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Consistories qtihe Eoyai and Military Order of Ancient and Modern [ Freemasonry , on the sarface of the two hemispheres , agreeably to the Grand ( Wstitutioas . " By Art . IX . " JS * o Deputy Inspector-General can use his patent in any country where a Supreme Council of Sov . Grand Inspectors-General has been established , unless it shall be signed by the said Council .
The members of this " Executive Council of Nine" constitute together , as it were , but one Grito Master of the Illustrious Order , who stands in the place of Frederick . The governmental system of Sublime [ Freemasonry is thus , in a measure , analogous to that of ' a Civil'Constitutional Government , the sovereignty exercised
being defined by law . ^~ By Art . YI . of this Constitution , the powers and authority of Sovereign Grand Inspectors-General 33 rd , is confined to the Degrees of that of Prince of Jerusalem . It formally declares that " the
power of the Supreme Council does not interfere with any Degree below the 17 th , or Knights of the East and West ; but that every Council of Princes of Jerusalem and Lodge of Perfection is required to acknowledge them , the members of such Supreme Council , in their quality of Inspectors- General , and to receive them with the high honours which are their due . "
The following fundamental law appertaining to the Ancient and Accepted Rite is not inapplicable to other departments or any department of Preemasonry : — " " No Masonic power , professing our Rite ., or any of its dependent associations , can , under any pretence whatever , amalgamate or associate by representation , or otherwise / with any other power , or with any association depending on any other Rite , nor consent to become a section or dependence thereof , without renouncing the object of its institution , and losing de facto its sovereign attributes . " * .
Leading Brethren , cultivating the American System , have become active members of bodies working under the Ancient and Accepted Kite , without infringing upon the spirit or even the letter of this law . It is recorded , that on the 20 th of February , 1788 , a Royal Arch Chapter in the city of Charleston , South Carolina—the Berlin
of Masonry in the United States—working under a warrant from the Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Dublin , formed a junction with the Sublime Grand Lodge of Perfection , and its members were received into the Ineffable Degrees free of expense , and acknowledged as high as the 13 th Degree , or Knight of the 9 th Arch inclusive . This was right and constitutional , mams continet minus , as it will be borne in
* With this plain , immistadteable " fundamental law" staving ; thena in the face , I cannot see how our Brethren of the Supreme Masonic Bodies in Boston can consistently require candidates for their honours , to he possessed of the American Chapter and Encampment Degrees ; all of which are not only foreign to our rite , hut partly appropriated from and made independent of it . Evexy intelligent
Sublime Mason , acquainted with American Templariam , must see at once how openly the Degree called " Knight of Malta , " is appropriated from our ritual . I will show how and by whom when I come to speak of an American "Masonic " Organization , independent of course , called a " Council of Ifcoyal and Select Masters . "— Quod ab initio nan mlet , m tracts temyoris non convahsctt *—Qom ^ iler .
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Consistories qtihe Eoyai and Military Order of Ancient and Modern [ Freemasonry , on the sarface of the two hemispheres , agreeably to the Grand ( Wstitutioas . " By Art . IX . " JS * o Deputy Inspector-General can use his patent in any country where a Supreme Council of Sov . Grand Inspectors-General has been established , unless it shall be signed by the said Council .
The members of this " Executive Council of Nine" constitute together , as it were , but one Grito Master of the Illustrious Order , who stands in the place of Frederick . The governmental system of Sublime [ Freemasonry is thus , in a measure , analogous to that of ' a Civil'Constitutional Government , the sovereignty exercised
being defined by law . ^~ By Art . YI . of this Constitution , the powers and authority of Sovereign Grand Inspectors-General 33 rd , is confined to the Degrees of that of Prince of Jerusalem . It formally declares that " the
power of the Supreme Council does not interfere with any Degree below the 17 th , or Knights of the East and West ; but that every Council of Princes of Jerusalem and Lodge of Perfection is required to acknowledge them , the members of such Supreme Council , in their quality of Inspectors- General , and to receive them with the high honours which are their due . "
The following fundamental law appertaining to the Ancient and Accepted Rite is not inapplicable to other departments or any department of Preemasonry : — " " No Masonic power , professing our Rite ., or any of its dependent associations , can , under any pretence whatever , amalgamate or associate by representation , or otherwise / with any other power , or with any association depending on any other Rite , nor consent to become a section or dependence thereof , without renouncing the object of its institution , and losing de facto its sovereign attributes . " * .
Leading Brethren , cultivating the American System , have become active members of bodies working under the Ancient and Accepted Kite , without infringing upon the spirit or even the letter of this law . It is recorded , that on the 20 th of February , 1788 , a Royal Arch Chapter in the city of Charleston , South Carolina—the Berlin
of Masonry in the United States—working under a warrant from the Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Dublin , formed a junction with the Sublime Grand Lodge of Perfection , and its members were received into the Ineffable Degrees free of expense , and acknowledged as high as the 13 th Degree , or Knight of the 9 th Arch inclusive . This was right and constitutional , mams continet minus , as it will be borne in
* With this plain , immistadteable " fundamental law" staving ; thena in the face , I cannot see how our Brethren of the Supreme Masonic Bodies in Boston can consistently require candidates for their honours , to he possessed of the American Chapter and Encampment Degrees ; all of which are not only foreign to our rite , hut partly appropriated from and made independent of it . Evexy intelligent
Sublime Mason , acquainted with American Templariam , must see at once how openly the Degree called " Knight of Malta , " is appropriated from our ritual . I will show how and by whom when I come to speak of an American "Masonic " Organization , independent of course , called a " Council of Ifcoyal and Select Masters . "— Quod ab initio nan mlet , m tracts temyoris non convahsctt *—Qom ^ iler .