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Historical and PJdlosopMcal Studies on the Three Grades of Symbolic Masonry , by Bro . Redares . { Etudes Historiques et Pliilosophiques sur les Trois Grades de la MaqoninerieSyrrib ^ o Paris : chez l'Auteur , Rue de la Cite , 27 , —More thau thirty Masters of Lod g ^ Grand Orient of Paris have formally published their recommendation and patronage of this useful publication , which abounds with information and instruction for both young and old Masons . To these high testimonials , we
are sorry to be obliged to add , that the author is not in flourishing circumstances , that he is seventy years of age , and deprived of the blessing of sight . The Brethren in France and Switzerland have long known and valued the poems and Masonic essays of Bro . Redares , who has been a member of the Order for fifty years , and has filled its highest offices with dignity and credit . We trust he may find a goodly number of subscribers in this , as well as in his native country . The price of the work is very low , only three francs and a half .
APIand-loole for the Symbolic Grade of Apprentices of the Scottish Ancient and Accepted Rite , by Bro . Seippel . ( Cahier Pour le Grade Syrnbolique dApprenti du Rite Ecossais Ancien et Accepted ) Par leFrere Seippel . — Under ^ this title Bro . Seippel , who is designated u M . W . Soy . of the Sovereign Chapter of Knights of the Renovation ^ has published a work which , no doubt , will prove of interest to those English and Scottish Brethren who cultivate the higher grades , though , avc fear , it will not have
any attractions for the Craft m general . It is compiled in the form of a catechism , and is well written in a clear and methodical style . It concludes with a copy of " The Masonic Rule agreed upon at the General Convention at Willelnisbad , in 1782 . " Our readers are perhaps aware that a bad feeling has been fostered of late against Freemasons in France by some illadvised members of the priesthood ; one in particular , the Abbe Combalot , in a recent sermon at the church of St . Sulpice , attacked the institution of
Freemasonry most fiercely and unjustly , falsely confounding it with the most destructive class of revolutionary secret societies . It would be as well if some friend to common sense and charitable feeling would draw the reverend father ' s attention to Bro . Seippel ' s compilation ; for in the rule " above mentioned occurs the following passage , which could hardly fail to give this illustrious preacher a totally different idea of us and our doctrines : —
' * The Gospel is the base of our obligations ; if thou believest it not , thou ceasesfc to be a Mason . Testify by all thine actions , an enlightened and active piety , without Jiypocrisy and without fanaticism . Christianity confines not itself to speculative truths ; ever practise all the moral duties that it teaches , and thou shalt be happy . " We do not wish to express any opinion as to the Masonic controversy which has arisen in our pages between " Sit Lux" and his opponents , but we think this testimony of Masons on the continent has an important bearing on the question at issue between them .
De Lichtstraal . { The Ray of Light . )—This is a periodical published in Holland , having for its object " the physical and intellectual development of man ; " and is the undertaking of Brother Van der Voo , with whom are associated two other Brethren well known in continental Masonry—Bros . Nieuwenhuis and Unitarius . The number for June is principally devoted to questions of religious discnssion , which , however important in themselves , appear to us unsuited to the pages of a magazine assuming a purely Masonic character .
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Reviewsjke Hew Books /
Historical and PJdlosopMcal Studies on the Three Grades of Symbolic Masonry , by Bro . Redares . { Etudes Historiques et Pliilosophiques sur les Trois Grades de la MaqoninerieSyrrib ^ o Paris : chez l'Auteur , Rue de la Cite , 27 , —More thau thirty Masters of Lod g ^ Grand Orient of Paris have formally published their recommendation and patronage of this useful publication , which abounds with information and instruction for both young and old Masons . To these high testimonials , we
are sorry to be obliged to add , that the author is not in flourishing circumstances , that he is seventy years of age , and deprived of the blessing of sight . The Brethren in France and Switzerland have long known and valued the poems and Masonic essays of Bro . Redares , who has been a member of the Order for fifty years , and has filled its highest offices with dignity and credit . We trust he may find a goodly number of subscribers in this , as well as in his native country . The price of the work is very low , only three francs and a half .
APIand-loole for the Symbolic Grade of Apprentices of the Scottish Ancient and Accepted Rite , by Bro . Seippel . ( Cahier Pour le Grade Syrnbolique dApprenti du Rite Ecossais Ancien et Accepted ) Par leFrere Seippel . — Under ^ this title Bro . Seippel , who is designated u M . W . Soy . of the Sovereign Chapter of Knights of the Renovation ^ has published a work which , no doubt , will prove of interest to those English and Scottish Brethren who cultivate the higher grades , though , avc fear , it will not have
any attractions for the Craft m general . It is compiled in the form of a catechism , and is well written in a clear and methodical style . It concludes with a copy of " The Masonic Rule agreed upon at the General Convention at Willelnisbad , in 1782 . " Our readers are perhaps aware that a bad feeling has been fostered of late against Freemasons in France by some illadvised members of the priesthood ; one in particular , the Abbe Combalot , in a recent sermon at the church of St . Sulpice , attacked the institution of
Freemasonry most fiercely and unjustly , falsely confounding it with the most destructive class of revolutionary secret societies . It would be as well if some friend to common sense and charitable feeling would draw the reverend father ' s attention to Bro . Seippel ' s compilation ; for in the rule " above mentioned occurs the following passage , which could hardly fail to give this illustrious preacher a totally different idea of us and our doctrines : —
' * The Gospel is the base of our obligations ; if thou believest it not , thou ceasesfc to be a Mason . Testify by all thine actions , an enlightened and active piety , without Jiypocrisy and without fanaticism . Christianity confines not itself to speculative truths ; ever practise all the moral duties that it teaches , and thou shalt be happy . " We do not wish to express any opinion as to the Masonic controversy which has arisen in our pages between " Sit Lux" and his opponents , but we think this testimony of Masons on the continent has an important bearing on the question at issue between them .
De Lichtstraal . { The Ray of Light . )—This is a periodical published in Holland , having for its object " the physical and intellectual development of man ; " and is the undertaking of Brother Van der Voo , with whom are associated two other Brethren well known in continental Masonry—Bros . Nieuwenhuis and Unitarius . The number for June is principally devoted to questions of religious discnssion , which , however important in themselves , appear to us unsuited to the pages of a magazine assuming a purely Masonic character .