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Article THE FREEMASONS' LEXICON. ← Page 2 of 7 →
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The Freemasons' Lexicon.
Protocol . —At every meeting of a Lodge , the secretary must make out a Protocol , or a minute of the transactions ; aud he must be able to understand every proposition and lecture which is introduced in the Lodge , and make a minute of it ; that , should any dispute arise about them , the minutes may serve to put it right . The spirit or substance of each discourse should be preserved in few words . Provinsial Logen . Provincial Grand Lodges . —As from London
, in and about the year 1740 , several Lodges were formed in Germany , so the Grand Lodge in London called some of them Provincial Grand Lodges ; and the other Lodges which were held in the province were directed , when they wanted advice or assistance , to apply to the P . G . L . Those P . G . Lodges were also authorised to form new Lodges , and so far they were entitled to the name of Grand or Mother Lodges . But the Grand Lodge in London reserved to itself the power of regulating those
P . G . Lodges , and was always in close correspondence with them . In later times , other Grand Lodges have formed P . G . Lodges , at the head of which there is always a P . G . M . Pyramiden . Pyramids . —1 n works upon the secret sciences , the pyramids are frequently mentioned , but it is not decided whether in those immense works of ancient architecture any secrets are hid , or whether they were merely built as mausoleums ; but they may assuredlbe
cony sidered as the greatest works of architecture ; and according to Herodotus , the Egyptians considered the pyramidal form as emblematical of human life . The broad base represented the commencement , and the running up into a point the end of our existence . There are upwards of forty of these ancient works found in Egypt , and always several of
them together . Ihe largest is near Memphis . The account of an ancient author is not improbable , that one hundred thousand men were incessantly at work for twenty years in building this immense pile ; its height is calculated to be four hundred and forty-eight feet , aud its sides are seven hundred and twenty-eight feet long . If we reflect that a tower , three hundred feet high , is called a very high tower , then we may form some idea of the height of this pyramid . Even the tower of St . Stephen ' s church at Vienna is not so highfor it is only four hundred
, and thirty-five feet . Pythagoras und Pythagoraisches Bund . Pythagoras and Pythagorian Society . —Pythagoras was a philosopher of Samos , who lived five or six hundred years before the birth of Christ , and who was initiated and instructed in the mysteries of the Egyptians at Memphis , where he resided twenty-two years . After his return from Egypt , he founded at first at Samos , hut , as he had here so many difficulties to contend with ,
afterwards at Crotona , his so well-known school . The fame of his travels , his secret knowledge , and his god-like virtue , prepared for him a favourable reception . According to the example of the Egyptian priests , he taught both publicly and privately . His public instructions consisted of discourses in praise of virtue ; and a chosen number of his scholars were subjected to a strict course of discipline ; and it was only after having submitted for a number of years to this discipline that they were
permitted to attend his private instructions ; and in this manner arose the Pythagorean Society—an order which probably served the Christian Ascetics of the first century as a model for a similar union , and for a monastic life . These scholars durst wear no other clothes but such as shewed the greatest purity and simplicity of manners . In order to exercise them in humility and industry , he subjected them for three whole
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Lexicon.
Protocol . —At every meeting of a Lodge , the secretary must make out a Protocol , or a minute of the transactions ; aud he must be able to understand every proposition and lecture which is introduced in the Lodge , and make a minute of it ; that , should any dispute arise about them , the minutes may serve to put it right . The spirit or substance of each discourse should be preserved in few words . Provinsial Logen . Provincial Grand Lodges . —As from London
, in and about the year 1740 , several Lodges were formed in Germany , so the Grand Lodge in London called some of them Provincial Grand Lodges ; and the other Lodges which were held in the province were directed , when they wanted advice or assistance , to apply to the P . G . L . Those P . G . Lodges were also authorised to form new Lodges , and so far they were entitled to the name of Grand or Mother Lodges . But the Grand Lodge in London reserved to itself the power of regulating those
P . G . Lodges , and was always in close correspondence with them . In later times , other Grand Lodges have formed P . G . Lodges , at the head of which there is always a P . G . M . Pyramiden . Pyramids . —1 n works upon the secret sciences , the pyramids are frequently mentioned , but it is not decided whether in those immense works of ancient architecture any secrets are hid , or whether they were merely built as mausoleums ; but they may assuredlbe
cony sidered as the greatest works of architecture ; and according to Herodotus , the Egyptians considered the pyramidal form as emblematical of human life . The broad base represented the commencement , and the running up into a point the end of our existence . There are upwards of forty of these ancient works found in Egypt , and always several of
them together . Ihe largest is near Memphis . The account of an ancient author is not improbable , that one hundred thousand men were incessantly at work for twenty years in building this immense pile ; its height is calculated to be four hundred and forty-eight feet , aud its sides are seven hundred and twenty-eight feet long . If we reflect that a tower , three hundred feet high , is called a very high tower , then we may form some idea of the height of this pyramid . Even the tower of St . Stephen ' s church at Vienna is not so highfor it is only four hundred
, and thirty-five feet . Pythagoras und Pythagoraisches Bund . Pythagoras and Pythagorian Society . —Pythagoras was a philosopher of Samos , who lived five or six hundred years before the birth of Christ , and who was initiated and instructed in the mysteries of the Egyptians at Memphis , where he resided twenty-two years . After his return from Egypt , he founded at first at Samos , hut , as he had here so many difficulties to contend with ,
afterwards at Crotona , his so well-known school . The fame of his travels , his secret knowledge , and his god-like virtue , prepared for him a favourable reception . According to the example of the Egyptian priests , he taught both publicly and privately . His public instructions consisted of discourses in praise of virtue ; and a chosen number of his scholars were subjected to a strict course of discipline ; and it was only after having submitted for a number of years to this discipline that they were
permitted to attend his private instructions ; and in this manner arose the Pythagorean Society—an order which probably served the Christian Ascetics of the first century as a model for a similar union , and for a monastic life . These scholars durst wear no other clothes but such as shewed the greatest purity and simplicity of manners . In order to exercise them in humility and industry , he subjected them for three whole