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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
THE FREEMASONS ' QUARTERLY REVIEW .
SECOND SERIES—DECEMBER 31 , 1847 . SURRENDER OR NO SURRENDER OF MASONIC BULWARKS , Facilis descensus Avprni , Sect evatlere ad
revocare gradum , superasque auras , Hie labor , hoc opus est . "Nor shall a higher degree in Masonry be conferred on any Brother on the same day , nor shall a higher degree in Masonry be conferred on any Brother at a less interval than one month from his receiving a previous degree , nor until he has passed an examination in open Lodge in that degree .
" No DISPENSATION CAN BE GRANTED TO SUSPEND THE OPERATION OP THIS LAW . " All Lodges are particularly bound to observe the same usages and customs ; every deviation therefore from the established mode of working is highly improper , and cannot be justified or countenanced . " Great discredit and injury having been brought upon our ancient
and honourable Fraternity from admitting members , and receiving candidates without due notice being given , or inquiry made into their characters and qualifications ; and also from the PASSING AND RAISING of Masons without due instructions in the respective degrees , it is determined that in future a violation or neglect of any of the following laws shall subject the Lodge offending to ERASURE , because NO EMERGENCY can be allowed as a justification . "A DISPENSATION CANNOT IN ANY CASE BE GRANTED . "
'• OUR admiration at the readiness of the Grand Master to study and to act on the lesson presented to his observation , in the case of the offence committed by the Grand Lodge of Berlin against such Brethren of our Order as did not profess the Christian faith , has scarcely settled down into a feeling of grateful recollection that the Grand Lodge of England had : ; maintained the glorious universality of our venerated systems of
morality , veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols—scarcely , we say , has our admiration reached a settled point , when we are called upon to stand forth and to maintain our rights and privileges that are threatened VOL . v . 3 E
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
THE FREEMASONS ' QUARTERLY REVIEW .
SECOND SERIES—DECEMBER 31 , 1847 . SURRENDER OR NO SURRENDER OF MASONIC BULWARKS , Facilis descensus Avprni , Sect evatlere ad
revocare gradum , superasque auras , Hie labor , hoc opus est . "Nor shall a higher degree in Masonry be conferred on any Brother on the same day , nor shall a higher degree in Masonry be conferred on any Brother at a less interval than one month from his receiving a previous degree , nor until he has passed an examination in open Lodge in that degree .
" No DISPENSATION CAN BE GRANTED TO SUSPEND THE OPERATION OP THIS LAW . " All Lodges are particularly bound to observe the same usages and customs ; every deviation therefore from the established mode of working is highly improper , and cannot be justified or countenanced . " Great discredit and injury having been brought upon our ancient
and honourable Fraternity from admitting members , and receiving candidates without due notice being given , or inquiry made into their characters and qualifications ; and also from the PASSING AND RAISING of Masons without due instructions in the respective degrees , it is determined that in future a violation or neglect of any of the following laws shall subject the Lodge offending to ERASURE , because NO EMERGENCY can be allowed as a justification . "A DISPENSATION CANNOT IN ANY CASE BE GRANTED . "
'• OUR admiration at the readiness of the Grand Master to study and to act on the lesson presented to his observation , in the case of the offence committed by the Grand Lodge of Berlin against such Brethren of our Order as did not profess the Christian faith , has scarcely settled down into a feeling of grateful recollection that the Grand Lodge of England had : ; maintained the glorious universality of our venerated systems of
morality , veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols—scarcely , we say , has our admiration reached a settled point , when we are called upon to stand forth and to maintain our rights and privileges that are threatened VOL . v . 3 E