Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-02-01
MASONIC INTELLIGENCE.
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AnERICAN masonic TEMPLARIsH

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AMERICAN MASONIC TEMPLARIsH.
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rCoScLUDKD from LAST sATURDAYl
The order of the Temple never ceased
to exist in Scotland. During the four
teenth Century the Templars there came
to honorable terms with the Hospitallers,
and lhey lived together in the same Pre-
ceptoTy. At the Reformation in Scot
lard, the existing Preceptor, embracing
Professionalism, resigned the whole pro-
perty belonging both to the Hospital and
the Temple, and received from the
Crown a charter, conveying them all 10
himself under the title Of Lord Torhichen.
Tae Tsmplar portion Of the Precepiory,
who adhered to the Catholic religion,
/ placed themselves under DAVID SEAToNi 5
( and thouEh they occasionally admitted
ProlestaLls iuto the order, it continued
ia tho hands OF the High Church party
/ tiH the end Of the last century. The
I G aud Master, Viscount Dundee (C!av-
/ erE0usc), was slain at Killikrankie,
/ July y, 1889, with the Grand Cross OF
the Order on his person. Prince
f. Charles Edward i5tusrt was admitted at
Hoiyrood, September "a, l745, and be-
! came the Grand Master, which Office he
/ held until his death in January, l7SS.
! We know that the Order was not de-
[ sfroyed in Scotland, when II disappeared
/ elsewhere early in the Fourteenth Cen
turv. The Prince Charles Edward was
| die lawful Grand Master Of the Order in
/ that country; and he was also Mason
/ OF thq Scottish Rte; for he granted q
Chsrter for q Rose CfOiX Chapter at Arras
In I747.
There is no Goubt that The Degrees OF
f. rriaee Of Jerusalem, Rose Croix, and
KaIo.h we're ell ased in succession by
the TempiaTs, t5 conceal the continuance
Of their existence aud organization.
There is intrinsic evidence OF this ia these
DEGREES; end by the rebuilding of the
Temple vss siguifiei there establishment
Of the Order Of the Temple. No one
knows how old the Ro-e Croix and Ka-
dosa Degrees are.
Prince Charles Edward was defeated
1t CuIIo6sn on the l65h OF April, 1875, |
and made his escape TO France as soon as
possible. Most Of the Tempiars went |
into exile with him, and soon after the |
Rite of HeredUm was established in /
France, snd was carried thence into !
Englaud by the seeding Masous. The /
only TempIsr Degree in England, of |
which there Is any authentic account /
Whatever, was the KsdOsh, which thus
was introduced there and this is proven
by he TACT that in the certificate for.
merlv given by the Grand Conclave of |
England, " the Degree with the ladder
O. seven steps is alluded to.
Tae article from which we quote states
tuat about 15lSi9, many interesting
TsmpIsr and other documents, bearing
on military topics, belonging to the So.
eill Lodge, which bad st one time been
attached 20 some Regiment, tCg-ittcn in
French" were burned in presence of
Bro. Jsmes Lazarus Threlfall, in the
staBle yard Of the old Bssr's Head, Hyde
Cross, :" on account of the stringent
measures Government We're using for
surprszsing secl ct societies, and the fesr
lest, if found, such documents might be
misiDterpreted" The reason given is
obviously false. England Is free coun-
Try, where there ere laws and CInsti
{ alton: and there was DO necessity for
burning the documents IN question. No
person will doubt chat they
were destroyed because they too plainly
proved. 5zi7g lc7'itea In French, that
80 the order Of High Knights Tenplsr,"
the Order of St John Of Jerusalem,
lcallsi Knights remplar,") the Royal
az,5 Exalted. Religious and Military Or
ders Of HesedoIn, Gram Eiected Masonic
Knights Templars Kadosh Of st. John
Of jerusalem, Palestine, etc }" was
simply the Kaiosh Of the Continent,
trausplanted into England. Dunck-
erly established it in 1871, Of
his Olrn authority, constituting him
self The head Of it, creating
the Grand C)nclave, aud forming a
few statutes for regulating it. OF course
it Yves easy to change the Kadosh work,
when it wss deer med advisable to disown
its origin, and the new emblems Of " the
scrip, cup, sword and saw,
lamb, cork and crown OF thorns made
their appearance 10 1t. Ghe Cross and
5erreat Of the Knight Of the Brazen
Serpent, and the dOGbIe-headed Eagle,
still remained, nevertheless, to betrsy it's
origin; with the Scottish Rite ages, q
and 81, and The phrases nc plus ultra,
20 Kadosbs-T Templar" aud "Heredom
Eadosh." The Priestly Order, also, dis
played the Seven-brsnched Candlestick |
and the Book with Seven S ,sles, of the
I7th degree.
As TO the Baldwin Encampment,"
one Of the "ImmemOrial " ones, we
ind that at : meeting of the Conclave
St. John Of jerusalem az Manchester, ia
Nav, lG45, among the members admitted
was " job LacEyer Scale, NJ. D, p. P. G..
: T S1mersstshire, and P. g. Rose
gcoix Of the Baldwin Eucampment Of
ne Prince Ndsoas Of Bristol"
" Prince Masons" was the designa- {
ion, in France, in 1892 aud before that
lime, Of the Sublime Princes Of the Royal |
Secret, 2j h degree Of the Rite Of Perfec
ion: aud when we learn that the Bris-
.ol Eucampment worked the Rose Croix
,r lS.h degree, we know the meaning OF
IS claim 70 be called IR1meDlOrial.
Bro Oliver says, II ind that, in
I7Si, the twenty-five degrees of Here
loan were practised at York by body
.bat--lA- cues and TrfInmIngs. ALI !