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Masonic Interlopers.
be taken forthwith to stop the scandal . By a compromise this might be effected , if that fails then by short , sharp , and decisive , action . In the latter the really good sense of the contumacious would speedily return when he . found that West of England Eose Croixs were a drug in the Masonic market , quoted , only , at a discount , and for which , in the language of the Stock Exchange , there would be no inquiry .
In the north it is not one person only—and he really an old high-grade Freemason—but an entire batch of sjiie and span new thirty-thirds that have arisen . The first questions that naturally suggest themselves are—Who are they ? Where do they come from ? What do they do ? To these questions
no reply has , yet , been given . ' They are three most profound and inscrutable mysteries . One fact , oidy has leaked out . A brother who they made a Eose Croix has been inquiring , Where he could be healed ? He states he had a certificate given him , but , finding it useless , he did not know what had become of it . Given the certificate and its loss it is not difficult to estimate its value .
After the sublime comes the ridiculous . There is a degree , only known to a very limited circle in this country , called the Eed Cross of Babylon . It has also many aliases and as many varieties of working as it has names . Judge then of our intense amusement when a circular of a Plantagenet
Encampment , held at an obscure public-house , was put into our hands . The presiding chief Avas styled " Illustrious , " the members " Sir Knts . " Of course the Emperor Constantine and the family of the Plantagenets were on visiting terms , or such an incongruous cognomen could never have been adopted
by the wise " Recorder" and his confreres . But enough of this puerile absurdity , which we only mention for the purpose of informing our readers how steadily would-be masonic jurisdictions are on the increase , and to caution them against all such intruders . Adversity is said to make us acquainted with
strange bedfellows , but it cannot be denied , in this instance , that of all the strange monstrosities which turn up this is one of the most outre . We shall keep our eye on the Constantinian-Plantagenets .
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Masonic Interlopers.
be taken forthwith to stop the scandal . By a compromise this might be effected , if that fails then by short , sharp , and decisive , action . In the latter the really good sense of the contumacious would speedily return when he . found that West of England Eose Croixs were a drug in the Masonic market , quoted , only , at a discount , and for which , in the language of the Stock Exchange , there would be no inquiry .
In the north it is not one person only—and he really an old high-grade Freemason—but an entire batch of sjiie and span new thirty-thirds that have arisen . The first questions that naturally suggest themselves are—Who are they ? Where do they come from ? What do they do ? To these questions
no reply has , yet , been given . ' They are three most profound and inscrutable mysteries . One fact , oidy has leaked out . A brother who they made a Eose Croix has been inquiring , Where he could be healed ? He states he had a certificate given him , but , finding it useless , he did not know what had become of it . Given the certificate and its loss it is not difficult to estimate its value .
After the sublime comes the ridiculous . There is a degree , only known to a very limited circle in this country , called the Eed Cross of Babylon . It has also many aliases and as many varieties of working as it has names . Judge then of our intense amusement when a circular of a Plantagenet
Encampment , held at an obscure public-house , was put into our hands . The presiding chief Avas styled " Illustrious , " the members " Sir Knts . " Of course the Emperor Constantine and the family of the Plantagenets were on visiting terms , or such an incongruous cognomen could never have been adopted
by the wise " Recorder" and his confreres . But enough of this puerile absurdity , which we only mention for the purpose of informing our readers how steadily would-be masonic jurisdictions are on the increase , and to caution them against all such intruders . Adversity is said to make us acquainted with
strange bedfellows , but it cannot be denied , in this instance , that of all the strange monstrosities which turn up this is one of the most outre . We shall keep our eye on the Constantinian-Plantagenets .