Our Tyler was an Indian Jew. We met upon the level, and we're parting on the square. In France, where ‘some 40 per cent of civilian ministers of the Third Republic were “on the square”’, the anti-clerical smut-peddler Léo Taxil, the author ofBy 1925, the fantasy of a ‘Judeo-Masonic conspiracy’ was ‘bread-and-butter’ to Hitler’s first supporters.
We'd Bola Nath, Accountant, An' Saul the Aden Jew, An' Din Mohammed, draughtsman Of the survey Office too; There was Babu Chuckerbutty, An' Amir Singh the Sikh, An' Castro from the fittin'-sheds, The Roman Catholick! We 'adn't good regalia, In the century after 1789, this theory became a weapon in the Catholic In Italy the patriotic Carbonari adopted Barruel’s black legend as a handbook of revolution, which is one reason why Italians remain keen on masonic conspiracies, another being curious incidents such as the death of the banker Roberto Calvi. His poems, the Mother Lodge, the Palace, and L'Envoito Life's Handicap are splendidly typical. We met upon the Level an' we parted on the Square, An' I was Junior Deacon in my Mother-Lodge out there! And there is the account of the hanging of three men, and a scuba diver, and a suicide. We'd Bola Nath, Accountant, An' Saul the Aden Jew, An' Din Mohammed, draughtsman Of the Survey Office too; There was Babu Chuckerbutty, An' Amir Singh the Sikh, An' Castro from the fittin'-sheds, The Roman Catholick! French lodges banned ‘Jews, Mohammedans and Negroes’, though the Chevalier d’Eon, a celebrated transvestite, was one of the boys some of the time. And so it goes, and so it goes. “Part upon the square”, meaning that we have treated each other … To meet on the level, is to meet as equals; to part on the square is to mean that there is no malice or misunderstanding of the topics discussed, and that the next we meet we can again meet on a level or equal stature because when we parted the discussions we were "Square"; these are sayings in …
We met upon the level, and we're parting on the square. We met upon the Level an' we parted on the Square, An' I was Junior Deacon in my Mother-Lodge out there!
The lodge was a link with home, but also common ground in an imperial society divided by colour, caste and class.
The English Masonic Illustrated (London, July 1901+ volume 1, number 10) says Brother Kipling was initiated in Freemasonry at the age of twenty and a half, by special dispensation obtained for the purpose, in the Hope and Perseverance Lodge, No. We 'adn't good regalia, There are stories of coincidence and chance, and intersections and strange things told, and which is which and who only knows?
In the lodge, Kipling’s soldier is equal to ‘Bola Nath, Accountant’, ‘Saul, the Aden Jew’, ‘Din Mohammed, draughtsman’, ‘Babu Chuckerbutty’ and Castro the Catholic ‘from the fittin’ sheds’.
We met upon the Level an’ we parted on the Square, An’ I was junior Deacon in my Mother-Lodge out there!
“We meet upon the level”, meaning that approach our interactions with honesty, and transparency.
'Parting upon the square' is an admonishment that being a … And the book says, "We may be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us." We 'adn't good regalia There's a world where all are equal we're coming to it fast We shall meet upon the level there when the days on earth are past We shall stand before the altar and our Master will be there
We'd Bola Nath, Accountant, An' Saul the Aden Jew, An' Din Mohammed, draughtsman Of the Survey Office too; There was Babu Chuckerbutty, An' Amir Singh the Sikh, An' Castro from the fittin'-sheds, The Roman Catholick!
Burt Ramsey: We met upon the level, and we're parting on the square. But freemasonry is a child of the Renaissance and the Reformation.