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The Rites Op Freemasonry.
applying a remedy , Lord Petre , the English Grand Master ( from 1772 to 1777 ) , entered into a negociation with the Prince of Hesse Darmstadt , Grand Master of Germany , which resulted in a mutual compact being formed , which confirmed to the Grand Lodge at Berlin the sole authority in Germany ; thus annihilating the / Strict Observance' of Baron Hunde . This compact was further confirmed by the king of Prussia , who erected the Grand Lodge at Berlin into a body corporate . " The three ancient symbolic degrees are under the
control of the Grand Lodge , but the higher degrees—seven only being practised—are governed by the Internal Supreme Orient , which council is appointed by the Grand Lodge . This rite is not exclusively practised in Prussia , but also to a very great extent throughout Germany . The Persian Philosophic Rite was formed in France about the year 1819 . It was not much encouraged and has now ceased to exist .
Little is known of its ritual , and whether the three symbolic degrees were essential to its members , or whether they are included in the fanciful names of the degrees adopted , we are unable to learn . It consisted of the seven degrees that follow—1 . Listening Apprentice ; 2 . Fellow Craft Adept , Esquire of Benevolence ; 3 . Master , Knight of the Sun ; 4 . Architect of all Rites , Knight of the Philosophy of the Heart ; 5 . Knight of Electicism and of Truth ; 6 . Master , Good Shepherd ; 7 . Venerable Grand Elect .
The Order of t / ie Temple . At what period this rite was formed , Clavel , from whom we gather our account , does not say , but it appears that its members claim for the institution , a regular descent from the Knights Templar . The degrees are evidently borrowed from the Scotch Rite , and were originally as folioav .- —Apprentice , Fellow Craft Master , Master of the East , Master of the Black Eagle of St . John , and Perfect Master ofthe Pelican . But in 1808 , as our author says ( endeavouring to disguise its evident Masonic origin ) , it was re-organised , and the degrees , eight in number , were thus named : 1 . Initiate ( this is , E . A . ) , 2 . Intiate ofthe Interior ( this is the F . C . ); 3 . Adept ( this is the Master ); 4 . Adept of the East ( the Illustrious
Elected of Fifteen of the Scotch Rite ) ; 5 . Grand Adept of the Black Eagle of St . John ( the Elected Knight of Nine )—these they call the House of Initiation . 6 . Postulant of the Orders ( Perfect Adept of the Pelican )—this is called the House of Postulance , and is the Rose Croix of the Scotch rite . 7 . Esquire ; 8 . Knight or Levite of the Interior Guard—these last degrees are called the Covenant , and are
the same as the Knight K . H . of the Scotch rite . Although , properly , it does not directly bear upon the subject we have in . hand , still , as a solitary instance of the honours paid to distinguished Masons , by a sovereign in modern times , we must notice the Order of Charles XIL—an order of knighthood instituted by the king of Sweden in 1811 , which he intended to be conferred oniy on the principal dignitaries of the Masonic institution in his dominions . In the manifesto establishing the Order , the king decrees : — " To give to this ( the Masonic ) society a proof of our gracious sentiments
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The Rites Op Freemasonry.
applying a remedy , Lord Petre , the English Grand Master ( from 1772 to 1777 ) , entered into a negociation with the Prince of Hesse Darmstadt , Grand Master of Germany , which resulted in a mutual compact being formed , which confirmed to the Grand Lodge at Berlin the sole authority in Germany ; thus annihilating the / Strict Observance' of Baron Hunde . This compact was further confirmed by the king of Prussia , who erected the Grand Lodge at Berlin into a body corporate . " The three ancient symbolic degrees are under the
control of the Grand Lodge , but the higher degrees—seven only being practised—are governed by the Internal Supreme Orient , which council is appointed by the Grand Lodge . This rite is not exclusively practised in Prussia , but also to a very great extent throughout Germany . The Persian Philosophic Rite was formed in France about the year 1819 . It was not much encouraged and has now ceased to exist .
Little is known of its ritual , and whether the three symbolic degrees were essential to its members , or whether they are included in the fanciful names of the degrees adopted , we are unable to learn . It consisted of the seven degrees that follow—1 . Listening Apprentice ; 2 . Fellow Craft Adept , Esquire of Benevolence ; 3 . Master , Knight of the Sun ; 4 . Architect of all Rites , Knight of the Philosophy of the Heart ; 5 . Knight of Electicism and of Truth ; 6 . Master , Good Shepherd ; 7 . Venerable Grand Elect .
The Order of t / ie Temple . At what period this rite was formed , Clavel , from whom we gather our account , does not say , but it appears that its members claim for the institution , a regular descent from the Knights Templar . The degrees are evidently borrowed from the Scotch Rite , and were originally as folioav .- —Apprentice , Fellow Craft Master , Master of the East , Master of the Black Eagle of St . John , and Perfect Master ofthe Pelican . But in 1808 , as our author says ( endeavouring to disguise its evident Masonic origin ) , it was re-organised , and the degrees , eight in number , were thus named : 1 . Initiate ( this is , E . A . ) , 2 . Intiate ofthe Interior ( this is the F . C . ); 3 . Adept ( this is the Master ); 4 . Adept of the East ( the Illustrious
Elected of Fifteen of the Scotch Rite ) ; 5 . Grand Adept of the Black Eagle of St . John ( the Elected Knight of Nine )—these they call the House of Initiation . 6 . Postulant of the Orders ( Perfect Adept of the Pelican )—this is called the House of Postulance , and is the Rose Croix of the Scotch rite . 7 . Esquire ; 8 . Knight or Levite of the Interior Guard—these last degrees are called the Covenant , and are
the same as the Knight K . H . of the Scotch rite . Although , properly , it does not directly bear upon the subject we have in . hand , still , as a solitary instance of the honours paid to distinguished Masons , by a sovereign in modern times , we must notice the Order of Charles XIL—an order of knighthood instituted by the king of Sweden in 1811 , which he intended to be conferred oniy on the principal dignitaries of the Masonic institution in his dominions . In the manifesto establishing the Order , the king decrees : — " To give to this ( the Masonic ) society a proof of our gracious sentiments