto " lateat scintillula forsan . " The analogy is good in the case of endeavouring to resuscitate the Grand Conclave of England;—the private Encampments had never ceased to work .
1 next beg to draw your attention to a fact that will not be easily controverted , viz ., that the Marquis of Kilclare was initiated at Oxfordexalted there , and at his own request installed a Kni ght Templar in the Cross of Christ Encampment , wherein he also received the still higher degrees ; in fact he was from the first step to the last , affiliated in the English system . The farce of re-making had better have been spared .
The indifference of the late Duke of Sussex to the higher degrees I am not ignorant of ; but I shall not at present enter into the ' subject further than to observe , ; hat the observations of " Mendax" thereon are in good keeping with his case ; they prove his title to the soubriquet . It is brought against the Review that its Editor should have given the palm to the working of the original Chapter , and a charge of inconsistency is founded thereon . What a straining at a gnat ! However , as the limits of this paper will allow but a brief allusion , I shall merely state my belief that the Editor never was the agent for the I'OL in . u