Mexico City. There were working under Charter from the Grand Lodge of Louisiana these Lodges, "Friends United, No. 8," and "Reunion By Virtue, No. 9."
7 March. Montaubon. The Disciples of Memphis declared asleep.
September. Paris. The Supreme Grand Council of the Rite of Misraim(under Joly) that requested that the Rite be placed within the jurisdiction of the Grand Orient, and proposed to cede control of the first two series, only reserving for themselves the control of the 3rd and 4th Series... This was at first considered favorable by the Grand Orient, but they later reversed their decision and rejected the offer.
Paris. Grand Lodge of the Rainbow (Rite of Misraim). Ragon initiated. Joly headed a rival Grand Body of the Rite. Vainly tried to induce the Grand Orient to acknowledge and incorporate it. DeGrasse-Tilly and others support the Bedarrides, who vanquish Joly's party. Grand Orient declared the Rite irregular.
Charles Nodier publishes, anonymously, one of his most curious and influential works, A History of Secret Societies in the Army under Napoleon. In this book, Nodier is deliberately ambiguous. He does not clarify definitively whether he is writing pure fiction or pure fact. If anything, he implies, the book is a species of thinly disguised allegory of actual historical occurrences. In any case it develops a comprehensive philosophy of secret societies. And it credits such societies with a number of historical accomplishments, including the downfall of Napoleon. There are a great many secret societies in operation, Nodier declares. But there is one, he adds, that takes precedence over all the others, that in fact presides over all others. According to Nodier, this 'supreme' secret society is called the Philadelphes. At the same time, however, he speaks of 'the oath which binds me to the Philadelphes and which forbids me to make them known under their social name.' Nevertheless there is a hint of SION in an address Nodier quotes. It was supposedly made to an assembly of Philadelphes by one of the plotters against Napoleon. The man in question is speaking of his newly born son:
"He is too young to engage himself to you by the oath of Annibal; but remember I have named him Eliacin, and that I delegate to him the guard of the temple and the altar, if I should die ere I have seen fall from his throne the last of the oppressors of Jerusalem."
It should be remembered that Eliphas Levi made a similar prophetic utterance, that the one who was to come would be named Eliasin.
M. de Mazieres, in his book, De Machiavel et de l'influence de sa doctrine sur les opinions, les moeurs et la politique de la France pendant la Revolution, claimed Napoleon I's system of government was a Machiavellian system of government, and to have been inaugurated by the French Revolution, and to have been carried on by Napoleon I against whom he brings precisely the same accusations of Machiavellianism that Joly brings against Napoleon III. "The author of The Prince," he writes, "was always his guide," and he goes on to describe the "parrot cries placed in the mouths of the people," the "hired writers, salaried newspapers, mercenary poets and corrupt ministers, employed to mislead our vanity methodically" -- all this being carried on by "the scholars of Machiavelli under the orders of his cleverest disciple."
Switzerland. Grand Orient of Helvetic Rite revived. Also, at Zurich, the Scots Directory was revived.
7 March. Paris. Antient and Primitive Rite (of Memphis) put to Sleep. Remained somnolent until 7 July 1838.
Britain passes an act which outlawed brewers from possession of sugar or molasses, since brewers had been adulterating their product with sugar..
Franz von Baader holds the post of superintendent of the Bavarian mines. He retired in 1820.
14 January. Paris. The Grand Orient rejects Joly's Supreme Grand Council's proposal to cede the first two series of the Rite of Misraim... The Grand Orient seemed to have a problem over the claims of antiquity of the Rite, stating "that the assertion of its introduction into Italy under the pontificate of Leo X, in the sixteenth century, by Jamblicus, a platonic philosopher who lived in the fourth century, eleven hundred years before Leo X, was destructive in the nature of dates..."
According to our own research, we see this claim not as real history, but as allegorical history, for not in the sixteenth century, but in the fifteenth century, there was one such Platonic philosopher that would fit the character of this "Jamblichus" -- George Gemistius aka Plethon, who, in Constantinople had been initiated into the mysteries of several different traditions, established a Platonic school at Mistra in Greece, and when the Turks took over, escaped, with his successor, Johannes Bessarion, to Venice and Florence.... There Bessarion set up his Platonic Academy, and from that, Cosimo de Medici and his bright star translator of ancient texts, Marsilio Ficino, were attendees. This can be seen as one of the most definite precursors to the Rosicrucian Enlightenment which was to follow, although the seeds had been planted by the Gnostics and Jews in Southern France and Southern Germany centuries prior. Jamblichus was probably a code name, like Spartacus was for Weishaupt, and Merlin, for Kellner... So, in the 1450s c.e., there was a Rite which was introduced into Italy from the East. Maybe not the Rite of Misraim, as such, but a Rite all the same. We also hear tell of a group known as the Brothers of the Holy Land being established in Venice in the 15th Century (if we can believe Nesta Webster), for it seems that Waechter, who was sent there to obtain the secrets of the Order for the Philalethes (remember him???) reported this story.
14 February. The Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England -- the Duke of Sussex -- was admitted by Jean Marie Ragon into the Rite of Misraim and vested with full powers for England, Scotland and Ireland.
London. The Nascent Dawn Lodge (Loge ur aufgehenden Morgenrothe, Fr. Aurore Naissante) was brought to London in 1817 by the Duke of Sussex.
Frankfurt. A quarrel arose between the Frankfurt Provincial G. L. and the Grand Lodge of England. The Lodge Nascent Dawn, chiefly Jewish, warranted by the G. O. of France in 1808, sought a new constitution. The Jewish element rendering a resort to the Provincial Grand Lodge futile, the brethren applied to the Landgrave Karl of Hesse, who at once enrolled them among the rectified Templar Lodges, and even forced upon them a Scots Lodge with the peculiarly Christian Degrees of that Rite. As a natural consequence, the Lodge split up. The Christians retained Karl's warrant for the Lodge "Karl of the Dawning Light," whilst the Jews applied to the Duke of Sussex, and were constituted as clandestine, and much bitterness arose. The Grand Lodge of England, however, in this case had clearly acted within the meaning of [Sec.] 2 of the 1788 compact, although perhaps more time for reflection ought to have been granted to the Prov. G. L. The latter body, however, by its notorious prohibition of Jewish members, had put itself quite out of court.
In 1817 the Chevalier de Malet declared that "the authors of the Revolution are not more French than German, Italian, English, etc. They form a particular nation which took birth and has increased in the dark amidst all civilized nations with the object of subjecting them all to its domination."
Duke Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar inducted into Misraim. Brother Langlace, the orator, speaks of it before the Grand Orient on 24 June. On 27 December, the Grand Orient rejects it. Misraim declares its independence. Mackey says it was dissolved in 1817.
Birth of Hargrave Jennings.
Second National Bank established.
Paris. Fernig (from the AASR) admitted to the 90 of the Rite of Misraim.
By 1818, the Rite of Misraim counted four Lodges in Paris, as well as Lodges in Bordeaux, Marseilles and Cavaillon.
Paris. Scots Philosophic Rite. Its calendar for 1818 (the last) shows 76 Lodges warranted or affiliated to the system between 1776 and the last in 1814, besides the Chapters and Tribunals. But at this time, and in spite of the exertions of Thory, the rivalry of the 33 Degrees of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite appears to have overwhelmed it. Its last Lodge was warranted in 1814. In the same year the Grand Chapter met for the last time. Its last public act appears to have been the issuing of a Calendar in 1818, and in 1826 (the year Thory died) it ceased to exist. Could it be that the reason for its ceasing to exist has less to do with the popularity of the AASR and more to do with the foundation of the Rite of Memphis, in 1814, which included the Scots Philosophic Rite in its system?
Corfu. Police reports from 1818 for this region show that there was in existence an "Egyptian Secret Society..." throughout the islands, working a mixed form of the Ancient and Accepted Rite and that its master was titled Grand Copt.
Spandau. Karl William Naundorff marries Johanna Einert.
Cuba. Grand Lodge of South Carolina begins chartering Lodges in Cuba.
--. Le Temple des Vertus Theologales charters Lodges Nos. 157, 161. In 1819, Nos. 166, 167; in 1820 No. 175 at Santiago de Cuba, and in 1822, No. 181. They existed up to 1826, at which time the Charters of Nos. 175 and 181 had been revoked for failure of meeting for more than a year, and the others had died out.
London. Wronski spent the years 1819 to 1822 in London. He came to England to try to obtain an award from the Board of Longitude but his instruments were detained by the Customs as he entered the country. He found himself in severe financial difficulties but, after his instruments had been returned to him, he was able to address the Board of Longitude. His address On the Longitude only contained generalities and did not impress.
His book Introduction to a course in mathematics was published in London in 1821. >
Frankfurt. In 1819, for example, the lodge brother Wolf, their representative in the Grand Lodges of London, was assigned the task of filing a complaint with the English Grand Lodge regarding the attitude of the two lodges St. George and Absolom[sic] in Hamburg, because both lodges had refused admittance to brethren from the Rising Dawn. In his reply, Brother Wolf reports on his audience with the Grand Master, the Duke of Sussex:"'His Royal Highness remarked: We absolutely refuse to be drawn into any discussion of the alleged reasons; rather, we demand of the lodges in Hamburg that they revoke their decision immediately; should they fail to do so, His Royal Highness will decree that brethren from these Hamburg Lodges be forbidden entry into English lodges.' [This material taken from Nazi Propagandist Schwartz.]
17 November. London. A document in the Library of the Grand Lodge of England dated 17 November 1819, and addressed to the Duke by the members of the governing body in Paris gives a little more information concerning the connection of His Royal Highness with the Rite. The document informs him that at a meeting held in the previous month he had been appointed a Member of Honour of the Fourth Chamber. It asks for his protection and assistance in putting the order on a proper footing in England, as certain unauthorised Masons were endeavouring to work the degrees clandestinely, and states that Michel Bedarride, who was then in London, was the only person who could give him authentic particulars about the Order.
Netherlands. The Philadelphes reconstituted.
Cuba. The Grand Orient of France established a Lodge and Consistory (32), and two further Lodges in 1821.
Prussian (German) law makes education compulsory. The Humboldt brothers, Stein and others divide German society into three distinct groups: (1) those who will be policy makers who are taught to think ( .5 %), (2) those who will be engineers, lawyers ,doctors who are taught to partially think (5.5%) and (3) the children of the masses (94%), who were to learn obedience and how to follow orders. The school of the masses (volkschulen) divided whole ideas into subjects which did not exist previously . The result was that people would (1) think what someone else told them to think about,(2) when to think it ,(3) how long to think about it ,(4) when to stop thinking about it, and (5) when to think of something else. This way, no one in the masses would know anything that's really going on. (Although brilliant, the system is inherently negative in nature - it would lead eventually to German mind control paradigms in the late 19th and 20th century. The system also weakens or breaks the link between the child and the capacity to read (cross-assimilation creating whole ideas) by replacing the alphabet system of teaching reading with a system of teaching sounds, (breaking into smaller units). The same paradigm relative to reading is currently injected into US Society by the Peabody Foundation, who imposed a northern system of schooling on the US South between 1865 and 1918. The system in the northern US is the Prussian system. Over 48% of the soldiers in the American revolution against the British, on both the American and British sides, were Prussian (German) mercenaries.
Early. The Order of Misraim appears in Ireland with the visit of one of the Bedarride brothers early in 1820. The only evidence surviving are copies of a few letters between the Duke of Leinster and John Fowler in the latter's letter book.
May. Dublin. The Brothers Dr. Herville, Signor Annelli, Brothers Dumoulin and Trim, of the Original Chapter of Prince Masons, had received the 77.
Writing in 1820, Lombard de Langres observes that the Jacobins were invisible from the 18th Brumaire until 1813, and goes on to say:
"Here the sect disappears; we find to guide us during this period only uncertain notions, scattered fragments; the plots of Illuminism lie buried in the boxes of the Imperial police."
The Masonic Lodge Les Amis de la Vérité was founded in 1820 by Buchez, Flotard, Bazard and Joubert, all Freemasons, for political purposes. On a riot incited by members of this lodge a young man was killed. As a consequence of his death this lodge went out of existence. One of its former members, Dugied, a Freemason, was initiated into the Mysteries of Carbonarism while at Naples. Having conceived the project of introducing this association into France he discussed the matter with another ex-member of the Les Amis de la Vérité, Flotard, and together they decided to put the idea into practice by taking as a nucleus of the new organization the remains of Les Amis de la Vérité. The society was organized into "ventes" or Lodges. The group which directed them all was the Haute Vente. The Haute Vente counted only seven members: Dugied, Flotard, Bazard, Buchez, Joubert, Carriol, Limperani. Among them we find again the four heads of Les Amis de la Vérité. They invited Lafayette, who was an old man at the time, to join, and he accepted, or so we are told. Towards the end of 1820 the society had many branches, notably those of Bordeaux, Nantes, Toulouse, La Rochelle, Poitiers, Colmar, Belfort, etc. The subversive efforts of this society culminated in an abortive attempt at Revolution at La Rochelle, and the subsequent arrest of many of its principal members completed its nominal dissolution.
Dukes of Sussex, Leinster, Athol inducted into the Rite of Misraim. The Rite of Misraim shut down by the authorities for contravening an 'unimportant' police regulation.
When Eliphas Levi was 12 years old he took his first communion, and the boy's need to love and be loved was directed towards the Church: "My heart became impassioned towards a God who sacrificed Himself for his children... the gentle figure of the immolated lamb made me shed tears, and already the tender name of Mary made my heart palpitate...." This adolescent piety and the boy's precocious intelligence marked him out for the Church....
February. Ireland. By this time, Bedarride constituted a complete council of seventeen members for the 77; the Duke and Fowler, 90; Bro. Dumoulin, 89; Bro. Norman, who succeeded Fowler as Deputy Grand Master in 1825, 88. Bro. P. Mitchell and Bro. Trim, 87; also Bro. Jamar, a Frenchman residing in Dublin who possessed that degree before.
The Grand Lodge of South Carolina received from the Grand Lodge of Ancient Freemasons at Havana, in 1821, a communication stating that a Grand Lodge had been organized there, to which the Lodge "La Amenidad," No. 52, desired permission to transfer. A favourable answer was returned, but "La Constancia," Lodge No. 50, was retained on the roll of the Grand Lodge of South Carolina for some years, after which the Warrant was surrendered by the members "in consequence of the religious and political persecutions to which they were subjected."
September. The police visit Marc Bedarride, the eldest of the three brothers but found nothing suspicious. A French Police report from 1822 stated:
"...that above all else, one must attribute their progress upon a doctrine which is anti-monarchic and anti-religious which they possess.... In climbing from degree to degree, the adept learns that goal of these sectarians is the establishment of atheism and a universal republic." (Quote of Galtier, p. 122)[as quoted from D.G.'s paper: The Golden Fleece: A History of Egyptian Masonry.
The French Police staged a raid of Marc Bedarride's home and forbade the meeting of the Supreme Council as an infraction of article 291 and 292 of the Penal Code, pertaining to the meeting of twenty or more people without prior permission from the government.
By 1822, The Rite of Misraim had grown to over seven Lodges in Paris, Lodges in 25 cities throughout France as well as Lodges in Belgium, Switzerland and Italy.
Franz von Baader publishes his Fermenta Cognitionis, in which he combats modern philosophy, and recommends the study of Boehme.
Berne, Switzerland. The National Grand Lodge of Switzerland established.
Brandenburg. Karl William Naundorff and wife moves to Brandenburg. He was imprisoned from 1825 to 1828 for coining, though apparently on insufficient evidence.
France. The Rite of Misraim suppressed by the French Authorities.
~~. According to Lucien de la Hodde, Carbonarism in France had ceased to exist by 1822, except for a few obstinates like Charles Teste (a friend of Babeuf) and Buonarotti who remained faithful to the old organization. Lucien de la Hodde, however, while following Carbonarism, lost sight of the Haute Vente which, working through Mazzini and the International Committee of London, directed its work of destruction in France through Ledru Rollin and Felix Pyat.
The British government advances Edward Jenner another 20,000 for "smallpox vaccine" experimentation. Jenner suppresses reports which indicate his concept his causing more death than saving lives.
From about 1822, for the next 30 years, a stream of Americans go to Prussia (Germany) and bring the educational system back to the United States.
23 January. The French Government dissolve the Rite of Misraim on grounds of anti-religious documents found in the possession of the Venerable Master of the Lodge in Montpellier.
28 July. Birth of J. H. Lawrence Archer. He was gazetted Second-Lieutenant in the 39th Foot Regiment in December 1840 and served with the 24th foot regiment throughout the Punjab Campaign in 1848 - 9. He went on half-pay as a Captain on 1 January 1869 and remained on the half-pay list until his death in February 1889. He was initiated in Masonry in India in 1851, and later became a joining member of Lodge Canongate Kilwinning No. 2 at Edinburgh. The British Museum catalogue lists the titles of a dozen books by him, e.g., genealogical studies, military histories, memoirs of Indian campaigns, a work on the Orders of Chivalry, etc. As far as the Sat B'hai was concerned he remained in the background. Mackenzie used to complain that he was elusive, absent somewhere in Scotland and not to be found. Only the letter written by Archer survives in Grand Lodge Library. It was addressed to Irwin...6 April 1875...q.v.
Basel. The Scots Directory (Zurich) transferred to Basel.
Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. There was opened at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, what was described as the "Unique Exhibition called Ancient Mexico; collected on the spot in 1823, by the assistance of the Mexican Government, by W. Bullock, F.L.S., etc., etc." The catalogue of the exhibition describes some pretty peculiar items, which caught the attention of Hargrave Jennings, when he published Phallicism, Celestial and Terrestrial, in 1884, and its "secret supplement," Ophiolatreia, in 1889, which contains a passage from the Exhibition Catalogue.
Samuel Russell, second cousin to Skull & Bones founder William H. Russell, establishes Russell & Company. Its business was to acquire opium from Turkey and smuggle it into China, where it was prohibited, under the armed protection of the British.
Charles Nodier appointed chief Librarian at the Arsenal Library. Among his colleagues in this task were Alphonse Louis Constant and Jean Baptiste Pitois, aka "Paul Christian." But....Constant would only have been fifteen years of age, unless he was older than we have been told. During his 20 years at the Arsenal he was able to supply a centre and rallying place to a knot of young literary men of greater individual talent than himself -- the so-called Romanticists of 1830 -- and to colour their tastes and work very decidedly with his own predilections. Victor Hugo, Alfred de Musset and Sainte-Beuve all acknowledged their obligations to him. He was a passionate admirer of Goethe and Shakespeare. Also in the list of his younger associates, we can include Francois Rene de Chateaubriand, who made a special pilgrimage to Poussin's tomb in Rome and had a stone erected there bearing a reproduction of Les Bergers d'Arcadie; Balzac, Delacroix, Dumas pere, Lamartine, Theophile Gautier, Gerard de Nerval, and Alfred de Vigny. Like the poets and painters of the Renaissance these men often drew heavily on esoteric, and especially Hermetic, tradition. They also incorporated in their works a number of motifs, themes, references, and allusions to the mystery of Rennes le Chateau.
February. Vienna. Document from court of Vienna to French Government denounces secret associations like the Absolutes, the Independents, the Alta Vendita Carbonara. This consists of a document transmitted by the Court of Vienna to the Government of France after the Restoration, and contains the interrogatory of a certain Witt Doehring, a nephew of the Baron d'Eckstein, who, after taking part in secret society intrigues, was summoned before the judge Abel at Beyreuth in February, 1824. Amongst secret associations recently existing in Germany, the witness asserted, were the "Independents" and the "Absolutes"; the latter "adored in Robespierre their most perfect ideal, so that the crimes committed during the French Revolution by this monster and the Montagnards of the Convention were in their eyes, in accordance with their moral system, heroic actions ennobled and sanctified by their aim." The same document goes on to explain why so many combustible elements had failed to produce an explosion in Germany:
"The thing that seemed the great obstacle to the plans of the Independents... was what they called the servile character and the dog-like fidelity (Hundestreue} of the German people, that is to say, that attachment -- innate and firmly impressed on their minds without even the aid of reason -- which that excellent people everywhere bears towards its princes."
Economy, Pennsylvania. The Indiana Harmony community became even more successful in selling its goods throughout the Midwest, but by 1824, the Society decided to move again, to its last home at Economy, Pennsylvania.
Here, by 1830, the Society had become the most economically successful communal group in American history. Indeed, they had actually constructed three small cities; and by this time their third was for the most part complete, including a church, a great house, a music hall, numerous houses, factories, warehouses, and working farms.
Mexico City. The Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania gave Charter to a Lodge working as "True Brothers of Papaloapam, No. 191."
The Abbé Boulan was born this year. He was a religiously inclined youth and he entered the priesthood...
Justus von Leibig discovers properties of bitter almond (laetrile) and benzaldehyde.
John Q. Adams elected president of the United States. Silicon discovered.
Eliphas Levi embarks on the Magical Path. We are also told, that in 1825, when he was 15, or 16 years of age, he entered the Seminary of St. Sulpice, becoming a deacon some ten years later(1835).
Lisbon. Ferdinand de Lesseps enters the consular service and becomes vice-consul in Lisbon.
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