Masonic Notes And Queries.

DIFFERENT KINDS OF MASONRY . There are different kinds of Masonry ; there are Christian Masonry , Hebrew Masonry , Mahommedan Masonry and Parsee Masonry . Each of these , although without toleration is a true Masonry , but with toleration it is the true Masonry absolutely . — CHAELES PUETOK COOPEE .

THE NOVELTY . Brother , —The novelty is not in the theory propounded , but in the attempt to establish it hy mere assertion . In the pages of our excellent periodical for the last three years , you will find nothing coming from the source you mention that can be called fact , nothing that can be called argument . —A PAST PEOYrsciAL GRATO MASTEB ,

THE ABBE GRANDIDIER , A CONTRIBUTOR AND AN ENTERED APPRENTICE . An Entered Apprentice , not long ago , began to jot down in a note-book all the facts and arguments which he might meet with in a Contributor ' s communications to the " Freemasons' Magazine , " stated , and brought forward by way of confutation of the

Grandidier theory . My young correspondent having finished his task , has turned to his note-book , and finds , to his surprise , these words only : " The Abbe Q-randidier ' s Discovery is a mistake . " On one page of his notebook my young friend has placed those words * whilst on the opposite page he has placed the names of the German Masonic

Historians , Yogel , Albrecht , Eckert , Fallon , Fessler , Heldmann , Keller , Kloss , Krause , Lenning , Mossdorf , Sehauberg , Schroeder , and Seydel , with a memorandum that a contributor is perfectly satisfied with his achievements , and goes on his way shouting" lo Triumphe . " —A PAST PEOVIS - CIAL GEAND MASTEE .

LOGICALLY . An Entered Apprentice , who is an Oxford Undergraduate , thinks it may be shown logically that a contributor knows not what Christianity is , and that he knows not what English Freemasonry as a Particular Freemasonry is *—A PAST PBOVIK ' CIAL GEAKD MASTEE .

A CONTRIBUTOR . A Contributor has never seen English Freemasonry joined with Christianity . But English Freemasonry , as a Particular Freemasonry , exists not unless joined with Christianity . The conclusion is , that a contributor knows not what English Freemasonry as a Particular Freemasonry is . —A PAST PEOYIHCIAL GEAKD

MASTEB . FRENCH MASONRY . Our good brethren in France did not fail after the misfortunes ofthe Commune to denounce the celebrated fraternal interference with its glorious processions of Masonic banners & cas unauthorised bthe Grand

, , y Orient , and as got up by outsiders in defiance . In one sense we are glad ofthe protest , but we cannot conceal from our readers that the numbers of the Bulletin and Grand Orient renewed since the siege , contain the inaugural address ofthe G . M ., who , it

will be remembered , was elected as a political partisan , as an ultra republican . In this address the Masons of France are called openly to form their constitutions and practice on the principles of 1789 , and for the day when all Europe will be constituted as a democracy .- Every true Mason in England and the United States holds to the contrary princilethat

Map , sonry is not political , and that it is no more republican than it is royalist , no more royalist than it is republican . George "Washington was a Mason , as very many kings and shoemakers have been , but George Washington knew nothing of the principles of 1789 . The principles of freedom in Masonry were established on a sounder basis before France undertook to confer

freedom on other nations , which were also free while France was enslaved . The bombast about 1789 , is much out of place in Masonry . [ This paragraph was inadvertently inserted in last week's number contain ing several errors .

FREEMASONRY AND UNITARIANISM . The philosophy of Freemasonry , and the doctrines of Unitarianism proper have so many things in common that the two are almost identical . Both believe in God as the Great Architect of the Universe , while belief in the universal Fatherhood of God , and the universal brotherhood of man are necessary adjuncts .

Both aim at universality , and in their own spheres . —What is to hinder both from being universal ? I know of nothing unless it be faithlessness to the truth . —TV . P . BTJCHAX .

ENGLISH FREEMASONRY AS A CITY , ( P . 206 . ) Our Speculative Freemasonry may be likened to a large city , and in many of its streets we find some revival of , or allusion to , eertain ideas and speculations of the old Pagan philosophers . Many of these ideas are common to both Christianity and Pagan philosophy , and it is possible that the former got many of its ideas from the latter . An examination into earl y Christian art clearly proves this . —W . P . BUCHAIT . THE DESAGULIERS AND ANDERSON THEORY " ,

( P . 205 ) . Had it not been for the manufacture and institution of our speculative system hy Messrs . Desaguliers , Anderson , and other kindred spirits in 1717 , it is quite probable that instead of Freemasonry being as it now is , spread over the whole globe , it would simply occupy no greater place in the eye of the public than any other co-existing trade society . — " YV . P . BUCHAS ' .

ENGLISH MEDIEVAL FREEMASONRY , ( P . 205 ) . English Mediaeval Free-Masonrie was not Christianity , any more than were English Mediaeval Free-Carpentry , Free-Tailory , or Free-VCeavery . All were so far social , moral , and charitable institutions . Among them the popular , or legal ideas of the time anent Christianity generally prevailed . The four old

London lodges made use of in establishing or setting agoing the new speculative system were , until A . D . 1717 , on a par with the others . — "W . P . B . SPECULATIVE MASONRY AND STEAM SHIPPING . In 1771 the world was covered with ships , but where among them all did one steam-ship exist ? Now , however , in 1871 , we behold the waters everywhere churned by the wheels or screw of the passing