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The Sanctuary Of Memphis, Or Hermes:

1756 , However , Brother Lacorne , delegated by the Count de Chermont , established in 1761 a Grand Lodge , which , although at first disagreeing , fraternised on the 24 th . January , 1762 , through the labours of M . Chaillon de Gouville , his successor ; but , in 1765 , a complete rupture took place . Those two Grand Lodges anathematised each other , and matters came to such a pass

that "work" ceased on the 24 th June , 1767 . The first Grand Lodge resumed work on the 21 st June , 1772 . The second did the same on the 24 th December of the same year , constituting- themselves under the title of the Grand Orient , a title nnder which it still continues to be known . On the 5 th of March , 1773 , the first assemblage of the Grand Orient took laceand it proclaimed its public existence on the 9 th of the same month .

p , On the 24 th of July following- the Duke of Luxembourg , its Grand Master , installed the three chambers which then composed the Lodge , and on the 28 th October of that year Louis Phillipe Joseph d'Orleans AA'as elected Grand Master .

The Grand Lodge declared , on the 17 th June , 17 c 4 , that the Grand Orient had acted both usurpingly and irregular ; but , deprived , as it would appear , of influential and capable membership , and without assistance outside , it could merely limit its vindication to a barren contest of pamphlets and misconceived decisions . During this time the Grand Orient strode forward rapidly towards a Masonic unitynow become desirableand effected numerous ameliorations .

, , On the 14 th June , 1773 , it suppressed the irremovableness of the Venerables , who were then Masters of Lodges from whence issued the grade of Magister ad vitam ( Master for life ) . On the 23 rd October following the Grand Orient for the first time issued the six-monthly pass-word—a custom which has ever since prevailed . At length , on the 27 th December , 1774 , the Grand Orient substituted the name of the " Masonic Order" for that of the " Royal Art "

( Collection of Precepts ) . On the 13 th May , 1793 , the Grand Mastership was declared vacant in consequence of the resignation of its titulary , the Duke of Orleans . And the Grand Orient and the Grand Lodge resumed the business of the Order in 1796 .

Through the anxious and careful management of Brother Roitier de Montalau , a contract of union , the need of which had been long and universally felt , was entered into and signed on the 21 st May , 1799 ; and the meeting of the contesting institutions took place on the 22 nd June subsequently—the Grand Orient absorbing the " Grand Lodge . " Thus terminated the scandalous discussions ancl dissensions — all anathemas retracted , and all exclusions revoked .

During those quarrels of the Grand Lodge and of the Grand Orient , and even anteriorly , other rites were established in France . On the 15 th of April , 1747 , Charles Edwart Stuart , the grandson of James II . of England , and son of the Prinee called the "Old Pretender , " opened at Arras a primordial Chapter of the "Scottish Jacobite . " In 1754 the Chevalier de Bonneville founded the Hierophant Grand Lodge , named De Clermont . The Knights of

the Empires of the East and of the West established themselves at Paris in 1758 , and in the following year a Chapter of the Fathers of the R . \ S . \ was established in Bordeaux . At length , Pirlet founded , on the 22 nd of July , 1722 , the Cons . ' , des Chev . ' . d'Oiv . ( Council of the Knights of the East ) ; and on the 21 st September , same year , the Council of the Empires of the East and West and that of the R . ' . S . \ arrested Masonry from perfection at the

25 th degree . Stephen Morin , a Jew , had received , in the preceding- year , authorisation from the-Lodge of the Knights of the East and the West to propagate Masonry in America , whence Brother Hocquet in 1803 , ancl Brother Grasse-Tilley in 1804 , reported to France , the first with 25 , the second with 33 degrees .

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THE SANCTUARY OF MEMPHIS, OR HERMES: Article 1
THE HEATHER-CLAD MOOR. Article 9
A VISIT TO THE ENGLISH LAKES. Article 10
THE DAY IS DYING. Article 15
MASONIC CRAM. Article 16
TRYING TO CHANGE A SOVEREIGN. Article 17
MASONIC HYMN. Article 25
JOTTINGS AT HIGH XII. IN THE HOLY LAND. Article 26
THE CARBONARI. Article 28
AUTUMN. Article 30
BEATRICE. Article 31
NOTES ON LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART. Article 35
TWO PICTURES. Article 37
MASONIC READING. Article 38
CONDITION OF FREEMASONRY IN SPAIN. Article 40
MUSIC. Article 41
ANNIVERSARY OF ST. JOHN. Article 41
THE EMIGRANT. Article 42
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The Sanctuary Of Memphis, Or Hermes:

1756 , However , Brother Lacorne , delegated by the Count de Chermont , established in 1761 a Grand Lodge , which , although at first disagreeing , fraternised on the 24 th . January , 1762 , through the labours of M . Chaillon de Gouville , his successor ; but , in 1765 , a complete rupture took place . Those two Grand Lodges anathematised each other , and matters came to such a pass

that "work" ceased on the 24 th June , 1767 . The first Grand Lodge resumed work on the 21 st June , 1772 . The second did the same on the 24 th December of the same year , constituting- themselves under the title of the Grand Orient , a title nnder which it still continues to be known . On the 5 th of March , 1773 , the first assemblage of the Grand Orient took laceand it proclaimed its public existence on the 9 th of the same month .

p , On the 24 th of July following- the Duke of Luxembourg , its Grand Master , installed the three chambers which then composed the Lodge , and on the 28 th October of that year Louis Phillipe Joseph d'Orleans AA'as elected Grand Master .

The Grand Lodge declared , on the 17 th June , 17 c 4 , that the Grand Orient had acted both usurpingly and irregular ; but , deprived , as it would appear , of influential and capable membership , and without assistance outside , it could merely limit its vindication to a barren contest of pamphlets and misconceived decisions . During this time the Grand Orient strode forward rapidly towards a Masonic unitynow become desirableand effected numerous ameliorations .

, , On the 14 th June , 1773 , it suppressed the irremovableness of the Venerables , who were then Masters of Lodges from whence issued the grade of Magister ad vitam ( Master for life ) . On the 23 rd October following the Grand Orient for the first time issued the six-monthly pass-word—a custom which has ever since prevailed . At length , on the 27 th December , 1774 , the Grand Orient substituted the name of the " Masonic Order" for that of the " Royal Art "

( Collection of Precepts ) . On the 13 th May , 1793 , the Grand Mastership was declared vacant in consequence of the resignation of its titulary , the Duke of Orleans . And the Grand Orient and the Grand Lodge resumed the business of the Order in 1796 .

Through the anxious and careful management of Brother Roitier de Montalau , a contract of union , the need of which had been long and universally felt , was entered into and signed on the 21 st May , 1799 ; and the meeting of the contesting institutions took place on the 22 nd June subsequently—the Grand Orient absorbing the " Grand Lodge . " Thus terminated the scandalous discussions ancl dissensions — all anathemas retracted , and all exclusions revoked .

During those quarrels of the Grand Lodge and of the Grand Orient , and even anteriorly , other rites were established in France . On the 15 th of April , 1747 , Charles Edwart Stuart , the grandson of James II . of England , and son of the Prinee called the "Old Pretender , " opened at Arras a primordial Chapter of the "Scottish Jacobite . " In 1754 the Chevalier de Bonneville founded the Hierophant Grand Lodge , named De Clermont . The Knights of

the Empires of the East and of the West established themselves at Paris in 1758 , and in the following year a Chapter of the Fathers of the R . \ S . \ was established in Bordeaux . At length , Pirlet founded , on the 22 nd of July , 1722 , the Cons . ' , des Chev . ' . d'Oiv . ( Council of the Knights of the East ) ; and on the 21 st September , same year , the Council of the Empires of the East and West and that of the R . ' . S . \ arrested Masonry from perfection at the

25 th degree . Stephen Morin , a Jew , had received , in the preceding- year , authorisation from the-Lodge of the Knights of the East and the West to propagate Masonry in America , whence Brother Hocquet in 1803 , ancl Brother Grasse-Tilley in 1804 , reported to France , the first with 25 , the second with 33 degrees .

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