Scott Foster
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In Germany, their confraternity had become a cover for the reformers, and Sokinas, seeing in it a means for advancing his sect, a method for winning adepts and progressing stealthily without a
contracting the notice of Catholic governments, would desire no doubt to use it for his purposes.
We have to this day the statutes the genuine Freemasons of Strasbourg framed in fourteen sixty two, and the same revised as late as fifteen sixty three, but in them there is absolutely nothing of heresy or hostility to the Church.
But there is a curious document called the Charter of Cologne, dated fifteen thirty five, which, if it be genuine, proves to us that there existed at that early period a body of Freemasons, having principles identical with those professed by the Masons of our own day.
It is to be found in the archives of the Mother Lodge of Amsterdam, which also preserves the act of its own constitution under the date of fifteen nineteen and
It reveals the existence of lodges of kindred intent in London, Edinburgh, Vienna, Amsterdam, Paris, Lyon, Frankfort, Hamburg, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Madrid, Venice, Goriz, Kenigsburg, Brussels, Danzig, Magdeburg, Bremen, and Cologne, and it bears the signatures of well known enemies of the Church at that period, namely Hermanus, or Herman de Vere, the immoral and heretical archbishop at Louis.
Elector of Cologne placed for his misdeeds under the ban of the Empire, de Coligny, leader of the Huguenots of France, Jacob Danville, prior of the Augustinians of Cologne, who incurred the same reproaches as Archbishop Herman, Melanthon the Reformer, Nicholas Van Newt, Carlton, Bruce, Upson, Banning, Virault, Schroeder, Hoffman,
Nobel, De La Torre, Doria, Utenbo, Falque, Hussein, and Vermer.
These names reveal both the country and the celebrity of all the men who signed the document.
It was possibly a society like theirs, which the Venetian government broke up and scattered in fifteen forty seven, for we find distinct mention of a lodge existing at Venice in fifteen thirty five.
However this may be, Freemason lodges existed in Scotland from the time of the Reformation.
One of them is referred to in the Charter of Cologne and doubtless had many affiliations.
In Scotland, as in other Catholic countries, the Templars were suppressed, and there, if nowhere else, that order had the guilds of working masons under its special protection.
It is therefore possible, as some say, that the knights coalesced with these masons and protected their own machinations with the
with the aid of the secrets of the craft.
But while this and all else stated regarding the connection of the Templars with masonry may be true, there is no real evidence that it is so.
Much is said about the building of the Temple of Solomon, and that the harem killed, and whose death the craft is to avenge, means James Molay, the grand master, executed in the barbarous manner of his age for supposed complicity in the crimes with which the Templars were everywhere charged.
There is tall talk about such things in modern masonry, and a great deal of the absurd and poorel ritual in which the sect indulges when conferring the higher grades is supposed to have reference to them.
But the Freemasonry with which we have to deal, however connected in its origin with the Templars, with Sokinus, with the conspirators of Cologne, or those of Vicenza, or with Cromwell, received its modern characteristics from Elias Ashmole, the antiquary, and the provider, if not the founder, of the Oxford Museum.
Ashmel was an alchemist and an astrologer, and imbued consequently with a love for the jargon and mysticism of that strange body so busied about the philosopher's stone and other utopias.
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