Table Of Contents.

TABLE OF CONTENTS .

PAGE C URIOUS DISCOVERY AT LETCOMBE CASTLE ... 3 S 6 FREEMASONRY AND ISRAELITISM 3 S 7 & 38 S THE F AIR SEX AND ADOPTIVE MASONRY 38 S & 3 S 9 THE ROYAL ORDER OF SCOTLAND 3 89

THE C RAFTMetropolitan 39 ° Provincial 390 & 391

ROYAL ARCHMetropolitan 391 Provincial 391 O RDERS OF

CHIVALRYRed Cross of Constantine 391 BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS " 392 ONE G OOD TURN DESERVES ANOTHER 392 LODGE OF BENEVOLENCE 392 MULTUM IN PARVO 393

FREEMASONRY AND J UDAISM 393 & 394 ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE" On the Carnality of Freemasonry" 394

A Complaint 395 The 1717 Theory 395 The George Tedder Fund 395

SCOTLANDGlasgow 395 THE AMERICAN ICT . TOURISTS 395 & 396 POETRYThe World ' s Opinion 396 MASONIC CURIOSITIES 396

INAUGURATION OF WiLi . rAM IV . 3 g 6 ROYAL MASONIC BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION ... 397 INSTRUCTION 397 THEATRICAL 397 MAsoNrc MEETINGS FOR NEXT WEEK 39 S ADVERTISEMENTS 385 , 3 S 6 , 39 S , 399 , & 400

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FREEMASONRY & ISRAELITISM

BY BRO . WILLIAM CARPENTER , P . M . & P . Z . 177 . v . Leaving for a time Israel—with whom , and not with Judah , it will be remembered , we have to do—we must now glance at the incursions of the northern nations—the

barbarians—into Europe , and at their migrations and settlements in the west and south . The region -along the south bank of the Danube , between that river and the mountains of Hsemus , was originally called

Mcesia , and Herodotus , describing the progress of Darius [ Hystaspes ] , northward ( B . C . 507 ) , in his wanton invasion of that country , says that before he arrived at the Ister [ the Danube ] he , first of all , subdued

the GeUo [ afterwards called Goths , a branch of the great Teutonic family , the chief whom were the Visigoths ( VVcst-Goths ) , the Ostrogoths ( East-Goths ) , and the Lcpid ; u ( laggards ) ] . The Thracians

of Salmydessus , the Cyrmianians , and the Mypsrcans , lie states , submitted themselves without resistance , but the Geta 3 obstinately defended themselves before they were reduced . " These , of all the Thracians , "he

adds , "' are the bravest and the most upright . They believe themselves to be immortal ; and when any one dies , they believe that he is removed into the presence of their god , Zamolxis . " The Getaj were

distinguished , not only for their religion and bravery in war , but for their advance in the arts of peace . They produced grain for exportation , as well as for their own consumption . It has been remarked , too , that

from this quarter came the earliest poets and musicians , such as Orpheus , who was said to have so greatly assisted in charming the previously rude inhabitants of Greece into the mildness of civilised life . Mcesia

was subsequently invaded byAlexandcrthe Great ( is . c 329 ) , but the Getic refused to submit to national servitude , and passed over the Danube , settling in Dacia , a country north-westof the Euxine , part of which isnow

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known as Transylvania , with the Danubian . Principalities , or Roumania , the inhabitants of which are said to be Romanized Dacians . Here we have the Euxine on one side and Hungary on the other , Russia on the north ,

and the Turkish empire in Europe on the south . The Geta ? became a formidable republic , but the Romans having made Mcesia a Roman province , invaded Dacia , and drove the Getas still further into

the northern wilderness . They were not to be subdued , but their sufferings were terrible , for the Huns , under the fierce Attila , poured down upon them from the wilds of Tartary and they were driven to

seek from their former conquerors an asylum south of the Danube . They were permitted to cross into the empire , and again occupied Mcesia . They were required , however , to surrender their arms , and to

give up their children . The former condition _ they appear by some means to have evaded , but their children were taken and dispersed throughout the provinces of Asia , while the people again spread themselves

over the plains lying between the ridges of Mount Hemus and the Danube , whence they had been driven by Alexander in his early conquests . Their sufferings were indescribable . They were exposed to

famine , and many sold themselves into slavery to escape starvation . Exasperated by the faithlessness of the Romans , who , when they bereaved them of their children , promised to supply them with provisions

in their inhospitable plains , they invited the Ostrogoths to join them ; and the two branches of the Getss being united , they prepared to make war upon the Romans , who atrociously slaughtered the Gothic

youth dispersed throughout the Eastern provinces . The Goths , under Alaric , whom they had elected as ther leader ( A . D . 396 ) ,

rushed like a tempest on the central , and hitherto uninvaded , provinces of Thessaly , Greece , Epirus , and the Peloponesse . The land trembled before them in terror .

Theodosius , who became emperor ( A . D . 379 ) , broke , for a time , their strength , and peace was at length concluded between the invaders and the Empire of the East . Alaric was appointed Master-General of the

eastern Illyncum , but a settled hatred to the Romans dominated in the hearts of the Getra . When they were prepared to renew the war , they solemnly proclaimed Alaric king of the Visigoths , and he then

felt , as he said , a preternatural impulse which directed and even impelled him to the gates of Rome ; " secretly aspiring , " says Gibbon , " to plant the Gothic standard on the walls of Rome , and to enrich his

army with the spoils of three hundred triumphs . " In fulfilment of his destiny , he descended from the Alps on the Italian plains . The gates of Rome were at length opened to the conqueror , and the Gothic

fives blazed around the capital . Alaric spared the city , as he did a second and a third time ; but . at last , goadcd by treachery , he sacked and plundered it , carrying away

its richest spoils . All southern Italy was soon subdued , but before the Goths could pass into Sicily , Alaric died . This people , however , were destined to achieve still greater things .

Sharon Turner says that the most authentic facts that can now be gleaned from ancient history , and the most probable traditions that have been preserved in Europe , concur in proving that it has

been peopled by three great streams of population from the East , who have followed each other . ( 1 . ) The Kimmerian , Keltic or Celtic race . ( 2 . ) The Scythian , Gothic , and German tribes , from whom

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most of the modern nations of continental Europe have descended . ( 3 . ) The Sclavonian and Sarmatian nations , who established themselves in Poland , Bohemia . Russia , and other vicinities . This able writer ,. who

has set aside many fanciful and fallacious theories on the origin of the Anglo-Saxon race , has shown that the Scythians or Goths dz'ove their predecessors , the Celts , towards the northern and southern

extremities of Europe , and not only reached the Rhine , but crossed it into France ; and that from the branches of the latter stock our own immediate ancestors , as well as those of the most celebrated nations of modern

Europe , have unquestionably descendedas the Anglo-Saxon , Lowland-Scotch , Normans , Danes . Norwegians , Swedes , Germans , Dutch , Belgians , Lombards , and

Franks . Europe changed her inhabitants , as it were , the new race issuing from the Danube , whence , as we have seen , they had made their descent on the Roman

Empire . With regard to the Saxons , in particular , Sharon Turner says , " Of the various Scythian nations which have been recorded , the Sakai , or Saae , are the people from

whom the descent of the Saxohs may be inferred , with the least violation of probability . They were so celebrated that the Persians called all the Scythians by the name of Sacae . They seized Bactriana ,

and the most fertile part of Armenia , which from them derived the name of Sakasuma . They defeated Cyrus , and they reached the Cappadoces on the Euxine . That some of the divisions of this people were

really called Sakasuna ( from which we have our word Saxon or Sacson ) is obvious from Pliny ; for he says that the Sakai who settled in Armenia were named Sacassani , which is but Saka-suna , spelt

by a person who was unacquainted with the combined words ; and the name Sacasena , which they gave to the part of Armenia they occupied , is nearly the same

sound as Saxonia . It is also important to remark , that Ptolemy mentions a Scythian people , sprung from the Sakai , by the name of Saxons . "

Let us now look a little more closely into the peopling of our own country by this Saxon branch of the Gothic family , for that is the main point towards which all I am writing tends . We have seen who

the Saxons were ; but who were the Angles ? They were a branch of the family , who pushed their conquests along the north of Germany to the Cimbric Chersonesus , now called Jutland , and these , occupying

a country called Anglia , lying between Holstein and Jutland , betook themselves to a seafaring life , and made several attacks on the western provinces of the Roman Empire . They several times

invaded Britain , and hence the eastern coast got the name of the " Saxon shore . " They were , at length , invited by the Britons to join them against the incursions of the Picts and Scots , and they liked the

country so well that they never afterwards left it . They first obtained the Isle of Thanet , and , at length , after having been greatly increased by various accessions of their brethren from Germany , they

acquired the county of Kent , and proceeded onward until the greater part of the country was occupied by them . These two branches of the Gothic race , thus united , obtained the designation of

Anglo-Saxons . The Saxon religion , laws , and language were universally established ; and the seven independent kingdoms , which had been successively planted , formed the Heptarchy , somewhat analagous to the