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History Of The Ancient And Accepted Rite
HISTOEY OP THE ANCIENT AND AJDCEPTED KITE .
BY A SUBLIME PRnCE 0 E THE EOTAI / SECRET . ( fioTiMm Ik the year 1740 , Erederick , King of Prussi at Berlin , by the name of " The Three & fc ^ a Grrand Lodge . The Degrees of Graft Masonry were governed by this Grrand Lodge , and the higher Degrees of the rite of Harodim , or
of Perfection ( with its twenty-five Degrees ) , were under the government of an " Inner East ^ ' whose members were elected by the Grrand Lodge . Until the year that the Ineffable and Sublime Degrees were known by any distinctive title or name as a rite . In the year 1745 , when the " Chapter of Clermont * ' was established by the Chevalier de Bonneville , in Prance , they were known by the same name . This rite of Perfection ,
or Harodim , comprised the eleven Ineffable Degrees ( the highest of which is called the Degree of Perfection ) , conferred in a Sublime Grrand Lodge of Perfection , " the order of Knight of the Sword ( or East ) and Prince of Jerusalem ; Knight of the East and "West and Sovereign Prince Eose Croix , H . S . D . M . ; and seven of the superior Degrees belonging to consistories of Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret , including the last . A few years after the Degrees were increased in number to thirty-two , by properly making three grades of the thirty-second , and adding Prussian Knight , Knight of St . Andrew , and two or three other preparatory Degrees to the series .
Although this rite , or the principal Degrees constituting it , were cultivated all over the Continent at the commencement of the last century , it was not until the middle of that century that they acknowledged any royal patron , protector , or governing head , as it had , from time immemorial , been the custom of symbolic or blue
Masons to do . The great and illustrious Frederick II ., King of Prussia , condescended to become , and was acknowledged and " proclaimed Chief , of the Eminent Degree , " with the rank , as declared by the Constitutions of the Order , ratified at Berlin on the 25 th of October , 1762 , of " Sovereign Grand Inspector-General and Grand Commander . "
These Constitutions were " proclaimed for the government of Sublime and Perfect Masons , Chapters , Councils , Colleges , and Consistories of the Royal and Military art of Preemasonry over the surface of the two hemispheres . " There are " Secret Constitutions " which have existed from time immemorial , and are alluded to in these
instruments . On the 27 th of August , 1761 , a Grand Consistory of Princes of the Eoyal Secret was convened in Paris , presided over by the King of Prussia ' s deputy , " Chaillon de Joinville , Substitute General of
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History Of The Ancient And Accepted Rite
HISTOEY OP THE ANCIENT AND AJDCEPTED KITE .
BY A SUBLIME PRnCE 0 E THE EOTAI / SECRET . ( fioTiMm Ik the year 1740 , Erederick , King of Prussi at Berlin , by the name of " The Three & fc ^ a Grrand Lodge . The Degrees of Graft Masonry were governed by this Grrand Lodge , and the higher Degrees of the rite of Harodim , or
of Perfection ( with its twenty-five Degrees ) , were under the government of an " Inner East ^ ' whose members were elected by the Grrand Lodge . Until the year that the Ineffable and Sublime Degrees were known by any distinctive title or name as a rite . In the year 1745 , when the " Chapter of Clermont * ' was established by the Chevalier de Bonneville , in Prance , they were known by the same name . This rite of Perfection ,
or Harodim , comprised the eleven Ineffable Degrees ( the highest of which is called the Degree of Perfection ) , conferred in a Sublime Grrand Lodge of Perfection , " the order of Knight of the Sword ( or East ) and Prince of Jerusalem ; Knight of the East and "West and Sovereign Prince Eose Croix , H . S . D . M . ; and seven of the superior Degrees belonging to consistories of Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret , including the last . A few years after the Degrees were increased in number to thirty-two , by properly making three grades of the thirty-second , and adding Prussian Knight , Knight of St . Andrew , and two or three other preparatory Degrees to the series .
Although this rite , or the principal Degrees constituting it , were cultivated all over the Continent at the commencement of the last century , it was not until the middle of that century that they acknowledged any royal patron , protector , or governing head , as it had , from time immemorial , been the custom of symbolic or blue
Masons to do . The great and illustrious Frederick II ., King of Prussia , condescended to become , and was acknowledged and " proclaimed Chief , of the Eminent Degree , " with the rank , as declared by the Constitutions of the Order , ratified at Berlin on the 25 th of October , 1762 , of " Sovereign Grand Inspector-General and Grand Commander . "
These Constitutions were " proclaimed for the government of Sublime and Perfect Masons , Chapters , Councils , Colleges , and Consistories of the Royal and Military art of Preemasonry over the surface of the two hemispheres . " There are " Secret Constitutions " which have existed from time immemorial , and are alluded to in these
instruments . On the 27 th of August , 1761 , a Grand Consistory of Princes of the Eoyal Secret was convened in Paris , presided over by the King of Prussia ' s deputy , " Chaillon de Joinville , Substitute General of