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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: On the formation of the Grand Lodge (June 20, 1812) circnlars were addressed to the other Grand Lodges in the United States, enclosing a copy of the proceedings of the convention (in English), requesting recognition and fraternal correspondence. Congratulatory communications were received from most of them during the following year: the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, however, owing to representations made by Harmony Lodge, at first showed little disposition to extend recognition; but a full statement of all the facts accompanied by certified copies of the letters of the Lodges Louisiana and Harmony having been forwarded to it, recognition was accorded, and the Grand Lodge of Louisiana admitted into full fellowship with all her sister Grand Lodges. CHAPTER III. FROM THE FORMATION OF THE GRAND LODGE TO THE RE-INTRODUCTION OF THE FRENCH BITE IN 1818. Having traced the history of Masonry in Louisiana from 1794, when it first assumed a regularly organized form, to the year 1812, when the Grand Lodge of Louisiana was formed as a Grand Lodge of "Ancient York Masons," claiming sole and exclusive jurisdiction over the craft, and shown that at that date there were no lodges in the State except those in the city and suburbs of New Orleans, all of whom professed the York Rite, it is now proposed to inquire into the causes which led the Grand Lodge to tolerate the invasion of its jurisdiction by a Foreign Masonic Power, and point out the results that followed. At a quarterly communication of the Grand Lodge, held on the 27th of March, 1813, the Grand Master announced that a Grand R. A. Chapter "had been formed and attached to the Grand Lodge of Louisiana.") to the most ancient custom and usage of the Craft, in all ages and nations, throughout the known World, and not otherwise....

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• Published on: 2009-08-10
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Paperback
• 130 pages