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Monita Secreta Societas Jesu.

towards rendering favourable to our cause princes , noblemen , and magistrates of every locality , to such extent that , whenever the occasion offers , they may strenuously and faithfully take our part agaiust those of their own blood , their kindred , and their friends .

CHAPTER III . How the Society is to manage those v ; lw are possessed of high authority in a commonweaWi , and It-oie they may be made useful , even if they are not rich . 1 . Besides that which has beeu said heretofore , and all of which may be applied , in a certain measure , to this class of personstheir special goodwill is to be enlisted

, also iu opposition to our adversaries . 2 . Their authority , sagacity , and advice should also be made useful , with a vieAv to facilitate the acquisition by the Society of real estate and various endoAvments ( munerum ) , and under tho shield of their name our temporal possessions should be silently and in secret increased , provided sufficient reliance may be placed in

them . 3 . They should also be employed to appease and keep doAvn inferior people and the masses that are inimical to our Society . 4 . Of bishops , prelates , and other ecclesiastics of distinction , such things as may be thought profitable are to be askedand various reasons alleged to that effect

, , according to the favour or disfavour with which they eye us . 5 . In some countries it would be sufficient to induce prelates and clergymen to influence in our favour those who are under their authority , and forbear from opposing our ministrations ; but in countries in which they are more powerfulas in GermanyPoland & cthe very

, , , , greatest veneration should be paid to them ( sacro sancte colendi ) , to enable us , through the agency of their authority and that of princes , to get hold of monasteries , parishes , priories , patronages , charitable institutions , and pious foundations ; and Ave shall easily succeed in such endeavours in districts Avhere the Catholics are

mixed up with an heretical or schismatical population . By such means the prelates should be convinced that , from these changes , immense utility and benefit may be derived , which could never be expected if priests , whether secular or non-secular , were invested with tho same offices ; and if they comply with our desires , high encomium should be paid to their zeal in public , and

even in writing , and the remembrance of their actions perpetuated . 6 . Such prelates should be induced to employ members of our Order as much as possible as confessors aud councillors ; and if they are desirous , or in hope of preferment or promotion to higher degrees , all our influence Avith the See of Rome , aud all efforts of our friends

should be employed to aid them , in the attainment of their object . 7 . Our associates should also avail themselves of their influence Avith bishops and princes , Avhenever now colleges or parochial churches are founded , to procure for the Society the power of appointing a vicar , to have spiritual authority over tho flock , and the resident

" superior" for the time being should himself be appointed incumbent , so that AVO obtain a complete sway over the management of the church , that all parishioners be exclusively subject to us , and AVO may bo able to do anything Ave like with them ( quidvis ah Mis impetretur ) . 8 . Wherever the members of academies are antagonistic to us , or citizens , Avhether Catholics or heretics ,

oppose our foundations , it should be contrived , through tho agency of the prelates , that the chief pulpits in churches be occupied by members of our Order ; and thus tho Society be enabled to set forth , at feast occasionally , its wants and requirements . 9 . But the greatest efforts should be exercised on the prelates of the Church , Avhenever the beatification or canonisation of one of ours is at stake ; and in such cases

Monita Secreta Societas Jesu.

recommendations advocating and promoting our causa Avith the Apostolic See should bo procured from noblemen and princes through all available means . 10 . Whenever it happens that prelates or chief magistrates appoint any embassy , great efforts should be made to prevent members of other religious orders th-ib compete Avith us being employed , for they might transfer

their affection to the latter , and these bo introduced into provinces or cities in Avhich members of our Order are resident . If ambassadors thus appointed by our influence pass through those provinces or cities iu Avhich tho Society has branches , they are to be received Avith great honour and distinction , and entertained in such manner as religious modesty may permit . ( To be continued . )

Mission Of Freemasonry.

MISSION OF FREEMASONRY .

Perhaps a chief mission of Freemasonry in the present age is to keep alive the truth that man lives not by bread alone ; to prevent the vast mechanical achievements of the age seducing us into mechanical life ; to teach our Avealthy

youngmen that they are not honoured by ignoring their famil y history , and painting a coat of arms to cover up the leather aprons of their grandfathers ; and to declare that the mechanic in profession should be not a mere machine in soul , not working

exclusively in a dead system , but always the architect of a living ideal ; Freemasonry is almost alone as an effective agent here . Christianit y teaches this , and many Christians also . But the Church organisations , under the desire of

successful competition , pleasing the rich aud the influential , making distinctions in the house of God , and falling in with the spirit of the age instead of controlling and directing it , are fearfull y at fault towards the poor and the humble .

They must lose their hold of the poor , or they must cease their pati * onising charities , and full y acknowledge the brotherhood in Christ of the outcast and the despised . This mechanical

progress will prove our rum if separated from that which secures equal moral and spiritual progress . Moral earnestness and Christian charit y must keep pace with mechanical improvement . HOAV boldly does Freemasonry proclaim man to

be separate from , and superior to , machinery , whether of peace or of Avar . Upon the practical recognition of this truth depends just action between capitalists and labourers , between officers and soldiers . No man is adapted to use

well the talent of capital , Avho does not realise divinit y in the humblest humanity , that man is greater than any achievement of mechanism and any interest of capital . War tends to degrade the

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RECOLLECTIONS OF THE LODGE OF FREEMASONS AT THORNHILL. Article 1
THE DOCTRINES OF JESUITISM. Article 3
MONITA SECRETA SOCIETAS JESU. Article 4
MISSION OF FREEMASONRY. Article 5
Untitled Article 6
MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES. Article 10
CORRESPONDENCE. Article 10
THE GLAMORGAN LODGE. Article 11
Untitled Article 11
THE MASONIC MIRROR. Article 12
ROYAL FREEMASONS' SCHOOL FOR FEMALE CHILDREN. Article 12
MASONIC MEM. Article 12
METROPOLITAN. Article 12
PROVINCIAL. Article 12
MARK MASONRY. Article 14
ROYAL ARCH. Article 14
ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED RITE. Article 15
Obituary. Article 15
V.W. BRO. WILLIAM HENRY WHITE, P.G. SECRETARY. Article 15
Untitled Article 15
In Memoriam. Article 16
REVIEWS. Article 16
NOTES ON LITERATURE, SCIENCE, MUSIC, DRAMA, AND THE FINE ARTS. Article 16
MEETINGS OF THE SCIENTIFIC AND LEARNED SOCIETIES FOR THE WEEK ENDING APRIL 21ST, 1866. Article 17
THE WEEK. Article 17
TO CORRESPONDENTS. Article 20
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Monita Secreta Societas Jesu.

towards rendering favourable to our cause princes , noblemen , and magistrates of every locality , to such extent that , whenever the occasion offers , they may strenuously and faithfully take our part agaiust those of their own blood , their kindred , and their friends .

CHAPTER III . How the Society is to manage those v ; lw are possessed of high authority in a commonweaWi , and It-oie they may be made useful , even if they are not rich . 1 . Besides that which has beeu said heretofore , and all of which may be applied , in a certain measure , to this class of personstheir special goodwill is to be enlisted

, also iu opposition to our adversaries . 2 . Their authority , sagacity , and advice should also be made useful , with a vieAv to facilitate the acquisition by the Society of real estate and various endoAvments ( munerum ) , and under tho shield of their name our temporal possessions should be silently and in secret increased , provided sufficient reliance may be placed in

them . 3 . They should also be employed to appease and keep doAvn inferior people and the masses that are inimical to our Society . 4 . Of bishops , prelates , and other ecclesiastics of distinction , such things as may be thought profitable are to be askedand various reasons alleged to that effect

, , according to the favour or disfavour with which they eye us . 5 . In some countries it would be sufficient to induce prelates and clergymen to influence in our favour those who are under their authority , and forbear from opposing our ministrations ; but in countries in which they are more powerfulas in GermanyPoland & cthe very

, , , , greatest veneration should be paid to them ( sacro sancte colendi ) , to enable us , through the agency of their authority and that of princes , to get hold of monasteries , parishes , priories , patronages , charitable institutions , and pious foundations ; and Ave shall easily succeed in such endeavours in districts Avhere the Catholics are

mixed up with an heretical or schismatical population . By such means the prelates should be convinced that , from these changes , immense utility and benefit may be derived , which could never be expected if priests , whether secular or non-secular , were invested with tho same offices ; and if they comply with our desires , high encomium should be paid to their zeal in public , and

even in writing , and the remembrance of their actions perpetuated . 6 . Such prelates should be induced to employ members of our Order as much as possible as confessors aud councillors ; and if they are desirous , or in hope of preferment or promotion to higher degrees , all our influence Avith the See of Rome , aud all efforts of our friends

should be employed to aid them , in the attainment of their object . 7 . Our associates should also avail themselves of their influence Avith bishops and princes , Avhenever now colleges or parochial churches are founded , to procure for the Society the power of appointing a vicar , to have spiritual authority over tho flock , and the resident

" superior" for the time being should himself be appointed incumbent , so that AVO obtain a complete sway over the management of the church , that all parishioners be exclusively subject to us , and AVO may bo able to do anything Ave like with them ( quidvis ah Mis impetretur ) . 8 . Wherever the members of academies are antagonistic to us , or citizens , Avhether Catholics or heretics ,

oppose our foundations , it should be contrived , through tho agency of the prelates , that the chief pulpits in churches be occupied by members of our Order ; and thus tho Society be enabled to set forth , at feast occasionally , its wants and requirements . 9 . But the greatest efforts should be exercised on the prelates of the Church , Avhenever the beatification or canonisation of one of ours is at stake ; and in such cases

Monita Secreta Societas Jesu.

recommendations advocating and promoting our causa Avith the Apostolic See should bo procured from noblemen and princes through all available means . 10 . Whenever it happens that prelates or chief magistrates appoint any embassy , great efforts should be made to prevent members of other religious orders th-ib compete Avith us being employed , for they might transfer

their affection to the latter , and these bo introduced into provinces or cities in Avhich members of our Order are resident . If ambassadors thus appointed by our influence pass through those provinces or cities iu Avhich tho Society has branches , they are to be received Avith great honour and distinction , and entertained in such manner as religious modesty may permit . ( To be continued . )

Mission Of Freemasonry.

MISSION OF FREEMASONRY .

Perhaps a chief mission of Freemasonry in the present age is to keep alive the truth that man lives not by bread alone ; to prevent the vast mechanical achievements of the age seducing us into mechanical life ; to teach our Avealthy

youngmen that they are not honoured by ignoring their famil y history , and painting a coat of arms to cover up the leather aprons of their grandfathers ; and to declare that the mechanic in profession should be not a mere machine in soul , not working

exclusively in a dead system , but always the architect of a living ideal ; Freemasonry is almost alone as an effective agent here . Christianit y teaches this , and many Christians also . But the Church organisations , under the desire of

successful competition , pleasing the rich aud the influential , making distinctions in the house of God , and falling in with the spirit of the age instead of controlling and directing it , are fearfull y at fault towards the poor and the humble .

They must lose their hold of the poor , or they must cease their pati * onising charities , and full y acknowledge the brotherhood in Christ of the outcast and the despised . This mechanical

progress will prove our rum if separated from that which secures equal moral and spiritual progress . Moral earnestness and Christian charit y must keep pace with mechanical improvement . HOAV boldly does Freemasonry proclaim man to

be separate from , and superior to , machinery , whether of peace or of Avar . Upon the practical recognition of this truth depends just action between capitalists and labourers , between officers and soldiers . No man is adapted to use

well the talent of capital , Avho does not realise divinit y in the humblest humanity , that man is greater than any achievement of mechanism and any interest of capital . War tends to degrade the

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