Spener at Dresden andCollegia philobiblica in Leipzig, § 159, 3.
The Collegia Philobiblica was suppressed, and the three friends obliged to leave Leipzig in A.
Collegia Philobiblica for practical exposition of Scripture and the delivery of public exegetical lectures at the university in the German language.
This feeling, together with the increasing specialization of industry, begat a passion for association, and Collegia of many sorts were organized.
For an account of the Collegia in early Christian times, see Roman Life from Nero to Aurelius, by Dill (bk.
Most of the Collegia became funerary and charitable in their labors, humble folk seeking to escape the dim, hopeless obscurity of plebeian life, and the still more hopeless obscurity of death.
Among the Collegia it made rapid progress, its Saints taking the place of pagan deities as patrons, and its spirit of love welding men into closer, truer union.
Just so, in the story of the builders one finds a gap of like length, between the Collegia of Rome and the cathedral artists.
In pre-Christian times, as we have seen, the Roman Collegiawere wont to adopt pagan deities as patrons.
In her temple on the Aventine almost all these collegia had at once their religious centre and their business headquarters.
They called themselves by many names, cultores of this deity or that, collegia salutaria, collegia iuvenum, etc.
These cooperative associations (collegia funeraticia) started originally among members of the same guild (section 412) or among persons of the same occupation.
The sodalitia and collegia were of immemorial antiquity.
Christian church was organized in accordance with the rules of the Collegia funeraticia, so that it might claim from the state the privileges of the Factiones licitæ.
The cenae collegiorum, dinners of collegia of priests, were in no sense sacrificial meals; see Marquardt, p.
It is noticeable that there were two gilds or collegia of them belonging to the Palatine and Quirinal cities respectively; and they are also found at Tibur, Alba, Lanuvium, and other Latin cities.
As religious law displaced magic in the State ritual, so the new kings, with their collegia of legal priests, pontifices and augurs, neutralised and gradually destroyed the prestige of the effete survivor of an age of barbarism.
On his return to Leipsic, he commenced exegetical lectures on various parts of the Bible, and instituted Collegia Pietatis for such students as felt disposed to attend them.
These meetings were the Collegia Pietatis, or Schools of Devotion, which gave the first occasion for the reproachful epithet of Pietism.
This fund is quite different from the collegia tenuiorum or funeratica of the Romans, which were societies to which the members paid stipulated sums at stated periods, for funeral benefits or for common meals (J.
Clavel, however, says that these existed in the Roman Collegia (Histoire pittoresque, p.
Thus Operative Masonry may have descended from the Roman Collegia and through the operative masons of the Middle Ages, whilst Speculative Masonry may have derived from the patriarchs and the mysteries of the pagans.
But a more probable source of inspiration in the art of building are the Romans, who established the famous collegia of architects referred to in the list of alternative theories given in the Masonic Cyclopædia.
Advocates of the Roman Collegia theory explain it in the following manner.
The question of the Templar succession in Freemasonry forms perhaps the most controversial point in the whole history of the Roman Collegia theory, Continental Masons more generally accepting it, and even glorying in it.
Transferre vel differre domos vel collegia jam creata, aut in usum societatis professae redditus eorum convertere praepositus generalis, ut in 4 part.
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