Part 7 (1/2)
Always, however, despite defection and decline, there were those, as we shall see, ere faithful to the ideals of the order, devoting the until what has come to be known as ”the revival of 1717”
FOOTNOTES:
[65] _The Cathedral Builders_, chap i
[66] ”The honor due to the original founders of these edifices is almost invariably transferred to the ecclesiastics under whose patronage they rose, rather than to the skill and design of the Master Mason, or professional architect, because the only historians were eometrical science as the Master Masons, forin a very liland_; and his words are the hty for that he is not a Mason
[67] _History of Masonry_ In the St Sebaldus Church, Nure a nun in the eoatfox as a sacred relic, in advance a bear with a cross and a ith a taper An ass is readingCathedral are the pillars of Boaz and Jachin, and in the altar of the Church of Doberan, in Mecklenburg, placed as Masons use the a matic doctrines; and at the bottom the Lord's Supper in which the Apostles are shown in well-known Masonic attitudes In the Cathedral of Brandenburg a fox in priestly robes is preaching to a flock of geese; and in the Minster at Berne the Pope is placed a those who are lost in perdition These were bold strokes which even heretics hardly dared to indulge in
[68] _History of Masonry_, by Steinbrenner, chap iv There were, indeed, es, such as the Catharists, Albigenses, Waldenses, and others, whose initiates and adherents traveled through all Europe, for thethe monks, abbots, and bishops Occultists, Alche their flalow under the crust of conformity
[69] _Realities of Masonry_, by Blake (chap ii) While the theory of the descent of Masonry from the Order of the Temple is untenable, a connection between the two societies, in the sense in which an artist may be said to be connected with his employer, is more than probable; and a similarity may be traced between the ritual of reception in the Order of the Temple and that used by Masons, but that of the Teested by, that of the Masons; or both inal source further back That the Order of the Temple, as such, did not actually coalesce with the Masons seee under the Masonic apron (_History of Freehan and Stillson)
[70] Every elaborate History of Masonry--as, for example, that of Gould--reproduces these old docuest, with exhaustive analyses of and commentaries upon them Such a task obviously does not come within the scope of the present study One of the best brief coes_ is an essay by WH Upton, ”The True Text of the Book of Constitutions,” in that it applies approved methods of historical criticism to all of them (_A Q
C_, vii, 119) See also _Masonic Sketches and Reprints_, by Hughan No doubt these _Old Charges_ are faent member of the order, as a man knows the deeds of his estate
[71] _The Hole Craft and Fellowshi+p of Masonry_, by Conder Also exhaustive essays by Conder and Speth, _A Q C_, ix, 29; x, 10 Too much, it seems to me, has been made of both the name and the date, since the _fact_ was older than either Findel finds the naoes still further back; but the fact ia
[72] He refers to Herodotus as the _Master of History_; quotes from the _Polychronicon_, written by a Benedictine ine Mundi_, Isodorus, and frequently fro for his day and station, he did not escape a certain air of pedantry in his use of authorities
[73] These invocations vary in their phraseology, so more visibly than others the lish Guilds_, notes the fact that the forly from that of most other Guilds In alhty would seeot the corner-stone upon which their order and its teachings rest; not for a day
[74] Such names as Aynone, Aymon, Ajuon, Dynon, Amon, Anon, Annon, and Benain _The Inigo Jones MS_ uses the Bible nah dated 1607, it has been shown to be apocryphal See Gould's _History_, appendix Also _Bulletin_ of Supre builders pictured the legend in stone
[75] _The Cathedral Builders_, bk i, chap i
[76] See the account of ”The Origin of Saxon Architecture,” in the _Cathedral Builders_ (bk ii, chap iii), written by Dr WM Barnes in England independently of the author as living in Italy; and it is significant that the facts led both of them to the same conclusions
They show quite unland as early as 600 AD, both by documents and by a comparative study of styles of architecture
[77] _Maestri Comacini_, vol i, chap ii
[78] _Story of Architecture_, chap xxii
[79] Gould, in his _History of Masonry_ (i, 31, 65), rejects the legend as having not the least foundation in fact, as indeed, he rejects al that cannot prove itself in a court of law For the other side see a ”Critical Exaends,” by CC Howard (_A Q C_, vii, 73) Meanwhile, Upton points out that St Alban was the name of a town, not of a man, and sho the error may have crept into the record (_A Q C_, vii, 119-131)
The nature of the tradition, its details, its motive, and the absence of any reason for fiction, should deter us froemann and Speth, entitled ”The assembly” (_A Q C_, vii) Older Masonic writers, like Oliver and Mackey, accepted the York assembly as a fact established (_American Quarterly Review of Freemasonry_, vol i, 546; ii, 245)
[80] _History of the English Constitution_ Of course the Guild was indigenous to ale and land, from China to ancient Rome (_The Guilds of China_, by HB Morse), and they survive in the trade and labor unions of our day The story of _English Guilds_ has been told by Toulmin Smith, and in the histories of particular co little for any one to add No doubt the Guilds were influenced by the Free-masons in respect of officers and emblems, and we know that some of thes to their working tools, and that others, like the French Coend of Hiralish writers like Speth go too far when they deny to the Steinmetzen any esoteric lore, and German scholars like Krause and Findel are equally at fault in insisting that they were Free-masons (See essay by Speth, _A Q C_, i, 17, and _History of Masonry_, by Steinbrenner, chap iv)
[81] _Notes on the Superintendents of English Buildings in the Middle Ages_, by Wyatt Papworth Cementerius is also ain in his capacity as a Master Mason