The Nemesis: A Tale Of The Days Of Trajan.

The roof fell in , and the sinned against and the sinning were buried in the blazing ruins . ( To be continued . ) I Tho Author reserves tbe right o £ reproduotion ' and translation . " )

Masonic Notes And Queries.

MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .

INCIPIENT EBEEMASONEY . Brother * * * . Freemasonry may he called incipient us regards aspiration , or as regards knowledge , or as regards practice . It was the Ereemasonry incipient as regards practice , that was spoken of on the occasion to which you allude ; such Freemasonry is a mere

tendency—that is to say , it is a tendency to the worship of the Great Architect of the Universe , and to the observance of the Moral Law , in order hy such observance to merit a happy immortality . This tendency it behoves the Freemason to use his pioua endeavours to promote . —C . P . COOPEE .

MX EEEEMASONBY . A learned foreign brother asks what is my Freemasonry ? It is the Freemasonry of the Grand Lodge of England , the Freemasonry of Christianity and of Natural Religion , the Freemasonry of the human race . Unlike the Ereemasonry of brother ' s

my country , it tolerates not Atheism ; it tolerates not Pantheism ; it tolerates no religion in which there is not a recognition of the Glorious Architect of Heaven and Earth , and a belief in the personal immortality of the soul . —C . P . COOPEE .

THE GEEAT AECHITECT OI THE TTNIVEESE . —SIE ISAAC NEWTON . Dear Brother * * * . Consider the ensuing words , and complain no more of your inability to understand . You have forgotten that there are things which man ¦ can never know . The words are those of Sir Isaac Newton : — " Ut ciecus ideam non habet colorum , sic nosideamnon hahemus modorum quibus Deus sapieniissimus sentit et intelliget omnia . "—C . P . COOPEE .

ANCIENT MYSTEEIES . Dear Brother * * * . You ask my advice as to the method to be adopted in your inquiry respecting the ancient mysteries in which Monotheism was taught . The method which I advise you to adopt is this : — Collect all the passages of the Greek aud Roman authors on the subject . Some exist only as citations

iu the works of early Fathers of the Church . Then examine the commentaries and the treatises of the German writers . I mention the German writers because you are familiar with their language ; and because they have , as I believe , gone more elaborately and minutely into the matter than either the Erench writers or the English writers . —C . P . "COOPEE .

DEO . DE . HOPKINS AND THE EIGHTS OE VISITOES . I disagree with my friends Bros . Hopkins and Hughan , with reference to the right of a lodge to exclude visiting brethren during the reading of the minutes . The minutes are , as stated by Bro . Leigh , private property , essentially the private property ofthe lodge , and matters may be contained in them , and discussions may arise upon their terms , which it would be undesirable to have known to brethren unconnected

Masonic Notes And Queries.

with the particular lodge . The right of brethren to visit , extends only to such periods when business of a public character , such as the conferring of degrees , banquets , funeral lodges , and the like , is in progress . No brother , properly qualified , can then be refused admittance , but I humbly submit it would be very

questionable taste for a brother to insist ( he may by favour be allowed to remain ) upon being present at the reading of the minutes , passing of accounts , or the transaction of other private and personal lodge matters . " We recognise this in Scotland , and on monthly meetings , when the minutes are generally

read , no brother visiting would think of claiming admittance till all private business was discussed and ended for the time . A little consideration of the distinctive private , for private assuredly they are , nature of the minutes , will show our Bros . Hopkins and Hughanthat the Loyalty Lodge

, , Guernsey , on the occasion referred to , exercised a proper right of exclusion . I have looked at the admirable work of Bro . Mackey on Masonic Jurisprudence , as to the question , but while entering fully upon the rights of visiting brethren , he has not touched on this . A reference to his work will show that some

lodges in Maryland , California , and a few other States do not even acknowledge the rir / M of visitation , aud view it only as a favour . Maryland says , " Each lodge is a family by itself , separate and distinct from all the rest of the world , and has an unquestionable right to say who shall not be their associates . Page 205 , second edition , 1859 . —A . O . HATE .

MASONIC MEDAI . I have a copper aud bronze medal or coin , smaller than a halfpenny , which bears on one side two triangles interlaced , and in the outer angle a dot , forming three dots . On the other side is some kind of symbol or writingnot English or Latin . "What

, Masonic event does this commemorate or illustrate , and what do the three dots mean ? Three dots are , I believe , employed by French Masons as an abbreviation . I have also heard that five dots are employed in some degrees . —R . W . J .

THE DOUBLE TEIANGLE . Has it been remarked or recorded that the double triangle affords by ita intersecting , several Greek capital letters , viz .: —A A I A 2 X . A occurs six times . A six times , and so of each of the letters .

The letters make XIAIA " thousands , " leaving then A & 2 . There are six triangles and six letters , one of each of which might be put in each outer triangle in alphabetical order . Can any of your correspondents tell me what

meanings and numerical values can be got from these symbols ? It will not read with Latin symbols . It yields Aivxz . There may be some mystic meaning , Masonic or cabalistic . —R . "W . J .

GEAND WAEDENS . Of what lodge under the English Constitution has Bro . Lord Eliot , 11 . P ., recently appointed Senior Grand Warden , been Master ? If the Grand Master and his advisers were not known to be too strictly constitutional to commit such an error , it might be inferred from vour notice last week of the New