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feel to be inconsistent with y ^ of unfairness which I am equally sure you would not y / illihgly comrn ^ I ask df the Editor of the Freemasons' Mdg ( 0 me m ^ he should hear both sides > and give an equal arena to both parties , beforef coming to % decision upon the question at iss a Yery ancient onOj Of the B on inquiry , to be legitimately constituted a ^
deserving with any other of notice i ^ the only medium through wM plaint can be properly brought before their Brethren . I havO the honour to be ^ , dear Sir and Brother , yours very fraternall y ^ Ereemasohs ^ J
( X 3 ur Bro . Nash ' s le ^ te Brother must be aware , frohi his position in the Craft , that of D , Prov . G ; M ^ of the imp <^ of > sUppotting r ^ Operly constituted authorities , and that where there exists the Grand Chapter De /^ e >^ only those ^ Lddg ^ Or a ^
regular b ^^ i ^ urious to the interests of the Order g ^ hold authority of itselfV and grant war ^^ same privilege J As a line ihust fee drawn somewhere | ^ pose and adopt the safest ; and we believe we shall be su ^ generall y in the view we ha ^
MARK MASONRY . TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE A ^ D MASONIC MIRROR . Dear Sir and Brother , *—t ; trust you will permit me to express my surprise in your useful publication at the efforts made , and still making , to force a Degree into the Order of Freemasonry which had been tested , and rejected ( with many discovered not to be ancient ) , in the year 1813 , by a select committee of the best informed Masons then living . Well informed Brothers need not now be told that
the G . Ms , of Kent and Sussex approved of said rejection , and affixed their hands and seals thereto . The decision of the Grand Lodge of England , which I read in one of your back numbers , I conceive , should have put a stop to such efforts—admit one and a second will very likely follow ! and probably a third and a fourth , & c . About twenty-three yea , rs back I received the Degree of Mark Mason in a Royal Arch Chapter in the city of Cork , Ireland . Three more companions received the Degree at the same meeting : one of these , who was very inquisitive and attentive , elicited by his queries the following facts from one of the officiating
companions , " that he had been in London when the union of the Grand Lodges was effected , and that the Mark and many other Degrees mre then tested and pronounced not ancient or instructive , either morally or scientifically , and rejected as modern inventions . " A short time after , I and the three companions alluded toreceivedanother Degree , named the . ' Ari , Mark , and Link , which in our aftermeetings we all agreed in thinking more instructive , affording a moral lesson . However , that as well as all others ( except the three now established Craft Degrees and the S . E . A . ) were rejected as spurious . At the , time I received said Degrees they were not patronized by the Grand Lodge of Ireland , but since then the
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feel to be inconsistent with y ^ of unfairness which I am equally sure you would not y / illihgly comrn ^ I ask df the Editor of the Freemasons' Mdg ( 0 me m ^ he should hear both sides > and give an equal arena to both parties , beforef coming to % decision upon the question at iss a Yery ancient onOj Of the B on inquiry , to be legitimately constituted a ^
deserving with any other of notice i ^ the only medium through wM plaint can be properly brought before their Brethren . I havO the honour to be ^ , dear Sir and Brother , yours very fraternall y ^ Ereemasohs ^ J
( X 3 ur Bro . Nash ' s le ^ te Brother must be aware , frohi his position in the Craft , that of D , Prov . G ; M ^ of the imp <^ of > sUppotting r ^ Operly constituted authorities , and that where there exists the Grand Chapter De /^ e >^ only those ^ Lddg ^ Or a ^
regular b ^^ i ^ urious to the interests of the Order g ^ hold authority of itselfV and grant war ^^ same privilege J As a line ihust fee drawn somewhere | ^ pose and adopt the safest ; and we believe we shall be su ^ generall y in the view we ha ^
MARK MASONRY . TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE A ^ D MASONIC MIRROR . Dear Sir and Brother , *—t ; trust you will permit me to express my surprise in your useful publication at the efforts made , and still making , to force a Degree into the Order of Freemasonry which had been tested , and rejected ( with many discovered not to be ancient ) , in the year 1813 , by a select committee of the best informed Masons then living . Well informed Brothers need not now be told that
the G . Ms , of Kent and Sussex approved of said rejection , and affixed their hands and seals thereto . The decision of the Grand Lodge of England , which I read in one of your back numbers , I conceive , should have put a stop to such efforts—admit one and a second will very likely follow ! and probably a third and a fourth , & c . About twenty-three yea , rs back I received the Degree of Mark Mason in a Royal Arch Chapter in the city of Cork , Ireland . Three more companions received the Degree at the same meeting : one of these , who was very inquisitive and attentive , elicited by his queries the following facts from one of the officiating
companions , " that he had been in London when the union of the Grand Lodges was effected , and that the Mark and many other Degrees mre then tested and pronounced not ancient or instructive , either morally or scientifically , and rejected as modern inventions . " A short time after , I and the three companions alluded toreceivedanother Degree , named the . ' Ari , Mark , and Link , which in our aftermeetings we all agreed in thinking more instructive , affording a moral lesson . However , that as well as all others ( except the three now established Craft Degrees and the S . E . A . ) were rejected as spurious . At the , time I received said Degrees they were not patronized by the Grand Lodge of Ireland , but since then the