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lodges in the Auckland District were represented . In the course of the proceedings , when dealing with the Report of the Board of General Purposes , the . Grand Master referred to certain correspondence with Bro . the Ri g ht Hon . R . J . SEDDON , who had forwarded a letter he had received from Bro . E . I .

ETCHWORTH , Grand Secretary of the United Grand Lodge of England , in the concluding paragraph of which occurred the following passage : " So far as I can foresee , there is no reason why , after the September meeting , the formal recognition of

the Grand Lodge of New Zealand should not be formally declared . " Upon this the Grand Master is reported to have remarked that the passage in question "would seem to justify the belief that the present unfortunate relations between members of the Grand Lodtrc . of New Zealand and the brethren

who had elected to retain their allegiance to the mother lodges working under the present Constitutions would shortly be terminated . " He then continued his remarks in the following strain : " Personally , he was , and always had been , of

opinion that in founding the Grand Lodge of New Zealand those who had inaugurated the movement had acted within their constitutional rights , and Masons in the adjacent Colonies of Australasia who had gone through the same struggle , and

conquered the same difficulties , had been tin ; first to extend a hel ping hand b y according recognition , and Canadian and American Grand Lodges had not been slow to follow the example given . He trusted the time was now close at hand when the

brethren of the English , Scotch , and Irisii Constitutions would find themselves free to accept the cordial welcome which would always be extended to them when visiting lodges holding charters from the Grand Lodge of New Zealand . " We cordiall y

echo the wish so kindl y expressed b y Bro . BAKRON thai the relations presentl y existing between the members of the so-called Grand Lodge of New Zealand and those brethren who have elected to retain their allegiance to their parent Grand Lodges

may be speedil y terminated . We have , indeed , on former occasions , expressed ourselves to this effect . Kor the sake of Freemasonry itself , and apart from all other considerations , however weighty they may appear to be , it is most desirable that

the present schism should be healed , and that as speedil y as may be . Unfortunately , there appears to be a strong feeling on the part of some sections of the Craft in the Colony , to take any steps which may result in bringing about this consummation

so devoutl y to be wished , while it is not such a very long while ago that , in noting the proceedings at a Quarterl y Communication of OIK ; of the English District Grand Lodges , wc remarked and quoted certain figures , which showed ( fiat , while

after the formation of the Grand Lodge of New Zealand , there were onl y a few lodges with but a small aggregate of subscribing members remaining in their allegiance to the Grand Lodge of England , the number of lodges at

the . present time had somewhat increased and with it the number of subscribing members , the latter being greater to the extent of nearl y 100 brethren . This , as wc

observed at the time , does not look as if this District Grand Lodge at all events were in any hurry to change its demeanour towards the members of the New Zealand Constitution . Still

the close of the present discordant relations between the Grand Lodge of New Zealand and the brethren of the English , Irish , and Scottish Constitutions may be nearer than is commonl y supposed , nor do we see any reason wh y such a close should not

be brought about at an earl y date , provided always that it can bi so brought about with a due regard for the interests of Free masonry—which are of paramount consideration—and in ; manner that shall be honourable to both parties .

Bro. Klein's Illustrations Of Our Hidden Mysteries.

BRO . KLEIN'S ILLUSTRATIONS OF OUR HIDDEN MYSTERIES .

In the account we gave of the Qualuor Coronati Lodge meeting in our last issue mention was made of a demonstration b y the Worshi pful Master on a subject not only new to the

Craft but new to science . The subject was treated in so interesting a fashion that we think our readers will thank us for giving in extenso Bro . KLEIN ' oration . To judge b y the two addresses he has alread y g iven at the commencement of his year of office ,

Bro. Klein's Illustrations Of Our Hidden Mysteries.

the series will be of unusual interest to thoughtful Masons . 1 o understand them full y his installation address , which appeared in our Christmas number , should be studied carefully , as it is evident that he intended that to be his introduction to the demonstrations of Hidden Mvsteries which he has promised to give at each of the meetings during his Mastership .

Hidden Mystery, No. 1.

HIDDEN MYSTERY , No . 1 .

" SYMPATHY , OR THE POWER 01 ' FRATERNAL I . OVE AS ILLUSTRATED BY

Tin : . MYSTERY OF PHYSICAL WORK BEING ACCOMPLISHED BY SYMPATHY ON THE MATERIAL PLANE . " BY SYDNEY T . KLEIN , F . L . S ., F . R . A . S ., WORSHIPFUL MASTER OP THE OUATUOR CORONATI LODGE , NO . 2076 . In accordance wilh the plan laid down in my Yuletide Greeting , and as staled in the summons of to-day's gathering , I propose , during my year of

office , to demonstrate , at the close of each meeting , one of the Hidden Mysteries of Nature and Science . In Medi . eval Times , when ignorance of the simplest truths in Science played into the hands of charlatans , the experiments I propose to lay before you at our meetings would have been called magic and attributed to demoniacal agencies . The framers of our ritual , all honour to them , had a clearer conception of that which lies in

the wondeiful borderland between the Physical and Metaphysical , and strongly urged every Mason to study these Hidden Mysteries , that Truth and Fact might reign where falsehood and deception had hitherto been supreme . We are , in these days , living in a clearer atmosphere , begotten by conscientious scientific research , and are now able to see that all wonders around us are but the materials with which T . G . A . O . T . U . has

been working . Let me now show you the experiment I have prepired to illustrate the subject of my to-night's demonstration : Bro . Klein then set in motion the curious mechanism he had devised to illustrate that part c f his installation address which dealt with musical sounds , and demonstrated again that , by means of a succession cf puffs emitled from a single plane-nozzle , not only any note in the musical

scale but the three principal triads and the fullest chords could be produced at will ; he then showed that the same effect could be produced by a succession of explosions . These explosions were regulated by glass tubes of different lengths , the explosions taking place so rapidly that only a clear musical note was heard ; in this way he produced the full major trial , the inunsity rising and falling as the explosions were increased or diminished by

the supply of ordinary gas . He then introduced two heavy iron bars , so rigid that no impression could he made on them by the hardest blov fro n the gavel . By means , however , of a short wooden handle with cork head , which had been brought into perfect harmony with the bars of iron , one or two soft atrckes of the cork head threw the bars into such violent vibrations that a great volume of sound was produced ; Bro . Klein here explained

that although human sympathy , working on a different plane to that of matter , could not affect this heavy mass of iron without material contact , it was now possible to make this moving mass transmit , without contact , its force to another mass of iron provided they were in what he called perfect sympathy with each other , namely , that they could be thrown into violent vibration by the same generator and would , therefore , give out , when in

motion , identically the same muiical note . The second bar was now carried to the Secretary ' s table and still responded loudly , and even when transferred to the other end of the large hall near the Senior Warden ' s pedestal , the response was still so violent that the sound resulting therefrom was heard by all present . Bro . Klein then showed tint this strange effect depended solely upon the perfect synchronising of the two

bars , the smallest alteration in either being sullicisnt to destroy their power to influence . His next step was , perhaps , the most rem irkable—one bar was thrown slightly out of sympathy , and both bars were then forced into simultaneous action ; the result was that instead of a pure steady musical note , the sound now rose and fell in violent heavy throbs , strangely characteristic of a battle royal . Bro . Klein concluded his demonstration with the following words :

The greatest aspiration of the human race is now , as it was in Plato s time , to gain knowledge of the Deity , the Great Architect and Builder of the world on which we live . Now , il we want to know the capability of an artist or a carpenter we examine his works , not only his masterpiece , but , in the case of a painter his r . mgh sketches and studies , and , in the case of a carpenter , his very chips will teach us something regarding his aspirations

and the power he possesses to carry them out . So with T . G . A . O . T . U . It is for us , as Masons , to study the Hidden Mysteries in His works around us , and , as we progress in that knowledge , wc shall attain to a nobler and truer appreciation of those infinities of perfection , which are the very attributes of the Godhead . In my installation address on Wisdom , Strength , and Beauty we found that in order to try and appreciate the Infinity of Omniscience we were forced to bring the Infinity of Time down to the level of finite material

measurements expressed by years , hours , minutes , and seconds , and to get any distance towards the appreciation of Omnipresence we had to consider the Infinity of Space under the finite material measurements of miles , yards , feet , and inches . So also when we try to appreciate the third great subject , representing what we are taught is the highest attribute of the Deity—/ n / iiii / e I . nvi—we must start from the lowest material aspect of sympathy and try and work upwards as we did in the two former cases .

I have only shown you to-night one experiment , but it is a striking one ; a heavy iron bar , which , with a man ' s greatest direct physical force , cannot be bent out of the straight , is by a few slight sympathetic touches made to bend about so violently and strongly that it not only gives out a loud musical note which can be heard more than 100 ysrds away , but will even continue these oscillations lor five or 10 minutes before coming to rest ; this was achieved by material contact though of the slightest description , whereas