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Pre-Requisites For Masonic Initiation.
[ i . ] Then again , as to fees . It is a good plan to have the fee for initiation paid before the ceremony takes place . I knew a case of a gentleman (?) who attended for initiation who was in more than " a seeming state of poverty , " for he had no money to pay for fees , and I
believe has not paid yet , though his reception took place many years ago ! Of course , his proposer had to pay ; but proper precautions should be taken to avoid any such awkward instances of impecuniosity . The larger the initiation fee the better , and the smaller the annual subscription the greater will be the number who continue as
subscribing members . Our duty is to " guard the portals , " and make the admission fairly expensive , so as to keep out those to whom the money would be a serious loss , but when once admitted , it should be our pleasure to retain them as subscribing members as long as possible ( if worthy ) by making the annual test as easy as circumstances admit .
Curious Books.
CURIOUS BOOKS .
BY BOOKWORM . No . II . \ YERY ancient tract is " Hermetischer Rosenkreutz" & c .
, - ' -- * - •When it was originally published does not seem to be clear . My edition is only a second edition , in 1747 , at Frankfort-on-the Maine , but an industrious commentator has penned a note that the first edition was published at Hamburgh in 1682 . It is an anonymous work , containing four very old and rare alchemical treatises translated
into the old German . I am inclined to think that it represents an earlier edition still . It is not , perhaps , of much value or importance any way , except that it is now very scarce , so much so as to be apparently unknown to Kloss . The little dirty tract which I possess has at one time been carefully perused and studied by a believing
adept , as every page almost has notes , and many passages are carefully underlined . Rosicrucian literature , to which Kloss devotes twenty-seven pages , and concerning which he enumerates , in 1844 , 283 known works , is comparatively a "terra incognita " in England . In the library at Golden-square they have some curious Rosicrucian and Hermetic works ; but not onl y did not Kloss exhaust the
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Pre-Requisites For Masonic Initiation.
[ i . ] Then again , as to fees . It is a good plan to have the fee for initiation paid before the ceremony takes place . I knew a case of a gentleman (?) who attended for initiation who was in more than " a seeming state of poverty , " for he had no money to pay for fees , and I
believe has not paid yet , though his reception took place many years ago ! Of course , his proposer had to pay ; but proper precautions should be taken to avoid any such awkward instances of impecuniosity . The larger the initiation fee the better , and the smaller the annual subscription the greater will be the number who continue as
subscribing members . Our duty is to " guard the portals , " and make the admission fairly expensive , so as to keep out those to whom the money would be a serious loss , but when once admitted , it should be our pleasure to retain them as subscribing members as long as possible ( if worthy ) by making the annual test as easy as circumstances admit .
Curious Books.
CURIOUS BOOKS .
BY BOOKWORM . No . II . \ YERY ancient tract is " Hermetischer Rosenkreutz" & c .
, - ' -- * - •When it was originally published does not seem to be clear . My edition is only a second edition , in 1747 , at Frankfort-on-the Maine , but an industrious commentator has penned a note that the first edition was published at Hamburgh in 1682 . It is an anonymous work , containing four very old and rare alchemical treatises translated
into the old German . I am inclined to think that it represents an earlier edition still . It is not , perhaps , of much value or importance any way , except that it is now very scarce , so much so as to be apparently unknown to Kloss . The little dirty tract which I possess has at one time been carefully perused and studied by a believing
adept , as every page almost has notes , and many passages are carefully underlined . Rosicrucian literature , to which Kloss devotes twenty-seven pages , and concerning which he enumerates , in 1844 , 283 known works , is comparatively a "terra incognita " in England . In the library at Golden-square they have some curious Rosicrucian and Hermetic works ; but not onl y did not Kloss exhaust the