Masonic Cyclopaedia.

Axe , the 32 nd of the 90 grades of the Rite of Misraim , HACK , Jacob W . B . E . Von . —The name is also written " Haack , " was in 1762 member of the Lodge " Gur Eenigheit" in Frankfort , A . M ., and from 1764 until 1766 its W . M . He was also a member of the

Strict Observance . Kloss mentions two or three of his addresses , and especially one which he delivered December 27 th , 1768 , at the admission of Louis VIII ., Landgrave of Hesse Darmstadt , when he appears to have been W . M . of the Lodge " Zu den dei

Distelu , " at Frankfort-on-the-Main . HACQUET . —A French brother , formerly a " notaire" at Port-au-Prince , and one of the founders of the General Grand Lodge of the "Rite Amien et Accepted" in Paris , 1801 . He was also a member of the Grand

Orient in 1804 and 1810 , and was President of the Royal Arch Chapter at Paris in 1814 . HADAMAK , P . H . —W . M . of the Lodge Vereiniggten Freunde , ' in Mayence , who delivered an address at the Whiter St . John's , 1819 .

HADLY , BENJAMIN . —An English brother present at the Special Lodge at the Hague for the reception of the Duke of Tuscany and Lorraine , afterwards the Emperor Francis I . Anderson and Eutich Noorthouck , in the Constitutions of 1738 , 1767 , 1784 , mention the names of John Stanhope and John Hollvendaf as the Wardens .

Preston , however ( Oliver ' s Edition , 1861 ) states that Bro . Benjamin Hadly and a Dutch brother were the two Wardens on that occasion . Of him nothing more seems to be known . HAGAB . —Bro . Dr . Oliver has used the difference as existing between the sons of

Sarah and Hagar , as significant in the teaching of older Masonry of the necessity of gender freeborn candidates , We believe , however , that the teaching is entirely modern , and the question of freeborn ( see " Freeborn" ) rests upon an entirely

different ground , the need of which has long since passed away . HAGGAI . —The Prophet , born in Babylon , and with ¦ Zerubbabel and Joshua aided to restore and dedicate the temple at Jerusalem , B . c . 516 . His name is given to the Third

Principal in a Royal Arch Chapter . Curiously enough , Bro . H . Warren found his seal during his researches in subterranean Jerusalem . HAGUE , —The capital of Holland , called

also " La Have , and Haag , " in Dutch it is Gravenhage . Freemasonry was founded practically there in 17 31 , bythe special Lodge which , under a dispensation from Lord Lovel , G . M ., initiated the Duke of Tuscany and Lorraine . There is no trustworthy

evidence , in our opinion , of the Lodge Het Vredendal , or Frederick Venda , which is said to have beem founded by an Englishman in 1637 , some even say from 1519 to 1601 , on an English warrant , though , as far as we know , no warrants were given until the 18 th

century . A French lodge seems to have been founded there in 1734 , " Loge du Grand Maitre des Provinces uniesetdu resort de la Generalite , " at the Golden Lion at the Hague , by Vincent de la Chapelle mainly . A Dutch Lodge , was formed it is said , in 1735 , under the name of "Le Venerable Zele . " There seems

also about this time another Lodge , termed L'Union , to have beenformedby VonDagran , and this , and the Veritable Zele , and the Lodge La Royale , the third in order of consideration , led to the formation of the National Grand Lodge , December 25 th , 1756 . HAIBER . —A French brotherwho

trans-, lated Kurtis ' s History of Pope Innocent III . Paris , 1838 . HALE . —More properly Hele . Means to cover , to conceal . It is clearly an A . Saxon word , and is derived , it has been often suggestedfrom the A . Saxon Helanwhich it is

, , said is pronounced " halan , " to cover or conceal . The word is still in use in the West . of England we are told , and a " helliar" is said to answer to the Latin ' * tegulator . " It has been , however , pointed out that as

the word " Hillyer" or " Hilliar" is also used , it may come more properly from " hilan , " A . S ., to conceal or cover , not " helan . " There is another meaning to it , which probably comes from the Saxon " hael , " exemplified in the old form , " drinc hael" " waes hael , " or from the old word

, heyle , hale , healthy . It is a word well known to Freemasons . " Hele , " in the sense of conceal , was an expression in use among the old guild formulae , though the word "heyle , " health , was also written "hele , " and is to be found in many of the guild

ordinances . Some one has suggested that the word maybe also a corruption of " halde , " to hold fast or firm , but we prefer the more obvious or A . Saxon use . This is one among little indicia of the real Antiquity of our usages and ritual ,