Mackey – Encyclopedia Of Freemasonry Vol. 1

ANDROGYNOUS MASONRY 89silhouette, supposed to represent the Lady of Rosenwald,so indistinct and blurred, as to look more like a blot than aportrait. Members also were furnished with a small ticket,giving the explanation of certain terms used by Grossing inhis "Rules and Regulations" ; thus Freemasons were called" Gamblers " ; Jesuits, " Foxes " ; Illuminati, " Wasps " ;Ghost-seers, " Gnats," &c . The " Rules " were called " AShell or Case for Thorns " ; members, to recognise eachother, would say, " Thorns," to which the other wouldreply, " Forest," after which each would produce his ribbonand ticket . In 1786 the Order counted about one hundredand twenty, members, but having no innate vitality, being, infact, but a company of triflers, many of them withdrew onfinding the whole Order but a scheme of Grossing to putmoney into his pocket, and so it was swept away into thelimbus of fashionable follies .476. Order of Harmony .-The Order of the Rose havingcollapsed, Grossing in 1788 founded, under a fictitious name,the " Order of Harmony ." He published a book alleged tobe translated from the English, and entitled, " Harmony, or aScheme for the Better Education of the Female Sex," andwrote in the Preface, "This ' Harmony' is not to be confoundedwith that Chdteau en Espagne, with which thefounder of the Order of the Rose for some years deludedthe ladies of Germany ." The Order of Harmony was said tohave been founded by Seth, the third son of Adam, tohave reckoned among its members Moses and Christ, and tobe the refuge of persecuted humanity and innocence . Thefounder abused princes and priests, proposed the establishmentof convents, in which ladies were to take the vows ofchastity, obedience, and poverty, but only for a year at a time ;a bank was also to be founded in connection with them .And the writer finally proposed that a monument shouldbe erected to the promoter of the Order as a benefactor ofmankind! When Grossing was arrested in 1788 at Rotenburg(Prussia), for all kinds of swindling transactions, a numberof diplomas were found among his papers, with the names ofladies who were to be admitted to the Order filled in. Butthe interference of the vulgar police brushed the bloom ofromance off the scheme, and the Order of Harmony perished,a still-born babe ! Grossing, however, managed to effect hisescape, by making his guards drunk ; what became of himafterwards is not on record .477. Mason's Daughter.-This is an androgynous . degreeinvented in the Western States of America, and given to