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The Masonic Magazine, May 1, 1877: Page 4

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Monthly Masonic Summary.

Monthly Masonic Summary .

We have little to report this month . Our Royal Grand Master has been suffering from an abscess , but has noAV happily recovered , ancl has started for Villafranca , via , Paris . H . E . H . the Princess of Wales has left for Athens .

ivhere she has arrived safely , and amid great popular enthusiasm . Sir G . Elliott has been installed P . G . M . for South Wales , before a large gathering , and amid much applause ;

many of our JVI asonic notabilities Avere present . The struggle in France continues , though Avhat the result may be , at present it is almost impossible to predict .

We are still very hopeful that the good sense of the French brethren , alike in Paris and the provinces , will resent the dictation of a turbulent minority , and prevent the isolation of French

Freemasonry , Avhich , if this unhappy revolution is accomplished , will undoubtedly take place . Some of our French brethren appear to have very lax notions of Masonic national or

international law . Indeed , they seem to have a tendency to no law at all , to Masonic anarchy , to the destructive theory of a Masonic " Commune . " ¦ A Bro . Adrien Grimaux ( we

believe an able writer otherwise ) , has distinguished himself , ( pace Brother Caubet ) , with asserting the following paradoxes in the "Monde Magonnique , "—first , that a spurious so-called

Grande Loge des Philadelphes , etc ., is not spurious because the English Grand Lodge refused it a warrant ; and , secondly , that it is not clandestine , because it openly asserted its existence .

These theories are happily novel in England , though they appear not to be altogether unknoAvn in the United States , where , hoAvever , the same Masonic theories of Law and Order

happily exist as here . We think it right to note them for the information of all Masonic friends , and to reprobate , them in the face of the civilized and lawful Masonic Avorld .

This illegal body is otherwise practically beneath notice , and may well be left to its OAvn utter insignificance . 2 N

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Untitled Article 1
Untitled Article 2
Untitled Article 3
Monthly Masonic Summary. Article 4
THOMAS CARLYLE. Article 5
EXTRACTS FROM THE MINUTES OF THE ROYAL ARCH CHAPTER OF CONCORD ATTACHED TO THE ANCHOR AND HOPE LODGE, No, 37, BOLTON. Article 5
WONDERS OF OPERATIVE MASONRY. Article 10
ELEGIAC. Article 14
AN OLD, OLD STORY. Article 15
NOTES ON THE OLD MINUTE BOOKS OF THE BRITISH UNION LODGE, NO 114, IPSWICH. A.D. 1762. Article 18
SONNET. Article 21
Tribil and Mechanical Engineer's Society. Article 22
A BROTHER'S ADVICE. Article 25
THE WAY WE LIVE NOW. Article 25
CARPENTERS' HALL. Article 28
THE LADY MURIEL. Article 29
LINES TO THE CRAFT. Article 33
CONTEMPORARY LETTERS ON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. Article 33
RECIT EXACT DU GRAND COMBAT LIVRE A NANCY. Article 35
THE UNDER CURRENT OF LIFE. Article 38
THE ETERNITY OF LOVE: A POET'S DREAM. Article 39
THE ORIGIN AND REFERENCES OF THE HERMESIAN SPURIOUS FREEMASONRY. Article 40
THE WOUNDED CAPTAIN. Article 43
THE SECRET OF LOVE. Article 45
CHIPS FROM A MASONIC WORKSHOP. Article 46
M.\ M.\ M.\ Article 48
NOTES ON LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND ART. Article 48
ANSWERS 'TO DOT'S MASONIC ENIGMA. Article 51
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Monthly Masonic Summary.

Monthly Masonic Summary .

We have little to report this month . Our Royal Grand Master has been suffering from an abscess , but has noAV happily recovered , ancl has started for Villafranca , via , Paris . H . E . H . the Princess of Wales has left for Athens .

ivhere she has arrived safely , and amid great popular enthusiasm . Sir G . Elliott has been installed P . G . M . for South Wales , before a large gathering , and amid much applause ;

many of our JVI asonic notabilities Avere present . The struggle in France continues , though Avhat the result may be , at present it is almost impossible to predict .

We are still very hopeful that the good sense of the French brethren , alike in Paris and the provinces , will resent the dictation of a turbulent minority , and prevent the isolation of French

Freemasonry , Avhich , if this unhappy revolution is accomplished , will undoubtedly take place . Some of our French brethren appear to have very lax notions of Masonic national or

international law . Indeed , they seem to have a tendency to no law at all , to Masonic anarchy , to the destructive theory of a Masonic " Commune . " ¦ A Bro . Adrien Grimaux ( we

believe an able writer otherwise ) , has distinguished himself , ( pace Brother Caubet ) , with asserting the following paradoxes in the "Monde Magonnique , "—first , that a spurious so-called

Grande Loge des Philadelphes , etc ., is not spurious because the English Grand Lodge refused it a warrant ; and , secondly , that it is not clandestine , because it openly asserted its existence .

These theories are happily novel in England , though they appear not to be altogether unknoAvn in the United States , where , hoAvever , the same Masonic theories of Law and Order

happily exist as here . We think it right to note them for the information of all Masonic friends , and to reprobate , them in the face of the civilized and lawful Masonic Avorld .

This illegal body is otherwise practically beneath notice , and may well be left to its OAvn utter insignificance . 2 N