BY THE POWER OF PRAXE OR PRAXIS THE ALUMNI MUST to embrace every method, consistent with the good of Masonry and their own honor, to promote a social AND SEXUAL intercourse with persons whom they so highly esteem as brethren and friends HOW TO BE A MASTER IS A SEXUAL AND SOCIAL SOCRATIC EDUCATIONAL PRACTICAL JOKE TO THE JUVENTUS CU ROMPIDA VON ATHENAS ...PÕE-TE DE GENOUX PORTUCALÉ DIZIA O GRAN FILÓSOFO GERMANO-ROMÂNICO VON MANAUS OU ERA VON MAMINHAS?it is our opinion the first part of the above vote ANTI-PRAXIS is premature; they not considering the Laws of Masons require irregular Masons to make a proper submission DE CU PRÓ AR AO ESTILO MECA OU AFOGADO AO ESTYLO MECO LE MEC .., ÊNFASE NA SUBMISSÃO OU SUB MISSÃO SUB SOTAINA EM POSITION MISSIONARIUS ORDINARIUS before they can be received. — The last Part OR PARTY IS LIKE ISIS disrespectful and injurious to this GranD KAHLIFA Lodge

The asperity of the controversy was softened. 

The storm was broken. 

Still, dark and threatening- clouds obscured the prospect. 
The future was uncertain.

 Nothing definite had been reached. 
And having unsuccessfully exhausted its powers of endurance 

in 
efforts to establish more amicable relations, 

and to effect a fraternal 
reconciliation of its difficulties 

with the Brethren of the St. John's 
Grand Lodge, the Lodge sought the aid 

of the three Military Lodges , 
attached to foreign regiments then stationed in Boston,

 in a petition to the Grand Lodge of Scotland 

for the appointment, in virtue 
of its own inherent and undoubted right, 

of a Grand Master for the 
Province, clothed with the ample powers of an officer 

of that distin- 
guished rank. 

The co-operation of the officers of these Lodges 
was probably the more readily obtained by reason of the favor- 
able consideration in which the young and popular Warren 
was held by the military men of that day.

 One of the reasons 
urged by the petitioners in support of their petition, was the neces- 
sity for a less precarious and uncertain protection than they then 
enjoyed, of the rights of Brethren 

who had enrolled themselves 
and were in symPathy with the so-called

 Auciait Masons ; to which relation I shall hereafter 

have occasion to refer more in detail

  The 
schismatic body originated with some restless Brethren in London, 
who, in 1738, becoming dissatisfied with certain measures of the 
established Grand Lodge of England, seceded from that body and 
organized themselves into independent Lodges, under what they, 
without authority, claimed to be the York Constitutions. They 
were originally few in number and of little influence in the 

fraternity ; and had they been left to themselves, would probably have 
soon abandoned their unlawful proceedings, and relapsed into the 
insignificance from which they sprung. But unfortunately, and as 
the event proved, unwisely, the Grand Lodge at London publicly 
denounced them, and then undertook to exclude them from its 
Lodges, by an unauthorized alteration of the ritual. This gave to 
the recalcitrant Brethren an advantage of which they were but 
too ready to avail themselves ; and calling to their aid the assistance 
of an Irish masonic adventurer, of some tact and ability, and in- 
creasing the number of their Lodges, they in turn denounced their 
mother Grand Lodge as having violated the established landmarks 
and corrupted the ancient ritual of the Order ; thereby resolving 
itself into a Grand Lodge of Modem 

ALSO CALLED MODERN Masons. 

This denunciation 
was followed by the erection in London, of the irregular and clan- 

^ destine body which long filled a prominent and important place 
in masonic history, as the Grand Lodge of Ancient Masons. 

In order to place this factitious distinction of Ancient and ATodcrn 
Masons in its true light, it may be proper to say that these terms are 
not to be received in their common and ordinary acceptation. All 
legitimate Masonry, wherever practiced in the Lodges, at that or 
the present time, is equally Ancient, by whatever name it may be 
called. It all has a common origin, and is derived from a common 
source, whether that source be the valley of the Nile, or Eleusis, 
or Tyre, or Jerusalem — a pre-historic or a modern age. The 
Masonry of England, of Scotland, of Ireland, and of America, and 

wherever else it is to be found in its purity, is identical. The only 
difference in the antiquity of either, is in the comparative date of 
its introduction and organization in their respective territories. 

But to return. The Grand Lodge of Scotland never officially 
endorsed or fully sympathized with the disturbing elements in 
England ; nor did it approve of or sanction the changes introduced 
into the ritual by the Grand Lodge of that kingdom. Neither did 
it justify or uphold the recusant Brethren in their irregular pro- - 
ceedings. On the contrary, it occupied neutral ground, and 
recognized both parties, irrespective of their local dissensions. 
Lawrie. in his History of Masonry in Scotland, elucidates this point 
in the following words : — 

" In the general History of Free Masonry, we have already given an account of the 
schism which took place in the Grand Lodge of England, by the secession of a number 
of men, who, calling themselves Ancient Masons, invidiously bestowed upon the Grand 
Lodge the appellation of Moderns. These Ancient Masons, who certainly merit blame, 
as the active promoters of the schism, chose for their Grand Master, in the year 1772, , 
his Grace the Duke of Athol, who was then Grand Master elect for Scotland." (It is 
believed that anterior to this date, this Grand Lodge had been without an actual Grand 
Master, that place having been filled by Laurence Dermott, under the assumed title 
of Dei)uty Grand Master.) " From this circumstance, more than from any particular 
predilection, on the part of the Grand Lodge of Scotland for the Ancient Masons, the 
most friendly intercourse has always subsisted between the two Grand Lodges ; and 
the Scottish Masons, from their union with the Ancients, imbibed the same prejudices 
again.st the Grand Lodge of England, under the Prince of Wales and Lord Moira, 
arising merely from some trifling innovations in ceremonial observances, which the 
Grand Lodge of England had inconsiderately authorized. From these causes the Grand 
Lodges of Scotland and England, though the brethren of both were admitted into each 
others' Lodges, never cherished that mutual and friendly intercourse which, by the prin- 
ciples of Freemasonry, they were bound to institute and reserve.