Masonic Jottings.—No. 40.

MASONIC JOTTINGS . —No . 40 .

BY A PAST PROVINCIAL GEAND MASTER . SYMBOLIZATION . The old Stonemasons of Germany are said , by writers of that country , to be themselves the inventors of the symbolization of their art .

TOWER OP BABEL . The assertion that a Tower of Babel was built four thousand years ago , is equivalent to an assertion that there then was a lodge , and that there then was Masonry .

THE OLD LECTURES . All the doubts of a Member of Grand Lodge will be removed , if he will only read the portions of ihe old lectures cited by our Bro . H . B . White , in the communication " Freemasonry and Christianity , " Freemasons' Magazine , vol . xvi , page 444 , and vol . xviii ., pages 22 and 23 .

PROBABILITY . On examination it will be found that the only ground of our belief in numerous historical facts , is probability . PHILOSOPHY OP THE TYRIANS .

Brother G . M . P . —In this philosophy you will find nothing that throws light upon , our Freemasonry . You may look at the article " Philosophic chez les Tyriens , " in the " Dictionnaire des Sciences Pbilosophiques , " It is by Monsieur Renan .

TYRIANS , —CORRECTION . In the Jotting "Evidence , " page 168 of the present volume , for " Syrians" read " Tyrians . " TOLERATION . A learned brother thinks that , in practice , there

was toleration in our Freemasonry as early as 1717 , although it was inconsistent with our constitutions until 1738 .

TIME IMMEMORIAL . A Time Immemorial Institution is an institution , the beginning of which , like that of Masonry , is unknown . HERDER .

This illustrious German thinker was a Freemason . Of his great work "Ideas towards the Philosophy of the History of Mankind , " it is said that in it all the rays of his genius converge . "His aim is to represent the entire history of the race

as a series of events pointing to a higher destiny than has yet been revealed . His love and reverence for- humanity are intense , pure , and passionate .

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An ideal humanity , it might almost be said , is his divinity , in whose service he labours with restless zeal . " Herder was Secretary of a Lodge , and on the death ofthe Master , delivered the funeral discourse . He wrote some short Masonic Treatises .

RIND , —PULP . Masonry is a fruit . There is the rind , and there is the pulp .

Masonic Notes And Queries.

MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .

THE JEW , PAESEE AND MAHOMMEDAN MASON , IN THE LODGE 02 ? A CHBISTIAN MASOKRY , BY T 01 EEATI 0 N BECOME A TJNIVEBSAL MASONET . The communications made by me to the " Freemasons' Magazine , " of which a list is appended , if considered with the attention that the subject requires

, will be found to answer all the questions contained in a paper thus entitled , that a member of Grand Lodge has sent to a distinguished brother . The questions are not here set forth , as they are sufficiently manifest from the communications . Communications : — " Religion of English

Freemasonry , " "Freemasons' Magazine , " vol . 13 , page 349 . "Religion of Freemasonry as a Universal Institution , " 1 hid , page 391 . " Great Architect of the Universe , Natural Theology , " Ibid , vol . 14 , page 6 . ' ¦ Freemasonry as a "World-wide Association , Ibid , page , 69 . " The Lodge in English Freemasonry , " Ibid ; page S 9 . ' " Toleration in

Freemasonry , Ibid , page 466 . " True Freemasonry , " Ibid , vol . 15 , page 51 . Natural Religion , Freemasonry , ' ' Ibid , page 130 . " The intolerance which would be incompatible with true Freemasonry , " Ibid , page 433 . " Of what the true Freemason is the Depository , " Ibid , page 470 . "Divers positive Religions in Lodge" Ibidvol . xvi . 208 . " Toleration and true

, , , page Freemasonry , " Ibid , page 350 . " Positive Religions and our Freemasonry , " Ibid . Christian , Jewish , Parsee , and Mahommedan Freemasonry , " Ibid , page 42 G . ( In this communication for "its signification " read "its correct signification . " ) "Universality , " Ibid , vol . 17 49 . " Mahommedan Lodge and

, page Christian Brother , " Ibid , page 230 . "Natural Religion in and out of Lodge , " Ibid . " Reciprocity , " Ibid , page 269 . " Christian , Jewish , Parsee , and Mahommedan Freemasonry . " Ibid , vol . 19 , page 148 . " The true Freemasonry A true Freemasonry , " Ibid , page 169 . —CIIAELES PUETON COOSEE .

ORIGIN 03 ? THE MASONIC BODY . " There are ample reasons in favour of the assumption that the organization of the so-called Masonic Body owes its origin to the age when social gatherings increased in importance , when greater mutuality increased amongst men , and a lively desire of promoting the welfare of the human species at

large became manifest in certain classes . Those men who considered as sacred the character of Divinity thought that they would not do greater honour to its name than by discharging their duty to the utmost