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in making the negro bodies regular , yet it would give them a pretence of regularity , so far as having a legal Masonic superior . We doubt whether any Grand Lodge in the world , except Hamburgh , would so far overlook the plainest principles of Masonic law as to recognise them . It seems that the German Lodges will , however , recognise the coloured ' lodges , ' provided they are just and perfect . If they hold to this position , they will not " recognise these bodies , because , as before stated , there is not a
just and perfect negro lodge in the United States , and hereafter never can be ; for no American Grand Lodge ever has granted a charter for a coloured lodge , and never will do so , on account of the relations sustained between the two races . " The following resolutions on this subject , reported by . th * - counnittee ou Foreign - Correspondence , were adopted by the Grand Lodge of New York :
" Resolved , That the course pursued and the views expressed by the R . W . F . A . Von Meusch , the able and faithful representee of the Grand Lodge of New York near that of Saxony , in relation to the illiberal and unmasonic policy of the Grand lodge of Hamburgh , for persisting in the violation of the jurisdictional rights of this Grand Lodge , and for seeking to create dissensions between the Grand Lodges of Europe and America , is warmly approved and commended , and the thanks
of this Grand Lodge are hereby tendered him therefore . " Resolved , That the committee on Foreign Correspondence be instructed to draw up a circular letter to the Grand Lodges and Grand Orients of Europe and America , respecting the unwarranted course pursued by the Grand Lodge of Hamburgh , in seeking to produce discord in this jurisdiction , and among the Grand Lodges of the would , and fraternally soliciting such -such action thereupon as the exigencies ot the case may
require ; and after its submission to and approval by the Grand Master , that it be then forwarded to such Grand Lodges and Grand Orients . "Resolved , That the Grand Lodge of New York regards with painful emotions the attempt being made by the Grand Lodge of Hamburgh herself to recognise and to induce the other Grand Lodges of Europe to recognise bodies of coloured men in the United States as Masonic Lodges and Grand Lod
ges , when it is a notorious fact that no legal organization of the kind exists in the American Union ; and that the adoption of auy measures tending to this end by any Grand Lodge whatever , must be regarded by this Grand Lodge as the evidence of a desire on the part of the body thus acting to cease all Masonic intercourse with the Grand Lodges of the United States , and their constituents . "
TIIE 0 . 0 . 0 . E . V . During my travels in the United States , about 184-8 , I remember having heard of a society known as above , which I believe meant the " Old Order of Eclamsis Vitae " also nicknamed b } - the uninitiated as the " Old Order of Evil Vagabonds . " Erom my rather indistinct recollections on the subjectbeing but a lad at the time
, , ¦ it appears to me to have been organized as a burlescpie upon Masonry , having ceremonies of initiation , pass words , signs , & c . I believe it extended over the whole of the United States . Can any of our A . merican brethren give further information upon the subject and oblige —A BiUTISlIEK .
WILLIAM DE LA ZSIORE . What was the fate of William de la More , the Grand Preceptor of the Temple , at the persecution ? There are ¦ at least two reports ; one that ho ended his days in the tower , and the other that he was remanded back to prison on the 3 rd of July , 1309 , and was afterwards imprisoned ui a mouasteiw the remainder of his life . There is great
Probabilit y of the latter , as the Archbishop of York , William de Grenesfield , provided for many of the Templars in the monasteries of York . —See As ' hmole ' s History ° f the Order of the Garter . —A
MAJ 0 E ,-GENERAL GEORGE B . MXL-ELLA'S A MASOX . « m ! ? Allowing is from the New York Evening Courier : — this brave and distinguished officer , who has not only " ) ' his devotion to the cause of the Union , but as com-Mander-iii-chief of its armies , earned unfading laurels , is a Free ancl Accepted Mason . He was initiated , passed , a « a raised iu Willamette Lodge , Oregon . "
CABALISTIC DEGEEE . The following figure may interest " Asst . Sojourner , "
who inquires , respecting the small triangles . It is taken from Allen ' s Model n Judaism , and was thus used by the Oabalists , who termed it " The shield of David . " The Hebrew
inscription Agla is composed of the initial letters of four Hebrew words , which may be rendered "Thou art strong for ever 0 Lord , " or " Thou art strong in the eternal God . "—A .
AXUIEXT AUTIIOGEAPIir— -TO HEAL . Mr . M . A . Lower , in an Article on Susses Archtnology says :- — "" Although our county was the scene of the Norman Conquest , and notwithstanding its proximity to the Gallic continent , it still retains , not only in its local momenclature , but in the physical character of its common people , many traces of those brave Teutons who , under . / Ella and his successors , colonized
these shores . The dis and dat , the dem and dese , the mini , yov . rn , and theirn of of our plough-men , showly plainly their German extraction . I used to wonder why cbry labourers took in vain the name of one whom I considered as the Patriarch of the land of Uz , until I discovered that he swore , not by Jove , but by Jobe , the Anglo-Saxon Jupiter . Let me add , that the woi-djolal , also employed by our peasantry , must he regarded as a direct derivative of Joberather than as a corruption of
, the current English "jovial , " which comes from tho Latin Jovialis , or "Jupiter-influenced . " I now forgive the village chorister who , in Gloria Palri , persists in chanting " wurruld without end , " because that too is true Anglo-Saxon pronounciation . When my occasional gardener talks of the ravages of " them snags " on a peach tree , -I hear with his vulgarit 3 when I reflect that he is quite as near the true orthoepy as his betters who call the marauder a snailfor snaegl is the word which
, Englishmen , gentle and simple , have modified in these two differing forms , and while the gentlemen eludes the difficult letter G , the peasant sticks fast in it , and says snag . If , too , the said gardener calls his curved spade a graffing tool , he is only using the talk of his forefathers of a thousand years ago , when grafan meant to dig . I asked him how his aged father does , and he replies that he is quite stolt , and again he speaks good Saxon , for that strange word signifies " firm and strong . "
And when he gathers up his weeds and rnbbish into a trngbasket , he employs both an Anglo ' -Saxonism and a vessel which are almost peculiar to county of Sussex . Some such trugs were sent to the Great Exhibition of 1851 , as a specimen of Sussex industry , ancl one of them , framed in the neatest manner , and fastened with silver nails , was deemed a gift not unworthy of the acceptance of Royalty itself . When the same honest man buries his twenty or thirty bushels of potatoes for winter
consumption , he calls it healen them up , and he still talks good Saxon , for liadan means to cover . If the thatched roof of his cottage is out of repair , he saye that tho healing is bad ; and when he lies cold on a winter-night , he provides himself with an additional blanket by way of healing . In all these applications the idea of " to cover" is in his mind , just as it is in ours when we speak of the " healing art , " or when we talk of a
wound being healed that is covered with a new and healthy skin . Not long ago a parishioner of a Sussex village proposed a subscription , instead of a compulsory rating , for new healing the church . The clergyman , who was not of South-Saxon birth , was somewhat scandalized at the expression , which to his mind conveyed the idea that the church required curale-ive treatment . The truth is that the Sussex villager knew his mothertongue better than the Oxford scholar did . It is satisfactory to
add that the difference between incumbent and parishioner was simply verbal ; for the venerable edifice was healed to the liking of the parishioner , and tiled to the satisfaction of the vicaronly the former was more happy in his word than the latter ; for while the one derived It from , the mother-tongue of his ancestors of long centuries ago , the other had to trace his through the etymological steps of tile , tittle , teyula , and tego , at last arriving at a precise synonym of Italian , the very word to which he had taken exception . "
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Masonic Notes And Queries.
in making the negro bodies regular , yet it would give them a pretence of regularity , so far as having a legal Masonic superior . We doubt whether any Grand Lodge in the world , except Hamburgh , would so far overlook the plainest principles of Masonic law as to recognise them . It seems that the German Lodges will , however , recognise the coloured ' lodges , ' provided they are just and perfect . If they hold to this position , they will not " recognise these bodies , because , as before stated , there is not a
just and perfect negro lodge in the United States , and hereafter never can be ; for no American Grand Lodge ever has granted a charter for a coloured lodge , and never will do so , on account of the relations sustained between the two races . " The following resolutions on this subject , reported by . th * - counnittee ou Foreign - Correspondence , were adopted by the Grand Lodge of New York :
" Resolved , That the course pursued and the views expressed by the R . W . F . A . Von Meusch , the able and faithful representee of the Grand Lodge of New York near that of Saxony , in relation to the illiberal and unmasonic policy of the Grand lodge of Hamburgh , for persisting in the violation of the jurisdictional rights of this Grand Lodge , and for seeking to create dissensions between the Grand Lodges of Europe and America , is warmly approved and commended , and the thanks
of this Grand Lodge are hereby tendered him therefore . " Resolved , That the committee on Foreign Correspondence be instructed to draw up a circular letter to the Grand Lodges and Grand Orients of Europe and America , respecting the unwarranted course pursued by the Grand Lodge of Hamburgh , in seeking to produce discord in this jurisdiction , and among the Grand Lodges of the would , and fraternally soliciting such -such action thereupon as the exigencies ot the case may
require ; and after its submission to and approval by the Grand Master , that it be then forwarded to such Grand Lodges and Grand Orients . "Resolved , That the Grand Lodge of New York regards with painful emotions the attempt being made by the Grand Lodge of Hamburgh herself to recognise and to induce the other Grand Lodges of Europe to recognise bodies of coloured men in the United States as Masonic Lodges and Grand Lod
ges , when it is a notorious fact that no legal organization of the kind exists in the American Union ; and that the adoption of auy measures tending to this end by any Grand Lodge whatever , must be regarded by this Grand Lodge as the evidence of a desire on the part of the body thus acting to cease all Masonic intercourse with the Grand Lodges of the United States , and their constituents . "
TIIE 0 . 0 . 0 . E . V . During my travels in the United States , about 184-8 , I remember having heard of a society known as above , which I believe meant the " Old Order of Eclamsis Vitae " also nicknamed b } - the uninitiated as the " Old Order of Evil Vagabonds . " Erom my rather indistinct recollections on the subjectbeing but a lad at the time
, , ¦ it appears to me to have been organized as a burlescpie upon Masonry , having ceremonies of initiation , pass words , signs , & c . I believe it extended over the whole of the United States . Can any of our A . merican brethren give further information upon the subject and oblige —A BiUTISlIEK .
WILLIAM DE LA ZSIORE . What was the fate of William de la More , the Grand Preceptor of the Temple , at the persecution ? There are ¦ at least two reports ; one that ho ended his days in the tower , and the other that he was remanded back to prison on the 3 rd of July , 1309 , and was afterwards imprisoned ui a mouasteiw the remainder of his life . There is great
Probabilit y of the latter , as the Archbishop of York , William de Grenesfield , provided for many of the Templars in the monasteries of York . —See As ' hmole ' s History ° f the Order of the Garter . —A
MAJ 0 E ,-GENERAL GEORGE B . MXL-ELLA'S A MASOX . « m ! ? Allowing is from the New York Evening Courier : — this brave and distinguished officer , who has not only " ) ' his devotion to the cause of the Union , but as com-Mander-iii-chief of its armies , earned unfading laurels , is a Free ancl Accepted Mason . He was initiated , passed , a « a raised iu Willamette Lodge , Oregon . "
CABALISTIC DEGEEE . The following figure may interest " Asst . Sojourner , "
who inquires , respecting the small triangles . It is taken from Allen ' s Model n Judaism , and was thus used by the Oabalists , who termed it " The shield of David . " The Hebrew
inscription Agla is composed of the initial letters of four Hebrew words , which may be rendered "Thou art strong for ever 0 Lord , " or " Thou art strong in the eternal God . "—A .
AXUIEXT AUTIIOGEAPIir— -TO HEAL . Mr . M . A . Lower , in an Article on Susses Archtnology says :- — "" Although our county was the scene of the Norman Conquest , and notwithstanding its proximity to the Gallic continent , it still retains , not only in its local momenclature , but in the physical character of its common people , many traces of those brave Teutons who , under . / Ella and his successors , colonized
these shores . The dis and dat , the dem and dese , the mini , yov . rn , and theirn of of our plough-men , showly plainly their German extraction . I used to wonder why cbry labourers took in vain the name of one whom I considered as the Patriarch of the land of Uz , until I discovered that he swore , not by Jove , but by Jobe , the Anglo-Saxon Jupiter . Let me add , that the woi-djolal , also employed by our peasantry , must he regarded as a direct derivative of Joberather than as a corruption of
, the current English "jovial , " which comes from tho Latin Jovialis , or "Jupiter-influenced . " I now forgive the village chorister who , in Gloria Palri , persists in chanting " wurruld without end , " because that too is true Anglo-Saxon pronounciation . When my occasional gardener talks of the ravages of " them snags " on a peach tree , -I hear with his vulgarit 3 when I reflect that he is quite as near the true orthoepy as his betters who call the marauder a snailfor snaegl is the word which
, Englishmen , gentle and simple , have modified in these two differing forms , and while the gentlemen eludes the difficult letter G , the peasant sticks fast in it , and says snag . If , too , the said gardener calls his curved spade a graffing tool , he is only using the talk of his forefathers of a thousand years ago , when grafan meant to dig . I asked him how his aged father does , and he replies that he is quite stolt , and again he speaks good Saxon , for that strange word signifies " firm and strong . "
And when he gathers up his weeds and rnbbish into a trngbasket , he employs both an Anglo ' -Saxonism and a vessel which are almost peculiar to county of Sussex . Some such trugs were sent to the Great Exhibition of 1851 , as a specimen of Sussex industry , ancl one of them , framed in the neatest manner , and fastened with silver nails , was deemed a gift not unworthy of the acceptance of Royalty itself . When the same honest man buries his twenty or thirty bushels of potatoes for winter
consumption , he calls it healen them up , and he still talks good Saxon , for liadan means to cover . If the thatched roof of his cottage is out of repair , he saye that tho healing is bad ; and when he lies cold on a winter-night , he provides himself with an additional blanket by way of healing . In all these applications the idea of " to cover" is in his mind , just as it is in ours when we speak of the " healing art , " or when we talk of a
wound being healed that is covered with a new and healthy skin . Not long ago a parishioner of a Sussex village proposed a subscription , instead of a compulsory rating , for new healing the church . The clergyman , who was not of South-Saxon birth , was somewhat scandalized at the expression , which to his mind conveyed the idea that the church required curale-ive treatment . The truth is that the Sussex villager knew his mothertongue better than the Oxford scholar did . It is satisfactory to
add that the difference between incumbent and parishioner was simply verbal ; for the venerable edifice was healed to the liking of the parishioner , and tiled to the satisfaction of the vicaronly the former was more happy in his word than the latter ; for while the one derived It from , the mother-tongue of his ancestors of long centuries ago , the other had to trace his through the etymological steps of tile , tittle , teyula , and tego , at last arriving at a precise synonym of Italian , the very word to which he had taken exception . "