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History Of The Ancient And Accepted Rite.
HISTOEY' OF THE ANCIENT AMTD ACCEPTED BITE ,
Bit A SOTLIME EBItfOE m EHE R 0 XAL S ^ GElE . (<^^ m ^ ec ? jtow page $ 60 . ) Ox the 31 st day of May , 1801 , the Supreme Council of the 33 rd Degree , for the IJnited States of America , was ^ o honours of Masonry , by Bros . John Mitchell and Frederick Dalcho ,
Sovereign Grand Inspectors * General ; and , in the course of the year , the whole number of Grand Inspectors-General was completed , agreeably to the Grand Constitutionse The other members of this Council , admitted in 1801 , were Em ^ Dr . James Moultrie , Abraham Alexander , M . 0 . Livy , Thomas R , Bowen , and J . D . Lieban .
During the French Eevolution every department of Freemasonry , as well as Christianity itself fell into desuetude ; or , as a Brother has well observed , " was ridiculed into obsoleteness , " It was not until after the establishment of the Supreme Council at Charleston , that the " Sublime System " was revived in France , by the establishment of a Supreme Council at Paris , for that country , in 1804 , by
Count Alexandre Francois Auguste de Grasse Tilly , Sovereign Grand Inspector-General and Grand Commander in the French "West Indies , under authority from the Supreme Council at Charleston . The Prince Cambac ^ res , on the 1 st of July , 1806 , was elected to the dignity of Thrice Puissant Sovereign Grand Commander of
this Supreme Council , which has been in uninterrupted operation ever since ; and during the Commandership of Bro . Moses Holbrook , for the Southern jurisdiction of the United States , and M . . P . Bro . J . J . J . Gourgas , for the Northern Supreme Council , held active correspondence with the Councils last named , through General De Fernig and Due de Case .
I am compelled by the truth of history , in this place , to state the following facts in regard to the Grand Orient of France . It is well known that in 1725 it was chartered by the Grand Lodge of England as a Grand Lodge of Symbolic , or Master Masons , and furnished with Dr . Anderson ' s Book of Constitutions , published a year
or two before , and other documents for its guidance . But few years , however , elapsed before this Grand Orient adopted Constitutions of its own , and adapted its ritual more to Continental than York Masonry , In 1786 it established the French rite , so called , which was made to consist of the following seven Degrees : 1 . Entered
Apprentice ; 2 . Fellow-Craft ; 3 . Master Mason ; 4 . Elect ; 5 . Scotch Master ; 6 . Knight of the East ; and 7 . Eose > fr . The Grand Orient refused to recognize any other rite than this until 1814 , when she established , " within her own bosom , " as she expressed it , " The Ancient and Accepted Bite , " setting aside the regular Constitutions
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History Of The Ancient And Accepted Rite.
HISTOEY' OF THE ANCIENT AMTD ACCEPTED BITE ,
Bit A SOTLIME EBItfOE m EHE R 0 XAL S ^ GElE . (<^^ m ^ ec ? jtow page $ 60 . ) Ox the 31 st day of May , 1801 , the Supreme Council of the 33 rd Degree , for the IJnited States of America , was ^ o honours of Masonry , by Bros . John Mitchell and Frederick Dalcho ,
Sovereign Grand Inspectors * General ; and , in the course of the year , the whole number of Grand Inspectors-General was completed , agreeably to the Grand Constitutionse The other members of this Council , admitted in 1801 , were Em ^ Dr . James Moultrie , Abraham Alexander , M . 0 . Livy , Thomas R , Bowen , and J . D . Lieban .
During the French Eevolution every department of Freemasonry , as well as Christianity itself fell into desuetude ; or , as a Brother has well observed , " was ridiculed into obsoleteness , " It was not until after the establishment of the Supreme Council at Charleston , that the " Sublime System " was revived in France , by the establishment of a Supreme Council at Paris , for that country , in 1804 , by
Count Alexandre Francois Auguste de Grasse Tilly , Sovereign Grand Inspector-General and Grand Commander in the French "West Indies , under authority from the Supreme Council at Charleston . The Prince Cambac ^ res , on the 1 st of July , 1806 , was elected to the dignity of Thrice Puissant Sovereign Grand Commander of
this Supreme Council , which has been in uninterrupted operation ever since ; and during the Commandership of Bro . Moses Holbrook , for the Southern jurisdiction of the United States , and M . . P . Bro . J . J . J . Gourgas , for the Northern Supreme Council , held active correspondence with the Councils last named , through General De Fernig and Due de Case .
I am compelled by the truth of history , in this place , to state the following facts in regard to the Grand Orient of France . It is well known that in 1725 it was chartered by the Grand Lodge of England as a Grand Lodge of Symbolic , or Master Masons , and furnished with Dr . Anderson ' s Book of Constitutions , published a year
or two before , and other documents for its guidance . But few years , however , elapsed before this Grand Orient adopted Constitutions of its own , and adapted its ritual more to Continental than York Masonry , In 1786 it established the French rite , so called , which was made to consist of the following seven Degrees : 1 . Entered
Apprentice ; 2 . Fellow-Craft ; 3 . Master Mason ; 4 . Elect ; 5 . Scotch Master ; 6 . Knight of the East ; and 7 . Eose > fr . The Grand Orient refused to recognize any other rite than this until 1814 , when she established , " within her own bosom , " as she expressed it , " The Ancient and Accepted Bite , " setting aside the regular Constitutions