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Article THE GRAND CONCLAVE OF KNIGHTS TEMPLAR AND THE ROYAL ARCH DEGREE. ← Page 4 of 4 Article ON THE NIGHT SCENE OF HOMER. Page 1 of 3 →
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The Grand Conclave Of Knights Templar And The Royal Arch Degree.
sonable and prudent course in the Grand Conclave . But to go further than this , and require the possession of the Royal Arch degree also , is a step in the svrong direction , and only rendering it more difficult at any future time to unravel the tangled sveb svhich nosv binds together the two Orders of Masonry and Christian Knighthood . As Royal Arch Masons , the members of the Grand Conclave may be desirous of
enforcing a measure svell calculated to foster and support that not very authentic or legitimate piece of Freemasonry , but as Knights of the Order of the Temple , acting as rulers and governors of that ancient Order , it is their duty , and ought to be their endeavour , to prepare the way for the attempt at the proper time to raise it to an independent position of its osvn , instead of more firmly binding it to the svheels and dragging it after the car of Masonry . THE KNIGHT OF SAINT JOHN .
On The Night Scene Of Homer.
ON THE NIGHT SCENE OF HOMER .
As when the stars in heav ' n round the ch ar moon Are beaming beautiful ; when ever } ' wind Is hushed , and ail the heights , and mountain peaks , And groves are seen ; while from below expands The boundless firmament revealing all The stars , and gladness fills the shepherd's heart . So numerous a \ t > iearcd tbe Trojan fixes Between the tieet and Zanthus , anil before Troy's walls illuminate . A thousand fires SVere burning on the plain , and by each blaze
Sat fifty warriors . By their chariots sto . ' . d The coursers champing I'arley white aud oats , SS'aiting the coming of the fair-throned morn . In Christopher North ' s attractive critique upon Sotheby ' s translation of Homer , sve find that a disputed meaning is attached to verses 554 , 555 ofthe Sth Iliad , in the famous night-piece , and svhich are thus literally rendered by him of the North : — " TVie -uuTneasuTaS ^ e firmarnDTi . S bursts \ or exi-iar ^ Ss ) from SieSow , And all the s ' ars are seen ; and the shepherd rejoices in his heart . "
faking this transcript by the modern Athenian to be all one svith the ancient Greek , what image , we svould ' ask , does it present to the reader ' s mind ? To us , who profess not to be either critics or commentators , but obedient to our natural perceptions , it seems , and has ahvays so seemed , to mean nothing more nor less than the apparent revolution of the stars by the earth ' s rotation , by svhich the immeasurable firmament appears to expand or burst from belosv the horizon , and all the stars and constellations are seen , pressing upsvards , as it svere , and disclosing successively
nesv numbers . Thus , it seems to us , svould the whole Homeric hemisphere pass in reviesv before the shepherd . Christopher , hosves'er , accounts for this bursting or expanding of the firmament from belosv , and the consequent panorama or vision of all the stars , by conjecturing that at first there svere only a few stars visible around the moon ( crescent , or " round as my shield , " for that too is a disputed point ) , but that by degrees the svinds , svhich at first were still , began to blosv , and break up the clouds , opening a nesv reach of heaven upsvards , until thess * holesky became clear , and all the stars svere seen .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Grand Conclave Of Knights Templar And The Royal Arch Degree.
sonable and prudent course in the Grand Conclave . But to go further than this , and require the possession of the Royal Arch degree also , is a step in the svrong direction , and only rendering it more difficult at any future time to unravel the tangled sveb svhich nosv binds together the two Orders of Masonry and Christian Knighthood . As Royal Arch Masons , the members of the Grand Conclave may be desirous of
enforcing a measure svell calculated to foster and support that not very authentic or legitimate piece of Freemasonry , but as Knights of the Order of the Temple , acting as rulers and governors of that ancient Order , it is their duty , and ought to be their endeavour , to prepare the way for the attempt at the proper time to raise it to an independent position of its osvn , instead of more firmly binding it to the svheels and dragging it after the car of Masonry . THE KNIGHT OF SAINT JOHN .
On The Night Scene Of Homer.
ON THE NIGHT SCENE OF HOMER .
As when the stars in heav ' n round the ch ar moon Are beaming beautiful ; when ever } ' wind Is hushed , and ail the heights , and mountain peaks , And groves are seen ; while from below expands The boundless firmament revealing all The stars , and gladness fills the shepherd's heart . So numerous a \ t > iearcd tbe Trojan fixes Between the tieet and Zanthus , anil before Troy's walls illuminate . A thousand fires SVere burning on the plain , and by each blaze
Sat fifty warriors . By their chariots sto . ' . d The coursers champing I'arley white aud oats , SS'aiting the coming of the fair-throned morn . In Christopher North ' s attractive critique upon Sotheby ' s translation of Homer , sve find that a disputed meaning is attached to verses 554 , 555 ofthe Sth Iliad , in the famous night-piece , and svhich are thus literally rendered by him of the North : — " TVie -uuTneasuTaS ^ e firmarnDTi . S bursts \ or exi-iar ^ Ss ) from SieSow , And all the s ' ars are seen ; and the shepherd rejoices in his heart . "
faking this transcript by the modern Athenian to be all one svith the ancient Greek , what image , we svould ' ask , does it present to the reader ' s mind ? To us , who profess not to be either critics or commentators , but obedient to our natural perceptions , it seems , and has ahvays so seemed , to mean nothing more nor less than the apparent revolution of the stars by the earth ' s rotation , by svhich the immeasurable firmament appears to expand or burst from belosv the horizon , and all the stars and constellations are seen , pressing upsvards , as it svere , and disclosing successively
nesv numbers . Thus , it seems to us , svould the whole Homeric hemisphere pass in reviesv before the shepherd . Christopher , hosves'er , accounts for this bursting or expanding of the firmament from belosv , and the consequent panorama or vision of all the stars , by conjecturing that at first there svere only a few stars visible around the moon ( crescent , or " round as my shield , " for that too is a disputed point ) , but that by degrees the svinds , svhich at first were still , began to blosv , and break up the clouds , opening a nesv reach of heaven upsvards , until thess * holesky became clear , and all the stars svere seen .