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To The Rev. Geo. Oliver.
TO THE REV . GEO . OLIVER .
W . P . G . M . l ' OIt THE COUNTY OP LINCOLN . R . W , AND DEAR SIR , " HAVING seen the attacks on the Craft by modern writers ( although insidiously veiled ) , I beg to draw your attention , first to the editor of Pngin's Gothic Architecture ,
who says , in a note appended to that work , Vol . II . p . 21 , ' Whatever secrets the mystical Fraternity of Freemasons possess , no elucidation ofthe Gothic style can be expected from them . Inigo Jones ancl Sir Christopher Wren are both in the catalogue of their Grand Masters—of course , were in possession of all the arcanaancl yet both showed their
, incompetence iu what they attempted of this style ; ' and , secondly , to the Rev . James Dallaway in his Discourses on Gothic Architecture , who says , p . 400 , ' I do not wish to pry into the mysteries of the Craft , but it would be interesting to know more of their history during the period in
which they were literary architects ; ' and again : 'I shall wave any inquiry , by excluding legendary tradition or conjecture formed upon it , confining my research to evidence alone . ' To the first I reply , Jones and Wren were attached to Roman architecture , which is purely mythological , and , as it is well known , that previous to the Romans as a
nation only three orders were extant , viz ., the Doric , Ionic , ancl Corinthian ( agreeing with the mystic three , and according with the Oracles of Zoroaster , ' For the mind of the Father said that all things be cut into three' ) , well known to the Greeks , and the Romans formed the Tuscan by varying the diameters and divesting the Doric of the
tri g l yp hs ancl dentils forming that heavy order , and the Composite was formed out of the whole , as its name imports , ancl I think I am borne out by Vitruvius , the parent of modern architecture ; and as the Roman had been the fashion for some years , of course the reason must be known , although in English history the Roman periods are passed over , for causes best known to ' Sonderliche wiseacres . '
In the days of Jones ancl Wren , the Roman being the rage in preference to the styles , it is not to be supposed that Jones and Wren , who notwithstanding their profound knowled ge of architecture belonging to the Mythos , could be perfect in the whole of the arcana , as the Craft are well
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To The Rev. Geo. Oliver.
TO THE REV . GEO . OLIVER .
W . P . G . M . l ' OIt THE COUNTY OP LINCOLN . R . W , AND DEAR SIR , " HAVING seen the attacks on the Craft by modern writers ( although insidiously veiled ) , I beg to draw your attention , first to the editor of Pngin's Gothic Architecture ,
who says , in a note appended to that work , Vol . II . p . 21 , ' Whatever secrets the mystical Fraternity of Freemasons possess , no elucidation ofthe Gothic style can be expected from them . Inigo Jones ancl Sir Christopher Wren are both in the catalogue of their Grand Masters—of course , were in possession of all the arcanaancl yet both showed their
, incompetence iu what they attempted of this style ; ' and , secondly , to the Rev . James Dallaway in his Discourses on Gothic Architecture , who says , p . 400 , ' I do not wish to pry into the mysteries of the Craft , but it would be interesting to know more of their history during the period in
which they were literary architects ; ' and again : 'I shall wave any inquiry , by excluding legendary tradition or conjecture formed upon it , confining my research to evidence alone . ' To the first I reply , Jones and Wren were attached to Roman architecture , which is purely mythological , and , as it is well known , that previous to the Romans as a
nation only three orders were extant , viz ., the Doric , Ionic , ancl Corinthian ( agreeing with the mystic three , and according with the Oracles of Zoroaster , ' For the mind of the Father said that all things be cut into three' ) , well known to the Greeks , and the Romans formed the Tuscan by varying the diameters and divesting the Doric of the
tri g l yp hs ancl dentils forming that heavy order , and the Composite was formed out of the whole , as its name imports , ancl I think I am borne out by Vitruvius , the parent of modern architecture ; and as the Roman had been the fashion for some years , of course the reason must be known , although in English history the Roman periods are passed over , for causes best known to ' Sonderliche wiseacres . '
In the days of Jones ancl Wren , the Roman being the rage in preference to the styles , it is not to be supposed that Jones and Wren , who notwithstanding their profound knowled ge of architecture belonging to the Mythos , could be perfect in the whole of the arcana , as the Craft are well