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SATURDAY , SEPT . 12 , 1885 .

Original Correspondence.

Original Correspondence .

[ Wcdo not hold ourselves responsible for , or even approving of theopinionsexpressedby our correspondents , but we wish in a spirit of fair play to all to permit—within certain necessary limits—free discussion , ] ——

ARNOLD TESTIMONIAL . To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , As I leave to-night for America , will you kindly allow me through your columns heartily lo thank the brethren of the Province of Surrey for the magnificent testimonial they so kindly gave me on Saturday ? I should like to thank each personally , but it is impossible . —Believe me yours , truly and fraternally ,

C . W . ARNOLD , P . G . C . of England , and D . P . G . M . of Surrey . County Club , Guildford , September 7 th .

THE ORDER OF ST . JOHN OF JERUSALEM . To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , Bro . Lewis Hespiradoux in his letter , published in your issue of the 29 th ult ., seeks to correct my statement in the Freemason of the 22 nd ult ., that the Order of St . John of Jerusalem is not a Masonic Order , by calling my attention to " a tradition of the Rose Croix , " which , in the

same communication , he is pleased to style an historical fact . " This tradition , even if we dignify the myth by that title , is the sole proof adduced by Bro . Hespiradoux that the Masonic body which took the name of the Order of St . John of Jerusalem had even the most remote connection with that ancient confraternity . A perusal of the "History of the Knights of Malta , "

by Major-General Whitworth Porter , R . E . ( revised edition , London , 1 SS 3 ) , would possibly be of advantage to my corrector , who will , doubtless , be pleased to furnish your readers with some scrap of reliable evidence in support of the " tradition " upon which he has based his so-called correction . —I remain , dear Sir and Brother , yours fraternally , A FREEMASON . September Sth .

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A QUERY . To the Editor " of thc " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , May I take the liberty of asking , though the medium of your valued paper , if sotnc oi my worthy brethren who are better up in Masonic law than I am , will kindly inform me whether it is legal , according to the Book of Constitutions , for the bye-laws of a lodge to order that the subscriptions of the members shall bc paid to the

Secretary of the lodge , in the first place , and by him handed over to the Treasurer , the object being to give the Secretary a check upon the arrears ? In some provinces it is allowed and certified by the Prov . Grand Master as being in accordance with the Book of Constitutions , and in others it is declared to be illegal ; and even in one province , when it has been sanctioned by the Prov . Grand Master , it is declared illegal by subordinate officers .

I should be glaa of some enlightenment from some brother who is in a position to know the law on the subject . — Yours fraternally , September 7 th . ¦ H . S .

ST . JOHN'S FESTIVAL . To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , My thanks are still due to Bro . L . Hespiradoux for his very full and interesting reply to my enquiry upon the above subject , the delay in expressing them having been occasioned by my absence from England . I have no doubt very many of the brethren have read with much interest

the information which he has been good enough to present to your readers . I may point out that Bro . Hespiradoux is in error in his remark that some German lodges hold their St . John ' s Festival on the 27 th December—St . John the Evangelist ' s Day . The following observations , for which I have to thank Bro . Adolf Oberdieck , of Melzen , in Hanover , will confirm my statement and make this pointclear : " The German Johannisfest , " he writes , "is universally observed on , or about ,

the 24 th June , and never on the 27 th December . Some German lodges , however , have been founded on the 27 th December—St . John the Evangelist ' s Day—and consequently hold their foundation festival on that day . The festivals of the German lodges are generally the St . John ' s Festival ( 24 th June ) , the foundation festival , and the birthday of the reigning Sovereign , these days being even prescribed in all Prussian lodges . "—I am , dear Sir andBrothcr , yours fraternally ,

C . KUPFERSCHM 1 DT , I . P . M . 23 S . 23 , Woodberry-grove , Finsbury Park , September 2 nd .

THE SIX-POINTED AND THE FIVE-POINTED STARS . To the Editor ofthe "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , Will you kindly permit me through the medium of your columns to answer Bro . Hespiradoux's objection to my calling - the Six-pointed Star the " Seal of Solomon ? " I must first of all premise that in a paper , read as mine

was , before so august a body as the Rosicrucian Society of England , which numbers among its members many deeply read and thinking men , I should not have ventured to advance an ungrounded statement ; neither , after having studied occult subjects for upwards of ten years , should I have been likely to select a capiicious meaning , and attach it to a wrong symbol . Furthermore , my paper was one which did not profess to give a mere exoteric translation of

those glyphs , and one which would be known to the merest neophyte in occult lore . Far be it from me to undervalue Masonic learning , but even that is exoteric in its teachings when compared with those of Rosicrucianism . Now , it appears to me that Bro . Hespiradoux contradicts himself in his article , for at the commencement he says "that the Seal or Signet of Solomon was ... a Pentalpha , or endless Triangle , but not a Six-pointed Star , " and yet

at the end he quotes Richardson ' s Dictionary "that the muchra Salimani , or Seal of Solomon was two triangles interlaced , and this is what the arch : eologists generally think . " Also he says previously that " The Pentalpha is sometimes called the Pentangle of Solomon , and is said to have constituted the Signet or Seal of our ancient Grand Master . " Perhaps the self-contradiction may be accounted for by the fact that the whole ol Bro . Hespiradoux's article ,

with the exception of the part taken from the Boston Freemason , is transcribed verbatim from " Mackey's Lexicon of Freemasonry , " pages 31 S , 358 , 359 . 34 § , 349 , 242 , 310 , 311 , 277 , and 324 . I would suggest to Bro . Hespiradoux , that he would do well in future to consult more authorities than one before impugning the correctness of my occult knowledge , especially as I have had occasion in my researches to consult some hundreds of ancient and mediaeval

authors , besides having read nearly all the leading modern works on the subject . Among others I may mention the following authors who uphold the fact of the two interlaced triangles being the Seal of Solomon : Hargrave Jennings , in his work "The Rosicrucians , " page 166 ; Eliphaz Levi Zahed , in various places in his " L'Historie de la Magie , " " Dogme et Rituel de la Haute

Magie , " and " Clef des Mysteres ; " and Madame Blavalsky , in "Isis Unveiled , " page 135 of volume 1 . In the " Clavicula Salomonis Regis vel Lemegeton" both the Hexalpha and Pentalpha are attributed to the Hebrew monarch , and are there called respectively the Hexagram and Pentagram of Solomon ; the figures are given at the end of the first part , called " Goetin »

The Six-pointed Star is not necessarily to be inscribed in a circle ; when it is , the circle signifies the " Benedicta Linea" of the Qabalists . The Name of God in any form is not necessarily inscribed thereon , seeing the figure itself is a Glyph of the Almighty , and to each of its angles is attributed one of thc Six-fold Forms of the Ternary of the Awful Schema of the Tetragrammaton . For it is the Name which rusheth through the Universe and returneth

to the Abyss of the Unity , when "before the Throne of the Countenance of His Synthesis are prostrate the Ten Sephiroth Belimah , " " and before the face of the Unity what Numeration wilt thou enumerate ?" The word Seal does not necessarily mean a Signet ; it is applied , like the terms Pentacle , or Pantacle , to any synthetical hieroglyph . I may be wrong ; but I believe I have seen ancient bronze , as well as stone , signets . —I am , dear Sir and Brother , yours in fraternity ,

S . LIDDELL MATHERS , Hon . VIII , Societatis Rosicrucianae in Angli & . London , September sth .