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Article THE RITES OP FREEMASONRY. ← Page 6 of 14 →
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The Rites Op Freemasonry.
name was established ,. about 1758 , in Paris , an authoritative body , the members of which at first assumed the titles of . " Sovereign Prince Masons , Substitutes General of the Royal Art , Grand Superintendents
and Officers of the Grand and Sovereign Lodge of St . John of Jerusalem . " Ragon , in his " Orthodoxie Magomiique " , asserts that this is the parent of the Ancient and Accepted Rite , which was established by Frederick II . at Berlin , in the same year . This Rite had twentyfive degrees , the first nineteen being the same as the Ancient and Accepted Rite , the others being—Grand Patriarch ; Noachite ; Key of Masonry ; Prince of Lebannon j Knight ofthe Sun ; Kadosh j and Prince of the Royal Secret . In the year in which it was formed , the degrees and their ritual Avere adopted by the Grand Lodge of the Three Globes in Berlin . The Ancient and Accepted Rite has superseded the
practice of this rite in France and Germany . Elect of Truth , or Lodge of Perfect Union , was the name given to a rite adopted in a Lodge at Rennes , in France , and for a time extended to other cities . It was divided into three classes , which contained fourteen degrees ; the first class comprising the Entered Apprentice , Fellow Craft , Master , and Perfect Master ; the second ,
the Elect of Nine , Elect of Fifteen , Master Elect , Minor Architect , Second Architect , Grand Architect , Knight of the East , Rose Croix ; and the third class , the Knight Adept and Elect of Truth . This rite has ceased to exist . The Philosophic Scotch Rite was established in Paris , and adopted by the Grand Lodge in 1776 . Some few years previously , a Mason
named Pernetti founded a rite , to which he gave the name of " Hermetic , " the object of the contriver being to instruct his disciples , not only in the higher degrees of Masonry , but also in the art of transmuting metals and preparing the elixir of life . Pernetti had for a pupil a physician named Boileau , who did away with the alchemy , and made it more purely Masonic , and then gave this reformed rite the name above affixed to it . This rite , which Clavel says is still practised in France , has twelve degrees , the three degrees of Ancient
Craft Masonry being necessary pre-requisites , though they do not form a part of the rite . The degrees are—1 , 2 , and 3 , Knight of the Black Eagle or Rose Croix , divided into three parts ; 4 , Knight of the Phoenix ; 5 , Knight of the Sun ; 6 ' , Knight of Iris ; 7 , Freemason ; 8 , Knight of the Argonauts ; 9 , Knight of the Golden Fleece ;
10 , Grand Inspector , Perfect Initiate ; 11 , Grand Inspector , Grand Scotch Mason ; 12 , Sublime Master of the Luminous Ring . The doctrine taught in this rite Avas , that Freemasonry was founded by Pythagoras ; and the lectures consisted of an explanation ofthe philosophy and peculiar doctrines of the Samian sago , asserting , for
instance , that the symbols he adopted in his secret instruction , were chiefly derived from geometry ; thus , the right angle was an emblem of morality and justice ; the equilateral triangle Avas a symbol of God , the esscji . ee of light and trutih ; the square referred to the Divine imnd ; the cube was the symbol ofthe mind of man after it had
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Rites Op Freemasonry.
name was established ,. about 1758 , in Paris , an authoritative body , the members of which at first assumed the titles of . " Sovereign Prince Masons , Substitutes General of the Royal Art , Grand Superintendents
and Officers of the Grand and Sovereign Lodge of St . John of Jerusalem . " Ragon , in his " Orthodoxie Magomiique " , asserts that this is the parent of the Ancient and Accepted Rite , which was established by Frederick II . at Berlin , in the same year . This Rite had twentyfive degrees , the first nineteen being the same as the Ancient and Accepted Rite , the others being—Grand Patriarch ; Noachite ; Key of Masonry ; Prince of Lebannon j Knight ofthe Sun ; Kadosh j and Prince of the Royal Secret . In the year in which it was formed , the degrees and their ritual Avere adopted by the Grand Lodge of the Three Globes in Berlin . The Ancient and Accepted Rite has superseded the
practice of this rite in France and Germany . Elect of Truth , or Lodge of Perfect Union , was the name given to a rite adopted in a Lodge at Rennes , in France , and for a time extended to other cities . It was divided into three classes , which contained fourteen degrees ; the first class comprising the Entered Apprentice , Fellow Craft , Master , and Perfect Master ; the second ,
the Elect of Nine , Elect of Fifteen , Master Elect , Minor Architect , Second Architect , Grand Architect , Knight of the East , Rose Croix ; and the third class , the Knight Adept and Elect of Truth . This rite has ceased to exist . The Philosophic Scotch Rite was established in Paris , and adopted by the Grand Lodge in 1776 . Some few years previously , a Mason
named Pernetti founded a rite , to which he gave the name of " Hermetic , " the object of the contriver being to instruct his disciples , not only in the higher degrees of Masonry , but also in the art of transmuting metals and preparing the elixir of life . Pernetti had for a pupil a physician named Boileau , who did away with the alchemy , and made it more purely Masonic , and then gave this reformed rite the name above affixed to it . This rite , which Clavel says is still practised in France , has twelve degrees , the three degrees of Ancient
Craft Masonry being necessary pre-requisites , though they do not form a part of the rite . The degrees are—1 , 2 , and 3 , Knight of the Black Eagle or Rose Croix , divided into three parts ; 4 , Knight of the Phoenix ; 5 , Knight of the Sun ; 6 ' , Knight of Iris ; 7 , Freemason ; 8 , Knight of the Argonauts ; 9 , Knight of the Golden Fleece ;
10 , Grand Inspector , Perfect Initiate ; 11 , Grand Inspector , Grand Scotch Mason ; 12 , Sublime Master of the Luminous Ring . The doctrine taught in this rite Avas , that Freemasonry was founded by Pythagoras ; and the lectures consisted of an explanation ofthe philosophy and peculiar doctrines of the Samian sago , asserting , for
instance , that the symbols he adopted in his secret instruction , were chiefly derived from geometry ; thus , the right angle was an emblem of morality and justice ; the equilateral triangle Avas a symbol of God , the esscji . ee of light and trutih ; the square referred to the Divine imnd ; the cube was the symbol ofthe mind of man after it had