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Article THE FREEMASONS LEXICON.* ← Page 3 of 13 →
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The Freemasons Lexicon.*
a rich marriage he was enabled to retire from business , and devote the remainder of his days to literature in Weimar . About 1793 he translated that important work , Michael Montaigne ' s Thoughts and Opinions upon all Subjects , in six volumes . He contributed to Masonic literature , Scottish Masonry compared with the Three Obligations , and the Secrets of the Knight Templars of the Fourth Century , from the Frenchin two parts . As a Freemasonhe belonged to the convent in
, , Williamsbad . About the year 17 S 0 he joined the Order of the Illuminati , in which Order he obtained the degree of Illuminatus Dirigens . As a Freemason , no one knew the history of the Order better than he did ,, and no private member possessed a richer or more extensive Masonic library ; no one was more diligent in increasing his stock of Masonic knowledge , and opening for himself the richest and the rarest springs of knowledge . He was one of the most active promoters of the
newly introduced system of the Strict Observance , so long as he believed in its correctness , and one of its most indefatigable enemies as soon as he was convinced of its errors . He opposed with all his strength the different errors which had crept into the Order ; but most especially he set himself to root out the errors of superstition , priestcraft , supremacy , & c . & c , and pursued this many-headed hydra , through all its changing forms , into its last retreat of infamy and disgrace .
Bohn Jacob . —It has frequently been asserted that Freemasons adhere to this ancient theosophist and mysticician , and for this reason we dare not pass him over here . Jacob Bohn was born at Obalausita , in 1575 ; in his youth he was a herdsman , and it was while tending cattle that he first became susceptible to the beauties of nature , and the wonderful works of Almighty God . His poor parents afterwards sent him to school , where he was taught to read and write , and then learned the
trade of a shoemaker . He died a master shoemaker in Gorlitz , 26 th November 1624 , in his 49 th year . His sedentary life and diligent study of the Holy Bible made him a religious enthusiast , to which the religious controversies of those days , with which he became acquainted while tramping as a journeyman shoemaker , contributed a great deal . Otherwise he was correct in his conduct , modest in his discourse , patient in suffering , and humble in spirit . His agreeable behaviour had a very
great effect upon very rough men , ancl he was thus enabled , without molestation , to hold meetings for religious purposes . In 1612 he published his first work , under the title of Aurora , or the " Commencement of the Dawn of Day , " followed in 1619 by the" Three Principles of the Supreme Being , " and more than twenty other works . A complete collection of his writings was published at Amsterdam by Von Gichsel , in 1682 , in ten volumes ; and it is from this circumstance that many of Jacob Bohn ' s followers were called Gichtelianians . Another edition of
his works , in six volumes , has the title Theologia Revelata . He found many admirers in England , ancl in Dr . John Pordatel one of his ablest commentators ; and there was afterwards a Bohemian sect established in England , as well as one at Philadelphia , founded in 1697 by Jane Lade , one of his admirers . Braunschweig .. Brunswick . — The Rulers of the Grand Duchy Brunswick Woifenhuttle have always favoured Freemasonry ; many of them have belonged unto the Order . But it is not on this account alone that Brunswick is celebrated in Freemasonry ; it is much more so , because that in Brunswick , the capital , the most extensive system of freemasonry that has ever existed in Germany had its Directory , or
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons Lexicon.*
a rich marriage he was enabled to retire from business , and devote the remainder of his days to literature in Weimar . About 1793 he translated that important work , Michael Montaigne ' s Thoughts and Opinions upon all Subjects , in six volumes . He contributed to Masonic literature , Scottish Masonry compared with the Three Obligations , and the Secrets of the Knight Templars of the Fourth Century , from the Frenchin two parts . As a Freemasonhe belonged to the convent in
, , Williamsbad . About the year 17 S 0 he joined the Order of the Illuminati , in which Order he obtained the degree of Illuminatus Dirigens . As a Freemason , no one knew the history of the Order better than he did ,, and no private member possessed a richer or more extensive Masonic library ; no one was more diligent in increasing his stock of Masonic knowledge , and opening for himself the richest and the rarest springs of knowledge . He was one of the most active promoters of the
newly introduced system of the Strict Observance , so long as he believed in its correctness , and one of its most indefatigable enemies as soon as he was convinced of its errors . He opposed with all his strength the different errors which had crept into the Order ; but most especially he set himself to root out the errors of superstition , priestcraft , supremacy , & c . & c , and pursued this many-headed hydra , through all its changing forms , into its last retreat of infamy and disgrace .
Bohn Jacob . —It has frequently been asserted that Freemasons adhere to this ancient theosophist and mysticician , and for this reason we dare not pass him over here . Jacob Bohn was born at Obalausita , in 1575 ; in his youth he was a herdsman , and it was while tending cattle that he first became susceptible to the beauties of nature , and the wonderful works of Almighty God . His poor parents afterwards sent him to school , where he was taught to read and write , and then learned the
trade of a shoemaker . He died a master shoemaker in Gorlitz , 26 th November 1624 , in his 49 th year . His sedentary life and diligent study of the Holy Bible made him a religious enthusiast , to which the religious controversies of those days , with which he became acquainted while tramping as a journeyman shoemaker , contributed a great deal . Otherwise he was correct in his conduct , modest in his discourse , patient in suffering , and humble in spirit . His agreeable behaviour had a very
great effect upon very rough men , ancl he was thus enabled , without molestation , to hold meetings for religious purposes . In 1612 he published his first work , under the title of Aurora , or the " Commencement of the Dawn of Day , " followed in 1619 by the" Three Principles of the Supreme Being , " and more than twenty other works . A complete collection of his writings was published at Amsterdam by Von Gichsel , in 1682 , in ten volumes ; and it is from this circumstance that many of Jacob Bohn ' s followers were called Gichtelianians . Another edition of
his works , in six volumes , has the title Theologia Revelata . He found many admirers in England , ancl in Dr . John Pordatel one of his ablest commentators ; and there was afterwards a Bohemian sect established in England , as well as one at Philadelphia , founded in 1697 by Jane Lade , one of his admirers . Braunschweig .. Brunswick . — The Rulers of the Grand Duchy Brunswick Woifenhuttle have always favoured Freemasonry ; many of them have belonged unto the Order . But it is not on this account alone that Brunswick is celebrated in Freemasonry ; it is much more so , because that in Brunswick , the capital , the most extensive system of freemasonry that has ever existed in Germany had its Directory , or