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Chapter I.
atheism . The infidel will object as strongly against Christianity as the caviller does against Masonry . Yet they both continue their walk of benevolence and charity , undisturbed by the passing slander , which makes no more impression on either than the waft of an insect ' s wing would make on the gigantic oak . Persecution has always strengthened the cause it would destroy ; and new attacks are but the harbingers of renewed prosperity . Freemasonrythe handmaiden of reliionisin
, g , , our own times , menaced by religious professors , which will prove an effectual antidote to Iukewarmness on the one hand , and neglect on the other ; and the Order is sure to derive essential benefits from every attack . I hope , however , before I conclude the series which I have now the pleasure of offering for your acceptance , to force conviction , even on our opponents , and compel them to entertain a favourable opinion of
Freemasonry , if their hearts be not unnaturally closed against conviction ; and if 1 should succeed in opening their eyes to some of its inestimable advantages , I shall not have laboured in vain .
The Freemasons' Lexicon.
THE FREEMASONS' LEXICON .
{ Continued from page 421 vol . v . ) Russland . Russia . —Under the reign of the Czaress Catherine the Great , ancl evenhefore that time , lodges flourished in all parts of Russia . As earl y as the year 1731 , the then Grand Master , Lord Lovell , in London , nominated Captain John Phillips Provincial Grand Master of Russia . In the year 1799 , under Czar Paul , the lodges , of their own accord
, closed their labours , but preserved the sacred fire in secret until more settled times , that it might be able to accomplish its benevolent intentions in peace . This time arrived in the year 1804 , when the Czar Alexander permitted several ancient brethren to establish a lodge in St . Petersburg , called Alexander at the Crowned Pelican ; and since then several lodges have been formed there ; also at Riga , Revel , and other towns . There are two Grand Lodges in St . Petersburg , whose constitutions are sanctioned bv the state .
Sachsen das Konigreich . Kingdom of Saxony . —We find lodges in this kingdom which have been allowed to work , undisturbed by the government , from the first extention of Freemasonry in Germany ; especially in Leipzig , Dresden , Bauzen , Freyberg , Schneeherg , and Zittau . Those lodges , particularly those in Dresden , distinguished themselves by their benevolence in the years 1770 and 1771 , and are still of importance b y maintaining a free-school in Dresden , which was
openly acknowledged by the king , in 1778 , as a useful institution , so that the brethren have the royal approbation of the work . In 1812 a Grand Lodge was founded in Dresden . St . Germain , Graf Graf St . Germain was despised as an adventurer and professor ofthe black art ; his parentage is unknown ; he sometimes called himself Aymar , and at other times the Marquis de Betmar—he was probably a Portuguese by birth . On his first journey into Germany
Cagliostro formed his acquaintance , in Holstein , and profited by his instructions in carrying on his first schemes of imposition . St . Germain really possessed a knowledge of chemistry and other sciences , but his unconquerable desire to shine as an adept prevented him from pursuing
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Chapter I.
atheism . The infidel will object as strongly against Christianity as the caviller does against Masonry . Yet they both continue their walk of benevolence and charity , undisturbed by the passing slander , which makes no more impression on either than the waft of an insect ' s wing would make on the gigantic oak . Persecution has always strengthened the cause it would destroy ; and new attacks are but the harbingers of renewed prosperity . Freemasonrythe handmaiden of reliionisin
, g , , our own times , menaced by religious professors , which will prove an effectual antidote to Iukewarmness on the one hand , and neglect on the other ; and the Order is sure to derive essential benefits from every attack . I hope , however , before I conclude the series which I have now the pleasure of offering for your acceptance , to force conviction , even on our opponents , and compel them to entertain a favourable opinion of
Freemasonry , if their hearts be not unnaturally closed against conviction ; and if 1 should succeed in opening their eyes to some of its inestimable advantages , I shall not have laboured in vain .
The Freemasons' Lexicon.
THE FREEMASONS' LEXICON .
{ Continued from page 421 vol . v . ) Russland . Russia . —Under the reign of the Czaress Catherine the Great , ancl evenhefore that time , lodges flourished in all parts of Russia . As earl y as the year 1731 , the then Grand Master , Lord Lovell , in London , nominated Captain John Phillips Provincial Grand Master of Russia . In the year 1799 , under Czar Paul , the lodges , of their own accord
, closed their labours , but preserved the sacred fire in secret until more settled times , that it might be able to accomplish its benevolent intentions in peace . This time arrived in the year 1804 , when the Czar Alexander permitted several ancient brethren to establish a lodge in St . Petersburg , called Alexander at the Crowned Pelican ; and since then several lodges have been formed there ; also at Riga , Revel , and other towns . There are two Grand Lodges in St . Petersburg , whose constitutions are sanctioned bv the state .
Sachsen das Konigreich . Kingdom of Saxony . —We find lodges in this kingdom which have been allowed to work , undisturbed by the government , from the first extention of Freemasonry in Germany ; especially in Leipzig , Dresden , Bauzen , Freyberg , Schneeherg , and Zittau . Those lodges , particularly those in Dresden , distinguished themselves by their benevolence in the years 1770 and 1771 , and are still of importance b y maintaining a free-school in Dresden , which was
openly acknowledged by the king , in 1778 , as a useful institution , so that the brethren have the royal approbation of the work . In 1812 a Grand Lodge was founded in Dresden . St . Germain , Graf Graf St . Germain was despised as an adventurer and professor ofthe black art ; his parentage is unknown ; he sometimes called himself Aymar , and at other times the Marquis de Betmar—he was probably a Portuguese by birth . On his first journey into Germany
Cagliostro formed his acquaintance , in Holstein , and profited by his instructions in carrying on his first schemes of imposition . St . Germain really possessed a knowledge of chemistry and other sciences , but his unconquerable desire to shine as an adept prevented him from pursuing