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Article LIBERORUM LATOMORUM PRIMORDIA ET RECENTIORA VERA. ← Page 10 of 12 →
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Liberorum Latomorum Primordia Et Recentiora Vera.
Communion as circumstances permitted , for neither prohibitions nor papal bulls can control the affections or opinions of mankind . Even a hope , though almost against hope , of Avitnessing the restoration of then' Order , may have kept the remnant of the Templars , as it certainly did that of the Jesuits , in correspondence and communion ; ancl though Ave have neither documents nor vouchers of such a secret continuation of the
Templars , yet it has been advanced , and that from various quarters ancl from differing sources , that the attempt Avas made to re-establish the Order of the Knights of the Temple . The documents , however , by which this fact is attempted to be established , of an uninterrupted connection bet-wixt one branch of Masonry and this Order , after it had been publicly abolished ,
at the beginning of the fourteenth century , have never been examined with the requisite care , ancl cannot now be so ; and therefore , in a matter that must rest upon belief alone , it is better to leave every one to Iris oivn opinion . Nicolai goesj into a long discussion of what his friend Ephraim Lessing thought the Avord Masonry was derived from , and his OAVU opinion in opposition , which , though curious and interesting , would draiv us too much from our immediate
purpose . Passing also some curious , and , in Britain , possibly unknoAvn particulars of Joh . Valentin Andrea , the true founder of the Rosicrucians , in his publications , Fama Fraternitatis , 1614 , ancl in 1616 his Chemische Hochzeit ( Chemical Marriage ) , and from Andrea ' s acquaintance with the Theosophse , Robert Fludd , oui * countrymanand the intimate connection ofthe Mysteries of
, that period , throughout Europe ; passing , also , that Lord Bacon must hai'e knovcn these works , and taken thence the first hint of his Instauratio Magna ; but that Bacon ' s method of bringing about the great purpose of the R . C , viz ., the entire regeneration of the Avorld , Avas the direct opposite to that pursued by themAvhich wasthat they explained everything esoteric
, , , whereas Bacon ' s plan and idea was to abolish the distinction betAveen exoteric and esoteric , and to demonstrate everything by reference ancl proofs from nature ; passing all this , we come to Nicolai's belief , that in consequence of this plan , Bacon published his " New Atlantis , " uncier the guise of an Apologue , in which are found many Masonic ideas : " On the unknown island
of Bensalem , a king had built a large edifice , called after himself , Solomon ' s House , " & c , which made a great noise at the time , and Charles I ., it is said , had intended to found something upon the plan of this Solomon ' s Temple , but Avas prevented by the civil war .
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Liberorum Latomorum Primordia Et Recentiora Vera.
Communion as circumstances permitted , for neither prohibitions nor papal bulls can control the affections or opinions of mankind . Even a hope , though almost against hope , of Avitnessing the restoration of then' Order , may have kept the remnant of the Templars , as it certainly did that of the Jesuits , in correspondence and communion ; ancl though Ave have neither documents nor vouchers of such a secret continuation of the
Templars , yet it has been advanced , and that from various quarters ancl from differing sources , that the attempt Avas made to re-establish the Order of the Knights of the Temple . The documents , however , by which this fact is attempted to be established , of an uninterrupted connection bet-wixt one branch of Masonry and this Order , after it had been publicly abolished ,
at the beginning of the fourteenth century , have never been examined with the requisite care , ancl cannot now be so ; and therefore , in a matter that must rest upon belief alone , it is better to leave every one to Iris oivn opinion . Nicolai goesj into a long discussion of what his friend Ephraim Lessing thought the Avord Masonry was derived from , and his OAVU opinion in opposition , which , though curious and interesting , would draiv us too much from our immediate
purpose . Passing also some curious , and , in Britain , possibly unknoAvn particulars of Joh . Valentin Andrea , the true founder of the Rosicrucians , in his publications , Fama Fraternitatis , 1614 , ancl in 1616 his Chemische Hochzeit ( Chemical Marriage ) , and from Andrea ' s acquaintance with the Theosophse , Robert Fludd , oui * countrymanand the intimate connection ofthe Mysteries of
, that period , throughout Europe ; passing , also , that Lord Bacon must hai'e knovcn these works , and taken thence the first hint of his Instauratio Magna ; but that Bacon ' s method of bringing about the great purpose of the R . C , viz ., the entire regeneration of the Avorld , Avas the direct opposite to that pursued by themAvhich wasthat they explained everything esoteric
, , , whereas Bacon ' s plan and idea was to abolish the distinction betAveen exoteric and esoteric , and to demonstrate everything by reference ancl proofs from nature ; passing all this , we come to Nicolai's belief , that in consequence of this plan , Bacon published his " New Atlantis , " uncier the guise of an Apologue , in which are found many Masonic ideas : " On the unknown island
of Bensalem , a king had built a large edifice , called after himself , Solomon ' s House , " & c , which made a great noise at the time , and Charles I ., it is said , had intended to found something upon the plan of this Solomon ' s Temple , but Avas prevented by the civil war .