Ancient York And London Grand Lodges.

known wherever our review may travel , as our brother has said sufficient about Masonry before A . D . 1812 to answer for , without being mixed up with any subsequent period .

Several pages are taken up in discussing purely reli g ious questions , so these we pass over , because wholly unsuitable to such a publication . Bro . Hyneman declares Dermott to have been

" Grand Secretary ofthe Grand Lodge at York . This we deny emphatically , and positively declare Bro . Hyneman is not in a position to produce one iota of evidence in proof of his assertion ,

either from the several editions of Bro . Dermott ' s " Ahiman Rezon , " or from the ancient records still existing at York . The statement is simply untrue . We thank Bro . Hyneman for his kind

reference to , and recommendation of , our " Masonic Sketches and Reprints , " and we regret exceedingly that duty compels us to refer in such strong terms of objection to his latest volume .

We have always had the highest respect for Bro . Hyneman ' s labours , and sincerely hope that he will rewrite his work , and produce a book worthy of his name .

The following is a list of the Grand Masters ofthe " Ancients , " sometimes called the " Atholl Misons , " and "according to the old Constitutions . " ist . Robert Turner , elected A . D . 1753 ;

2 nd . Edward Vaughan , A . D . 1755 ; 3 rd . Earl of Blessinton , A . D . 1757 5 4 th . Earl of Kelly , A . D . 1761 ; 5 th . Honourable Thomas Matthew , A . D . 1767 ; 6 th . John , 3 rd Duke of Atholl , A . D . 1771 ;

7 th . John Murray , 4 U 1 . Duke of Atholl , A . D . 1775 J 8 th . Earl of Antrim . 'A . D . 17 S 2 j 9 U 1 . John Murray , 4 th . Duke of Atholl , re-elected A . D .

1791 ; ioth . H . R . H . Duke of Kent , A . D . 1 S 13 The Grand Secretaries were John Morgan , Laurence Dermott , Robert Leslie , and Edward Harper , respectively .

In conclusion , we recommend these facts to the notice of Bro . Hyneman and the Craft in the United States , feeling assured that we appeal to a class of readers who will do us justice .

The Electro-Chymical Substance.

THE ELECTRO-CHYMICAL SUBSTANCE .

BY BRO . CRYI ' TOXYMI'S . Although personally absent for some time from the pages of The Freemason , from various reasons , I have not failed to read and profit by

the many valuable papers which have appeared upon subjects more or less recondite . I therefore , oathe ' present occasion , for the special benefit of some of your readers who delight iu the

occult , to present them with a curious treatise , suggestive to brethren who have taken certain degrees , and worthy of preservation , at any rate , as a singular record of what some few students

still think on alchymical philosophy . That however the Hermetic Myst . ry isconnecte . 1 with an anterior form of Freemasonry , as I shall have to show in the continuation of my papers on

Lessing ' s Conversations , there can be no doubt , when this is read by those who understand ; and therefore it may well take its place between thu continuation papers of that series and those which

have already preceded it . It has also the advantage of requiring no comments at my hands , but may betaken either literally and scientifically , or symbolically and masonkally , as the reader may think most desirable .

The Electro-Chymical Substance.

In the first sense it may be said that the science of electrical dynamics is guidingustotheshoresof a new scientific world ; in the latter acceptation it mav be read with profit in conjunction with

wellknown Rosicrucian and Hermetic books . I give the whole as I found it in its manuscript and hitherto unpublished form ; I refrain even from significantly italicising certain passages . —CRYI ' TONYMUS .

In observing the prodig ies brought forth by science , art , and industry throughout thc three kingdoms of Nature , one is surprised to learn nothing of the problem of organic animation .

Man has , in fact , arrived at the power of animating , comparatively speaking , mineral matter , by the employment of steam , air , and electricity , and other like agents , so as to produce for him any

mechanical movements he may desire . He knows how by lig ht , caloric , and liquid or solid manures to increase the vital activity of thc vegetable kingdom ; yet he remains unable to vivify

animal matter . Are the causes ef life for ever to escape thc researches of \ science , and is man to reign only over inert matter ? If so , it might bc affirmed

that human intelligence is as finite and non-progressive as matter is limited , and tlie various combinations we are able to produce necessarily finite . But would not such a final limit be in

essential contradiction to the special and supreme indefinite character of the human intellect . What ! it may be exclaimed , can our intelligence perceive immortality and infinitude , and yet be

unable to conceive animal vitality . ? Is that which swims in life for ever to be disinherited from the power of knowing" its vital centre ? Where , them would be that logical connection of creation

which never contradicts kst If ; which every where and in all that exists , reveals tlu Supreme might and omniscience ofthe Divinity ? Such considerations lead to the thought that

it is possible for man to vivify animal matter ; and the following theoretical principles may be indicated as to the nature of the experiments desirable to be undertaken with such au object .

And let it bc added that the existence of an Electro-Chymical Substance , ignored in modern science as yet , has been materially and physically proved to the writer , by the experiments

indicated in a manuscript of the seventeenth century , and which have been actuall y undertaken . They , however , occupy two years in

their process , and although the Electro-Chymical Substance is then recoverable , the expense and attention requisite is very considerable indeed .

THEORETICAL PRINCIPLES . When the Electro-Chymical Substance is united to the vegetable or animal substance , there ensues conjunction , generation , and organic

formation , 111 consequence of which , it is possible , with the Electro-Chymical Substance , to vivify the Animal Substance and to obtain the corresponding physiological phenomena . Now , all the

p henomena manifesting thc activity of the world of organisation of species and of individuals , reveal the vitality of organic matter . Therefore ,

the phenomena of life in vegetable and animal species arc the result of the combinations of the Electro-Chymical Substance , cither with the

The Electro-Chymical Substance.

vegetable or animal substance . In order completely to justify the term Electro-Chymical , given , not without reason , to this substance , and

to prove the verity ofthe principles we have put forth , it is necessary experimentally to realize the following results .

RESULTS REQUIRED IN THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM . It is sufficient to keep , in a liquid containing the Electro-Chy mical Substance , the roots of plants

or cereals for a period appropriate to their respective forces of development ; then to place such plants or cereals in the ordinary conditions of their vegetation , in order to obtain proofs of the

vital energy acquired . These proofs , although correlative to the nature of each plant , should manifest in every case an excess of chemical vigour . The phenomena of this increase of

vegetation may be explained by the simple fact that the Electro-Chymical Substance once absorbed by the vegetable , causes it to draw as well from the soil as from the atmosphere , the requisite

comp lementary to the vital energy previousl y imparted to it . With solid or liquid manures by greenhouses , or even with electricity , science and industry do no more than render more active

tlie natural energy 01 the plant , but cannot augment it ; while the Electro-Chymical Substance , becoming co-organic , to the plant , potentiall y increases the vitality of its economic system , in

augmenting , for instance , the fragrance of the perfume , and the richness in the colours of the flowers , the savour and the volume of the fruits . Such are the results which experience and logic permit us to hope of the vegetable kingdom .

RESULTS DEMANDED OV THE ANIMAL KINGDOM . The polypi should show us a series of sue cessive formations of an animal nature in

progressive developments , of whi ch the serpent and skate seem to ofler the two inverse types of form , being subjected , as it may be conceived , tothe influence of the Electro-Chymical Substance

which must be intelligently graduated ; and combined with the animal or vegetable substances , or with both together , in order to obtain the desired results .

INFUSORIA . It vvould be found necessary to introduce the Electro-Chymical Substance before the

fermentation of the liquid which is to generate infusoria . Otherwise the vivif ying substance may destroy such infusoria by substituting other animal organic formations . The infusoria should next be fed

by the addition of new animal and vegetable substances , so that , ceasing to be microscopic , they might become visible to the eye , this last condition constituting the result required from that order .

Indeed , the so essentially electro-chymical character of this substance allows us to anticipate a multitude of other results more consonant with our wants and pleasures . By its aid the art of

medicine will gain a power of causing an exuberance of strength in the medicinal properties of substances—supervivifying , in fact , the plants and flowers .

The pharmacopioea would attain the possession of means whereby to neutralize the ravages of time , denuding our crania and furrowing our countenances . KTIIC Electro-Chymical Sub-