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To The Editor.
Page 219 . —In their passage down the Jordan , Dr . Anderson , at the top of AVad y Yalcs , found the remains of a wall , at the summit some large stones dressed to a face , and marked /// j . Page 334 . —In the ruins of Masada on the Dead Sea ( believed to be built by Herod ) , a gateway with a pointed arch , the keystone and voissuras of hewn stone curiously marked with Greek delta-shaped figures £ \ and others resembling the lanetary symbol of Venus
, ; p , $ , some upright and some reversed ; and others again with rude crosses aud the unfinished letter " T /" . The name of the book and the paging should be given by all correspondents in quotations of facts , as it insures a ready reference to those who wish either to pursue the matter further or to authenticate the correctness of the reference . Yours obediently , LUGO .
To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
DEAR SIB AND BBOTHEII . — Some time back my attention was pointed to an article in the obituary of your valuable periodical , I think published last March , in which the degrees are mentioned that our departed Bro . Crucefix obtained in Freemasonry . I conceived at the time that those of your readers , not personally acquainted with him , may be led into error respecting his genuine opinions , and which I now find to be the fact , and therefore I communicate what I then intended , and to
which from personal knowledge I can bear testimony . In April 1844 , I became acquainted with our talented and highly accomplished Brother . The previous months I passed in Dublin where I heard of his Masonic fame , and received a letter of introduction from Bro . Counsellor AV . O'Connor , who was then either Sovereign or P . S . of the Kilwinning Chapter of the Order P . G . R . C . held in Bro . Jude ' s Hotel in Grafton-street . On my arrival in London I called at Lancaster Place where he then lived , and accompanied him to his study , where , after his peculiar test and some conversation , I received an invitation to visit him as often as time would permit . At one of our
conversations 1 mentioned the different degrees m the Order that I had received , amounting to fifteen !! ! he smiled , and giving me a copy of the resolutions adopted in 1813 , desired me to read the following particularly— " Remember , " said he , " that those resolutions were adopted after the most diligent and strict scrutiny , by the elite of the best informed and consequently best qualified Brethren in the world , then assembled at Kensington by appointment , and subscribed to by the G . M . ' s Kent on the one sideand Sussex on the other . "
, " Rule 2 nd . —It is declared and pronounced , that pure ancient Masonry consists of three degrees , and no more—viz ., those of the Entered Apprentice , the Fellow Craft , and the Master Mason ( including the Supreme Order of the holy Royal Arch ) . But this article is not intended to prevent any Lodge or Chapter from holding a meeting in any of the Degrees of the Orders of Chivalry , according to the Constitutions of said Order . "
To those resolutions , said he , I have at an early period subscribedto those I still adhere , and will during the remainder of my life . J remain your ' s truly , CORK . HICHAM ) MKAKA , P . Z .
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To The Editor.
Page 219 . —In their passage down the Jordan , Dr . Anderson , at the top of AVad y Yalcs , found the remains of a wall , at the summit some large stones dressed to a face , and marked /// j . Page 334 . —In the ruins of Masada on the Dead Sea ( believed to be built by Herod ) , a gateway with a pointed arch , the keystone and voissuras of hewn stone curiously marked with Greek delta-shaped figures £ \ and others resembling the lanetary symbol of Venus
, ; p , $ , some upright and some reversed ; and others again with rude crosses aud the unfinished letter " T /" . The name of the book and the paging should be given by all correspondents in quotations of facts , as it insures a ready reference to those who wish either to pursue the matter further or to authenticate the correctness of the reference . Yours obediently , LUGO .
To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
DEAR SIB AND BBOTHEII . — Some time back my attention was pointed to an article in the obituary of your valuable periodical , I think published last March , in which the degrees are mentioned that our departed Bro . Crucefix obtained in Freemasonry . I conceived at the time that those of your readers , not personally acquainted with him , may be led into error respecting his genuine opinions , and which I now find to be the fact , and therefore I communicate what I then intended , and to
which from personal knowledge I can bear testimony . In April 1844 , I became acquainted with our talented and highly accomplished Brother . The previous months I passed in Dublin where I heard of his Masonic fame , and received a letter of introduction from Bro . Counsellor AV . O'Connor , who was then either Sovereign or P . S . of the Kilwinning Chapter of the Order P . G . R . C . held in Bro . Jude ' s Hotel in Grafton-street . On my arrival in London I called at Lancaster Place where he then lived , and accompanied him to his study , where , after his peculiar test and some conversation , I received an invitation to visit him as often as time would permit . At one of our
conversations 1 mentioned the different degrees m the Order that I had received , amounting to fifteen !! ! he smiled , and giving me a copy of the resolutions adopted in 1813 , desired me to read the following particularly— " Remember , " said he , " that those resolutions were adopted after the most diligent and strict scrutiny , by the elite of the best informed and consequently best qualified Brethren in the world , then assembled at Kensington by appointment , and subscribed to by the G . M . ' s Kent on the one sideand Sussex on the other . "
, " Rule 2 nd . —It is declared and pronounced , that pure ancient Masonry consists of three degrees , and no more—viz ., those of the Entered Apprentice , the Fellow Craft , and the Master Mason ( including the Supreme Order of the holy Royal Arch ) . But this article is not intended to prevent any Lodge or Chapter from holding a meeting in any of the Degrees of the Orders of Chivalry , according to the Constitutions of said Order . "
To those resolutions , said he , I have at an early period subscribedto those I still adhere , and will during the remainder of my life . J remain your ' s truly , CORK . HICHAM ) MKAKA , P . Z .