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so also is the Rose Croix—and this cannot be said pf any other degree .- / - [¦ ¦ ¦ -V- ; - - -, - ; .: v ... j ;> . '; . ; ;— , ¦ ,.,: We can nowhere find a satisfactory explanation of the word Meredem . Eagon , in the second edition of his Orthodoxie Maconnique ,
says it was invented by the Stuart part y * and is a corruption of the medisevalLatin word hceredium , which signified " a piece of ground fallen by inheritance . " Mackay observes thatj in an old M Scotch rites , he has discovered the fo ^ Heroden is the name of a mountain situate in the north west of
Scotland where the first or metropolitan Iiodge of Europe was held , and supposes that the present orthography may be the French mode of spelling it . Dfe Oliver Calls the H . E . B . M . and E . S . Y . G . S . two degrees ; he states that the royal order of Herodem was founded on the dissolution of the Order of ^&
th at the Eose Croix was , by th e Grrand G hapter of th e former degree , added in 1736 . In Scotland , the Eose Croix the rite of the " Eoyal 0 rder of Herodem andEosyCross / ' as well as under the sanction of the Supreme Council of the thirty-third degree . To be eligible for this Order , the Brother must be acknowledged as a Eoyal Arch Mason by the Grand Chapter of Scotland .
The Piees Op Heaven.
THE PIEES OP HEAVEN .
BY TEiL ^ ClS HENRY BA . KER . Losra before the true nature -of thunderstorms was known they were ascribed to electricity , for when the science of electricity was just rising into existence it was customary to attribute to its influence whatever was mysterious and inexplicable by the known laws of
nature . But Pranklin conceived that this assumption , evidently so erroneous in many instances , might be correct in the case of lightning ; and so confident was he of the truth of this theory that he determined to make a bold attempt at its proof by bringing down the lightning from the clouds and comparing it with the electricity produced bv artificial means . This he accomplished by means of a kite ,
connected with his apparatus by means of a wire , which he sent up during a thunderstorm ; and he succeeded in obtaining sparks from the end of the wire , which proved to be identical with those drawn from excited glass . He afterwards observed , that he was so delighted with the success of his enterprise that he would willingly have
resigned his life after making so brilliant a discovery—an event which certainly might have occurred if the thundercloud which passed at the time had been more powerful , and which actuall y did happen to another philosopher while engaged in a similar experiment . The fttmosphere , and consequently ^ hq clouds which floftt in it , are
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so also is the Rose Croix—and this cannot be said pf any other degree .- / - [¦ ¦ ¦ -V- ; - - -, - ; .: v ... j ;> . '; . ; ;— , ¦ ,.,: We can nowhere find a satisfactory explanation of the word Meredem . Eagon , in the second edition of his Orthodoxie Maconnique ,
says it was invented by the Stuart part y * and is a corruption of the medisevalLatin word hceredium , which signified " a piece of ground fallen by inheritance . " Mackay observes thatj in an old M Scotch rites , he has discovered the fo ^ Heroden is the name of a mountain situate in the north west of
Scotland where the first or metropolitan Iiodge of Europe was held , and supposes that the present orthography may be the French mode of spelling it . Dfe Oliver Calls the H . E . B . M . and E . S . Y . G . S . two degrees ; he states that the royal order of Herodem was founded on the dissolution of the Order of ^&
th at the Eose Croix was , by th e Grrand G hapter of th e former degree , added in 1736 . In Scotland , the Eose Croix the rite of the " Eoyal 0 rder of Herodem andEosyCross / ' as well as under the sanction of the Supreme Council of the thirty-third degree . To be eligible for this Order , the Brother must be acknowledged as a Eoyal Arch Mason by the Grand Chapter of Scotland .
The Piees Op Heaven.
THE PIEES OP HEAVEN .
BY TEiL ^ ClS HENRY BA . KER . Losra before the true nature -of thunderstorms was known they were ascribed to electricity , for when the science of electricity was just rising into existence it was customary to attribute to its influence whatever was mysterious and inexplicable by the known laws of
nature . But Pranklin conceived that this assumption , evidently so erroneous in many instances , might be correct in the case of lightning ; and so confident was he of the truth of this theory that he determined to make a bold attempt at its proof by bringing down the lightning from the clouds and comparing it with the electricity produced bv artificial means . This he accomplished by means of a kite ,
connected with his apparatus by means of a wire , which he sent up during a thunderstorm ; and he succeeded in obtaining sparks from the end of the wire , which proved to be identical with those drawn from excited glass . He afterwards observed , that he was so delighted with the success of his enterprise that he would willingly have
resigned his life after making so brilliant a discovery—an event which certainly might have occurred if the thundercloud which passed at the time had been more powerful , and which actuall y did happen to another philosopher while engaged in a similar experiment . The fttmosphere , and consequently ^ hq clouds which floftt in it , are