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A Century Of Freemasonry*
A CENTURY OF FREEMASONRY *
BY KENNETH E . H . MACKENZIE . No . 2 . WE closed the last article t with a notice of a feAV of those societies whichfungus-likesprang from the ground AAdiere the
, , fertilizing blood of true Masonry had sopped ancl penetrated the soil . Like the seed which fell upon the rock they sprang up suddenly , and after a brief and unhealthy blossoming they perished , and were no more heard of . The same story has still for a short time to be continued . Persecution , cruelty , and authority had failed in turn to clo away
with the Society , so the aid of ridicule , a means employed ( most inefficiently ) even to the present hour by the opponents of Masonry , was called in . Clement cle Geneve ( under the assumed name of Vincent ) produced a drama in 1737 on the subject , Avhich was represented in 1739 , and printed in 1740 . On the 2 nd of August , 1741 , the scholars in the Jesuit college of Dubois at Caen , after performing the play of Rhadamistus
and Zenobia , " got up" a pantomimic initiation , and we even find the marionette theatres of Paris introducing ( in 1744 ) a " stock" character , Punch Freemason , who speedily became as familiar to the gamins ( there must have been gamins in those days , although giants had become a fiction ) , of a hundred years ago , as the beadle ancl the ghost are to the London gamins of
1853 . But such attempts hacl , of course , no greater results than making the people ridiculous in the eyes of the Masons , for the idea was not even witty . The police itself now openly gave assistance to an opposing society . The Abbe Pierre Louis Voisin , perpetual chaplain of his majestyhadas far back as the February of 1735 petitioned
, , , Herault , the lieutenant of police , for his official countenance and authorisation to a society he Avas desirous of forming . The application Avas renewed on the 12 th of June , 1742 ( very likely at the suggestion , sub rosa , of the police authorities themselves ) , and the thirty-seven articles of its constitution ( obviously
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
A Century Of Freemasonry*
A CENTURY OF FREEMASONRY *
BY KENNETH E . H . MACKENZIE . No . 2 . WE closed the last article t with a notice of a feAV of those societies whichfungus-likesprang from the ground AAdiere the
, , fertilizing blood of true Masonry had sopped ancl penetrated the soil . Like the seed which fell upon the rock they sprang up suddenly , and after a brief and unhealthy blossoming they perished , and were no more heard of . The same story has still for a short time to be continued . Persecution , cruelty , and authority had failed in turn to clo away
with the Society , so the aid of ridicule , a means employed ( most inefficiently ) even to the present hour by the opponents of Masonry , was called in . Clement cle Geneve ( under the assumed name of Vincent ) produced a drama in 1737 on the subject , Avhich was represented in 1739 , and printed in 1740 . On the 2 nd of August , 1741 , the scholars in the Jesuit college of Dubois at Caen , after performing the play of Rhadamistus
and Zenobia , " got up" a pantomimic initiation , and we even find the marionette theatres of Paris introducing ( in 1744 ) a " stock" character , Punch Freemason , who speedily became as familiar to the gamins ( there must have been gamins in those days , although giants had become a fiction ) , of a hundred years ago , as the beadle ancl the ghost are to the London gamins of
1853 . But such attempts hacl , of course , no greater results than making the people ridiculous in the eyes of the Masons , for the idea was not even witty . The police itself now openly gave assistance to an opposing society . The Abbe Pierre Louis Voisin , perpetual chaplain of his majestyhadas far back as the February of 1735 petitioned
, , , Herault , the lieutenant of police , for his official countenance and authorisation to a society he Avas desirous of forming . The application Avas renewed on the 12 th of June , 1742 ( very likely at the suggestion , sub rosa , of the police authorities themselves ) , and the thirty-seven articles of its constitution ( obviously