Excerpt

from the Protocol

of the Prefecture of Lorraine a regional administrative division of the Masonic Order of the Strict Observance

A work has been read to us, the author of which is a member of the Prefecture of Lorraine. It concerns the undertakings of the Convention of Wilhelmsbad a major Masonic congress held in 1782 to reform the Order. This work has found general approval, and it has been unanimously decided that it should be printed and sent to all provinces of the Orient a term for the geographic jurisdiction or headquarters of the Masonic Order.

A decorative rococo-style headpiece appears here, featuring symmetrical scrolls and floral elements common in 18th-century book design.

Regarding the

General Assembly

of the Freemasons,

at the Healing Springs in Wilhelmsbad

near Hanau.

Salmacis, give up the spoils without sweat and blood. original Latin: "Salmaci, da spolia, sine sudore et sanguine."

Ennius. An early Roman poet.

Let us honor the Great ones of the earth: let us honor the world-wise, let us honor virtuous alliances, let us honor societies whose purpose is: to destroy what is evil, to perfect what is deficient, to found what is useful, honest, and just; but let us not forget that the Great ones of the earth and the world-wise remain human beings, and that human beings