Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine - 1848 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: records of Freemasonry. He regarded them as the only pure source from which a true knowledge of the end and aim of Freemasonry could be obtained, and a true judg... more »ment of its value formed. He communicated his convictions upon those subjects to the lodges in Hamburgh and some neighbouring states, and thus induced them at the commencement of this century to introduce the ancient ritual, with a few unimportant modifications, made to lessen the objections of other lodges as much as possible. The words which had been introduced upon the continent he abided by. In the course of sixteen years, or at the time of his death, thirty-six lodges wrought by this ritual. It must also have afforded him great satisfaction to have been informed, a short time before his death, that the Brethren in England had taken the same views of Freemasonry as himself, and that this had occurred without any attempt to force his opinions upon them. Many of the landmarks in this portion of the Order were introduced by him. THE GRAND LODGE OF ENGLAND, AND THE REPRESENTATIVE SYSTEM. (Continual .irom p. 430, vol. v.) ' By a certain class of statesmen, and by all men of harsh and violent dispositions, measures of conciliation, adherence to the spirit of laws, regard to ancient privileges, or to those rules of moral justice which are paramount to all positive right, are always treated with derision."—Hallam's Middle Aobs. In my previous letters I have confined myself as nearly as possible to the first words of the "law masonic," or Book of Constitutions—the intentions of the clause, its origination (in its present form), the present difficulty, its apparent impossibility, and the necessity of its operation being adapted to suit the altered circumstances of the extension of the fraternity, from the date of it...« less