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Liberorum Latomorum Primordia Et Recentiora Vera.
LIBERORUM LATOMORUM PRIMORDIA ET RECENTIORA VERA .
WE have from the pen of a most experienced Mason , in the book * before us , the result of his semi-centarian researches and scrutiny on Masonry and Freemasonry , by traA'els over the greatest part of the civilized world : —the author enumerates ( Preface , p . 1 ) the United States of America , in England , Holland , and Belgium , through a large portion of Germany
and Switzerland , and of course , through every proA'ince of France , his natiA'e country . What he has observed or discovered on Orthodox Masonry , with much that has grown out of it as excrescence , is contained in 412 closely-printed pages , and is followed by 180 more on " . Occult Masonry . " As we have then a " Table analytique des Matieres" ( an analytical Table of
Contents ) extending over another twenty-three pages , the reader may form some idea of the extent and variety of the facts and information contained in this recondite Avork . The present volume seems , however , but a small portion of the labours of its A'enerable author ; for the title-page announces him as having already publishedan " Interpretative Course of Ancient ancl
, Modern Initiations , " and in the preface we have ( p . 13 ) the detailed prospectus of a work , to be entitled , Les Pastes Initiatiques ( Initiative Fasti ) , in seven thick octavo volumes ( fort in 8 vo . ) , of which the comprehensiveness may be judged , when the seventh ancl last volume is wound up by the promise of a nomenclature of more than nine hundred degrees .
The vast industry of this great accumulation of facts relative to the Craft ancl its branches , must be , from this enumeration , perfectly apparent . If , therefore , the truth of the statements be as unquestionable as the care in collecting them is certain , the value of this book must be proportionate through every ramification of the Order . To enumerate all the objects treated of would far exceed the assigned bounds of a review ;
* _ " Orthodoxie Maconnique , suivie de la Maeonnerie occulte et de l'Initiatiorj . _ hermetique , par J . M . Eagon , Auteur du Cours Interprefcatif des Initiations , Aneiennes et Modernes , & c . ' Devenons tout ce qui est faux pour revenir a ee qui est vrai . ' Paris : E . Deutu , Libraire Editour , 1852 . " ( Masonic Orthodoxy , followed by Occidt Masonry and the Hermetical Initiations , by J . M . Eagon , Author of an Interpretative Course of Initiations , Ancient and Modern . )
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Liberorum Latomorum Primordia Et Recentiora Vera.
LIBERORUM LATOMORUM PRIMORDIA ET RECENTIORA VERA .
WE have from the pen of a most experienced Mason , in the book * before us , the result of his semi-centarian researches and scrutiny on Masonry and Freemasonry , by traA'els over the greatest part of the civilized world : —the author enumerates ( Preface , p . 1 ) the United States of America , in England , Holland , and Belgium , through a large portion of Germany
and Switzerland , and of course , through every proA'ince of France , his natiA'e country . What he has observed or discovered on Orthodox Masonry , with much that has grown out of it as excrescence , is contained in 412 closely-printed pages , and is followed by 180 more on " . Occult Masonry . " As we have then a " Table analytique des Matieres" ( an analytical Table of
Contents ) extending over another twenty-three pages , the reader may form some idea of the extent and variety of the facts and information contained in this recondite Avork . The present volume seems , however , but a small portion of the labours of its A'enerable author ; for the title-page announces him as having already publishedan " Interpretative Course of Ancient ancl
, Modern Initiations , " and in the preface we have ( p . 13 ) the detailed prospectus of a work , to be entitled , Les Pastes Initiatiques ( Initiative Fasti ) , in seven thick octavo volumes ( fort in 8 vo . ) , of which the comprehensiveness may be judged , when the seventh ancl last volume is wound up by the promise of a nomenclature of more than nine hundred degrees .
The vast industry of this great accumulation of facts relative to the Craft ancl its branches , must be , from this enumeration , perfectly apparent . If , therefore , the truth of the statements be as unquestionable as the care in collecting them is certain , the value of this book must be proportionate through every ramification of the Order . To enumerate all the objects treated of would far exceed the assigned bounds of a review ;
* _ " Orthodoxie Maconnique , suivie de la Maeonnerie occulte et de l'Initiatiorj . _ hermetique , par J . M . Eagon , Auteur du Cours Interprefcatif des Initiations , Aneiennes et Modernes , & c . ' Devenons tout ce qui est faux pour revenir a ee qui est vrai . ' Paris : E . Deutu , Libraire Editour , 1852 . " ( Masonic Orthodoxy , followed by Occidt Masonry and the Hermetical Initiations , by J . M . Eagon , Author of an Interpretative Course of Initiations , Ancient and Modern . )