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Amo Amass A-Muse - Lodge of the Nine Muses 27

He must have still been in touch with the Lodge of the Nine Muses, and in distressed
circumstances, for at a meeting of the Charity Committee of the Premier Grand Lodge on
5th April 1812, at which the Chevallier Bartholomew Ruspini was present as the Grand
Sword Bearer, a petition from the Rev. Baron de Starck, supported by No. 330, The Lodge
of the Nine Muses, was read, and a sum of £20 was granted. He died at Darmstadt in
1816 at the age of 75.
There is a paper by B. Telepneff in A.Q.C. Vol. 41 of 1928 — “Johann August von
Starck and his Rite of Spiritual Masonry”, in A.Q.C. Vol. 9 of 1896 there is a Curious
Tablet about him which I have not seen; neither had discovered that he had been a
member of our Lodge. Alas our own Lodge records of this period were lost about the
year 1827, otherwise we might have learnt more about this most distinguished continental
Mason and a Member of our Lodge.

P.J.D. November 1977