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Article THE FREEMASON'S LEXICON. ← Page 6 of 8 →
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The Freemason's Lexicon.
1757 , and died 2 ( ith June , 1793 , one of the most celebrated authors of his age , and distinguished hy his svorks upon the German language . His travels through England antl Italy made him svell knosvn , and his svork , " Anton Reiser , " contains hisosvn life ; he svas also the author of many Masonic Songs . The svork , " The Grand Lodge , or the Freemason svith the Rule and the Plumb LevelBerlin 1793 " is also
attri-, , , buted to him ;> The svork , " The Symbolical Wisdom of the Egyptians , Berlin , 1793 , " svas only published by him , its author svas J . G . Bremer . Aloritz svas a member of the Berlin Grand Lodge . Mosaisches Fluster . Mosaic Pavement . —The A'losaic pavement svas found before the porch of King Solomon ' s Temple . Fortunate are those svho can drasv near unto it , and also unto the porch .
Mossdorf trederich , Ronigh Sechs Hof und Justizkanelei , Sekretair at Dresden svas born March 2 nd , 1757 , at Eckartsberge ; svas initiated into Freemasonry , by his osvn account , in the Lodge Minerva , at the Three Palms , Leipzig , 1 . 5 th October , 1777 ; joined the Lodge at the Three Ssvords , at Dresden , on the 28 th November , 178 !) ; and in the year 1807 , svas made an honorary member of Lodge Archimedes , at the Three Tracing-boards , in Altenburg , as svell as of the Lodge at the Golden Applein Dresden . In the united Lodge of the Three
, Friends and Three Ssvords , he filled the office of Protoculling and corresponding Secretary , from March , 17 98 , unto the end of the year 1803 , and then uninterruptedl y from A larch , 1805 , unto the end of 1810 . In this office he composed , amongst other things , the circular for the month of July , 1805 , svhich svas published in the " " Alasonic Pocket-Book for the years 5805 and 5806 , by X . Y . Z ., " ( Berlin , 1806
m 12 mo . ) pages 169-174 , and re-published in the " Nesv Freemasons ' Pocket-Book for 1806 and 1807 , " ( Freyberg by Gerlach in 12 mo . ) page 172-181 . In this circular he published the result of his incessant enquiries into the history of Freemasonry , ami the condition and constitution of this society , as svell as of the abolition of the so-called high degrees in that Lodge , svhich svas principally oss'ing to his exertions . At the convention svhich ss'as held at Dresden , from the 28 th October to the 20 th December 1805 for the purpose of forming a PGLod
, , . . ge for the province of Chur-Saxony , antl the countries incorporated svith it , but svhich , osving to the svar that broke out shortly aftersvards , produced no result , he svas a deputy , not only from his osvn Lodge , but also from the Lodge the Three Flames in Planon . On the appearance of the " Collected Works of the Brothers Fessler , upon Freemasonry , " ( Berlin , 1801 , ) he commenced a correspondence svith the author , svhich , in the end , became more anil more important . As Alossdorf could not
do othersvise than approve of Fessler ' s important reformations in the Grand Lodge , Royal York Friendship in Berlin , so it svas svith painful feelings that he heard the tidings that Fessler had declined off from that Lodge , and determined to publish " Fessler ' s reflections upon the last six years of his Alasonic labours , " ( Dresden , 1804 . in Svo . ) in tsvo parts , or the second volume of the svorks upon Freemasonry , also the second improved etlition ofthe first volume ( Freyberg bei Gerlach 1805 )
, , ; and also superintended the publishing of " Fessler ' s legal decisions upon the society of the Evergeten , ( Freyberg by Gerlach , 1804 ) . He had published before this , in the Freyberg Pocket-book already mentioned , 1802 pages 153-176 , a " Reviesv ofthe critical history of Freemasonry and the Alasonic brotherhood , from the earliest period to the year 1 S 01 , by Bro . Fessler ; " and in the same Pocket-book for the year 1803 ,
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The Freemason's Lexicon.
1757 , and died 2 ( ith June , 1793 , one of the most celebrated authors of his age , and distinguished hy his svorks upon the German language . His travels through England antl Italy made him svell knosvn , and his svork , " Anton Reiser , " contains hisosvn life ; he svas also the author of many Masonic Songs . The svork , " The Grand Lodge , or the Freemason svith the Rule and the Plumb LevelBerlin 1793 " is also
attri-, , , buted to him ;> The svork , " The Symbolical Wisdom of the Egyptians , Berlin , 1793 , " svas only published by him , its author svas J . G . Bremer . Aloritz svas a member of the Berlin Grand Lodge . Mosaisches Fluster . Mosaic Pavement . —The A'losaic pavement svas found before the porch of King Solomon ' s Temple . Fortunate are those svho can drasv near unto it , and also unto the porch .
Mossdorf trederich , Ronigh Sechs Hof und Justizkanelei , Sekretair at Dresden svas born March 2 nd , 1757 , at Eckartsberge ; svas initiated into Freemasonry , by his osvn account , in the Lodge Minerva , at the Three Palms , Leipzig , 1 . 5 th October , 1777 ; joined the Lodge at the Three Ssvords , at Dresden , on the 28 th November , 178 !) ; and in the year 1807 , svas made an honorary member of Lodge Archimedes , at the Three Tracing-boards , in Altenburg , as svell as of the Lodge at the Golden Applein Dresden . In the united Lodge of the Three
, Friends and Three Ssvords , he filled the office of Protoculling and corresponding Secretary , from March , 17 98 , unto the end of the year 1803 , and then uninterruptedl y from A larch , 1805 , unto the end of 1810 . In this office he composed , amongst other things , the circular for the month of July , 1805 , svhich svas published in the " " Alasonic Pocket-Book for the years 5805 and 5806 , by X . Y . Z ., " ( Berlin , 1806
m 12 mo . ) pages 169-174 , and re-published in the " Nesv Freemasons ' Pocket-Book for 1806 and 1807 , " ( Freyberg by Gerlach in 12 mo . ) page 172-181 . In this circular he published the result of his incessant enquiries into the history of Freemasonry , ami the condition and constitution of this society , as svell as of the abolition of the so-called high degrees in that Lodge , svhich svas principally oss'ing to his exertions . At the convention svhich ss'as held at Dresden , from the 28 th October to the 20 th December 1805 for the purpose of forming a PGLod
, , . . ge for the province of Chur-Saxony , antl the countries incorporated svith it , but svhich , osving to the svar that broke out shortly aftersvards , produced no result , he svas a deputy , not only from his osvn Lodge , but also from the Lodge the Three Flames in Planon . On the appearance of the " Collected Works of the Brothers Fessler , upon Freemasonry , " ( Berlin , 1801 , ) he commenced a correspondence svith the author , svhich , in the end , became more anil more important . As Alossdorf could not
do othersvise than approve of Fessler ' s important reformations in the Grand Lodge , Royal York Friendship in Berlin , so it svas svith painful feelings that he heard the tidings that Fessler had declined off from that Lodge , and determined to publish " Fessler ' s reflections upon the last six years of his Alasonic labours , " ( Dresden , 1804 . in Svo . ) in tsvo parts , or the second volume of the svorks upon Freemasonry , also the second improved etlition ofthe first volume ( Freyberg bei Gerlach 1805 )
, , ; and also superintended the publishing of " Fessler ' s legal decisions upon the society of the Evergeten , ( Freyberg by Gerlach , 1804 ) . He had published before this , in the Freyberg Pocket-book already mentioned , 1802 pages 153-176 , a " Reviesv ofthe critical history of Freemasonry and the Alasonic brotherhood , from the earliest period to the year 1 S 01 , by Bro . Fessler ; " and in the same Pocket-book for the year 1803 ,