John Yarker

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John Yarker (1904)

John Yarker (* 17th April 1833 in Swindale (at Kendal ), Westmorland , England ; † 20th March 1913 in Withington , Greater Manchester , England) was an English high degree - Freemasons , writers and mystics . He was an honorary member of the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia and a member of the English research lodge Quatuor Coronati .

life and work

Childhood, marriage, children

Yarker was born on April 17, 1833 in the small English village of Swindale . In 1840 the family moved to Lancashire and in 1849 to Manchester . On January 4, 1857, he married Eliza Jane Lund , and the marriage had six children. From 1876 until his death he lived with his family in Withington near Manchester.

Freemasons and esotericists

In Manchester he was born on October 25, 1854 in the Masonic Lodge Lodge of Integrity No. 189 (later No. 163) initiated. Just three months later he achieved the degree of Master there . On April 27, 1855, he affiliated in Dunkinfield with Fidelity Lodge No. 623 and became master of the chair there in 1857 . In 1862 he left the lodge.

Memberships in high-grade Masonic lodges followed, where he rose to the highest grades. In 1870 he was excluded from the regular Ancient and Accepted Rite (AASR) because of his connections to the irregular Ancient and Primitive Rite .

The Grand Lodges of the Memphis Misraïm Rite of America had severed their Masonic relations with the Grand Orient de France in 1870 when Yaker established the Sovereign Sanctuary of the Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis Misraïm of Freemasonry for England and Ireland in 1872 . He was supposedly authorized to do so by the authority of a patent issued by the American Sovereign Grand Master-General of the Memphis Rite Harry J. Seymour .

In good faith himself, the rite brought him into the company of the swindler Theodor Reuss and Aleister Crowley . In this episode, Reuss became Yarkes' official representative for the rite in Germany.

Until 1881 the Memphis and Misraïm rites worked mainly separately, their ultimate union can be traced back to the efforts of the Italian freedom fighter Giuseppe Garibaldi , who was appointed international grandmaster .

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky published Isis Unveiled, her first major work on September 29, 1877 , in which she quoted several times from the works of Yarker. It is unclear whether Blavatsky was already in correspondence with Yarker at the time, but it can be assumed. In any case, Yarker must have received the book as soon as it was published and was so impressed that only two months later, on November 24, 1877, he awarded her honorary membership in his Memphis Misraïm Freemasonry and the honorary title Crowned Princess . Blavatsky had not previously applied for admission, but apparently felt honored and signed the patent she was granted. In 1879 the two of them met for the first time in the USA and in 1880 she awarded Yarker honorary membership in her Theosophical Society in return .

In 1876 Yarker introduced the Swedenborg Rite in England. Gérard Encausse alias Papus became Grand Marshal in the English Swedenborg Rite , for which Yarker became a member of the Supreme Council of the Martinist Order of Papus in France.

Works

  • The Kneph (1881–1900) (Official publication of the Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis-Misraïm )
  • The Arcane Schools (1909)
  • Masonic Charges and Lectures
  • Scientific and Religious Mysteries of Antiquity
  • Freemasonry in Modern Times
  • Origin and Antiquity of Freemasonry
  • Lectures of a Chapter, Senate and Council: According to the Forms of the Antient and Primitive Rite
  • The Magian Mysteries
  • Masonry and the Crusades
  • Modern Rosicrucianism

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon AF & AM: Biography of John Yarker
  2. ^ William R. Denslow, Harry S. Truman : 10,000 Famous Freemasons from K to Z, Part Two . Kessinger Publishing, ISBN 1-4179-7579-2
  3. ^ New York Times : Home Thrust from Harry J. Seymour, Grand Master of the Rite of Memphis, to the Scottish Rite Masons. . May 28, 1870
  4. ↑ Frick, Karl RH: The Enlightened. Gnostic-theosophical and alchemical-Rosicrucian secret societies in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume II, Graz, 1973, p. 207
  5. ↑ Horst E. Miers : Lexicon of secret knowledge . 4th edition, September 1981, ISBN 3-442-11708-9 .
personal data
SURNAME Yarker, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Freemasons, writers, esotericists
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Swindale at Kendal , Westmorland, England
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1913
Place of death Withington , Greater Manchester , England