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Great Britain and Ireland , by Bro . Eugenius Philalethes , jun ., F . B . S ., the 1 st March , 1721 . Yours fraternally , JAMES FEEDEEICK SPUEE . " And now , my hrethren , you of the higher class , permit me a few wordssince you are but few ; and

, these few words I shall speak to you iu riddles , because to you it is giveu to know those mysteries which are hidden from the unworthy . " Have you not seen , then , my dearest brethren , that stupendous bath , filled with most limpid water , than which no pure can be purer , of such admirable

mechanism that makes even the greatest philosopher gaze with wonder and astonishment , and is the subject of the eternal contemplation of the wisest men . Its form is a quadrate sublimely placed on six others , hlazing all with celestial jewels , each angularly supported with four lions . Here repose our mihtKing

gy and Queen ( I speak foolishly , I am not worthy to be of you ) , the King shining in his glorious apparel of transparent incorruptible gold , beset with living sapphires ; he is fair aud ruddy , and feeds amongst the lilies ; his eyes , two carbuncles , the most brilliant , darting , prolificknever-dying tires ; and his large

, flowing hair , blacker than the deepest black , or plumage of the long-lived crow ; his Royal Consort -vested iu tissue of immortal silver , watered with emeralds , pearl and coral . 0 , mystic union ! 0 , admirable commerce !

" Cast now your eyes to the basis of this celestial structure , and you will discover just before it a large hason of Porphyrian marble , receiving from the mouth of a large lion ' s head , to which two bodies displayed on each side of it are conjoined , a greenish fountain of liquid jasper . "Ponder this well and consider . Haunt no more

the woods and forests ( I speak as a fool ) ; hunt no more the fleet hart ; let the flying eagle fly unobserved ; busy yourselves no longer with the daucing idiot , swollen toads , and in his own tail-devouring dragon ; leave these as elements to your Tyros . " The object of your wishes aud desires ( some of you perhaps have obtained itI speak as a fool ) is that

, admirable thing which hath a substance neither too fiery , nor altogether earthy , nor simply watery ; neither a quality the most acute or most obtuse , but of a middle nature , and light to tho touch , and in some manner soft , at least not hard ; not having asperitybut even in some sort sweet to the taste

, , odorous to the smell , grateful to the si ght , agreeable and delectable to the hearing , and pleasant to the thought ; in short , that one only thing besides which there is no other , and yet everywhere possible to be found , the blessed and most sacred subject of the square of wise men , that is 1 had almost blabbed

it out and been sacrilegiously perjured . I shall therefore speak of it with a circumlocution yet more dark and obscure , that none but the sons of science and those who are illuminated with the sublimest mysteries and profoundest secrets of Masonry may understand . It is then , what brings you , my dearest

brethren to that pellucid diaphanous palace of the true disinterested lovers of wisdom , that transparent pyramid of purple salt , more sparkling aud radiant than the finest orient ruby , in the centre of which reposes inaccessible light epitomiz'd , that incorruptible celestial fire , blazing like burning crystal , and brighter

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than the sun in his full meridian glories , which is that immortal , eternal , never-dying pyropus , the King of Gems , whence proceeds everything that is great and wise and happy . "These things are deeply hidden from common view , and covered with pavilions of thickest darkness ,

that what is sacred may not be given to dogs , or your pearls cast before swine , lest they trample them under feet and turn again and rend you . " However , this will by no means hinder you from doing good where there are worthy objects , and you know the day is now far gone and the night approaches when no man can work . "

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ROYAL ARCH MASONRY .

TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC HIBBOB . Dear Sir and Brother , —May I respectfully ask "P . D . G . M . " what he actually means by the "York Rite , " and what is his authority for terming a system , as he tells us , of "seven degrees "— "the York Rite . " Yours fraternally , A MASONIC STUDENT .

Royal Masonic Institution For Boys.

ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS .

TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND MASONIO MIRBOB . Dear Sir and Brother , —I fear that an announcement in the columns of a contemporary that " the Festival of this Institution in March next is expected to realize £ 10 , 000 , " may , without explanation , he productive of a prejudicial effect , inasmuch as brethren

who may have been disposed to lend their aid as Stewards , or otherwise , may be deterred from doing so under the idea that with such an amount in expectancy , their assistance will not be required . The result of the ensuing Festival—whatever may be its success—will be the offspring of the earnest determination of several friends of the Institution to

abolish the debt by which it is encumbered , and any extension of its benefits presented , though the demands upon it are rapidly increasing . There is every likelihood that the great bulk of the contributions on the occasion in question will come from the Provinces of West Yorkshire and East Lancashire . These Provinces make it an absolute

condition—sine qua non—that every shilling contributed by them shall be devoted to the reduction of the debt of £ 10 , 000 , and shall not be subject to comission or deduction of any kind . There will yet remain to be provided a sum of £ 5 , 000 , or thereabouts , for annual maintenance , and for this we must look to the metropolis and provinces other than those mentioned .

Uuder these circumstances , I think it will be conceded that , so far from the announcement to which I have drawn attention justifying relaxation from effort , it ought rather to stimulate exertion . With the explanation thus giveu I shall have every confidence that our friends will rally round us and furnish us with the means , not only of continuing , but extending , our good work , to enable us to do which liberality was ; never more needed than now .

Yours fraternally , FEEDEEICK BINCKES ( SEO . ) Office , 6 , Freemasons' Hall , W . C .