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1. A Free Mason's answer to the Suspected Author of a Pamphlet entitled " Jachin and Boaz," or an authenticKey to Freemasonry, p. 10 (1762).2. Quoted by R.F. Gould, History of Freemasonry, I. 5, 6.3. Signs and Symbols of Primordial Man, p. 1 (1910).4. Ars Quatuor Coronatorum, XXXII. Part I. p. 47.5. Preston's Illustrations of Masonry. pp. 143, 147, 153 (1804).6. John Yarker, The Arcane Schools, pp. 269, 327, 329.7. Published in the Essai sur la Secte des Illuminés by the Marquis de Luchet p. 236 (1792 edition).8. Brother Chalmers Paton, The Origin of Freemasonry: the 1717 Theory Exploded, quoting ancient chargespreserved in a MS. in possession of the Lodge of Antiquity in London, written in the reign of James II, but "supposed to be really of much more ancient date."9. Ars Quatuor Coronatorum, XXV. p. 240, paper by J. E. S. Tuckett on Dr. Rawlinson and the MasonicEntries in Elias Ashmole's Diary, with facsimile of entry in Diary which is preserved in the Bodleian Library(Ashmole MS. 1136. fol. 19).10. Yarker, The Arcane Schools, p. 383.11. Preston's Illustration of Masonry, p. 208 (1804).12. The Origins of Freemasonry: the 1717 Theory Exploded.13. The Rev. G. Oliver, The Historical Landmarks of Freemasonry, pp, 55, 57, 62, 318 (1845).14. Signs and Symbols of Primordial Man, p. 185 (1910).15. Signs and Symbols of Primordial Man, p. 8 (1910).16. Ibid., p. 7. The German Freemason Findel disagrees with both the Roman Collegia and the Egypt theory,and, like the Abbé Grandidier, indicates the Steinmetzen of the fifteenth century as the real progenitors ofthe Order: " All attempts to trace the history of Freemasonry farther back than the Middle Ages have been...failures, and plating the origin of the Fraternity in the mysteries of Egypt... must be rejected as a wild anduntenable hypothesis."-History of Freemasonry (Eng. trans.), p. 25.17. Dr. Oliver and Dr. Mackey thus refer to true and spurious Masonry, the former descending from Noah,through Shem, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Moses to Solomon-hence the appellation of Noachites sometimesapplied to Freemasons-the latter from Cain and the Gymnosophists of India to Egypt and Greece. They addthat a union between the two took place at the time of the building of the Temple of Solomon through HiramAbiff, who was a member of both, being by birth a Jew and artificer of Tyre, and from this union Freemasonrydescends. According to Mackey, therefore Jewish Masonry is the true form.-A Lexicon of Freemasonry,pp. 323-5; Oliver's Historical Landmarks of Freemasonry, I. 60.18. Rev. G. Oliver, The Historical Landmarks of Freemasonry, pp. 55, (1845)19. The Jewish Encyclopædia (article on Freemasonry) characterizes the name Hiram Abiff as a misunderstandingof 2 Chron. ii. 13.20. Clavel, Histoire pittoresque de la Franc-Maçonnerie, p. 340; Matter, Histoire du Gnosticisme, I. 145.21. Article on Freemasonry, giving reference to Pesik, R.V. 25a (ed. Friedmann).22. Clavel, op. cit., 364, 365; Lecouteulx de Canteleu, Les Sectes et Sociétés Secrètes, p. 120.23. Clavel, op. cit., p. 82.24. Yarker, The Arcane Schools, p. 257.25. Ibid., p. 242.26. " According to Prof. Marks and Prof. Hayter Lewis, the story of Hiram Abiff is at least as old as thefourteenth century."-J.E.S. Tuckett in The Origin of Additional Degrees, A.Q.C. XXXII. Part I. p. 14. Itshould be noted that no Mason who took part in the discussion brought evidence to show that it dated frombefore this period. Cf. Freemasonry Before the Existence of Grand Lodges (1923), by Wor. Bro. Lionel Vibert,I.C.S., p. 135, where it is suggested that the Hiramic legend dates from an incident in one of the Frenchbuilding guilds in 1401.Nesta H. Webster — Secret Societies and Subversive Movements — Part I— 69 —
27. Yarker, op. cit., p. 348; Eckert, op. cit., II. 36.28. Eckert, op. cit., II. 28.29. " The Essenes, in common with other Syrian sects possessed and adhered to the ' true principles ' ofFreemasonry."-Bernard H. Springett, Secret Sects of Syria and the Lebanon, p. 91.30. " The esoteric doctrine of the Judeo-Christian mysteries evidently penetrated into the masonic guilds(ateliers) only with the entry of the Templars after the destruction of their Order."-Eckert, op. cit., II. 28.31. La Comtesse de Rudolstadt, II. 185.32. Ragon, Cours philosophique des Initiations, p. 34.33. Mr. Sidney Klein in Ars Quatuor Coronatorum, XXXII. Part I. pp. 42, 43.34. John Yarker, The Arcane School, pp. 195, 318, 341, 342, 361.35. Ibid., p. 196.36. Official history of the Order of Scotland quoted by Bro. Fred. H, Buckmaster in The Royal Order ofScotland, published at the offices of The Freemason, pp. 3, 5, 7; A.E. Waite, Encyclopædia of Freemasonry,II. 219; Yarker, The Arcane School, p. 330; Mackey, Lexicon of Freemasonry, p. 267.37. Baron Westerode in the Acta Latomorum (1784), quoted by Mackey, op. cit. 265. Mr. Bernard H. Springettalso asserts that this degree " originated in the East (Secret Sects of Syria and the Lebanon, p. 294).38. Chevalier de Bérage, Les Plus Secret Mystères des Hauts Grades de la Maçonnerie dévoilés, ou le vraiRose Croix (1768); Waite, The Secret Tradition in Freemasonry, I. 3.39. In 1784 some French Freemasons wrote to their English brethren saying: It concerns us to know if therereally exists in the island of Mull, formerly Melrose... in the North of Scotland, a Mount Heredom, or if itdoes not exist." In reply a leading Freemason, General Rainsford, referred them to the words (Har Adonai),i.e. Mount of God (Notes on the Rainsford papers in A.Q.C., XXVI. 99). A more probable explanation appears,however, to be that Heredom is a corruption of the Hebrew word " Harodim " signifying princes orrulers.40. F.H. Buckmaster, The Royal Order of Scotland, p. 5. Lecouteulx de Canteleu says, however, that Kilwinninghad been the great meeting-place of Masonry since 1150 (Les Sectes et Sociétés Secrètes, p. 104).Eckert, op cit., II, 33.41. Mackey, Lexicon of Freemasonry, p. 267.42. Clavel, op. cit., p. 90; Eckert, op. cit., II. 27.43. A.E. Waite, The Secret Tradition in Freemasonry, I. 8.44. " Our names of E.A., F.C., and M.M. were derived from Scotland."-A.Q.C., XXXII. Part I. p. 40. Clavel,however, says that these existed in the Roman Collegia (Histoire pittoresque, p. 82).45. Religious Thought and Heresy in the Middle Ages, p. 372.46. The Spirit of Islam, p. 337.47. Secret Sects of Syria and the Lebanon, p. 181 (1922).48. See, for example, Bouillet's Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire et de Géographie (1860), article on Templars:" Les Franc-Maçons prétendent se rattacher à cette secte."49. Lexicon of Freemasonry, p. 185.50. Findel, Geschichte der Freimaurerei, II. 156, 157 (1892 edition). Dr. Bussell (op. cit, p. 804), referring toDupuy's work, also observes: " An editor of a later edition (Brussels, 1751) undoubtedly was a Freemasonwho tried to clear the indictment and affiliate to the condemned Order the new and rapidly increasing brotherhoodof speculative deism."51. The Royal Order of Scotland.52. Manuel des Chevaliers de l'Ordre du Temple, p. 10 (1825 edition).53. Oration of Chevalier Ramsay (1737); Baron Tschoudy, L'Étoile Flamboyante I. 20 (1766).54. The description of the Vehmic Tribunals that follows here is largely taken from Lombard de Langres,Nesta H. Webster — Secret Societies and Subversive Movements — Part I— 70 —
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system of the Jewish hierarchy and
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