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A Gheat Masonic Seceet . — -First , a word on a new discovery . Why is it that the present century is so far inferior to the centuries of the dark ages in the harmony and sublimity of its architecture ? lor a long time it has been an opinion that the singular hannony which reigns in the proportions of the architectural monuments of t ^ and that there must nave been some mathematical secret unknown to the present age . This secret a German , Mr . Henzlemann , has found . It was a secret which belonged to antiquity as well as to the Greek and Boman epochs . It presided as well at the
Coniinittee on Work , the various means of recognition , and the ties which bind us together as Masons ; and that said Committee report the result of their investigation to the Grand Lodge at its next annual communication , "
construction of Solomon ' sTemple as at the Parthenons of Borne and Athens . The discovery of Mr . Henzlemann was the result of study . With the plumb-line , square , and compass ; he travelled through Germany , Italy , France , and England , measuring and calculating ^ and finding in all the structures of the different ages of the past the same harmonious lines . He has demonstrated , beyond contradiction , the co-relation of the Greek with the middle-age architecture . This secret , which was the property of brother Masons ( Freemasons of the present day ) from the time of the building of Solomon ' s femple down to the fifteenth , perhaps even
to the sixteenth , century , was at last lost by them , and the sublime art of architecture entered its age of decadence . The Greeks and Hebrews took great pains to keep this secret . Pythagoras in Greece , and Moses , David , and Solomon among the Israelites , were of the number of its possessors . The Freemasons ; who are the descendants of the Israelite Masons , were undoubtedly the heirs of the art of Hiram , the great architect , but unfortunately they have lost it . In the Pardlipomeneswe see David giving to his son the plans and descriptions which he
had received from God , to raise to him a temple at Jerusalem ; and in the proportions and forms indicated by the different books of the Bible , we can trace the elements of the harmonious system recognized by Mr . Henzlemann . The discovery of the German architect has excited so much interest in France that Mr , Lenoir , an architect of that city , has made a report on the subject to the Minister of Public Instruction and Worship . This gentleman not only approves of the discovery of Mr . Henzlemann , but he supports its truth and correctness with additional proofs , —Paris Correspondent of New York Tines ,
The Week
THE WEEK
The Queen , with the younger branches of the royal family , remained atOsborne until Friday , when her Majesty , acoompanied by Prince Arthur , Prince Leopold , and the Princesses Alice , Helena , Louisa , and Beatrice , left Osborne for Buckingham Palace . In the evening her Majesty visited the Haymarket Theatre . On Saturday there was a court at Buckingham Palace , and in the evening her Majesty paid her first visit to the new Boyal Italian Opera , Covent-garden . A telegraphic despatch from Berlin , of the 4 th , says : —" The Prince Consort of
England was received this morning early at the Grossbeeren station of the Anhalt Railway by his son-in-law , Prince Frederick William . Their royal highneses immediately left in a carriage for the chateau of Babelsberg , near Potsdam , where they arrived at eight o ' clock in the morning . The Prince of Prussia was there to receive his august visitor . " The prince having visited his daughter the Princess Boyal of England has since returned home , In the House of Lords , on Monday , the amendments to the Oaths Bill were insisted upon , a spirit of concession however being shown , which it is supposed will lead to a settlement of
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
America
A Gheat Masonic Seceet . — -First , a word on a new discovery . Why is it that the present century is so far inferior to the centuries of the dark ages in the harmony and sublimity of its architecture ? lor a long time it has been an opinion that the singular hannony which reigns in the proportions of the architectural monuments of t ^ and that there must nave been some mathematical secret unknown to the present age . This secret a German , Mr . Henzlemann , has found . It was a secret which belonged to antiquity as well as to the Greek and Boman epochs . It presided as well at the
Coniinittee on Work , the various means of recognition , and the ties which bind us together as Masons ; and that said Committee report the result of their investigation to the Grand Lodge at its next annual communication , "
construction of Solomon ' sTemple as at the Parthenons of Borne and Athens . The discovery of Mr . Henzlemann was the result of study . With the plumb-line , square , and compass ; he travelled through Germany , Italy , France , and England , measuring and calculating ^ and finding in all the structures of the different ages of the past the same harmonious lines . He has demonstrated , beyond contradiction , the co-relation of the Greek with the middle-age architecture . This secret , which was the property of brother Masons ( Freemasons of the present day ) from the time of the building of Solomon ' s femple down to the fifteenth , perhaps even
to the sixteenth , century , was at last lost by them , and the sublime art of architecture entered its age of decadence . The Greeks and Hebrews took great pains to keep this secret . Pythagoras in Greece , and Moses , David , and Solomon among the Israelites , were of the number of its possessors . The Freemasons ; who are the descendants of the Israelite Masons , were undoubtedly the heirs of the art of Hiram , the great architect , but unfortunately they have lost it . In the Pardlipomeneswe see David giving to his son the plans and descriptions which he
had received from God , to raise to him a temple at Jerusalem ; and in the proportions and forms indicated by the different books of the Bible , we can trace the elements of the harmonious system recognized by Mr . Henzlemann . The discovery of the German architect has excited so much interest in France that Mr , Lenoir , an architect of that city , has made a report on the subject to the Minister of Public Instruction and Worship . This gentleman not only approves of the discovery of Mr . Henzlemann , but he supports its truth and correctness with additional proofs , —Paris Correspondent of New York Tines ,
The Week
THE WEEK
The Queen , with the younger branches of the royal family , remained atOsborne until Friday , when her Majesty , acoompanied by Prince Arthur , Prince Leopold , and the Princesses Alice , Helena , Louisa , and Beatrice , left Osborne for Buckingham Palace . In the evening her Majesty visited the Haymarket Theatre . On Saturday there was a court at Buckingham Palace , and in the evening her Majesty paid her first visit to the new Boyal Italian Opera , Covent-garden . A telegraphic despatch from Berlin , of the 4 th , says : —" The Prince Consort of
England was received this morning early at the Grossbeeren station of the Anhalt Railway by his son-in-law , Prince Frederick William . Their royal highneses immediately left in a carriage for the chateau of Babelsberg , near Potsdam , where they arrived at eight o ' clock in the morning . The Prince of Prussia was there to receive his august visitor . " The prince having visited his daughter the Princess Boyal of England has since returned home , In the House of Lords , on Monday , the amendments to the Oaths Bill were insisted upon , a spirit of concession however being shown , which it is supposed will lead to a settlement of