A Step In The Right Direction.

be accompanied with an addendum to the effect , that in the future , connection Avith such "degrees , " " orders , " or " rites , " as the Grand Lodge does not see fit to recognize , and which claim to have any connection with Masonry , shall be prohibited ,

under pain of expulsion , to every brother under the jurisdiction of the United Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of England and Wales . We must again also call attention to the fact ,

that it is against thelw of the land to hold meetings of secret societies hy any but lodges under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of England , and that these pretended Masonic Rites and Orders are simply using that pretended

connection with Masonry as a cloak to cover their lawless proceedings . Masons have ever been amongst the most loyal subjects of the realm , and the strictest observers of the law , and the disastrous effects of similar conduct , on the continent , should

deter all Freemasons , true to their obligation , from risking their immunity , from restraint in a similar manner .

Provincial Grand Lodge Of Sussex.

PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE OF SUSSEX .

We learn , by accident , and not through the courtesy ofthe Provincial Grand Secretary , that the Provincial Grand Lodge of Sussex is to be holden on Tuesday next , at Brighton , and Ave learned at the same time , and through the

same channel , that Lord Pelham will not be present at the Provincial Grand Lodge . Now , if this be true , Ave call the attention of the members of his Lordship ' s province to a time having been fixed for the holding of

Provincial Grand Lodge , when his Lordship may be presumed to know he could not he present . We ask , why gratuitously inflict an insult upon that section of our Order under his Lordship's rule and governorship ? It may , in

fact , be likened to the fixing of the time by the host , of a visit of a number of brethren to a feast , at a time to meet the host when he knows he will not be present to receive his invited guests ; and so he

leaves them to the care of his butler ( and , perhaps , game-keeper ) . We have great personal respect for the estimable Provincial Grand Secretary of Sussex ; and if we knew the Deputy Provincial

Provincial Grand Lodge Of Sussex.

Grand Master , no doubt we might esteem him as highly ; but the Masonic worth or excellence ot both these brethren added together , do nob compensate for what is nothing less than sheer thoughtlessness , or want of consideration , or ir

not , a gross insult offered to the members of the Province by their Provincial Grand Master . Even the Provincial Grand Master of Sussex cannot afford to so far forget himself and what is due to others on such occasions as to commit such

an act ; and we now call attention thus pointedly to the subject , that otherProvincial Grand Masters may not commit the same grave blunder .

Antiquity Of The Craft.

ANTIQUITY OF THE CRAFT .

BY BEO CHAELES LEVI WOODBURY . ( Continued from page 204 ) . Some profane writers , in the zeal of an

anti-masonic crusade , have asserted that the origin of the Eosicrucian societies is to be traced to this book . They know but little of the philosophy of those times . Kabbalistic teachings have been spreading for centuries with increasing favour among the

learned . Jacob Behmen , in his wonderful works , had accommonatedProtestantism to its metaphysics" . Masses of scientific , alchemic , and medical works had been written under its inspiration * geomancy , and judicial astrology professed accord with its

principles . There was nothing for Andrea to invent . His " Temple of the Holy Ghost" was borrowed bodily from Bellmen's treatise of the original of sin . ( See Part 1 , chap . 22 , 53 . ) " Thus the children of God are the Temple of

the Holy Ghost . " No "Scientist" of that day believed that the arcana of nature could be unveiled to the enquirer without the aid of prayer and faith , —at least none before Da Vinci said

so . How absurd , then , to suppose that the initiation and secret society of the initiates expressly taught in the ancient books of the Kabbala , should be wanting in practice till Valentine Andrea came

in 1610 with the thaumaturgic story of one Bosenkreutz , dead for a hundred and twenty years , with his body uncorrupted still lying in the Temple of the Holy Ghost he had erected as the dwelling place of his eight secret associates , and now first dis-