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Masonic Antiquities, Documents, &C. Jerusalem Encampment, Manchester.
MASONIC ANTIQUITIES , DOCUMENTS , & c . JERUSALEM ENCAMPMENT , MANCHESTER .
Information Collected on the Ancient York Eite by JOHN YABKEK , Junr . P . M . ; P . M . M - ; P . Z . 3 KT . Pt . ; P . E . C . j ROSE K J , & c , & c , P . Grand "Vice-Chancellor of Cheshire , and P . Grand Constable , or Mareschal , of England .
( Continued from paeje 74 . ) $ | m URING the last century , ail writers who were hostile or ff IJL otherwise to our Illustrious Order , were anxious to prove ^^ ° the descent of Craft Masonry from the second class of the Order of Knights of the Temple ; and , without entering
into the elaborate comparisons which have been drawn by these writers , it must be admitted by every unprejudiced person that a very close resemblance between the old Craft Masomy and the Knight Templar Handicraft brothers have been found . The foundations of the two separate Military Orders of St . John , and of the Temple , were laid in the east , where the secret associations
of the ancients originated and flourished , to the period of the establishment of those orders . Some assert that the Templars were initiated by the Syrian fraternities , and that there is evidence of such being the case in the depositions taken during their trials in 1309—1313 . In some of the Churches , formerly belonging to them , strictly masonic emblems are found—as at Erfurt , Schoen Graben , Prague , etc ., especially the last , of which Von Hammer gives several specimens , including , among them , the square , level ,
triangle , compasses , compasses with quadrant , the maul , the interlaced triangles , the flaming star , the truncated cross , etc . This writer asserts that the Templars were a branch of the Ishmaelites or Bathenians—so called from their knowledge of secret mysteries and their meanings—who originated in the House of Solomon , founded at Cairo , in the eleventh century , where Egyptian
philosophy , mathematics , and sciences , were taught , and nine degrees conferred , which he supposes led gradually to infidelity ; and though this assertion is made by old Arabian writers , it is impossible that there can be any proof in the case of a secret association ; and on the facts adduced by Von Hammer , the utmost that can be said is that the Ishmaelites and the Templars
had each derived certain forms from originals . Leaving , therefore , this disputed point , it may be mentioned that during the last century the characteristics of the Order were the same , whether known as " Ancient Masonry" in England , the " Order of the Temple " in France , or as " Rosicrucianism " in Germany , and elsewhere . In England , the Templar origin of York Masonry has been an article of faith with many , and an attempt has been made to
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Masonic Antiquities, Documents, &C. Jerusalem Encampment, Manchester.
MASONIC ANTIQUITIES , DOCUMENTS , & c . JERUSALEM ENCAMPMENT , MANCHESTER .
Information Collected on the Ancient York Eite by JOHN YABKEK , Junr . P . M . ; P . M . M - ; P . Z . 3 KT . Pt . ; P . E . C . j ROSE K J , & c , & c , P . Grand "Vice-Chancellor of Cheshire , and P . Grand Constable , or Mareschal , of England .
( Continued from paeje 74 . ) $ | m URING the last century , ail writers who were hostile or ff IJL otherwise to our Illustrious Order , were anxious to prove ^^ ° the descent of Craft Masonry from the second class of the Order of Knights of the Temple ; and , without entering
into the elaborate comparisons which have been drawn by these writers , it must be admitted by every unprejudiced person that a very close resemblance between the old Craft Masomy and the Knight Templar Handicraft brothers have been found . The foundations of the two separate Military Orders of St . John , and of the Temple , were laid in the east , where the secret associations
of the ancients originated and flourished , to the period of the establishment of those orders . Some assert that the Templars were initiated by the Syrian fraternities , and that there is evidence of such being the case in the depositions taken during their trials in 1309—1313 . In some of the Churches , formerly belonging to them , strictly masonic emblems are found—as at Erfurt , Schoen Graben , Prague , etc ., especially the last , of which Von Hammer gives several specimens , including , among them , the square , level ,
triangle , compasses , compasses with quadrant , the maul , the interlaced triangles , the flaming star , the truncated cross , etc . This writer asserts that the Templars were a branch of the Ishmaelites or Bathenians—so called from their knowledge of secret mysteries and their meanings—who originated in the House of Solomon , founded at Cairo , in the eleventh century , where Egyptian
philosophy , mathematics , and sciences , were taught , and nine degrees conferred , which he supposes led gradually to infidelity ; and though this assertion is made by old Arabian writers , it is impossible that there can be any proof in the case of a secret association ; and on the facts adduced by Von Hammer , the utmost that can be said is that the Ishmaelites and the Templars
had each derived certain forms from originals . Leaving , therefore , this disputed point , it may be mentioned that during the last century the characteristics of the Order were the same , whether known as " Ancient Masonry" in England , the " Order of the Temple " in France , or as " Rosicrucianism " in Germany , and elsewhere . In England , the Templar origin of York Masonry has been an article of faith with many , and an attempt has been made to