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Article THE FREEMASONS' LEXICON. ← Page 6 of 7 →
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The Freemasons' Lexicon.
Bitterschaft oiler Chevallerie . Knighthood or Chivalry . —The origin of those orders is to be sought in the eleventh century , and they are not derived from Arthur , who is said to have founded the Round Table about the year . 116 . This King Arthur appears to owe his existence entirely to the romances of the middle ages . Prior to and during the eleventh century the strong oppressed the weak . The Frankish and German provinces were overrun with castles and fastnesses , whose
owners lived by robbery , and every one called that his own which he could obtain by the sword . Those who wished to preserve their property never durst lay down their arms . Incendiarism and robbery were universal . Neither church , widow , or orphan property was spared ; even kings' daughters were ravished . This entire absence of all that is called justice , morality , honour , or virtue , was the cause which called into existence the spirit of knihthoodthat spirit which raised amongst
g , the roughest people modesty and morality as virtues , justice and generosity as duties , and protection to the oppressed as the noblest employment . If we view knighthood in this lovely and beneficial form , we are compelled to consider its members as children of that spirit which , in Lessing ' s opinion , has produced men in all ages who have united to combat the evils which have afflicted the human race , to curb their violent internal dissensions , and keep them within due bounds , and
to promote the best interests of mankind , according to the necessities and wants of the age : who , in short , were Freemasons without the name . The origin of the system is to be sought for in France , and the Crusades assisted in forming it . The knights had their own peculiar ceremonies and rules for governing their actions as men and members of tlie order . They were bound by an oath , and had different degrees , which the youths had to go through before they were invested with the honour of knihthood .
g Rosaischcs System . Rosa ' s System . —Rosa was W . M . of a Lodge in Halle , and in the [ year J 763 he introduced alchymy , theosophy , and cosmosophy into Freemasonry . He maintained that in those things were contained the true secrets of the Order , and for some time he found followers , not merely in Halle , but also in other places . He wished to make it appear that his system was derived from the Knight Templarsbut he had mixed it up himself with the other things .
, Rosen . Roses . —United fed and white roses are a beautiful emblem of innocently shed blood . Roses were also , in the earliest ages , considered a symbol of secrecy ; from whence we have the expression sub rosd ( under the rose ) , and roses upon the clothing in some systems . Roses also remind us of the union between the branches of the royal family in England in the fifteenth century , whose wars were known as the wars of the Roses .
Rosenkreutser auch Gold-und Rosenkreutzer neuen Systems genannt . Rosy crucians , called also Gold and Rosycrucians of the modern System . —This society first appeared at the commencement of the seventeenth century , in Holland and England , but gave out that they were forming their new building upon the ruins of a fraternity which had existed about a century before . As early as 1618 there appeared a copious discovery of the collegii and the axioms of the enlightened brotherhood of Christian Rosencross ; so that we must doubt that John Rose in the Hague was the founder of the society , as some maintain . It was more probable that it was founded by Valentine Andrea , who probably wished to continue the society which had previousl y been
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Lexicon.
Bitterschaft oiler Chevallerie . Knighthood or Chivalry . —The origin of those orders is to be sought in the eleventh century , and they are not derived from Arthur , who is said to have founded the Round Table about the year . 116 . This King Arthur appears to owe his existence entirely to the romances of the middle ages . Prior to and during the eleventh century the strong oppressed the weak . The Frankish and German provinces were overrun with castles and fastnesses , whose
owners lived by robbery , and every one called that his own which he could obtain by the sword . Those who wished to preserve their property never durst lay down their arms . Incendiarism and robbery were universal . Neither church , widow , or orphan property was spared ; even kings' daughters were ravished . This entire absence of all that is called justice , morality , honour , or virtue , was the cause which called into existence the spirit of knihthoodthat spirit which raised amongst
g , the roughest people modesty and morality as virtues , justice and generosity as duties , and protection to the oppressed as the noblest employment . If we view knighthood in this lovely and beneficial form , we are compelled to consider its members as children of that spirit which , in Lessing ' s opinion , has produced men in all ages who have united to combat the evils which have afflicted the human race , to curb their violent internal dissensions , and keep them within due bounds , and
to promote the best interests of mankind , according to the necessities and wants of the age : who , in short , were Freemasons without the name . The origin of the system is to be sought for in France , and the Crusades assisted in forming it . The knights had their own peculiar ceremonies and rules for governing their actions as men and members of tlie order . They were bound by an oath , and had different degrees , which the youths had to go through before they were invested with the honour of knihthood .
g Rosaischcs System . Rosa ' s System . —Rosa was W . M . of a Lodge in Halle , and in the [ year J 763 he introduced alchymy , theosophy , and cosmosophy into Freemasonry . He maintained that in those things were contained the true secrets of the Order , and for some time he found followers , not merely in Halle , but also in other places . He wished to make it appear that his system was derived from the Knight Templarsbut he had mixed it up himself with the other things .
, Rosen . Roses . —United fed and white roses are a beautiful emblem of innocently shed blood . Roses were also , in the earliest ages , considered a symbol of secrecy ; from whence we have the expression sub rosd ( under the rose ) , and roses upon the clothing in some systems . Roses also remind us of the union between the branches of the royal family in England in the fifteenth century , whose wars were known as the wars of the Roses .
Rosenkreutser auch Gold-und Rosenkreutzer neuen Systems genannt . Rosy crucians , called also Gold and Rosycrucians of the modern System . —This society first appeared at the commencement of the seventeenth century , in Holland and England , but gave out that they were forming their new building upon the ruins of a fraternity which had existed about a century before . As early as 1618 there appeared a copious discovery of the collegii and the axioms of the enlightened brotherhood of Christian Rosencross ; so that we must doubt that John Rose in the Hague was the founder of the society , as some maintain . It was more probable that it was founded by Valentine Andrea , who probably wished to continue the society which had previousl y been