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Monthly Masonic Summary.
Monthly Masonic Summary .
AT the last Quarterly Communication of Grand Lodge it was resolved to refer the whole matter of the grateful offering of Grand Lodge , in honour of our Eoyal Grand Master ' s return ,
to a Committee composed of certain nominated Brethren , and the Provincial Grand Masters . We shall await
the report of this Committee with much interest , and trust that the suggestions it will make , will be both practical and acceptable , ( as we doubt not , ) to Grand Lodge and the Craft .
The increase of the Order continues , and new Lodges are cropping up in all directions . The number on the roll already exceeds 1640 , and probably , by the end of the year , we
shall be close on 1700 . Indeed , this great augmentation of Lodges suggests many and very serious considerations , which on some other occasion , we may think it well to dilate on at much
greater length . At present , we merely " make a note of it . " We publish a very curious Dedication in extenso ( on page 161 ) to a work called "Long Livers , " kindly
forwarded to us by our esteemed Bro . W . J - Hughan . This book is interesting from many points . It is the first Masonic printed book , so far , in which allusion is made to our present speculative Grand Lodge . Others may yet
turn up , but this is so far the first , and was originally introduced to the notice of the Order , generally , by Bro-Albert Mackey in America . It is also , very remarkable for this statement
that in 1721 there was an hermetic Masonry existing in England , though of its precise nature we are not told , hints alone being apparently ' considered sufficient for "Adepts . " The
writer seems to be well up in what has been termed the "Jargon of Alchemy , " or Rosicrueianism , and it would almost seem as if his words apply to that special form of
Hermeticism . High Grade Brethren may find other indicies . Still the fact remains that in 1721 , according to this anonymous " litterateur , " Freemasons were members of these higher grades , and such a fact opens out many questions .
It has been generally understood that the history of the high grades and of hermetic Masonry begins at a much later period , but here we have it , whatever it was , known to this
writer , and alluded to in print in 1722 . We shall hope that Bro . W . J . Hughan , and none is more competent to the task , will favour us with his views respecting this work in the next Magazine ;
and we beg to . call the attention of Bro . Findel Bro . R . W . Little , and all other Masonic arcliasological students to this remarkable Dedication !
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Monthly Masonic Summary.
Monthly Masonic Summary .
AT the last Quarterly Communication of Grand Lodge it was resolved to refer the whole matter of the grateful offering of Grand Lodge , in honour of our Eoyal Grand Master ' s return ,
to a Committee composed of certain nominated Brethren , and the Provincial Grand Masters . We shall await
the report of this Committee with much interest , and trust that the suggestions it will make , will be both practical and acceptable , ( as we doubt not , ) to Grand Lodge and the Craft .
The increase of the Order continues , and new Lodges are cropping up in all directions . The number on the roll already exceeds 1640 , and probably , by the end of the year , we
shall be close on 1700 . Indeed , this great augmentation of Lodges suggests many and very serious considerations , which on some other occasion , we may think it well to dilate on at much
greater length . At present , we merely " make a note of it . " We publish a very curious Dedication in extenso ( on page 161 ) to a work called "Long Livers , " kindly
forwarded to us by our esteemed Bro . W . J - Hughan . This book is interesting from many points . It is the first Masonic printed book , so far , in which allusion is made to our present speculative Grand Lodge . Others may yet
turn up , but this is so far the first , and was originally introduced to the notice of the Order , generally , by Bro-Albert Mackey in America . It is also , very remarkable for this statement
that in 1721 there was an hermetic Masonry existing in England , though of its precise nature we are not told , hints alone being apparently ' considered sufficient for "Adepts . " The
writer seems to be well up in what has been termed the "Jargon of Alchemy , " or Rosicrueianism , and it would almost seem as if his words apply to that special form of
Hermeticism . High Grade Brethren may find other indicies . Still the fact remains that in 1721 , according to this anonymous " litterateur , " Freemasons were members of these higher grades , and such a fact opens out many questions .
It has been generally understood that the history of the high grades and of hermetic Masonry begins at a much later period , but here we have it , whatever it was , known to this
writer , and alluded to in print in 1722 . We shall hope that Bro . W . J . Hughan , and none is more competent to the task , will favour us with his views respecting this work in the next Magazine ;
and we beg to . call the attention of Bro . Findel Bro . R . W . Little , and all other Masonic arcliasological students to this remarkable Dedication !