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Masonic Antiquities.
MOGrONS . " But , joking apart , it is not destitute of instruction . Freemasonry / though ail exceUent institution , is not , more than any other . in this world , a - perfect one ; and amidst the absurdities of the
" OO & MOGrONT " fraternity , the intelligent Ereemason may detect a hit of sly satire directed by a not iinskilful hand against some failing , some weak point which existed in 1725 ; and which though not itself existing now , has perhaps been replaced by some other which , no less than its predecessors , ought to be among the things
that were . Let us hope , therefore , that our Brethren may have derived not only amusement , but instruction from the foregoing pages , which , written as they originally were one hundred and thirty-three years since , cannot be considered by any one as personal to himself . Therefore , courteous reader , you are not in these pages , but , a word in your ear , " many of your neighbours are " [ Erratum . —Page 955 , last line but one , for' " ' Caninals" read " Cardinals" ]
Chivalry,
CHIYALEY ,
AND THE INSTITUTIONS , Oil OltDEllS , OP THE KNIGHTS OE ST . JOHN OE MALTA ; THE KNIGHTS OP THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON ; AND THE TEUTONIC KNIGHTS OE GERMANY . —BY A P . E . C . OE THE 0 T 1 DE 1 I OE MASONIC KNIGHTS TEMPLAtt , AND OE ST . JOHN OP MALTA . *
THE KNIGHTS OE TllJfi HOSPITAL OE ST . JOHN . But this the scope was of our former thought , Of Sion ' s fort to scale the noble wail , The Christian folk from bondage to have brought , Wherein , alas ! they long ' have lived thrall ; In Palestine an empire to have wrought , Where godliness might reign perpetual , And none be left that pilgrims might denay To see Christ ' s tomb and promised vows to pay . —Tasso .
The institution of the religious and military Orders having their origin in Palestine in the time of the Crusades , we deem it essential to our purpose to precede the narrative of their history by a slight notice-of the condition of the Holy Land ab the commencement of the Christian era .
The career of these sell-devoted and gallant Knights is so intimately connected with the great struggle between the peoples ofthe west and the Tartar and Turkoman races for the possession of the Holy Land , that the story of their deeds is the tale ofthe Crusades . It will be our care in thehistory of each Order to recite that portion
* Continued from page 781 of our last volume
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Masonic Antiquities.
MOGrONS . " But , joking apart , it is not destitute of instruction . Freemasonry / though ail exceUent institution , is not , more than any other . in this world , a - perfect one ; and amidst the absurdities of the
" OO & MOGrONT " fraternity , the intelligent Ereemason may detect a hit of sly satire directed by a not iinskilful hand against some failing , some weak point which existed in 1725 ; and which though not itself existing now , has perhaps been replaced by some other which , no less than its predecessors , ought to be among the things
that were . Let us hope , therefore , that our Brethren may have derived not only amusement , but instruction from the foregoing pages , which , written as they originally were one hundred and thirty-three years since , cannot be considered by any one as personal to himself . Therefore , courteous reader , you are not in these pages , but , a word in your ear , " many of your neighbours are " [ Erratum . —Page 955 , last line but one , for' " ' Caninals" read " Cardinals" ]
Chivalry,
CHIYALEY ,
AND THE INSTITUTIONS , Oil OltDEllS , OP THE KNIGHTS OE ST . JOHN OE MALTA ; THE KNIGHTS OP THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON ; AND THE TEUTONIC KNIGHTS OE GERMANY . —BY A P . E . C . OE THE 0 T 1 DE 1 I OE MASONIC KNIGHTS TEMPLAtt , AND OE ST . JOHN OP MALTA . *
THE KNIGHTS OE TllJfi HOSPITAL OE ST . JOHN . But this the scope was of our former thought , Of Sion ' s fort to scale the noble wail , The Christian folk from bondage to have brought , Wherein , alas ! they long ' have lived thrall ; In Palestine an empire to have wrought , Where godliness might reign perpetual , And none be left that pilgrims might denay To see Christ ' s tomb and promised vows to pay . —Tasso .
The institution of the religious and military Orders having their origin in Palestine in the time of the Crusades , we deem it essential to our purpose to precede the narrative of their history by a slight notice-of the condition of the Holy Land ab the commencement of the Christian era .
The career of these sell-devoted and gallant Knights is so intimately connected with the great struggle between the peoples ofthe west and the Tartar and Turkoman races for the possession of the Holy Land , that the story of their deeds is the tale ofthe Crusades . It will be our care in thehistory of each Order to recite that portion
* Continued from page 781 of our last volume