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21. Encyclopdia of Freemasonry, II. 56.
22. A.Q.C., Vol. XXXII. Part I. p. 23.
23. Correspondence on Lord Derwentwater in Morning Post for September 15, 1922. Mr. Waite (The Secret
Tradition in Freemasonry I. 113) wrongly gives the name of Lord Derwentwater as John Radcliffe and in his
Encyclopdia of Freemasonry as James Radcliffe. But James was the name of the third Earl, beheaded in
1716.
24. Gould, op. cit. III. 138. " The founders were all of them Britons."-A.Q.C., XXXII. Part I. p. 6.
25. " If we turn to our English engraved lists we find that whatever Lodge (or Lodges) may have existed in
Paris in 1725 must have been unchartered, for the first French Lodge on our roll is on the list for 1730-32....
It would appear probable... that Derwentwater's Lodge... was an informal Lodge and did not petition for warrant
till 1732."-Gould, History of Freemasonry, III. 138.
26. John Yarker, The Arcane Schools, p. 462.
27. Gautier de Sibert, Histoire des Ordres Royaux, Hospitaliers-Militaires de Notre-Dame du Carmel et de
Saint-Lazare de Jérusalem, Vol. II. p. 193 (Paris, 1772).
28. This oration has been published several times and has been variously attributed to Ramsay and the Duc
d'Antin. The author of a paper in A.Q.C., XXXII. Part I., says on p. 7: " Wether Ramsay delivered his
speech or not is doubtful, but it is certain that he wrote it. It was printed in an obscure and obscene Paris paper
called the Almanach des Cocus for 1741 and is there said to have been ' pronounced ' by ' Monsieur de
R-Grand Orateur de l'Ordre.' It was again printed in 1742 by Bro. De la Tierce in his Histoire, Obligations
et Status, etc.,... and De la Tierce says that it was ' prononcé par le Grand Maître des Francs-Maçons de
France ' in the year 1740.... A.G. Jouast (Histoire du G.O., 1865) says the Oration was delivered at the Installation
of the Duc d'Antin as G.M. on 24th June, 1738, and the same authority states that it was first printed
at the Hague in 1738, bound with some poems attributed to Voltaire, and some licentious tales by
Piron.... Bro. Gould remarks: ' If such a work really existed at that date, it was probably the original of the "
Lettre philosophique par M. de V-,avec plusieurs pièces galantes," London, 1757.' " Mr. Gould has,
however, provided very good evidence that Ramsay was the author of the oration by Daruty's discovery of
the letter to Cardinal Fleury, which together with the oration itself (translated from De la Tierce's version)
he reproduces in his History of Freemasonry Vol. III. p. 84.
29. A.Q.C., XXII. Part I. p. 10.
30. Les plus secrets mystères des Hauts Grades de la Maçonnerie dévoilés, ou le vrai Rose-Croix. A Jerusalem.
M.DCC.LXVII. (A.Q.C., Vol. XXXII. Part I. p. 13. refers, however, to an edition of 1747).
31. As Godefroi de Bouillon died in 1100, I conclude his name to have been introduced here in error by de
Bérage or the date of 1330 to have been a misprint.
32. Dr. Mackey confirms this assertion, Lexicon of Freemasonry, p. 304.
33. Etoile Flamboyante, I pp. 18-20.
34. The same theory that Freemasonry originated in Palestine as a system of protection for the Christian
faith is given almost verbatim in the instructions to the candidate for initiation into the degree of " Prince of
the Royal Secret " published in Monitor of Freemasonry (Chicago, 1860), where it is added that " the
brethren assembled round the tomb of Hiram, is a representation of the disciples lamenting the death of
Christ on the Cross." Weishaupt, founder of the eighteenth-century Illuminati, also showed-although in a
spirit of mockery-how easily the legend of Hiram could be interpreted in this manner, and suggested that at
the periods when the Christians were persecuted they enveloped their doctrines in secrecy and symbolism. "
That was necessary in times and places where the Christians lived among the heathens, for example in the
East at the time of the Crusades."-Nachtrag zur Originalschriften, Part II. p. 123.
35. Étoile Flamboyante, pp. 24-9.
36. Gould, History of Freemasonry, III. 92.
37. Mackey's Lexicon of Freemasonry, p. 267.
38. Oliver's Landmarks of Freemasonry, II. 81, note 35.
39. Lexicon of Freemasonry, p. 270.
40. Clavel, Histoire pittoresque de la Franc-Maconnerie, p. 166.
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