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Grand Lodge , know only a few fragments of such history , and even such fragments very inaccurately . It is a well known fact , thafc thafc which to the common mind would be considered as mere waste , in the eyes of the antiquarian or artist would be

worth years of study , in so much as from a mere fragment the antiquarian can construct a whole figure . The only judge whom we will acknowledge as competent to decide on the merits of our Grand

Lodge is one who is thoroughly acquainted wifch its history and doctrines . I like , however , to place the matter in question in such a light , that those not directly connected with this Grand Lodge of Prussia , shall be enabled to form a correct

judgment in the premises . And therewith connected I call attention to the following . The historical documents of fche Grand Lodge say distinctly and clearly , thafc the origin and development of this system is very different from others .

They teach thafc our Grand Body received , fco be sure , the same knowledge as other Freemasons ; but by another way , through an other medium , and that therefore our organisation has preserved it in the form handed down to us by our history .

Such differences cannot at , the present day , be reasons for disunion or separation . It is true , the old regulations and historical documents of this Grand Lodge prescribe thafc its histony shall be kept totally secret , and shall only be

communicated to the oldest and most trustworthy and approved members . In consequence , a demand has been created , which the pasfc century could comply with but incompletely , and which every moment

renders more difficult to meet . Why nofc make a distinction in the nature of such a matter , and separate thafc history which is in close connection with the symbolic acts and mysteries of the several degress of the system , from the history of

the origin and development of this Grand Lodge . Our Grand Lodge ought to promulgate its history that ifc may be investigated by every member of the Craft .

By so doing we would know thafc the history of our Grand Lodge ( which could nofc totally prohibited from other Freemasons ) had come to us from true sources , and that it had not been published as incomplete and spurious . False judgment would' nofc be sustained , and propagated

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amongst other Grand Bodies , and the brethren of our own jurisdiction would nofc be dubious aboufc our origin . It is nofc my intention to question the judgment of our predecessors by this desire for

change ; on the contrary , I offer , with you , our thankful devotion to the names of our deceased brethren , who obtained with pain and sacrifice these documents , and guarded and delivered them tous through a whole century , with piety , often in distress and sorrow , often even without the reward of a full acknowledgment .

But their motives to keep and confine the secret do not oblige us , under other circumstances , to bind ourselves to au equally close and narrow course , if we consider that the history of the origin of our doctrine and system is no more

a secret one , and cannot ; be so , because thafc history has bpen often published in print , although , unfortunately , in an incomplete or partially correct form . I therefore do nofc hesitate to break fco-day at

our cenfcenial anniversary , the limits and frames of this secret history , and to lay open before the Masons a historical document , kept so far as a secret one . ( To be Continued . " )

The Eye That Seeth In Secret.

THE EYE THAT SEETH IN SECRET .

There is an eye from which nothing is concealed . Which peers into the " hidden things of darkness" with the perspicuity of noonday , and sees with the unerring certainty of light , every secret thought . Nofc only fche tangible objects of .. the

outer world , but which are subject to physical forces and visible to the natural eye , and are made apparent by the light of tbe natural sun ; but even tbe secret things of the unseen world . To its microscopic power , nofc only are the latent wonders

of science revealed , but even our very thoughts stand out ; in bold relief . Our most selfish and secret plans and ideas for present gain and future emolument , are photographed upon its retina , wifch a distinctness and certainty that is indelible . All

our machinations of evil and our contrivances for good are alike open to that sight , to which darkness is an obscurity . It is the want of a proper recognition of this great truth that gives a kind of immunity to crime .