Masonic Sayings And Doings Abroad.

they who had been mistaken for prisoners under guard when they went in , walked out through the place without even a gendarme . " The reason for all this is the most extraordinary part . Whitwell , it appears , is a Freemason , and

remembering that many of the Imperialists Avere said to be the same , he gave the Colonel a sign . The first time , he showed some slight mark of attention , but the second time the result wae as I have described . Let those doubt it who may . Although I was not in the secret , I have myself no further doubt , of the extraordinary powers of Freemasonry . ''

Masonic Jottings.—No. 47.

MASONIC JOTTINGS . —No . 47 .

BY A . P ± VST PROVINCIAL GBAKD MASTER ,. LAMA IS Af . See Jotting , " Some Freemasonries which are not true Freemasonries , " page 387 of the present

volume . An Entered Apprentice may easily satisf y himself that the Freemasonry of which Lamaism is the Eeli gion , is not a true Freemasonry . According to my note , " Lamaism is Buddhism corrupted by Sivaism , and by Shamaism . " As to Buddhism ,

it has often been mentioned in this periodical that it is Atheistical . As to Sivaism and Shamaism , my young brother may consult a good recentl y published encyclopedia .

THE UNITr OF MASONRY . Brother E . G . M ., examine all the true Masonries , and you will find in them one common princip le . This princi ple may be said to constitute the Unity of Masonry . DIVINE MISSION 01 ? JESUS—DIVINITY OE JESUS .

Believers in the divine mission of Jesus are not necessarily believers in the divinity of Jesus . But both are admissible into Freemasonry , both being believers in The Great Architect of the Universe and in a future state of reward , and punishment .

CERTAIN SCOTCH MASONRY . In certain Scotch Masonry little regard seems to be had to our theory of universality . —PAPEES OF A DECEASED BKOTHISK . . TRUE FREEMASONRY . Every Freemasonry which has for its Eeligion

one of the four positive Reli gions is a true Freemasonry . EXPULSION . The renunciation of Christianity by the member of a Lodge , the Eeli gion of Avhich is Christianity exclusively , is a just cause of expulsion .

Masonic Jottings.—No. 47.

VARIOUS VARIETIES . A correspondent will find the communication respecting which he enquires , and there called " Various Varieties of Freemasonry , " page , 231 of the present volume . RELIGION AND MASONRY .

A devout brother writes that he places his Eeli gion next his heart , and his Masonry in close juxtaposition . AN OLD MASON'S WISH . " May I govern my passions with absolute sway , And grow wiser and better as life wears aAvay . " *

Masonic Notes And Queries.

MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .

BRO . HUGHAN'S PRAYERS OE THE CRAFT . In Bro . Hughan's Prayers of the Craft , "Freemason ' s Magazine , " vol . 20 ., page 147 , after a remark upon one of the prayers , that it was eviddutly unsuitable to be used at the initiation of any candidates , other than believers in Christianity , comes

thefollowing passages : — " It seems probable that few else entered our Lodge , anterior to the present century , when the Institution was made thoroughly cosmopolitan and universal . Although the ancient Charges breathe a pure spirit of unsectarian devotion , and are generally liberal yet the prayers of the Craft from

the Revival to the end of the 18 th century seem to have been mostly of a strong Christian tendency , and we think neither Jews or Mahommedans could consistently have taken part in the- proceedings , because contrary to their belief . " It would be difficult to find anything that has

taken place in the present century , that has made our Freemasonry more " cosmopolitan and universal " than it has been ever since the middle of the 18 th century . —CHAKIIES PUETON COOPEB .

A CERTAIN CONTRIBUTOR , No . 2 . Tbe ensuing is taken from No . 2 , of the papers received bymefrom Oxford . ViTUPEBATiVE EPITHETS An undergraduate , who glories in having just become a Fe'lotv-Craft , aud is a constant reader of tbe "Freemason ' s Magazine , " says , expect not from certain Contributors facts and arguments . Some are

possibly floating in his brains ; but chance and not treason brought them there ; and he has not the wit for their fit application . He has however an armoury peculiar to himself , consisting o" weapons all of the same kind , and these be uses unsparingly . He throws at the heads of obnoxious brethrenhis

, opponents , a whole dictionary of vituperative epithets , —of epithets , the mere recc'lection of which makes a sensitive Craft mind—a mind not hardened like that of a University roan by the Stoic Philosophy , shrink back upon itself vsith instinctive horror . * * * It may be mentioned tt > at the undergraduate who

is a Feilrnv Craft -differing with aa Undergraduate who is an Entered Apprentice upon what is strangely called a point of metaphysical science , fcaiuks it no psychological phenomenon that where the wise man employs ratiocooat'on , the fool-sb man should resort to scurrilodsness . Be thinks it part o" the foolish man ' s folly . —A PAST PROVINCIAL GEAND MASTEB .