I have now arrived at what I should call the great epoch of Cosmo-politism, the scheme communicated to Baron Knigge by the _Marchese di Constanza_. This obliges me to mention a remarkable Lodge of the Eclectic Masonry, erected at Munich in Bavaria in 1775, under the worshipful Master, Professor Baader. It was called _The Lodge Theodore of Good Counsel_. It had its constitutional patent from the Royal York at Berlin, but had formed a particular system of its own, by instructions from the _Loge des Chevaliers Bienfaisants_ at Lyons, with which it kept up a correspondence. This respect to the Lodge at Lyons had arisen from the preponderance acquired in general by the French party in the convention at Willemsbad. The deputies of the Rosaic Lodges, as well as the remains of the Templars, and _Stricten Observanz_, all looking up to this as the mother Lodge of what they called the _Grand Orient de la France_, consisting in (in 1782) of 266 improved Lodges united under the _D. de Chartres_. Accordingly the Lodge at Lyons sent Mr. Wilermooz as deputy to this convention at Willemsbad. Refining gradually on the simple British Masonry, the Lodge had formed a system of practical morality, which it asserted to be the aim of genuine Masonry, saying, that a true mason, and a man of upright heart and active virtue, are synonimous characters, and that the great aim of Free Masonry is to promote the happiness of mankind by every mean in our power. In pursuance of these principles, the Lodge Theodore professedly occupied itself with oeconomical, statistical, and political matters, and not only published from time to time discourses on such subjects by the Brother Orator, but the Members considered themselves as in duty bound to propagate and inculcate the same doctrines out of doors.