The Ancient And Accepted Rite In America.

bo prepared for their work hy oral instruction , with any degree of success . The price of the ritual now supplied is very large in proportion to its cost . The sales already made have re-imiarsed to the Supreme Council the expenses of publication , and it is now time to take away from subordinate bodies the excuse for communicating- tbe degrees instead of conferring them , that they are

aiot able to pay for the necessary rituals . Consolidation of Bodies of the Rite . —I am happy to inform you that the two sets of bodies at Albany , New York , bave been consolidated , Great credit is due to the brethren composing them for tho truly Masonic spirit displayed in effecting this ; and they are rewarded hy the prosperity and harmony ivhich

they are now enjoying . I have information that other bodies have followed their example , but must refer you to the Reports of the Deputies for definite statements . Regalia . —I was authorised last year to procure regalia , & c > for the Supreme Council , hut upon enquiring as to its cost I determined that it was imprudent to proceed without more

definite instruction , and , therefore , I refer the matter hack to you for such action as you may deem proper . The Thirty-third Degree . —In establishing a rule for the selection of brethren to he elevated to this high grade , much embarassment has always been experienced . Whether the policy inaugurated last year will relieve us in this respect cannot be now known . Our sister Supreme Council in the Southern Jurisdiction has established a " Court of Honour " from which alone

Honorary Sov . Grand Inspectors Geneval are to be selected . From some consideration which I have given to it , I am of the opinion that the creation of such a body would relieve us from embarassment in the selection of Honorary Members of tbe Supreme Council , and would create an interest among our sublime Princes to devote themselves more actively to the interests of the Rite . I have been furnished with a copy of the Statute . © f . tbe Southern Supreme Council by which their Court of Honour is created .

Masonic Jottings.—No. 59.

MASONIC JOTTINGS . —No . 59 .

BY A PAST PROVINCIAL GRAND MASTER . THREE PERIODS . There are periods which , a learned brother thinks , may he considered as periods , either of the institution , or the revival , of our English Freemasonry :

the 16 th century , the middle of the 17 fch century , and the beginning of the 18 th century . My brother ascribes its institution , or revival , in the 16 th century , to the Germans : iu the middle of the 17 th century , to Ashmole ; and in the

beginning of the 18 th century , to Payne , Desaguliers , and Anderson . . GEORGE I , ASCENDS THE THRONE , 11 U . —MINDS ¦ OP ALL CREEDS ACCEPTED . BRETHREN . A correspondent writes , that as early as the year 1714 accepted Masons , for the most part ,

devoted to their peculiar Speculative Science , but some devoted to Rosicrucianism , some to Theos-° p k y . and some to Alchemy , began those measures which somo years later produced the Revival .

My correspondent at first refers to Bro . Findel ' s History generally , but he afterwards cites a passage verbatim . This passage has by mistake been incorporated with the note to the jotting " Ascension of George

I , Freemasonry . " o-nie page 104 . It well deserves the reader ' s attention . THE LONDON MASONS' COMPANY . A correspondent likens the old London Masons' Company to a lodge with a Royal Charter .

THE ORIGINAL YORK MASONS . " To be ranked as descendants of the original York Masons was the glory and boast of the brethren in almost every country where Masonry had been regularly established . "—Preston . ALLEGED COSMOPOLITANISM AND UNIVERSALITY

OE OCR MASONRY . In the provinces , on the occasion of the Annual Festival , Grand Lodge walks in procession to a Christian Church , joins in Christian Prayers , hears a Christian Sermon , and thanks a Christian Clergyman who has preached it . A Metropolitan

brother inquires how these proceedings can be shown to accord with the alleged Cosmopolitanism and Universality of our Masonry ? * THE TEST OE TRUE EREEMASONRY . The test of true Ereemasonry is the belief in its

Religion of the existence of the Great Architect of the Universe , a Future State of Reward and Punishment , and the Moral obligation . Old M . S .

THE FOUR LOSBOS LODGES , A . D . 1717 . A correspondent will find that the words of the jotting , "Freemasons Magazine , " vol . 22 , page 205 are correct . —Bro . Findel has written '' Lodges of Operative and Accepted Masons . " TWO FREEMASONRIES SUBSTANTIALLY THE SAME .

See the jotting " Our present system of Freemasonry , " ante , page 87 , where it is said that the Revival Freemasonry can be easily traced to the four old London Lodges—what is meant is , that the Revival Freemasonry comes from the

Freemasonry of the four old London Lodges—that the two Freemasonries , the Revival Freemasonry and the Freemasonry of the four old London Lodges , the ante-R . evival Freemasonry , are substantially the same .