Masonic Notes And Queries-

TWO METHODS . Brother * s * the true Freemason ' s Method is Common Sense , and his God is the Great Architect of the Universe . A certain Hegelian ' s method is logic , and his god is man . ¦— CHAEEES PUETOX COOPEE .

PANTHEISM IX FBAXCE . Brother * . . there are two kinds of Pantheism in Prance . First , the Pantheism of Spinoza , which was that of Lessing and of Gothe . This Pantheism is losing ground . Next , the Pantheism of Hegel . This Pantheism is very widely spread . —CHAEEES PITETOX COOPEE .

VOITAIKE AST ) CEETAIX PHIEOSOPHEES OE OUE DAT . Voltaire was a Theist . All the philosophers of our day named in a correspondent ' s letter are Atheists , notwithstanding they are Freemasons—a circumstance which brothers who have read my recent communications to the Freemasons' Magazine will readil y understand . —CHAEEES PUETOX COOPEE .

AX OASIS . Brother . . . likens the true Freemason ' s lodge in an uncivilised colony to one of the oases in the Libyan Desert . —CHAEEES PUETOX COOPEE . POPE BEXEDICT XIV . —THE ASSEETIOX THAT HE WAS A EEEEHASOX .

The book respecting which a correspondent int quires is not now in my hands . In my manuscrip-Masonic collection I find the following memorandum in the handwriting of a deceased member of a German lodge , whence taken I cannot say : " Monsieur Laurens ( "Essais sur la Francmacounerie" page 13 )

, pretend qui Benoit XIV ., ne se determina a revehler la bulle de Clement XII . que pour etouffer le cri public , qui l ' accusait d ' etre lui-meme affilie a la societe proscrite . " These "Essais" of Monsieur Laurens I do not recollect ever to have seen . — CHAEEES PUETOX COOPEE .

ADOPTIOX AltOXG THE 1 EOPSES . Mapley , in his " Lexicon of Freemasonry , " writes : "In 1776 the Mopses became an androgynous order , and admitted females to all the offices . " I have a work , published at Amsterdam in 1745 , entitled " Le Secret de la Societe des Mopses . . .

par Monsieur P . ... " A plate is prefixed , showing the reception of a female by a female , while another sits in the supreme chair . ' The account is extremel y curious , and from it , it would appear at that date that women had an equal power with men . — AXTHOXX OXEAT , HATE .

ADOPTIVE PBEEIIASOXET IX PEAXCE . I agree with our learned Bro . Charles Purton Cooper in his estimate of Adoptive Masonry . A complete account of the Ladies' Order will be found iu " Statuto et Eeglemens Generaux du Souv . Chap -. Metrop . \ Des Dames Ecossaises en Francede

, L'Hospice de Paris , Colline du Mont Thabor . Paris , De L'Imprimerie D'Ant . Bailleul , Adepte . Adjoint , Rue Helvetius , No . 71 . 5 S 12 . E : D . - ., " with the < 'Bref D'Adoption , " signed by the Venerable , Dignitaries , and Commanders of the Temple of Mount Thabor . —AXTHOXT OXEAL HATS .

Masonic Notes And Queries-

THE COilPASS AXD SQTJAEE . In answer to " V . B ., " I have seen some females ' tombs , surmounted by the compass and square , in the old churchyards in the south of Scotland . I think there is one in Melrose- Abbey yard . A sandglass is often introduced with them . It was common "to put

the implements of the father ' s or husband ' s trade on the daughter ' s or wife's tombstone . Thus a crowned hammer is seen on the tomb of a connection of a member of the Hammerman ' s Company in Holyrood Chapel , where at the top of the stone is the dace 1592 , and immediately below the hammer surmounted

by a crown , and having the letters B . H . on either side . Beneath , in the centre of the slab , is a shield charged with a ship and three cinquefoils in chief . At the bottom are the skull , hone , and " momento mori . " Round the border is "Heir lyis ane honest woman calet Marget Baxter spous to Bartel Hamelton Dakmaker Burges of ye Canongate . — AXTHOXX OXEAE HATE .

JIASOXIC EPITAPH . Among some jottings taken many years ago , I find part of an epitaph , which runs as follows : — The Cirele ' s Bound , Is Virtue ' s Bound . The Perfect Square , Tells God is

there-The Plummet ' s Full , ' 8 Heaven's Grace for AIL Employ good tools , By Mason ' s Rules . Eschew all Evil , Shame the Devil . There are- drawings of the circlesquarenui

, , plummet placed opposite the names , at the end of the lines . Where is this whole epitaph to be found ? I think I copied it from some Masonic work . —AXXSOXT OXEAL HATE .

WAS SIAESHAE NET A EEEEHA 302 T ? In the Concordat entered into between the Grand Orient , on the one part , and the Grand Lodge Ofeneral of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite , both of France , in 1 S 05 , I find the names of Kellerman , Murat , Massena , Angerean , Perignon , Lefebvre ,

Serruvier , Brune , Mortier , & c , Marshals of France , Macdonald , Sebastiani , and other high military officers , as well as Fouche , the Minister of Police , Balzac , & c , among the principal officers of the league . I am aware that Soult was a Freemason , and have a dim recollection that Xey was one also . Can any brother enlighten me upon the point , and inform me in what lodge the brave marshal was initiated . —Axinoxx O XEAT , H ATE .

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The ' Editor is not responsible for the opinions expressed by Cor ? esj > 3 » : hvi : s , MASOXIO RELTXIOXS . —THE WIMBLEDOK RIFLE MEETING . TO THE EDIIOE OT THE i-HEElTlSOSS' 1 UGAZIKE AND HASOrUC jnESDS . DEAE SIE AXD BEOTHEE . —It was with pleasure I observed the notice of a Masonic Hifle Match in

your last number , between the members of the Victoria Eifle Lodge and the lodge attached to the South Middlesex Volunteer Rifle Corps . I also entirely concur in the suggestion thrown out at the conc-hiaos .