The Cryptic Rite: Its Origin and Introduction on this Continent ...: The Work of the Rite in Canada, with a History of the Various Grand Councils ...Hunter, Rose & Company, 1888 - 253 pages |
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... original intention was to confine the work to the Rite in my own country , but at the suggestion of Companions I have enlarged its scope so as to give , in one volume , what I believe has never been given before , a complete history of ...
... original intention was to confine the work to the Rite in my own country , but at the suggestion of Companions I have enlarged its scope so as to give , in one volume , what I believe has never been given before , a complete history of ...
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... original dispensation or com- mission purporting to be granted to Cross by Eckel and Niles , in which the Select Degree alone is mentioned . ( A copy of this document is given in a subsequent chapter . ) Companion Josiah H. Drummond ...
... original dispensation or com- mission purporting to be granted to Cross by Eckel and Niles , in which the Select Degree alone is mentioned . ( A copy of this document is given in a subsequent chapter . ) Companion Josiah H. Drummond ...
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... highly respected and esteemed in the community where they have so long and so honourably sojourned , and they are still members of the same sub- lime body . " Your Committee have further ascertained that at the original 14 CRYPTIC MASONRY .
... highly respected and esteemed in the community where they have so long and so honourably sojourned , and they are still members of the same sub- lime body . " Your Committee have further ascertained that at the original 14 CRYPTIC MASONRY .
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... original estab- lish ment of the Grand Council of Princes of Jerusalem , in this city , on the 20th of February , 1788 , by the Illustrious Brothers Joseph Myers , Barend M. Spitzer , and A. Forst , Deputy Inspectors - General , from ...
... original estab- lish ment of the Grand Council of Princes of Jerusalem , in this city , on the 20th of February , 1788 , by the Illustrious Brothers Joseph Myers , Barend M. Spitzer , and A. Forst , Deputy Inspectors - General , from ...
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... original copy is still in my keeping ; and agreeably to the obligations of the same , and the Grand Constitutions governing those degrees , viz : Royal and Select Masters of 27 , it is correct and lawful to give them either to Sublime ...
... original copy is still in my keeping ; and agreeably to the obligations of the same , and the Grand Constitutions governing those degrees , viz : Royal and Select Masters of 27 , it is correct and lawful to give them either to Sublime ...
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Adoniram Council adopted Annual Assembly appointed Baltimore Brunswick Chapter of Maryland Chapter of Virginia Charleston Committee Comp confer the degrees Constitution Convention Council of Princes Council of Rites Council of Royal Council of Select Cryptic Masonry Cryptic Rite David McLellan degree of Select degrees of Royal Division Dominion of Canada Eckel established formed fraternal Grand Body Grand Captain Grand Chapter Grand Council Grand High Priest Grand Lodge Grand Master Grand Recorder Grand Royal granted grees Hamilton Inspector-General jurisdiction Knights Templars Lodge of Perfection Magnolia Chapter Master's Degree meeting Ontario Order organized Orillia Ottawa panions Princes of Jerusalem proceedings Puissant Grand Master Quebec R. I. Companion Red Cross resolution Ross Robertson Royal and Select Royal Arch Chapter Royal Arch Degree Royal Arch Masons Royal Master Scotch Rite Select Degree Select Masons Select Masters Subordinate Councils Super-Excellent Supreme Council Thrice Illustrious tion Toronto United warrant York Rite
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Page 19 - Besides those degrees which are in regular succession, most of the Inspectors are in possession of a number of detached degrees, given in different parts of the world ; and which they generally communicate, free of expense, to those brethren who are high enough to understand them...
Page 84 - THE UNITED STATES. To all to whom these presents may come, greeting: Know ye that the Congress of the United States...
Page 45 - And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the LORD given by Moses.
Page 43 - I cannot help being of opinion that they have no right to any such benefit until they make a proper application, and are received with due formality, and as it is an organis'd body of men who have passed the chair, and given undeniable proofs of their skill...
Page 74 - States." From 1820 until December 17, 1841, the council degrees of Royal and Select Masters were controlled by a Grand Council. At the latter date, by mutual agreement, these degrees were placed under the control of the Grand Chapter, and the following resolutions give the order of succession : " Resolved, That hereafter the degrees in subordinate chapters be given in the following order, to wit : Mark Master, Past Master, Most Excellent Master, Royal Master, Select Master, and Royal Arch.
Page 241 - The path of sorrow, and that path alone, Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown ; No traveller ever reach'd that blest abode, Who found not thorns and briers in his road.
Page 132 - The candidate, when initiated, is said to be "chosen as a Select Master. The historical object of the degree is to commemorate the deposit of an important secret or treasure which, after the preliminary preparations, is said to have been made by Hiram Abif. The place of meeting represents a secret vault beneath the Temple. A controversy has sometimes arisen among ritualists as to whether the degree of Select Master should precede or follow that of Royal Master in the order of conferring.
Page 46 - Brothers are still living, venerable for their years and warm attachment to the glorious cause of Freemasonry, and highly respected and esteemed for their standing in the community where they have so long honorably sojourned, and they are still members of the same Sublime Body.
Page 43 - It is declared and pronounced, that pure Ancient Masonry consists of three degrees, and no more, viz. those of the Entered Apprentice, the Fellow Craft, and the Master Mason, including the Supreme Order of the Holy Royal Arch.
Page 131 - ... demand for that reward which was to elevate him to the rank of a Master Mason. If from the legendary history we proceed to the symbolism of the degree, we shall find that, brief and simple as are the ceremonies, they present the great Masonic idea of the laborer seeking for his reward. Throughout all the symbolism of Masonry, from the first to the last degree, the search for the WORD has been considered but as a symbolic expression for the search after TRUTH. The attainment of this truth has...