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This reads very well on paper , but Ave doubt very strongly the accuracy of the most important part of the statement , and that is , that it Avas " formed under the authority conveyed in a diploma granted to the 111 . Bro . Cremieux , 33 ° , of the Rite Ecossais , and a member of the Grand College of Rites in France . "

111 . Bro . Cremieux is the Sov . Grand Commander and Grand Master ad vitam ot the Supreme Council of France , Avhich body unlike the Grand Orient of France , strictly confines itself to the cultivation of the regular and legitimate degrees

of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite , and has no entangling alliances , especially with Rites concocted by degree-sellers in opposition to itself . 111 . Bro . Adolphe Cremieux has hitherto borne the reputation of being a Freemason of the most conservative character , and should the statement

made in the London " JB reemason prove to be correct , Ave have not the least doubt but that both the American Supreme Councils of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite Avould withdraw their recognition aud cease all correspondence with the Supreme Council of France , as they have done with the Grand Orient .

We are aware that the desire to reach high position in the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite in England is not so rapid as many would desire in that country ; and the grade of 33 is there guarded Avith the greatest care and

Avatchfulness by the 111 . Brethren composing the Supreme Council of England and Wales and the Dependencies of Great Britain . This wise caution on its part has given much dissatifaction to aspirants , among Avhom Bro . Robert WentAvorth Little , and

his patron Lord Bective , may be classed ; and hence their desire to run an opposition of their own , with the post-fix 90 tacked onto their other dignities , instead of 33 ° . In order that our readers may the better understand what tbe Rite of Misraim is . we shall briefly

. sketch its origin , & c . The Rite of Misraim Avas first promulgated in Italy , in 1805 , and WBS said to have been brought from Egypt by a learned philosopher of that countrynamed Ananiah . It is said its founders

, were some Masons who had been refused admission to the Supreme Council of the Scotch Rite then organized at Milan . It was established in France in 1814 , and Avas to be heard of in some Lodges

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in Paris some ten years ago , but even then ib was not recognized by the Grand Orient . It consists of ninety degrees , which are divided into four series—symbolic , philosophic , mystical ) and cabilistic—and in each series are seventeen

classes . The names of this , more than any other of the rites , proved that the founders must have sorely tested their mental faculties . They appear , indeed , to have been driven to their wits end , for the forty-ninth and fiftieth bear the very expressive

titles of " Chaos the first and second , " while the fifty-second rejoices in the somewhat profane designation of "Supreme Commander of the Stars . "

At the fifty-fifth and fifty-sixth the comic element predominates ; they are the " Washer " and " Bellows-blower . " Many of the degrees pretend to be founded upon and borrowed from the Rites of Ancient Egypt ; but allowing that

the Rite may have in many degrees an eminently philosophical character , it is altogether too complicated and diffuse ever to be practiced . One of its chiefs , Marc Bedarride , in 1835 , published an elaborate work , exponent of its

principles , under the title of "De YOrdre Maconnique de Mizraim , " from which we learn that the legend of the third degree is abolished in this Rite . H . A . B . is said to have returned to his family after the completion of the Temple , and to

have passed the remainder of his days in peace and opulence . The legend substituted for that admitted by all other Rites is carried back to the days of Lamech , Avhose son Jubal , under the name of Hario-Jubal-Abi , is reported to have been slain

by three traitors , Hagava , Hakima , and Haremda ! The traditions of this system are full of anachronisms , historical events and characters , separated by hundreds of years , being made to figure on the same scene at the same time ; and if any of

our English brethren desire to cultivate it , or any other such Masonic counterfeit , we sincerely hope they Avill not call it Masonry , but give the elephant they have paid their money for , its appropriate name , " Humbug !"

Pius Ix. Vs. Bible Societies And Freemasonry.

PIUS IX . vs . BIBLE SOCIETIES AND FREEMASONRY .

The following is from "Hitchcock's New Monthly , " and appeared just before Victor Emmanuel , or rather the Italian people took