The Origin of Freemasonry and Knights Templar ... - Lodge Prudentia

SUPPLEMENTAL ENCYCLOPEDIA(the original Encampment of the Duke of Sussex), derivedfrom a foreign and spurious source, the so-called Orderof the Temple in Paris, and refused to send representativesto the forming of the Grand Conclave of England. Theyalso refused to acknowledge its authority in Bristol untilsuch time as their claim should be treated with the considerationthey believed it deserved.In 1857 the Knights at Bristol sought a reconciliationwith the Grand Conclave of England, but were refused.They then in the same year "revived" the "Ancient SupremeGrand and Royal Encampment of Masonic Knights Templar,"with a constituency of seven bodies. But this bodydid not have a very long existence, for in 1860 the Campat Baldwyn surrendered its independence, and became arcognized constituent of the Grand Conclave of Englandand Wales.BelshazzarWas the son of Nabonadius, the sixth andlast king of the second Babylonian period. His motherwas a daughter of Nebuchadnezzar, and probably the widowof Neriglissar, the fourth king of the period. When ofsufficient age he was associated with his father on thethrone, and in the Book of Daniel is therefore called king.The night of the fall of Babylon, 538 B. C, he made animpious feast, at which he and his courtiers drank outof the sacred vessels which had been carried away fromthe temple at Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar. He was terrifiedby the apparition of the .hand which wrote uponthe wall ;and in the same night was slain, and the citytaken by Cyrus of Persia. The importance of Babylonrapidly declined soon after its capture by Cyrus, for hemade Susa the capital of his kingdom. "There was a townon its site until the fourth century, and many Jews dweltthere."But from this time onward Babylon ceases almostto be mentioned ;even its ruins have not been discovereduntil within the last two centuries. It is infested by noxiousanimals, and perhaps in no place under heaven is the contrast