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Article FBEEMASONRY ILLUSTRATED. ← Page 6 of 16 →
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Fbeemasonry Illustrated.
OHITALRY ,
¦ AJSTD £ HE USTSTXrUTlOKS , OB OBDERS , OF THE Ktfl & HTS OF ST . JOHN Or MAtTA ; THE IKiaHDS OP TEE TEMPLE Of SOLOMON ; AND THE TEUTONIC KOTaHTS OE GEBMANT . —BY A P . E . C . OP THE OBBEB OE MASONIC KKIOHTS TEHPLAB , AB OF ST . JOHN OE MAIrTA . *
THE KNiaHTS TEMPLAB OB KNIGHTHOOD OE THE TEMPLE OE SOLOMON . O , your desert speaks loud ; and I should wrong it , To lock it in the wards of covert bosom , When it deserves with characters of brass A forted residence ' gainst the tooth of time , And razure of oblivion . Bhakspeare ,
Adoptin g the statement of Brompton , an English chronicleralthough this is disputed , we must allow—nine French Knights , some of whom at least were Brethren of the Order of St . John of Jerusalem , sometime in the year 1118 or 1119 , formed in the city of Jerusalem a holy brotherhood in arms , and entered into a solemn compact to aid one another in clearing the highways of robbers , and protecting the pilgrims through the mountain passes on their way to and from the holy city ; they also renounced the world and its pleasures , and embraced vovrs of perpetual chastity , obedience , and
poverty , after the manner of monks . Baldwin II ., king of Jerusalem , granted them as their first place of habitation , a part of his palace , to which the abbot and canons of the convent of the Temple added another building for their arms . These structures were situated on Mount Moriah , the site of the Temple of King Solomon , whence the " Poor Soldiers of Jesus Christ , " as they called themselves , came
thenceforth to be known as " The Knighthood of the Temple of Solomon . " The constitutions of the Order , arranged by St . Bernard some few years after , is entitled " The Rule of the Poor Fellow Soldiers of Jesus Christ and of the Temple of Solomon . " These constitutions had the sanctions of the council of the church assembled at Troyes ; they contain seventy-two clauses of austere religious character ; they
enjoin severe devotional exercises , self-mortification , fasting , prayer , and constant exercise in the study of charity ; to receive no letters without license from the master , to whom , or to the treasurer , all gifts are to be conveyed ; to receive no service or attendance from a woman ; and , above all things , the Templar was commanded to shun feminine kisses . At the original formation of the Order , its condition and pretensions remarkably contrasted with its subsequent state , and for
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Fbeemasonry Illustrated.
OHITALRY ,
¦ AJSTD £ HE USTSTXrUTlOKS , OB OBDERS , OF THE Ktfl & HTS OF ST . JOHN Or MAtTA ; THE IKiaHDS OP TEE TEMPLE Of SOLOMON ; AND THE TEUTONIC KOTaHTS OE GEBMANT . —BY A P . E . C . OP THE OBBEB OE MASONIC KKIOHTS TEHPLAB , AB OF ST . JOHN OE MAIrTA . *
THE KNiaHTS TEMPLAB OB KNIGHTHOOD OE THE TEMPLE OE SOLOMON . O , your desert speaks loud ; and I should wrong it , To lock it in the wards of covert bosom , When it deserves with characters of brass A forted residence ' gainst the tooth of time , And razure of oblivion . Bhakspeare ,
Adoptin g the statement of Brompton , an English chronicleralthough this is disputed , we must allow—nine French Knights , some of whom at least were Brethren of the Order of St . John of Jerusalem , sometime in the year 1118 or 1119 , formed in the city of Jerusalem a holy brotherhood in arms , and entered into a solemn compact to aid one another in clearing the highways of robbers , and protecting the pilgrims through the mountain passes on their way to and from the holy city ; they also renounced the world and its pleasures , and embraced vovrs of perpetual chastity , obedience , and
poverty , after the manner of monks . Baldwin II ., king of Jerusalem , granted them as their first place of habitation , a part of his palace , to which the abbot and canons of the convent of the Temple added another building for their arms . These structures were situated on Mount Moriah , the site of the Temple of King Solomon , whence the " Poor Soldiers of Jesus Christ , " as they called themselves , came
thenceforth to be known as " The Knighthood of the Temple of Solomon . " The constitutions of the Order , arranged by St . Bernard some few years after , is entitled " The Rule of the Poor Fellow Soldiers of Jesus Christ and of the Temple of Solomon . " These constitutions had the sanctions of the council of the church assembled at Troyes ; they contain seventy-two clauses of austere religious character ; they
enjoin severe devotional exercises , self-mortification , fasting , prayer , and constant exercise in the study of charity ; to receive no letters without license from the master , to whom , or to the treasurer , all gifts are to be conveyed ; to receive no service or attendance from a woman ; and , above all things , the Templar was commanded to shun feminine kisses . At the original formation of the Order , its condition and pretensions remarkably contrasted with its subsequent state , and for
* Continued from page 106