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Notes And Queries For Freemasons.
NOTES AND QUERIES FOR FREEMASONS .
TEXT OE QUOTATIONS WANTED . f & 9 AM going to give ti short address to my lodge . I haA'e read that , Jshf Avithout our ceremonies are understood they become nonsense ; and l ¥ * also that at Masonic funerals an Anthem Avas sung . Can you give ^^ the exact passage that bears out the first , and tell me Avhat ' are the
Avords of the Anthem ? E , [ The Avords sought are " Take aAvay the spirit of our mysteries _ and " ceremonies , and they become redieulous . ' Bro . Hutchinson ' s Spirit of Masonry , page 171 . Tho Anthem Avas taken from the viith . Chapter of the Book of Job , verses , 1 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , and 8 . 1
DEFOBMITY A BAE TO INITIATION . A question is raised as to AAdvether , or no , a person Avho has met with an accident , and thus been deformed , can be initiated ? TEIPLE TEIANGLE . [ Opinions differ on the point . AVe know a Avooden-legged brother , but
had lie lived in 1722 he could not ha \ -o boon made ; for the second edition of The Bool : of Constitutions is expressly in point . It states— " The " men made Masons must be free born ( or no bondmen ) , of mature age " and of good report , hale and sound , not- deformed or dismembered at " i / ie time of iftcir ¦ making . " ' ] THEEE , FIVE , AND SEVEN , POINTED STARS .
What is the symbolic meaning—of course masonic—of three , five , and scA'en , pointed stars ? C . J . IT . "THE MASONIC EOSE . " " A Freemason Avho has fulfilled his timeat last gathers the Masonio
, " rose . " What time and Avhat rose is intended ? * * * [ The ansAver is to be derived from the same set of laA \ r s from Avhich tho question is extracted . ] EXTRACT FEOM AN OLD CEAFT LECTUEE .
The degree of M . M ., represents a man under Christian doctrine , saved from the grave of iniquity and raised to the faith of salvation . Three ruffian invaders ; the Avorld , the flesh , and the devil , had prostrated him in the grave of spiritual death . Tho LaAV came to his aid , but failed of effecting a moral resurrection . Idolatry offered her hand , but corruption itself Avas defiled by the touch , and the Adctim eluded her embrace . At length the Gospel of the Son of God descended from heaven . For a
moment she stood by the silent sepulchre and dropped a tear upon the tomb , then pronouncing the Omniiic Word , the sleeping Lazarus arose ! Yes , Avhen tho Priest and Levite had " gone by on the other side" the good Samaritan came to the aid of the sufferer , and poured the balm of Gilead into the bleeding Avound .
A'OL . I .
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Notes And Queries For Freemasons.
NOTES AND QUERIES FOR FREEMASONS .
TEXT OE QUOTATIONS WANTED . f & 9 AM going to give ti short address to my lodge . I haA'e read that , Jshf Avithout our ceremonies are understood they become nonsense ; and l ¥ * also that at Masonic funerals an Anthem Avas sung . Can you give ^^ the exact passage that bears out the first , and tell me Avhat ' are the
Avords of the Anthem ? E , [ The Avords sought are " Take aAvay the spirit of our mysteries _ and " ceremonies , and they become redieulous . ' Bro . Hutchinson ' s Spirit of Masonry , page 171 . Tho Anthem Avas taken from the viith . Chapter of the Book of Job , verses , 1 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , and 8 . 1
DEFOBMITY A BAE TO INITIATION . A question is raised as to AAdvether , or no , a person Avho has met with an accident , and thus been deformed , can be initiated ? TEIPLE TEIANGLE . [ Opinions differ on the point . AVe know a Avooden-legged brother , but
had lie lived in 1722 he could not ha \ -o boon made ; for the second edition of The Bool : of Constitutions is expressly in point . It states— " The " men made Masons must be free born ( or no bondmen ) , of mature age " and of good report , hale and sound , not- deformed or dismembered at " i / ie time of iftcir ¦ making . " ' ] THEEE , FIVE , AND SEVEN , POINTED STARS .
What is the symbolic meaning—of course masonic—of three , five , and scA'en , pointed stars ? C . J . IT . "THE MASONIC EOSE . " " A Freemason Avho has fulfilled his timeat last gathers the Masonio
, " rose . " What time and Avhat rose is intended ? * * * [ The ansAver is to be derived from the same set of laA \ r s from Avhich tho question is extracted . ] EXTRACT FEOM AN OLD CEAFT LECTUEE .
The degree of M . M ., represents a man under Christian doctrine , saved from the grave of iniquity and raised to the faith of salvation . Three ruffian invaders ; the Avorld , the flesh , and the devil , had prostrated him in the grave of spiritual death . Tho LaAV came to his aid , but failed of effecting a moral resurrection . Idolatry offered her hand , but corruption itself Avas defiled by the touch , and the Adctim eluded her embrace . At length the Gospel of the Son of God descended from heaven . For a
moment she stood by the silent sepulchre and dropped a tear upon the tomb , then pronouncing the Omniiic Word , the sleeping Lazarus arose ! Yes , Avhen tho Priest and Levite had " gone by on the other side" the good Samaritan came to the aid of the sufferer , and poured the balm of Gilead into the bleeding Avound .
A'OL . I .