17 August. The Landgrave Karl of Hesse died, and his Lodge almost immediately afterwards began to negotiate for admission to the Union.
24 September. Johann Friedrich Fiedler died.
Lyons. J. E. Marconis founds Lodge of Benevolence of the Rite of Misraim under his nickname of de Negre., advanced to 66. This admission may be important. Remember the events of 17 January 1781. While Montaubon might not be in the neighborhood of Rennes le Chateau, it is in the Languedoc, home of the Septimanian Jews, Visigoths, Dagobert II, the Cathars and Valentinian Gnostics. De Negre may have been applied to Marconis because of his race, but it might have been applied to his name because he came from the same family as Marie de Negre.
The Grand Lodge of Scotland celebrated the Centenary of its foundation by a festival on St. Andrew's day. In this year, several foundation stones were laid in England with Masonic ritual and solemnities.
In 1836 the noblemen in the Order of the Temple who preferred the old tradition of Masonic chivalry to the new Johannite religion precipitated a schism, led once more by the Duc de Choiseul. Fabré-Palaprat defended the purity of his new religion, and expelled the former Grand Chancellor of the Order, Louis-Théodore Juge. He reinforced the noble element in the Johannite congregation by admitting the retired British admiral, Sir William Sydney Smith, whose connection with the chivalric Masonic orders in Paris had been long and close.
Early in the year, the United Supreme Council for the Western Hemisphere (Cerneau/Hicks Rite) was on its last legs, although the meetings were continued occasionally until 1846.
Paris. At this time Constant should have become a Priest, but he never received ordination, for he had become conscious of the need for human love -- the immolated lamb and the 'tender name of Mary' were no longer enough. (Francis King, you are such a bitch!)
The next twenty years or so Constant's life was one of hectic activity. He became a revolutionary socialist, published an anarchistic tract entitled La Bible de la liberté, suffered imprisonment for his political activities, fathered a bastard child, and married a girl much younger than himself.
Paris. Naundorff expelled from France in 1836, the day after bringing suit against the duchess of Angouleme for the restitution of the dauphin's private property, he lived in exile until his death at Delft in 1845.
After its collapse in 1835, the Société des Familles became that of the Saisons (Seasons).
Charter of the "Bank of the US" expires.
Britain imports 30,000 chests of opium to China.
First recorded case of the use of psychiatry to suppress dissent in Russia.
27 January. London. The Duke of Sussex, G. M., had been for some time in bad health, and the loss of his eyesight was feared, but on the 27th January, 1837, he was so far recovered as to make his appearance in Grand Lodge, when he received a most cordial and hearty welcome. The Grand Lodge at this period conceived the idea of forming a Library.
3 March. Frankfurt. Kloss elected Grand Master.
United States. First Atwood Body formed.
Crisis of 1837. All banks suspend specie payment. 600 banks fail. Banks that charge interest expanding rapidly.
J.P. Morgan born.
Donauwörth. Franz Hartmann born.
William Henry White becomes sole Grand Secretary of the United Grand Lodge of England, a post which he holds until he retires in 1857.
28 January. Ireland. Supreme Grand Council of Rites, as the governing body of the Higher Degrees from the Prince Mason upwards, including the Rite of Misraim, but allowed the latter to die of inanition.
18 February. Pau, Lower Pyrenees. Bernard Raymond Fabre-Palaprat dies. Pau is about 25 miles northwest of Lourdes, so it is not inconceivable that he was associated with the various families and sites in the Languedoc. What is interesting, is that (as is seen below) a new movement in France sprang up this very year, as the New Templar Order dies out, the Brothers of the Christian Doctrine established in the Alsace and at Sion-Vaudemont. Now, it is not necessarily a successor order, but another manifestation of the current. This is how the Johannite Tradition transmits itself, not by pieces of paper, or last wills and testaments, real or forged. At any rate, Ragon, who was involved with the Johannite Order, now becomes identified with the Rite of Misraim.
After Fabré-Palaprat's death in 1838, Sir William Sydney Smith was elected Regent of the order, which he then led back to reunion with the Templar rump. The Johannite religion faded entirely from view, and the Neo-Templar Order tottered slowly towards its natural and final death in the 1840s, under the direction of a small group of French and Belgian noblemen.
This is to say, the Orthodox Templar Order died out, and the Primitive Christian Church (Johannites) perpetuated itself, in secret. The Small group of French and Belgian noblemen might have evolved into KUMRIS, the organization from which the Chevalier Clement de Saint Marcq is said to have hailed. The Gnostic element which left the orthodoxy might have ended up going over to the Carmelite Church, or to some as-yet-undiscovered-by-us order or organisation or church. It is clear that this is the Order which people like Doinel, Papus, Bricaud, Reuss, et al drew their inspiration from, and it is also clear that there is some affinity with the various native Gnostic elements in play in the mysteries associated with the Languedoc. We are looking at a period of about 50 years: from 1838 to 1889/90. That is when Mar Athanasius, of the Syro-Jacobite-Antioch Line of Gnostic Bishops [from 1877] consecrated Vilatte, a Swiss Catholic Priest; and, when Jules Doinel established the Gnostic Catholic Church in Carcassonne.
21 March. Brussels. The Lodge Bienveillance was founded by Brothers Wittebole, jeweler to the King; Vandelaer, Employee of Court Accounts; G. Lits, Agent; Delparte, Proprietor; George Feltmans, Secretary of the Royal Academy of Music; J. Polls, Rentier; installed at Brussels, 21 March 1838 by J. E. Marconis.
27 May. J. E. Marconis expelled again. Resolves to create Rite of Memphis with 97 Degrees. The Disciples of Memphis re-established at Paris.
21 June. The Lodge "De Osiris" founded at the Orient of Paris, 11 Rue de Jour, by Bro. Gabriel Mathieu Marconis de Negre, rentier; Eugene Houille, Agent; Antoine Delcour, Clerk; Ruaux, Manager of Lafitte & Galliard; Louis Deligne, Agent; Silvain, M. D.; De Lacombe; Napoleon Josset; Hurel, Professor; Vanderote, Prof. Gen. Of the Messageries; Roy, M.D.; Alphonse Letrillard, clerk, etc. installed at the Prado on this date, and published its tableau composed of 54 members, in 1839.
7 July. Paris. J. E. Marconis elected Grand Hierophant, arranged documents into 90 Degrees (mackey). Dr. Morison de Greenfield, one of his collaborators. 95 Degrees (Mackenzie), 97 Degrees (Gould). For a good listing of the Degree names and their changes over the years, see Waite, A New Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry. Brother J. E. Marconis de Negre was elected Grand Hierophant by the members composing the Masonic Rite of Memphis. Marconis arranged the documents which the Rite then possessed into 90 degrees, divided into three series, and subdivided into seven classes of discourse under the denomination of Lodges, Chapters, Areopagus, Senates, Consistories, and Councils.
25 September. Paris. First Assembly of the Supreme Power held.
Prior to 4 October. Ireland. The The Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Ireland, the Duke of Leinster), was admitted to the Rite of Misraim. It would appear to have been before 4 October 1838, on which date the Constitution of the Supreme Grand Council of Rites was read in the Grand Lodge of Ireland. The Rite of Misraim was included in order that it might be quietly suppressed, as it was allowed to die of inanition...
5 October. Paris. The First Assembly of the Supreme Power, proclaimed. The father of the new Hierophant was still alive and sanctioned the proceedings. Lodges established at Paris and Brussels. The Supreme Power of the Order of the Rite of Memphis was proclaimed on this date, and the Grand Hierophant (Marconis) installed the three Councils, which the Rite then possessed under the denomination of Sanctuary of Memphis, Mystic Temple, Sovereign Grand Council Administrative.
France. The Brothers of Christian Doctrine, established by the three brothers Baillard, all priests. They later merged with Vintras' Church of Carmel. They set up two religious houses: 1.) At St. Odile in Alsace; and 2.) At Sion-Vaudemont in Lorraine. Both were important sites for their regions. They had doctrines similar to those of Vintras, including the emphasis on the coming age of the Holy Spirit and on sacred sexuality. Their movement attracted great support, including that of the House of Hapsburg.
London. In the year 1838 a magnificent Candelabrum, the funds to purchase which had been raised by subscription, was presented to the Grand Master. The Asylum for Aged and Decayed Freemasons, celebrated a festival in June of this year, but later on, in the same year, an opposition to the scheme was raised by the Grand Master, who had formed the impression that it would injure the other charities, but the opposition was withdrawn, after some very unpleasant scenes, which for a time affected the Masonic standing of Brother R. T. Crucefix, one of its supporters and the Editor of the Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
The Regular meetings of the Hicks Council, except annual, had ceased to exist, from want of numbers, and want of interest in the "cause."
Smallpox epidemic in England.
The Meetings of the Hicks Council were annual, and the records show that the only attending members were Joseph Bouchaud, Francis Dubuar, and five others, all the rest having become disaffected and dropped off.
21 March. Paris. The Disciples of Memphis revived its working at the Orient of Paris, on this date, and was installed in the Temple of the Rue Grenelle Saint Honore by Bro. Jacques Etienne Marconis, Man of Letters; Napoleon Moutet, Man of Letters; Henry de Payen, Rentier; Audibert, M.D.; Professor and Member of the Institute; Honore Gazay, Member of the Legion of Honor; the Baron Adolphe de Poederle; Morison de Greenfield; August Amic, Man of Letters; Henault d'Augy; Boire Massener; de Lamerliere, Man of letters; Justin Rousseau, Member of the Legion of Honor; Delapline, M.D., (Medal of Honor); Moreau, Cap. D'Etat Major, Member of the Legion of Honor; Larousie, Member of the Legion of Honor; Leon d'Abrantes, Man of Letters, etc.
May. Paris. Blanqui's and Barbes' group, the Society of the Seasons, perished in an attempt at insurrection in Paris. The goal of the organization was to undermine the monarchy of Louis-Philippe. The Society of the Seasons survived in its German version, the Federation of the Just, which is like saying Tugenbund, which was a survival group for the Illuminati. Eventually, two survival groups of Blanqui's organization existed: one in Switzerland, the other in London. The London group was headed by Weitling.
21 May. Paris. The Chapiterial Lodge "Des Philadelphes," was founded at the Orient of Paris by the Brothers J. E. Marconis; Adrien Roger; d'Chavigny; J. Bap. Fabre; Aug. Forfilier; Gay, member of the Legion of Honor; the Baron de Braunecker; Aug. Garnier; Alexander Milan; de Heneau; Charles Saulnier (Query: Any similarity to Sauniere?); Hippolyte Rivernon, Professor; Theodore Pons, Rentier; Frederick Grantigein; Joachim Burnet; Pichon, Professor; Alph. Labelle; Auguste Schaffesner; Courserand, M.D.; Armant; Juspart, Professor; Gruinier, Member of the Legion of Honor; installed in the Temple of the Rue de Grenelle St. Honore.
Paris and Brussels. Grand Lodge Osiris, Chapter of Philadelphians, Lodge of Sages of Heliopolis. Jacques Etienne Marconis Grand Master of the Grand Lodge Osiris. Statutes Published. Two Lodges founded at Brussels. Marconis and Moullet instituted at Paris , Brussels, and Marseilles a new Rite, called Rite of Memphis, of 91 Degrees. A 92 was added. Supposedly founded on the extinct Rite of Misraim. Ragon says the Egyptian Rite seems to have inspired Marconis and Moullet in the organization of their Rite.
The Bedarrides attempted to have Memphite Lodges closed, but failed, though they were declared dormant on 15 June 1841.
Jacques Etienne Marconis de Negre was briefly a Misraimite before he revived Memphis in 1839.
August. Tilly-sur-Seule. One evening in August 1839, Eugene Vintras was sitting in his tiny office when there came a sudden knock at his door, followed by the entry of an old man dressed in rags. The old man addressed Vintras by his baptismal names and said "I am unutterably tired and wherever I go people treat me with disdain and say that I am a thief." Vintras gave the old man a coin and ushered him out, locking the door behind him; as he did not hear the old man go down the stairs (which led to the exit from the factory) Vintras called a workman and together they searched the building. To their amazement the old man had suddenly and mysteriously vanished. Suddenly, Vintras, who was extremely pious, heard the bell of the local church ringing for Mass. He hurried back to his office in order to fetch a prayer book. On the table where he had been writing he found a letter containing "a refutation of heresy and a profession of Catholic orthodoxy" and upon the letter lay the coin which he had given the old beggar. Vintras, thunderstruck, decided that this must be none other than the Archangel Michael. The whole incident was probably stage-managed by an acquaintance of Vintras, a "rascally" lawyer named Geoffroi, who was the agent of Charles Naundorff, a confidence trickster who called himself Duke of Normandy and claimed to be Louis XVII, rightful king of France. This Geoffroi was probably a member of the Johannite sect which was working behind the scenes, managing the Naundorff story, as well as the La Salette visions, and the Vintras/Boullan affair. Whether or not Geoffroi had actually arranged Vintras' 'vision' of the 'Archangel Michael', there is no doubt that those who manipulated the Naundorf movement saw that they could use Vintras' fervent but superstitious piety for their own purposes.
The first "vision" was supplemented by others; both the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Joseph appeared, informed Vintras that he was the reincarnation of the Prophet Elijah, that his task was to proclaim the coming "Age of the Holy Ghost" and commanded him to found the Church of Carmel -- originally known as Work of Mercy. Vintras travelled around the country preaching the coming kingship of Naundorff, the pre-existence of souls and universal redemption. He was a powerful preacher and he soon acquired a following that included not only unlettered men like himself but members of the bourgeoisie and even priests, among them the Abbé Charvoz, a theologian of some eminence who became the movement's theologian.
27 November. The Three Councils of the Order of Memphis were informed that M. M. Bedarrides, Chiefs of the Rite of Misraim, had solicited from the M. the Prefect of Police, the closing of all Lodges of the Rite of Memphis, which they denounced as political reunions. This Magistrate not having acceded thereto, the brothers Bedarride wrote a pamphlet against the Grand Hierophant, who in presence of all the members of the Rite proved by authentic documents, the nullity of these malevolent attacks, emanating from a well characterized spirit of jealousy. (Query: Were the above members of the Legion of Honor present in Egypt in 1798?)
6 December. Brussels. The Chapiterial Lodge "De Heliopolis" was founded at the Orient of Brussels by the Brother Francois Kaekenbeeck, Rentier; Corbisier, Clerk; Ch. Pichler, Artist; Pierre Mutel, Clerk; Ant. Adam, M. D.; Veyrat; Van 'Laethem; the General Melinet, etc., installed by Brother Delacour, Representative of the Order. A part of their archives have been deposited in the Grand Orient of France.
London. The Asylum for Aged and Decayed Freemasons was brought into actual operation in 1839, and the Earl of Durham was appointed pro-Grand Master in the same year.
Rotterdam. Ferdinand de Lesseps was transferred to Rotterdam. Subsequently he served at Malaga and Barcelona, where he was promoted to the grade of consul-general.
Chinese burn 3,000 tons of opium, to the relief of oversupplied British traders.
John D. Rockefeller born.
First time a disease is traced to a parasitic organism. (Schoenlein, fungal infection of scalp).
The Rite of Misraim said to exist in Scotland.
Early 1840s. Tilly. Vintras set up his first oratory at Tilly; here, clad in vestments of their own devising, the priests of the Work of Mercy celebrated the Provictimal Sacrifice of Mary and witnessed many miraculous events -- saw empty chalices suddenly brim over with blood, beheld mystic bloodstains appear on the consecrated host and even saw the Holy Ghost (in the form of a plump woodpigeon) perch on Vintras' shoulder. Vintras himself experienced visions of an increasingly lurid nature. The following, which dates from 1840 or 1841, is typical:
"On Monday night the 17th or 18th of May a frightful vision struck at my soul and body... I had gone up to the holy chapel and was about to open the door when I saw written on it in letters of fire, 'Dare not enter, thou whom I have spewed out of my mouth'... I fell down overcome... I saw on every side an abyss full of hideous monsters who called me brother...
"I called on the Divine Mary, Mother of God, to help me... Suddenly great whirlpools of flame arose from the abyss into which I was about to fall. I heard yells of furious exultation and could pray no longer, when a voice...filled my ears... 'Behold Mary, whom you called your shield against us, behold her gracious smile, hear her gracious voice.'
"...I saw her above the abyss. Her eyes of heavenly blue were filled with fire, her red lips were violet, her mild and divine voice had become terrible and like a thunderbolt she hurled these words at me: 'writhe, proud one, in the burning regions inhabited by devils'.
"O, if only I revealed to the enemies of the Work of Mercy those things that pass in me would they not cry victory? They would say that this is evidence of monomania. I wish to God that it were so, for then I would have less to lament...."
The Church of Carmel, also known as the Oeuvre de la Misericorde (Work of Mercy), was established in the early 1840s by Eugene Vintras (1807-1875). A charismatic and compelling preacher, Vintras attracted the cream of high society into his movement, which nevertheless soon became the focus for accusations of diabolism. His rituals had some kind of a sexual content, in which the greatest sacrament was the sexual act. To make matters worse as far as the authorities were concerned, Vintras and Naundorff endorsed each other. So, inevitably, Vintras found himself in what was clearly a show trial.
During the 1840s, Alphonse Louis Constant (Eliphas Levi) was one of the main "Communists" in French radical circles. As a journalist and propagandist Constant was not negligible. He was a friend, adviser, and, eventually, editor, of the feminist socialist writer, Flora Tristan. He was also the friend of similar figures who dabbled in left-wing politics and mysticism, such as the Marquis Sarrazin de Montferrier, the former chief-priest of the Neo Templars. Sarrazin for a time owned a newspaper which printed Constant's articles, but he later occasioned scandal when Constant's wife left her husband on his account. In this environment Constant encountered the Templar myth in its radical form as a story of enlightened, benign conspirators who transmitted doctrines of wisdom and power and opposed clerical tyranny. Constant remained a 'Communist' of some sort into the period of the Revolution of 1848....
27 September. Frankfurt. The concluding of negotiations with the Lodge "Karl of the Dawning Light", and its admission to the Union on this date.
21 November. Marseilles. The Chapiterial Lodge "des Chevaliers de la Palestine" founded in the Valley of Marseilles, by the Brother Roux, proprietor; Dumas, Secretary General to the Prefecture; Moses, Agent; Eugene Meyer, Clerk; Darbec, Armateur; Pisarello, Artist; Decugis, Agent; Molinard, Agent; Estienne, Agent; Auguste Verron, Clerk; Francois Coquet, Merchant; A. Burg, Merchant Tailor; installed the 21 Nov 1840.
December. Isaak Cremieux visited the Nascent Dawn lodge in December 1840, and was honoured with a festival banquet and honorary membership.
Munich. Free-Masonic Order of the Golden Centurium founded. Some rich industrialists and well-placed citizens. This was a Black Lodge(and probably still is, if it dares to exist).According to P. R. Koenig, Bardon's account of this Order is not necessarily accurate.
London. Mackenzie was seven years old when his parents moved to London in 1840. Furthermore, he must have been bilingual in English and German. A passage from the Preface to his Tyll Eulenspiegel translation, published by Trubner & Co., in 1859 as The Marvellous Adventures and Rare Conceits of Master Tyll Owlglass, indicates that he read German at a very early age. "I well remember how, as a very little boy, I made the friendship of the [book's] lithe though clumsy hero," he wrote. In the Preface to the second edition, dated Christmas Eve 1859, he mentioned that "it was almost the first book I ever possessed, and I remember to this day the circumstances under which it was given to me."
17 May. On the persistent demands of Marconis' rivals, the Police close his Lodges.
Roughly 70% of citizens in the US have independent livelihoods. (See 1776).
Baltimore Dental College graduates swore not to use mercury amalgam.
Albert Pike builds a mansion in Arkansas where he designs plans for three world wars and three revolutions. Pike becomes Mazzini's superior.(According to Trufax...even though just a few years ago, it was Mazzini who was chartering Pike....)
First Opium War in China, as Chinese protest British import of drugs.
Bulwer Lytton went to Germany on a long visit during the years 1841-3, so that he could have been initiated in the Lodge of the Nascent Dawn which still existed at the time.
15 June. Memphis Lodges declared dormant. Government of France forbids meetings of Memphis Lodges, the Police intervened, no doubt after receiving a gentle nudge from the Grand Orient or the French Supreme Council 33. The Rite is said to have gone underground until 1848, the year of revolutions.
November. As the religious hysteria increased the ecclesiastical authorities became alarmed and in November 1841 the Bishop of Bayeux condemned the pamphlets of Charvoz as teaching doctrines incompatible with the Catholic faith.
Clinton Roosevelt writes "The Science of Government Founded on Natural Law", outlining the Illuminati plans for the regimentation of mankind under the control of the "enlightened ones" and the destruction of the Constitution.
Rite of Misraim ceases labors, goes to sleep.
8 November. Irwin enlisted in the Royal Sappers and Miners,, when he was 14 years old. The Sappers and Miners were then NCOs or other ranks with Royal Engineer officers.
23 November. Scotland. Doctor George Arnot Walker Arnot of Arlary receives the Misraim degrees from Alexander Deuchar.
London. In 1842 the Male Annuity Fund of the Royal Benevolent Institution was established, the Grand Lodge voting it an annual sum of 400 Pounds.
In 1842 the Freemason Ragon related that the Templars learnt from the "initiates of the East" a certain Judaic doctrine which was attributed to St. John the Apostle; therefore "they renounced the religion of St. Peter" and became Johannites. (J. M. Ragon, Cours Philosophique et Interprétatif des Initiations anciennes et modernes, édition sacrée à l'usage des Loges et des Maçons Seulement [5,842], p. 37. In a footnote on the same page, Ragon refers to John the Baptist in this connection.)
Gerard de Nerval conceived a violent passion for the actress Jennie Colon, in whom he thought he recognized a certain Adrienne, who had fired his childish imagination. Her marriage and then her death in 1842 were blows from which his nervous temperament never really recovered. He travelled in Germany with Alexandre Dumas, and alone in various parts of Europe, leading a very irregular an d eccentric life. (This was the 1840s, after all.)
Eugene Vintras is accused of fraud, although even the alleged victims denied that any crime had taken place, he was sentenced to five years in jail in 1842. It is probable that the Church authorities also arranged the arrest and trial on charges of fraud of Vintras and Geoffroi at this time. 'Although the trial was undoubtedly rigged it resulted in Vintras receiving a seven, and Geoffroi a two years' sentence of imprisonment.' -- Francis King.
Treaty of Nanking brings Britain vast wealth and control over Hong Kong.
Salt wells in Pennsylvania found to have oil. William Rockefeller exploits and begins buying up land in Pennsylvania.
21 April. The Duke of Sussex, G. M., died, and it then became necessary for the Grand Lodge to elect a Grand Master. Bro. Thomas Dundas Earl of Zetland was selected for that office, and his Installation took place in March of 1844.
Eliphas Levi travelling as an itinerant, addressing the common people, harassed by the authorities. He was engaged in political propaganda, occasionally imprisoned for newspaper articles against the Imperial Court.
In 1843, Gerard de Nerval visits Constantinople and Syria, where, among other adventures, he nearly married the daughter of a Druze sheikh. He contributed accounts of his travel;s to the Revue des Deux Mondes and other periodicals. Here is what Baigent and Leigh, in The Temple and the Lodge, have to say about this particular work:
"In 1851, the French poet Gerard de Nerval, having returned from a tour of what was then an exotic Middle East, published a massive 700-page memoir, Voyage en Orient. In this opus, Nerval not only recounted his own experiences (some of them semi-fictionalised); he also included travelogue, commentaries on manners and mores, legends he had encountered, folk-tales and stories he had heard. Among the latter, there is the fullest, most detailed and most evocative version of the Hiram story ever to appear in print, either before or after. Nerval not only recited the basic narrative, as it is outlined above. He also divulged - for the first time, to our knowledge - a skein of eerie mystical traditions associated in Freemasonry with Hiram's background and pedigree.
"What is particularly curious is that Nerval makes no mention of Freemasonry whatsoever. Pretending that his narrative is a species of regional folk-tale, never known in the West before, he claims to have heard it, orally recited by a Persian raconteur, in a Constantinople coffee-house.
"In another writer, such apparent naivete might be plausible, and there would be no particular reason to query his assertions. But Nerval was part of a literary circle which included Charles Nodier, Charles Baudelaire, Theophile Gautier, and the young Victor Hugo, all of whom were steeped in arcana and esoterica. It is not clear whether Nerval was himself a Freemason. He may not have been. He may, in the murky subterranean world of occult sects and secret societies, have had other allegiances. But there can be no question whatever that he knew what he was doing - that he knew his narrative (even if he did hear a version of it in a Constantinople coffee-house) was not a quaint Middle Eastern folk-tale, but the central myth of European Freemasonry. Why Nerval chose to divulge it, and why he divulged it in the manner he did, remains a mystery, rooted in the complex politics of the mid-nineteenth century French 'occult-revival'. But his weird, haunting and evocative retelling of the Hiram legend is the most complete and detailed version we have, or are likely to ever have.
"[Footnote to this section: Selected extracts published in English as Journey to the Orient, 1972. The story of the murder of Hiram (called Adoniram by Nerval) is entitled 'Makbenash' on pp. 204-9.]" - pp. 130-1; footnote on 278.
This is all quite interesting, especially in the employment of the name Adoniram, since we are told elsewhere that certain Masonic rites that used the Adoniramite theme were considered spurious by the Orthodoxy, and were a part of the paradigm under present study.
The London Group of refugees associated with Blanqui's Society of the Seasons/Federation of the Just, gradually, from 1843 onwards, had its theories shattered by contact with Marx and Engels. Weitling, after vainly attempting to purify his party, went to America and left the Federation to Marx's mercy.
Vera Cruz, Mexico. A Lodge -- "St. Jean d'Ulloa" was constituted at Vera Cruz by the Supreme Council of France.
Port of Shanghai opened to foreign trade. The first lot in the port is rented by Britains Jardine Mathieson & Co. Other lots are rented by Sumuel Russell, an American representing Baring Brothers. Captain Warren Delano (FDRs grandfather) becomes a member of the Canton Regatta Club, and enters into dealings with the Hong Society. Delano founds his fortune on opium trafficking into China, and later becomes the first vice chairman of the US Federal Reserve Board.
A certain amount of friction occurred between the Grand Lodges of England and the Royal York of Berlin, owing to the refusal of the latter to acknowledge any other than Christian Freemasons; the difficulty was finally arranged by the Royal York, acceding, in a limited measure, tothe liberal views of this country. Previous to 1847 it was, from olden time, a necessity that a Candidate should be free-born, but in this year it was resolved to substitute the qualification of free-man.
27 January. Paris. Death of Charles Nodier. He was succeeded by Victor Hugo as Grand Master of the Priory of SION.
22 June. Zurich. Brother Gysi-Schinz prepares a draft of a Constitution for a United Grand
2 July. Frankfurt. Though most of the Eclectic Lodges (in the Eclectic Union) were tending towards a more enlightened view on relaxing sectarian tendencies, the newly joined Lodge, "Karl of the Dawning Light", showed itself strongly conservative. It still insisted on working the Scots degrees, and allowed itself great license with the Eclectic Ritual. This lead to expostulations, recriminations, and strife, and finally to its exclusion on 2 July 1844.
A handsome testimonial was presented to Bro. George Oliver.
The Duchess of Inverness presented to Grand Lodge the Candelabrum which had been given to her husband in 1838.
Lodge of Switzerland. The new Grand Lodge was inaugurated under the title of the Grand Loge Alpina. Brother J. J. Hottinger was the first Grand Master. The Rectified Scottish Rite was taken up by some of the Ecossais directories, including the last to work, in Zurich. Mackenzie: "This may now be considered as extinct, as that directory has been united with the National Grand Lodge of Berne, and formed itself into a new power, styled Grand Lodge of Alpina, sitting alternately at Berne and Zurich, and working the modern English rite."
Paris. After de Nerval's return to Paris, he tried to get back to the feuillement for the Presse, but his eccentricities increased and he ended his life by hanging himself on 25 January 1855... In the meantime he would go on to publish, among many other works: Les Illuminés, ou les precurseurs du socialisme (1852), which contained, among other things, a study on the life of Cagliostro. This little novella is quite interesting to read, and contains several clues. Also, apparently posthumously, L'Alchimiste, a drama in five acts, the joint composition of de Nerval and Alexandre Dumas. Definitely quite interesting. Space prohibits deeper analysis here, however, this theme shall be explored in depth as we get more information on the subject. The career of de Nerval, as well as the origins of the Disciples of Memphis, and the mysterious "Mission to Egypt" - these are very important. In particular the latter item, the Mission to Egypt, whatever it must have been.... this is the stuff of treasure stories and quite to the contrary of those who would dismiss it all as nonsense or fantasy, or wild conjecture on the part of your reporter, had at least as great an impact on modern society as a whole as did the ushering in of Newtonian physics, and the Ages of Reason, Enlightenment and Revolution put together. Indeed, they all seem to be intricately connected. One need not even invoke the name of the Priory of Sion, either. It might just be a paradigm, another Maguffin, if you will. Or it might be a real thing, who cares? The historical traces such a group has left behind DO in fact exist. All the advances in the transmission of Ideas during the 19th and 20th Centuries have been inspired by this group, or by the Illuminati, if such a group exists or existed outside the paranoid ravings of fundamentalists, certainly the Bavarian group existed and was controlled by the Loge des Chevaliers Bienfaisants de la Sainte Cite, this has been entered into the record. And, the Chevaliers Bienfaisants had received their orders from other more elusive groups in France, just as Cagliostro was initiated into Freemasonry at the Esperance Lodge in London, a Lodge that was affiliated with both the Amis Reunis (Philalethes-Philadelphes), the Strict Observance of Von Hund, and the Seven Degree Rite of Lambert de Lintot. Amazing. Truly Amazing.
Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane founded. American stores giving a half pound of sugar free with purchase of five dollars or more.
4 June. Scotland. Meeting of a body styling itself the 'Supreme Grand Council of Rites' under the leadership of Dr. George Walker Arnot. He had already introduced the Primitive Rite of Namur and the Rite of Misraim with 91 degrees and the AASR of 33 degrees. Arnot's council would develop into the Supreme Council for Scotland.
10 August. Delft. Naundorff (the pretended dauphin) resided in Delft in exile from France until his death, 10 August 1845, and his tomb was inscribed "Louis XVII, roi de France et de Navarre (Charles Louis, duc de Normandie)." One wonders what the real object was, here. Could it be that after his arrival in Germany in 1810, he had been made use of by the Johannite Sect which was behind his bid for the throne? Or was his recognition in the 1830s part of something to do with the Johannite sect's consolidation of power in Paris? Who knows???......
Emmanuel Rebold, in his work, General History of Freemasonry in Europe states that Lechangueur was the Master of a Symbolic Lodge and sought to become a member of the newly created Scottish Supreme Council. Lechangueur was admitted to some of the degrees of this Council but was refused admittance to the highest. .....
Mexico City. "Les Ecossais des Deux Mondes" (the Scotch of Two Worlds) -- established by the Grand Orient of France.
April. Death of Marc Bedarride.Michel assumed control of the Rite. Shortly after this Jean Simon Boubée one of the most ardent supporters of the Rite at this time, and who delivered the oration at Marc Bedarride's funeral, split from Michel's control of the Rite and created a new Grand Lodge for the Rite of Misraim called the Grand Orient de Vallees Egyptiennes. Boubée was unable to make his Grand Lodge work and soon sought to regularize his Lodge within the Grand Orient.
19 September. La Salette, Isère, France. The Madonna "appeared" to the children Maximin Giraud, 11, and Melanie Calvet, 15, at La Salette. She wore a gleaming white robe and held conversation with them. The phrase "Penitence! Penitence!" was allegedly spoken by the Virgin Mary during her apparition at La Salette. Of the two young visionaries, one was a shepherdess called Melanie Calvet, who was related to Emma Calvé. (Emma changed the spelling of her name when she became an opera singer.) For a time the La Salette vision threatened to rival that of Lourdes, but the Catholic Church decided it was just a hoax. The La Salette vision, however, was championed by the Johannite/Naundorff/Vintras movement. Berenger Sauniere also wrote approvingly of the La Salette visions.
27 October. On this date, there were present, Joseph Bouchaud, President; John Telfair, George Smith, and John S. Mitchell, Assistant Secretary. The Work was harmoniously continued until 1850.
Viennese writer Franz Graffer publishes account of a meeting of his brother with Saint-Germain between 1788 and 1790. Saint-Germain received his visitor while leafing through a book by Paracelsus.
Russia/Dresden. Leopold Engel's father, Karl Dietrich Engel (1824-1913) was a violinist and in 1846 became Konzertmeister (leader) of the orchestra of the Imperial Russian Theatre. When he returned to Germany he eventually settled at Dresden and wrote extensively on the Faust legend. His son, Leopold Engel was an itinerant actor who practised hypnotism and alleged naturopathic healing on the side.
Mary Reynolds' case was first theoretical case showing relationship between MPD and dissociation (dissociation then described as sleep-walking, somnambulism, nightmares, automatic writing, etc.). Hypothesized in The Philosophy of Sleep,, by R. MacNeish. Found a primary state and a secondary state.
Nucleus of physicians in New York form the American Medical Association.
Over 117,000 Chinese laborers brought to Western United States, feeding an imported opium trade estimated at 285,000 pounds per year into the US.
Independent US Treasury established.
Former slaves in Caribbean left to manage old sugar plantations - a situation that would last until sugar plantations would eventually be taken over by the United States.
Eliphas Levi separated from his family.
1 October. London. Annie Besant born. She was the daughter of William Page Wood.
London. On his release from prison, Eugene Vintras goes to London, and it was at this time that one of Vintras' former Church members, a priest named Gozzoli, wrote a pamphlet accusing him of sexual orgies of all kinds.
London. Marx and Engels join Weitling's Federation of the Just in England. At a preliminary congress held in the summer of 1847, Marx and Engels instructed the members of the Federation to produce a programme to supplant Weitling's mixture of Babouvism and Fourierism. The name of the Society was changed to "The Communist Federation" -- and secrecy as far as possible was abandoned. A second congress met in November and December of 1847, which after a ten-days' discussion, approved the report, which was published as The Communist Manifesto. Almost immediately the Revolution of 1848 broke out.
American Medical Association (AMA) organized in the US. (Or was it the year previous...?)
Madrid. Ferdinand de Lesseps was Minister of France at Madrid.
Antient and Primitive Rite. Work resumed. Rite spreads to Romania, Egypt, America. Political situation more favorable. In 1849, Marconis founds and revives 3 Lodges, a Council, and a Chapter in Paris. Under a more liberal regime, Marconis was able to revive it.
Warsaw. Louis Maximilian Bimstein, aka Max Theon, born. He studied the ancient tradition. Theon travelled widely in his youth. In Cairo, he became a student of a Coptic magician named Paulos Metamon. It is also said that Charles Barlet claimed that Theon was the son of the old Copt.
Asia Minor. Madame Blavatsky meets Coptic Initiate Paulos Metamon for the first time. It is said that Metamon was either a Copt or a Chaldean. The name would suggest Copt.
Early. Frankfurt. The last relic of intolerance was cast aside, and the ritual purged of its specifically Christian elements. This resulted in immediate negotiations with the Jewish Lodge "Nascent Dawn", which, however, did not bear fruit for some months. The other Jewish Lodge, "Frankfurt Eagle", joined the Grand Lodge of Hamburg in the same year.
Frankfurt am Main. Another member of The Nascent Dawn lodge was the Jew Gabriel Riesser, also an early fighter for Jewish emancipation, who even became a member of the Constitutional Committee and then Vice President of the Frankfurt National Assembly of 1848.
21 April. Paris. The Chapiterial and Areopagite Lodge "The Disciples of Memphis" recommenced work in the Orient of Paris, on this date; and the Chapter presided over by the Illustrious Brother Harant Gazard, reinstalled the 29th of the same month. The Philosophical Grand Chapter was comprised at this period of 45 members: Harant Gazard, Eugene Daroux, Henry L Lefore, Chapelet, Hippolyte Bard, Prosper Jammes, Auguste, Baptiste Vignier, Nicholas Adam Picard, Jacques Bounardel, Louis Florian Derecusson, Eugene Garnier, Tony Merlanchon, Hippolyte Riveron, J. Collet, Leon Jaybert, Emmanuel Mayer, Paul Verdier, Michel Muller, Narcisse Francois Allen, Adolphe de Heneau, Auguste Leflis, Auguste Reither, Auguste Morizot, Adolphe Layssard, Floquet (Advocate), the Baron Eugene Guillemot, Joseph Edmond Riess, Jean Antoine Dutrois, Pierre Francois Morel, Adolphe Voernard, August Coquerele, Achille Fiengon, Auguste Augier, Pierre Auguste Cathelaine de Brotonne (Lawyer). In 1848 and 1849, several hundreds of Frankists migrated to the United States of America, and established themselves. According to Scholem, there are Frankists in existence today, but not as extreme as the Frankists which existed when Frank was alive. Like the Goddess went from the Name and Glory of God to Lilith the Night Hag, the teachings of Jacob Frank went from a fulfillment of the Torah to just another sect of Judaism.
July. Alphonse Louis Constant remained a "Communist" of some sort into the period of the Revolution of 1848, in the course of which he edited the short-lived journal, the Tribun du Peuple. But he became disillusioned with politics shortly afterwards, and his last socialist work appeared in July 1848. From that point onwards the mystical strain in his work became more important than the political. It is possible that his conversion to the role of an esoteric seer happened under the influence of Sarrazin's brother-in-law, the Polish polymath, Hoene-Wronski.
17 December. Landsdowne Crescent, Leamington, Warwickshire. William Wynn Westcott, future Senior Magus of the Soc. Ros. In Anglia, and founder of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in the Outer, born.
It was a branch of the Société des Saisons, the Société dissidente, that, in 1848, served the purpose of the Haute Vente by aiding in the terrorisation of Paris and the fall of the Monarchy.
In 1848, Vintras' Church of Carmel is declared heretical by the Pope and all its members were excommunicated. As a result it became independent and boasted both male and female priests. Some years later the prophet was accused of homosexuality. A certain Geoffroi, an ordained priest, went even further, claiming that Vintras had taught him a mysterious prayer designed to accompany masturbation. Vintras replied to the Papal condemnation with a counter-condemnation of the Pope and a dignified defence of his own position: "If my mind counted for anything in the condemned works, I should bow my head and fear would possess my soul. The Work is not my Work, however, and I have had no concurrence in it, either by research or desire. Within me is calmness; I have not laid awake on my bed nor have night-watches wearied my eyes; God gives me pure sleep." Vintras' difficulties were increased by the activities of an ex-disciple named Gozzoli (he seems to have been a pawn of Geoffroi who had also fallen out with the prophet)...
Rockefeller interests establish prime goal of control of US medical system.
Karl Marx Communist Manifesto created. Proposes: abolition of private property in land (through gradually increasing property tax), heavy progressive or graduated income tax, abolition of inheritance rights (inheritance tax), confiscation of private property, a central bank, forced distribution of population and centralization of transportation and communication in the hands of the state.
Immigration from Ireland to the United States. United States news media spread the word that "one third carried a copy of the Manifesto" in order to help enforce the spread of compulsory schooling for "native" Americans.
California Gold Rush. (Unless you're from California, bozo! Every brain dead idiot knows it was the '49! Stoo-piddd Conspiracy hack writers...this date is from Trufax again)...
Dr.Semmelweis at the University of Vienna Medical School cuts infant deaths by requiring doctors to wash their hands. Subsequently fired.
The Masonic Widow's Annuity fund was established.
According to the tradition of the FARC (Freres Aines de la Rose + Croix, or Elder Brethren of the Rosy Cross), a very secret Order allegedly still existing in France, Lord Bulwer-Lytton was elected in 1849 as the 51st Imperator of the Order, until 1865.
Ferdinand de Lesseps was sent by the Government of the French Republic to negotiate with the existing government in Rome, but the French elections, which occurred shortly after his departure, led to a change in foreign policy, and de Lesseps was recalled in disgrace. He was given no opportunity to justify his actions, and therefore retired from the service. An invitation from Said Pasha, now viceroy of Egypt, revived in him his early ambitions.
Paris. Grand Orient. Those ancient landmarks of British Masonry, belief in the Great Architect of the Universe, and in the immortality of the soul, had never formed an integral part of the Grand Orient system, and it was only in 1849 that for the first time "it was distinctly formulated that the basis of Freemasonry is a belief in God and in the immortality of the soul, and the solidarity of Humanity."
Paris. The Order of Memphis published its General Statutes, with a portrait of the Grand Hierophant, "La Sanctuaire de Memphis, par J. E. Marconis de Negre, (Bruyer, 259, Rue St. Martin.)" The Order is here regulated by five Supreme Councils.
William A Rockefeller indicted for raping a hired girl. William also bills himself as a "cancer specialist" and sells petroleum based products as elixir.
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