Degrees Of Freemasonry.— Continued From Page 349 (Notes And Queries).

DEGREES OF FREEMASONRY . — Continued from Page 349 ( Notes and Queries ) .

Name of Kite , Order , & c . Mysteries , The Xabiim

jSTaliarda ; SToachidie 7 JJoachites j Jfoachite , or Prussian Knight , Order of

Observance , Clerics of , Relaxed Observance , Bite of , Strict

Order of Charitable Knights ofthe ) Holy City J Orphic Mysteries Perfection , Bite of j Perfect Union i Persian Philosophic Bite i

AVhere Practised . Tho Holy Land

The Holy Land Everywhere

Germany Germany

Greece

Franco

"Prance "France Paris

Everywhere Paris

Florence ( Avignon in Franco , 7 . _ > and in Italy ) At _ -Savbonne in France

( Belgium , XTaiiHir , &•? I Liege j Poland CGcrmaiiy , France , &~ )

I Switzerland )

Philatelies , Bite , of the Philosophical Degrees

Philosophic Scotch Bite ¦ Platonic Academy Pontiffs , Order of , ( Freres Pontifis ) ...

j Primitive Bite of Nlii-bonuc Primitive Scotch Bite ( Rite Ecossais ~ ) Primilif ) 5 Reformed Helvetic Bite

Beformed Bite

Under what Authority . CThe Prophets of the - )

Z Old Testament ... j The Priesthood Under all S . G . C's

Baron de Hunde

( Chevalier de Bonne- 7

I villc j

De Lango S . G . C ' s

Boilcau

_ . ___ chot The G . 0 . of Poland ...

( Ferdinand , Duke of ^

C Brunswick j

Geneva ! Kcmavks . ( Sec Ai . ii .. nrton ' s Divine Legal ion , Faber ' s \ ivorks , Dr . Oliver ' s works , & . c . 'This was a college to instruct the youth of Israel in esoteric doctrines and to teach

them prophecy , _ . _ .. . . to sing a kind of hardic songs , in which future events were foreshadowed , which vras done to par-I ticulav musical rhythm . Sec also ii . Kings , 2 , v . 3 , 5 , 7 , 12 , 15 , Oliver ' s works , and Bro . Dr . ilhii'goli . titii ' s J-Icbrezc DLusic ( \_ and Poetry . See Dr . Oliver ' s Zc . iK ' i . ifli ' i ' -S .

An old name for Freemasons . ( "The 27 st degree of the Ancient and Accepted \ Bite , called an Order by its possessors . 1 Established in Prussia in 1755 , and ex-L tended to France in 1758 . f A schism from the Bite of Shirt Observance , j q . v . infra . It claimed pre-eminence over

¦ { all Masonry , and it was necessary to be a , ] Bomaiiisfc in order to be admitted . Now l ^ extinct . f Established about T 751 . The Knights ] Templar were made the basis on which it - { was founded . Some of the degrees were | connected with alchemy , & c . Supposed l _ to be extinct .

See Beformed Bite , infra . A modification ofthe Mysteries of Bacchus . [ 'Another name for the Bite of Hcredom , q . v . ) It-was established as a Chapter of high 1 degrees and called the Chapter of Cler-( . niont , in 1754 . ( A reformed vitosometimes called the Elect {

, I of Truth . Extinct . ( Established in 1810 . Now supposed to be \ extinct . Its members were very select . 'Composed of degrees taken from the rite of Paschalis , or Martinisin , and interwoven j with the Masonic dreams of Swcdenborg . ' Ii was in existence from 1773 to 1788 , '

when the lodgo which practised it was dissolved . ( AM degrees above the IS " . They have j nothing , however , in common with the 1 philosophical Orders so prevalent on the v . Continent in the last century . ( Adapted fvo-. n I ' cvnctti ' s Hermetic Bite , anil

< its Grand Lodge established in 1770 . { . S'tiil existing . ( Founded about 1 IS 0 , and supposed to have j been , _ Society of Mnsons whicli confined ( . tUcmsclvcs to Speculative Masonry . ( A religions and operative fraternity established in 1178 whose chief occupation

j , j ( . was the construction of bridges iu stone . ! jOnc of tho philosophical rites established ( about 1780 . C A rite founded on the rite of perfection , q . v . i supra . Still in existence . f Introduced into Poland in 17 S-I , by Glayre , the prime minister of King Stanislaus

J , j ivho modified it from the Beformed Bite , C , q . .. infra . "This is a modification of the Bite of Strict Observance , g . i > . siipm . Bstablisiied hi 1782 . and called by the members " The I j Order of Charitable Knights of the Holy City . " Mavtiuism , q . v . supra ., was in-I corpnrated with it . Its supreme head is (_ situated at Zurich .