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The Historical Degrees;
THE HISTORICAL DEGREES ;
< m THE SUBLIME : A ^ I > IKEFEABLE DE GREES OE THE AKCIENT - AND ACCEPTED RITE . . -A .- sebies of ^ papers , published in the ^ remriasoni Magazine , of 185 > 7 , presented our readers with an historic sketch of the
Ancient arid Accented Bite and specified the several degrees according to the The designation , as used by the " Supreme Council of the 33 rd Degree for En ^ Grown , ' differs as regar them to be the same ; , or hut slightly altered . The degrees are stated
as thirty-tHree in nuniber , the first three being the symbolic , viz ., the Entered Apprentice , Tellow Craft / and Master Mason . The Mason who is possessed of the certificate of these last-named is , according to the present usage , admissible to all degrees included below the 18 th degree , which is the Sovereign Prince Rose Croix of Harodim *
This must undoubtedly appear to the Brother who has been exalted to the Eoyal Arch , and who has gone through the long course required to reach the chair of a Craft Lodge , to be a wholesale mode of conferring rank . We conceive that , according to strict rule , none but a regularlv installed Master of a Craft Lodge is eligible to these
degrees ; in fact , the certificate of the Council begins by " certifying and acknowledging the Brother to be an expert Master and Past Master of the Symbolic Lodges . " In other countries we understand the Supreme Council claim the right to confer the rank of Past Master ; but in England no attempt is made to interfere with the functions of the Grrand Lodge , or to infringe its constitutions .
As this rite is receiving a good deal of attention , and as the numbers admitted into it yearly increase , we propose in this paper to give a slight notice of its several degrees , reminding our readers that , under the English constitution of the rite , it is not the
rule to practise any of them below the 18 th degree ; hence our explanations , being derived from a variety of sources partly written and partly oral , may not be considered precisely agreeable to some authorities , but in the main they will not be found to differ very widely . Our highly endowed Brother , the Eev . Dr . Oliver , speaking upon this subject , says ;—> lc The Ineffable degrees are little known or toio iv * 4 Test
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Historical Degrees;
THE HISTORICAL DEGREES ;
< m THE SUBLIME : A ^ I > IKEFEABLE DE GREES OE THE AKCIENT - AND ACCEPTED RITE . . -A .- sebies of ^ papers , published in the ^ remriasoni Magazine , of 185 > 7 , presented our readers with an historic sketch of the
Ancient arid Accented Bite and specified the several degrees according to the The designation , as used by the " Supreme Council of the 33 rd Degree for En ^ Grown , ' differs as regar them to be the same ; , or hut slightly altered . The degrees are stated
as thirty-tHree in nuniber , the first three being the symbolic , viz ., the Entered Apprentice , Tellow Craft / and Master Mason . The Mason who is possessed of the certificate of these last-named is , according to the present usage , admissible to all degrees included below the 18 th degree , which is the Sovereign Prince Rose Croix of Harodim *
This must undoubtedly appear to the Brother who has been exalted to the Eoyal Arch , and who has gone through the long course required to reach the chair of a Craft Lodge , to be a wholesale mode of conferring rank . We conceive that , according to strict rule , none but a regularlv installed Master of a Craft Lodge is eligible to these
degrees ; in fact , the certificate of the Council begins by " certifying and acknowledging the Brother to be an expert Master and Past Master of the Symbolic Lodges . " In other countries we understand the Supreme Council claim the right to confer the rank of Past Master ; but in England no attempt is made to interfere with the functions of the Grrand Lodge , or to infringe its constitutions .
As this rite is receiving a good deal of attention , and as the numbers admitted into it yearly increase , we propose in this paper to give a slight notice of its several degrees , reminding our readers that , under the English constitution of the rite , it is not the
rule to practise any of them below the 18 th degree ; hence our explanations , being derived from a variety of sources partly written and partly oral , may not be considered precisely agreeable to some authorities , but in the main they will not be found to differ very widely . Our highly endowed Brother , the Eev . Dr . Oliver , speaking upon this subject , says ;—> lc The Ineffable degrees are little known or toio iv * 4 Test