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Knights Tdmplaeu
wyn and Antiquity rejected this arbitrary and insulting demand with mingled feelings of sorrow and indignation . " The result of this unfortunate termination to the negotiation ^ has been the revival of the Ancient Supreme Grand and Royal Encampment of the Masonic Knights Templar , & c , H . R . D . M ., "K . D . sLh ,, under the Constitution of a . D .
1780 ; the election of a Supreme Grand Master ; and the organization of the Grand Encampment , by the appointment of the necessary officers , and of Provincial GrandCommanders . " The circular next informs us ::.
—" One feature which pre-eminently distinguishes these Encampments from those holding under the London Grand Conclave is this , — -that while the latter has abandoned an important portion of the rights and authority which it exercised previous to the year 1844 , selling its birthright for a mess of pottage , the Supreme Grand and Royal Encampment maintains its ancient constitution intact
and unimpaired . We refer especially to the Degree of Knights Rosae Crucis , or Sovereign Princes Rose Croix of Heredom , a Chapter of which , according to the ancient constitution of the Order , was attached to all the Encampments of Masonic Knights Templar in England , of which , and the privileges belonging to it , the Encampments holding under the London Grand Conclave have been deprived , that body having yielded its authority over the Degree of the Knights
Rosse Crucis to another and different Masonic body . " * The " seven Degrees" which are given under this newly-erected or revived Grand Encampment are : —
1 . Masonic Knights Templar . 2 . Knights of St . John of Jerusalem 3 . Knights of Palestine . 4 . Knights of Rhodes . 5 . Knights of Malta . 6 . Knights Rose Croix of Heredom . 7 . Grand Elected Knights K . D . S . H .
Relative to these Degrees the circular says : — u These seven Degrees were evidently , at one time , kept distinct , and conferred upon candidates in some regular gradation . The signs , tokens , and passwords of the Knights of Malta , together with those assigned to the Mediterranean Pass , which probably belonged to the Knights of Rhodes , have always been given
in the Baldwyn Encampment , but those of the Knights of St . John and of Palestine have fallen into disuse in the Templar Encampment . The latter Degree , however , in the form in which it exists in the old Rite Erancaise , ' as Knights of the Red Cross , or of the East , the Sword , and the Eagle , has be , en regularly held once a year at ^ Bristol , the only place in England where the Degree has been
preserved . " The Degree of the Knights of Palestine , in its present form in the Baldwyn Encampment , dates from about the year 1800 , when the Degrees , ' Hauts Grades , ' of the Rite Francaise were introduced into Briatol by some French refugees , under the authority of the Grand Orient of Paris . These Degrees , which comprise , * The Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Rite ,
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Knights Tdmplaeu
wyn and Antiquity rejected this arbitrary and insulting demand with mingled feelings of sorrow and indignation . " The result of this unfortunate termination to the negotiation ^ has been the revival of the Ancient Supreme Grand and Royal Encampment of the Masonic Knights Templar , & c , H . R . D . M ., "K . D . sLh ,, under the Constitution of a . D .
1780 ; the election of a Supreme Grand Master ; and the organization of the Grand Encampment , by the appointment of the necessary officers , and of Provincial GrandCommanders . " The circular next informs us ::.
—" One feature which pre-eminently distinguishes these Encampments from those holding under the London Grand Conclave is this , — -that while the latter has abandoned an important portion of the rights and authority which it exercised previous to the year 1844 , selling its birthright for a mess of pottage , the Supreme Grand and Royal Encampment maintains its ancient constitution intact
and unimpaired . We refer especially to the Degree of Knights Rosae Crucis , or Sovereign Princes Rose Croix of Heredom , a Chapter of which , according to the ancient constitution of the Order , was attached to all the Encampments of Masonic Knights Templar in England , of which , and the privileges belonging to it , the Encampments holding under the London Grand Conclave have been deprived , that body having yielded its authority over the Degree of the Knights
Rosse Crucis to another and different Masonic body . " * The " seven Degrees" which are given under this newly-erected or revived Grand Encampment are : —
1 . Masonic Knights Templar . 2 . Knights of St . John of Jerusalem 3 . Knights of Palestine . 4 . Knights of Rhodes . 5 . Knights of Malta . 6 . Knights Rose Croix of Heredom . 7 . Grand Elected Knights K . D . S . H .
Relative to these Degrees the circular says : — u These seven Degrees were evidently , at one time , kept distinct , and conferred upon candidates in some regular gradation . The signs , tokens , and passwords of the Knights of Malta , together with those assigned to the Mediterranean Pass , which probably belonged to the Knights of Rhodes , have always been given
in the Baldwyn Encampment , but those of the Knights of St . John and of Palestine have fallen into disuse in the Templar Encampment . The latter Degree , however , in the form in which it exists in the old Rite Erancaise , ' as Knights of the Red Cross , or of the East , the Sword , and the Eagle , has be , en regularly held once a year at ^ Bristol , the only place in England where the Degree has been
preserved . " The Degree of the Knights of Palestine , in its present form in the Baldwyn Encampment , dates from about the year 1800 , when the Degrees , ' Hauts Grades , ' of the Rite Francaise were introduced into Briatol by some French refugees , under the authority of the Grand Orient of Paris . These Degrees , which comprise , * The Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Rite ,