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The Pantomime : Harlequin Freemason.
CHOETO—In the Procession . Your cymbals tune , your voices raise , Sing the name And mighty fame Of Solomon in ever-living lays . He our Grand Master shall remain , While lofty pile , and holy fane , Vestige or monument of taste , Or glorious Masonry shall last .
EECIT . Lo , from amidst those sacred glades * - Where rest grand heroes , statesmen , kings , And other ancient Masons' shades , The ghost of Hiram Abiff springs . Chief of the Mason ' s noble art , While of a Master they make choice ,
iShall I not take an active part , And loudly join my Brethren's voice ! Fall , mystic figure—to our eyes , Present a motley child of mirth , Whose featly pranks shall all surprise , And give to vacant laughter birtb . Movekneel , stoop , standspringdanceleapran ,
, , , , , Now mark me , for the charm is done . AIE . In all your dealing take good care , Instructed by the friendly scraare , To be upright , true and fair , And thou a FelloAV Craft shalt be ; The level so must poise thy mind
, That satisfaction thou shall find , When to another Fortune's kind : And that's the drift of Masonry . The compass t' other two compounds , And says , though anger'd on just grounds , Keep all your passions within bounds , And thou a FelloAV Craft shalt he .
Thus , symbols of our Order , are The compass , level , and the square , Which teach ns to he just and fair , And that ' s the drift of Masonry .
BECIT . Use this , and this , in evil hour , And thou shalt wonder at their power Thou'lt see me yet , ere it be night , Begone , and revel in delight .
CATCH . —Laioyers . Lawyer Brief , why all this stir ? Upon my word , you wrong me , sir , I am not , as you say , a thief , In truth , you wrong me , Lawyer Brief
Who was it took a double fee ? Who trapp'd ? who put in a sham plea ? Who should be pillor'd ? Who's a thief ? Who should be liang'd ? Cheat , Lawyer Brief I Come , be friends , nor make this rout , Brother as Ave are to fall out ; Besides , thief should not cry out thief ; You understand me , Lawyer Brief .
Masonic Notes And Queries.
MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .
THE BIBLE AND ENGLISH EEEEMASONEY . A . Brother at Berlin , who Avrites a long and elaborate letter on this subject , has plainly never read our Masonic Charge at initiation into the Eirst Degree . It is now commonly bound up with the book of our "Constitutions of the Ancient Praternity of Pree and Accepted Masons , " published by the authority of Grand Lodge , and with which our Brother seems
tolerably familiar . He will find that this Masonic Charge affords the information he desires . In it there is the following passage . The "Worshipful Master speaks : — " As a Preemason let me recommend to your most serious contemplation the volume of the Sacred Law ; [ here the W . M . points to the Bible laced before him ] charging you to consider it
p open as the unerring standard of truth and justice , and to regulate your actions by the divine precepts it contains . Therein you will be taught the important duties you oAve to God , to your neighbour , and to yourself . "—CHABIES PUETOH' COOPER .
ME . EHEESOIT . The ensuing lines are extracted from a recent biographical notice of this distinguished American writer and philosopher : — " He appears to be what is called a Pantheist ; at least he rejects entirely that kind of Theism which separates God from nature , and which looks upon him as simply a living Spiritual
Personality . He will not recognise a God , Avho is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain ;" that "the God of Mr . Emerson and the God of Preemasonry are one and the same , " is a proposition which a correspondent at Manchester , whose letter reached me a few clays ago , will , I apprehend , find it utterly impossible to maintain . —CHAELES PT / BTOH " COOPEB .
THE ELEUSINIA . - I fully coincide with A in his opinion that it would be much in the interest of Masonry if the knoAvledge of the secret sciences of the ancients were cultivated to a greater extent . The passage quoted by ENQT / IEEB from Virgil ' s Aeneid * does not stand alone in the works of the Bard of Mantuato show at least
, that Virgil must have possessed some knoAvledge of the symbols that were represented in the Eleusinian and Tkesmophorian mysteries . The passages of the Georgics ( I ., 147-66 , passim , ) treat of Cere 3 as having first taught man to cultivate the soil : — Prima Ceres ferro mortales vertero terrain
Instituit : cum jam glandos atque arhuta sacra Deficerent sylva ? , et victum Dodona negaret . Georgicon I ., 147—149 . f And a few verses after this—Diceudum et quai sint duris agi-estibus arma , Queis sine nee potuere seri , nee surgere , messes : Vomis , et inflexi primum grave robur aratri , Tardaqiie Eleusinm matris valvmntia plaiistra Tribnlaqiie , trahaqiie , et iniquo pondere rastri . % —Iibid , 160—164
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The Pantomime : Harlequin Freemason.
CHOETO—In the Procession . Your cymbals tune , your voices raise , Sing the name And mighty fame Of Solomon in ever-living lays . He our Grand Master shall remain , While lofty pile , and holy fane , Vestige or monument of taste , Or glorious Masonry shall last .
EECIT . Lo , from amidst those sacred glades * - Where rest grand heroes , statesmen , kings , And other ancient Masons' shades , The ghost of Hiram Abiff springs . Chief of the Mason ' s noble art , While of a Master they make choice ,
iShall I not take an active part , And loudly join my Brethren's voice ! Fall , mystic figure—to our eyes , Present a motley child of mirth , Whose featly pranks shall all surprise , And give to vacant laughter birtb . Movekneel , stoop , standspringdanceleapran ,
, , , , , Now mark me , for the charm is done . AIE . In all your dealing take good care , Instructed by the friendly scraare , To be upright , true and fair , And thou a FelloAV Craft shalt be ; The level so must poise thy mind
, That satisfaction thou shall find , When to another Fortune's kind : And that's the drift of Masonry . The compass t' other two compounds , And says , though anger'd on just grounds , Keep all your passions within bounds , And thou a FelloAV Craft shalt he .
Thus , symbols of our Order , are The compass , level , and the square , Which teach ns to he just and fair , And that ' s the drift of Masonry .
BECIT . Use this , and this , in evil hour , And thou shalt wonder at their power Thou'lt see me yet , ere it be night , Begone , and revel in delight .
CATCH . —Laioyers . Lawyer Brief , why all this stir ? Upon my word , you wrong me , sir , I am not , as you say , a thief , In truth , you wrong me , Lawyer Brief
Who was it took a double fee ? Who trapp'd ? who put in a sham plea ? Who should be pillor'd ? Who's a thief ? Who should be liang'd ? Cheat , Lawyer Brief I Come , be friends , nor make this rout , Brother as Ave are to fall out ; Besides , thief should not cry out thief ; You understand me , Lawyer Brief .
Masonic Notes And Queries.
MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .
THE BIBLE AND ENGLISH EEEEMASONEY . A . Brother at Berlin , who Avrites a long and elaborate letter on this subject , has plainly never read our Masonic Charge at initiation into the Eirst Degree . It is now commonly bound up with the book of our "Constitutions of the Ancient Praternity of Pree and Accepted Masons , " published by the authority of Grand Lodge , and with which our Brother seems
tolerably familiar . He will find that this Masonic Charge affords the information he desires . In it there is the following passage . The "Worshipful Master speaks : — " As a Preemason let me recommend to your most serious contemplation the volume of the Sacred Law ; [ here the W . M . points to the Bible laced before him ] charging you to consider it
p open as the unerring standard of truth and justice , and to regulate your actions by the divine precepts it contains . Therein you will be taught the important duties you oAve to God , to your neighbour , and to yourself . "—CHABIES PUETOH' COOPER .
ME . EHEESOIT . The ensuing lines are extracted from a recent biographical notice of this distinguished American writer and philosopher : — " He appears to be what is called a Pantheist ; at least he rejects entirely that kind of Theism which separates God from nature , and which looks upon him as simply a living Spiritual
Personality . He will not recognise a God , Avho is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain ;" that "the God of Mr . Emerson and the God of Preemasonry are one and the same , " is a proposition which a correspondent at Manchester , whose letter reached me a few clays ago , will , I apprehend , find it utterly impossible to maintain . —CHAELES PT / BTOH " COOPEB .
THE ELEUSINIA . - I fully coincide with A in his opinion that it would be much in the interest of Masonry if the knoAvledge of the secret sciences of the ancients were cultivated to a greater extent . The passage quoted by ENQT / IEEB from Virgil ' s Aeneid * does not stand alone in the works of the Bard of Mantuato show at least
, that Virgil must have possessed some knoAvledge of the symbols that were represented in the Eleusinian and Tkesmophorian mysteries . The passages of the Georgics ( I ., 147-66 , passim , ) treat of Cere 3 as having first taught man to cultivate the soil : — Prima Ceres ferro mortales vertero terrain
Instituit : cum jam glandos atque arhuta sacra Deficerent sylva ? , et victum Dodona negaret . Georgicon I ., 147—149 . f And a few verses after this—Diceudum et quai sint duris agi-estibus arma , Queis sine nee potuere seri , nee surgere , messes : Vomis , et inflexi primum grave robur aratri , Tardaqiie Eleusinm matris valvmntia plaiistra Tribnlaqiie , trahaqiie , et iniquo pondere rastri . % —Iibid , 160—164