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BASTARD MASONRY in ENGLAND. Tive ' Sanctuary, of Levites, the Oo of Tho R Contents. have the prefix of " Ecclesiastical ," we cannot — PAGB imagine, for it has no religious test—Christianity FBEEMASONS' MAGAZINE :— —as has the " Order of the Temple," but pass- Bastard Masonry in England 121 ing' that by, it has made considerable her.dwfl.y. Pius IX, vs. Bible Societies and Freemasonry 122 A Profan e's Idea of Freemasonry 123 and Avould appear to be gaining ground, its Sove- Non-Affiliated Masons 124 The Mason's Grave 125 reign Grand Master, being that very enthusiastic The Ancient and Accepted Rite in America 125 and active Mason, the EaiT of Bactive better Answers to the Memorial of the Lodge of Glasgow St. John's , No. 3 Ms 128 known as Lord Kenils. Masonic Jottings—No. 57 132 Masonic Notes and Queries 132 Not satisfied, however, with the success v 'uoh ings and Doings Abroad 133 Masonic Say has so far attended the establishment of fhj 0or< MASONIC MIRROR :— = Masonic Mems 108 sfcan tinian Order, the desire for further novel ';;,' it Committee of Grand Lodge and Board of Benevolence 135 would appear, has seized upon tho leader,-.? oP tho CRAST LODGE MEETINGS :— Metropolitan 135 same, and, as will be seen from the following, Provincial 136 Scotland 138 they have annexed to it the .bastard " li-i ! ;; >-;!' Notes on Music and the Drama 138 Poetry 139 Mizraim" with its 90°, aud of which the yyf lry-. List of Lodge, &c, Meetings for ensuing- week 140 mate Rite of Memp Notice to- Correspondents 140 his was an offshoot, Says the London " Ereemason " :—¦ "An assembly of the Conservators General of LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1871. the Rite of Mizraim Avas held at i'ree.-nr-.sons'' Tavern, Great Queen Street, on Wednesday, the 28th inst., for the purpose of opining th': ' ' :' ;. -: - c BASTARD MASONRY IN ENGLAND. tive ' Sanctuary, of Levites, the oo of tho R-. -o, n We have just received a Transatlantic Exchange, Supreme Council General of the 90° iiavi .;;^ b;:ea. " Pbmeroy's Democrat/ 3 containing under the regularly formed under the authority eonvc ;'€-i,'. in above expressi ve, if not very elegant heading1, a diploma granted to the 111, Bro. Cremi-;-. -;;, o -' r' the following pungent expose of this latest inno- of the Eite Ecossais, and a member of fchrf "'ir'-ui l vation—the Rite of Misraim. As supplementary to College of Rites in France. our already strongly expressed opinion in connec- " The sanctuary having been formally ..n.t-n&el , with this subject, Ave cannot do better than allow between eighty and a hundred brethren wore duly our readers the advantage of perusing our contem- admitted by sevens at a time, and obligated as porary's article in externa . members of the 33°, and that number, large as it If the signs of the times do not deceive us may appear, would doubtless have been still greatly, France, that hot-house of Masonic so- greater had it not been for the extreme inclemency called degree manufacturing, will be outstripped of the weather, and the absence of many brethren by some of the crack-brained degree-mongers in from toAvn for the Christmas holidays. England. It is not many years since that the so- In our next Ave will furnish more particulars of called " Kite of Memphis " was tabooed by autho- this interesting meeting, merely audi.no- I;!- ;-..;-., :u- rity in England and the effort to establish it though the Rite is noAV attached to the Red Cross failed. The desire for novelty, however, was not Order for administrative purprsee, ancl the 'thirty - thus to be squelched, and not long since under seven conclaves on the roll are authorise-"" ; •::>> ' -¦ the file - leadership of Bro. Robert Went- fer it, yet all non-Christian Master Mai- xv.r: a:- e; worth Little, a yonng Mason, possessed of some eligible for reception into the Order. ¦ literary ability and a cacoeihes scrihendi, revived The Right Hon. the Earl of Bective is ¦/¦¦ .. .yy - as he termed ib " The Ecclesiastical and Military ereign Grand Master (nominate), aud the :- :o'.:. (;n- o Order of the Red Cross of Rome and Constan- officers ere also Provincial Grand Masters vn tli> - tine," as a kind of opposition, if not a substitute Craft, as well as distinguished member's of o-i-t: for the long established " Religious and Military branches of Freemasonry. Under such auspices Order of Knights Templar." Why the Order of the Rite is destined to attain a very high position Eed Cross, which is based on the fiery Cross, in the Masonic world, and we heartily Avish it which Constantine saAV in the Heavens, should every success." This reads very well on paper, but Ave doubt in Paris some ten years ago, but even then ib very strongly the accuracy of the most important was not recognized by the Grand Orient. part of the statement, and that is, that it Avas " for- It consists of ninety degrees, which are divided med under the authority conveyed in a diploma into four series—symbolic, philosophic, mystical) granted to the 111. Bro. Cremieux, 33°, of the and cabilistic—and in each series are seventeen Rite Ecossais, and a member of the Grand College classes. The names of this, more than any other of Rites in France." of the rites, proved that the founders must have 111. Bro. Cremieux is the Sov. Grand Comman- sorely tested their mental faculties. They appear, der and Grand Master ad vitam ot the Supreme indeed, to have been driven to their wits end, for Council of France, Avhich body unlike the Grand the forty-ninth and fiftieth bear the very expressive Orient of France, strictly confines itself to the titles of " Chaos the first and second," while the cultivation of the regular and legitimate degrees fifty-second rejoices in the somewhat profane of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, and has designation of " Supreme Commander of the no entangling alliances, especially with Rites Stars." concocted by degree-sellers in opposition to itself. At the fifty-fifth and fifty-sixth the comic 111. Bro. Adolphe Cremieux has hitherto borne the element predominates ; they are the " Washer" reputation of being a Freemason of the most and " Bellows-blower." Many of the degrees conservative character, and should the statement pretend to be founded upon and borrowed from made in the London " JB reemason prove to be the Rites of Ancient Egypt ; but allowing that correct, Ave have not the least doubt but that both the Rite may have in many degrees an eminently the American Supreme Councils of the Ancient philosophical character, it is altogether too com- Accepted Scottish Rite Avould withdraw their plicated and diffuse ever to be practiced. recognition aud cease all correspondence with the One of its chiefs, Marc Bedarride, in 1835, Supreme Council of France, as they have done published an elaborate work, exponent of its with the Grand Orient. principles, under the title of "De YOrdre Macon- ni " from which we learn that the We are aware that the desire to reach high que de Mizraim, legend of the third degree is abolished in this position in the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite Rite. H. A. B. is said to have returned to his in England is not so rapid as many would Q family after the completion of the Temple, and to desire in that country ; and the grade of 33 is have passed the remainder of his days in peace there guarded Avith the greatest care and Avatchful- and opulence. The legend substituted for that ness by the 111. Brethren composing the Supreme admitted by all other Rites is carried back to the Council of England and Wales and the Depen- days of Lamech, Avhose son Jubal, under the name dencies of Great Britain. This wise cau tion on of Hario-Jubal-Abi, is reported to have been slain its part has given much dissatifaction to aspirants, by three traitors, Haga va, Hakima, and Haremda ! among Avhom Bro. Robert WentAvorth Little, and The traditions of this system are full of anach- his patron Lord Bective, may be classed ; and ronisms, historical events and characters, separated hence their desire to run an opposition of their Q by hundreds of years, being made to fi gure on own with the post-fix 90 tacked onto their other , the same scene at the same time ; and if any of dignities, instead of 33°. our English brethren desire to cultivate it, or any the better under- In order that our readers may other such Masonic counterfeit, we sincerely hope we shall briefl y stand what tbe Rite of Misraim is. they Avill not call it Masonry, but give the elephant .sketch its ori gin, &c. they have paid their money for, its appropriate The Rite of Misraim Avas first promulgated in name, " Humbug !" Italy, in 1805, and WBS said to have been brought from Egypt by a learned philosopher of that country, named Ananiah. It is said its founders PIUS IX. vs. BIBLE SOCIETIES AND were some Masons who had been refused admission FREEMASONRY. to the Supreme Council of the Scotch Rite then The followin g is from " Hitchcock's New organized at Milan . It was established in France Monthly," and appeared just before Victor in 1814, and Avas to be heard of in some Lodges Emmanuel, or rather the Italian people took possession of Rome, and the Grand East of the requisite to the Avell-being of society; but that Grand Orient Avas established in the " Holy time has long since passed away. The temporal City:" power then granted to the clergy has been revoked " Whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad." by the dawning of greater intelligence among the The above quotation never possessed the direct- masses.
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