CHAPTER XIX.—APING PRIESTHOOD IN ENGLISH LODGES.

We read in The Freemason, May 8, 1897 :
“Among the matters contained in the report of the “Council, is a recommendation ‘that a loyal and respectful “address should be presented to Her Most Gracious Majesty “the Queen, the Royal Patron of the Order of the Temple “and Hospital in England, to congratulate her on arriving at “the sixtieth year of her glorious and benignant reign.’ There “is also an announcement to the effect that ‘V. E. Knight “the Rev. C. E. L. Wright, G. Prelate, has offered to com- “plete the official regalia of the office of Grand Prelate by “presenting a VIOLET CASSOCK, and that the ‘Council “have gratefully accepted’ the gift.”
The capitals are «*' “s. Lo! a Freemason robed in a violet cassock, and ap’ , a Roman Catholic or an Anglican ritualistic Bishop. Way should he not go a step farther, put on the Alb and Chasuble, and ape the Christian mysteries and even Mass? A high gra‘: “English Mason must be a Kabalist, and A. E. Waite h:s ‘tated that the Kab- alists profaned the Christia . mys.cocs and celebrated the Black Mass.
W. Stevens Perry, 32nd degree, D. D. Oxon., LL. D., D.