Masonic Jottings, No. 67.

WARRANTS POR THE ESTABLISHMENT OP NEW LODGES . Until the Revival these seems to have been unknown in the South of England . —See Preston ' s Illustrations , page 157 , Dr . Oliver ' s edition .

BESULT OP THE AMENDED CHARGES OP 1738 . When these Charges made their appearance , the English Lodges were occupied by Christians . The result of the new Charges is that , occasionally , in some lodges , a few Jews , Mahomedans , Parsees , and Natural Theists are now mixed with them . THE DISUNION AMONGST THE ENGLISH

FREEMASONS . The Disuuion amongst the English Freemasons , which began towards the end of the reign of King George the Second , and lasted to the year 1813 , is the subject of a valuable treatise by George Kloss .

CREATION . Brother , —Supposing the Creation to have been the work of six days , or of millions of years , the Great Architect of the Universe is equally the object of the pious Mason ' s wonder , love , and adoration .

UNION OF UNIONS . The German Masonry called " The Union of Unions" has no Reli g ious system . REVIVAL , NEW ORGANIZATION , RELIGION , RITUAL . Revival and New Organizations came first . Increased Religious Toleration , and alteration of Ritual came afterwards .

Masonic Notes And Queries.

MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .

BEADING A PORTION OP THE BIBLE IN LODGE Bro M . having stated in a note to some communication to the " Freemasons' Magazine , " that no Masonic Lodge can be opened without the Bible , and yet it is never studied , for no living English Brother ever heard read a single verse in open lodge— " Senex " thereupon addressed the Editor as follows : —To this

latter assertion , I , a living English Brother can give as flat a contradiction as courtesy permits . Why , Sir , when 1 first became a Mason , and certainly for several years afterwards , no lodge was ever opened or closed , without reading a portion of the Bible . Before the closing , that most beautiful chapter , I .

Corinthians , 13 , was read on all occasions , and a few verses ( of a valedictory characrer ) followed—the chapters where taken I do not recollect . Further than this , no initiation , passing or raisiug , ever took place without some appropriate passage from the Bible being read . If Bro . M will refer to Jtiuth , chap ., 2 , he will have no difficulty in ascertaining what of it would be applicable in the case of an

initiation ; aud the 7 th chap ., 1 st Book of Kings would no doubt also show him a verse by no means out of place either at an initiation , or a passing , aud which was never omitted at the latter . I could mention other passages from the Bible which were invariably read in the course of our

different ceremonies ; but I have said enough to show how utterly Bro . M . is mistaken in the bold assertion he has made . " From a bundle of Masonic Excerpts . —CHAKLES PirET 02 r COOPEE .

GEOMETRICAL AND OTHER SYMBOLS . Considering the close relationship in which geometrical and all other symbols used by the antient Egyptians , Assyrians or Clialdaaans , Greeks , and Hindus , or by the Buddhists , Druids , Zoroastrians , Hierophants , and all such magical Religionists , must necessarily stand to magic and the oracles evoked

during entrancement ; we cannot altogether ignore these no doubt very wild subjects in any serious and hopeful endeavour to get at the true and original meaning of these symbols . In fact we must not only htow something about ic and the oraclesbut must say something about

mag , them ; and cannot avoid doiug so ; far less about Freemasonry and Christian Mysticism , with both of which such' symbols have much to do . —From a . bundle of Masonic Excerpts . —CUAELES PUETON " OOOPEE .

ERASURE OF THE 173 S CHARGES . A Past Provincial Grand Master does not say ( page 206 ) that the effect of the erasure of the 1738 Charges would be to make English Freemasonry a Christian Freemasonry ( See page 287 ) ; but " to make English Freemasonry Christian Freemasonry exclusively . " I have reason to know that the Right Worshipful Brother will abide by his words . —CHARLES PUBTOS - COOPEE .

A RECENT COMMUNICATION . A recent communication , * writes a Metropolitan Brother , adds one more to the numerous examples of ignorance of our Freemasonry in all its chief and noble parts , which a contributor whom it is needless to name , has so strangely persisted in setting forth durinc the last two or three years . —A PAST

PEOVUTCIAL GBAJVI ) MAST . EE . ROMAN ARCHITECTURE . " In the sty le of French architecture , which was created in the thirteenth century , the disposition , the construction , the statics , the scale , and the ornamentation differ absolutely from those of the Antique

school . They were the consequences of two civilisations based on entirely differing principles . " " The Roman monument is a species of modelling on a form which permitted the rapid use of an enormous mass of materials , consequent upon the facility with which a large body of workmen could be obtained .

The Romans had at their disposal large armies habituated to public works , and could throw a large slave population upon a building ; they therefore adopted a mode of construction convenient to these social conditions . To raise their edifices it was not necessary to have a body of skilled labourers . Some