John Yarker

John Yarker ( born April 17, 1833 in Swindale ( at Kendal ), Westmorland, England; † March 20 1913 in Withington, Greater Manchester, England ) was an English high degree Freemason, writers and mystics. He was an honorary member of the Society of Rosicruciana in Anglia and member of the British Quatuor Coronati Forschungsloge.

Life and work

Childhood, marriage, children

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

Masonic and esoteric

In Manchester he was in the Masonic Lodge of Integrity No. 25 October 1854. 189 (later no. 163) initiated. Three months later he reached there the master's degree. On April 27, 1855 he affiliated in Dunkinfield in Fidelity Lodge No.. 623 and in 1857 there Worshipful Master. In 1862 he left the box.

This was followed by membership in high degree Masonic lodges, where he rose up to the highest degree. He was expelled in 1870 because of his links to the Ancient and Primitive Rite irregular from the regular Ancient and Accepted Rite ( AASR ).

The Grand Lodge of Memphis - Mizraim - Rite of America had their Masonic relations with the Grand Orient of France in 1870 terminated when Yaker 1872, the Sovereign Sanctuary of the Antient and Primitive Rite of Memphis - Mizraim of Freemasonry in England and Ireland. For this he was allegedly authorized by the authority of a patent issued by the U.S. Sovereign Grand Master General of the Memphis Rite Harry J. Seymour.

Even in good faith, he fell through the rite in the company of Swindler Theodor Reuss and Aleister Crowley. For the rite was the official representative Yarkes in Germany in this episode Reuss.

Until 1881 the Memphis and Mizraim Rite worked mainly separately, their ultimate association is due to the efforts of the Italian freedom fighter Giuseppe Garibaldi, who was appointed to the international grandmasters.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky published on 29 September 1877, Isis Unveiled, her first major work, in which they cited several times by works Yarkers. Whether Blavatsky was already at that time with Yarker corresponded in contact is unclear, but to accept. Yarker must in any case have to get the book immediately after its release and was so impressed that he was only two months later, on 24 November 1877 an honorary membership in his Memphis - Mizraim Freemasonry and the honorary title awarded her Crowned Princess. Blavatsky had not previously applied for a recording, but felt honored and apparently signed the imparted to patent. In 1879 there were in the U.S. to a first personal meeting of the two and they gave Yarker in 1880 in return honorary membership in their Theosophical Society.

1876 ​​led Yarker the Swedenborgian Rite in England. Gérard Encausse's alias Papus was grand marshal in the English Swedenborgian Rite, it was Yarker 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 - Mizraim )
  • The Arcane Schools ( 1909)
  • Masonic Charges and Lectures
  • Scientific and Religious Mysteries of Antiquity
  • Freemasonry in Modern Times
  • 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
Esotericism Martinism Harry S. Truman
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