PART 2nd.

(E query without gives the Knocks at the door.)

Captain of Lines. — Sir Knight Second Captain, there is
a report.

Second Captain. — Eminent Commander, there is a
report.

E. C. — See who seeks admission.

(The Captain of Lines goes to the door.)

Captain of Lines. — Our new companion in Arms.

E. C. — Admit him.

(Candidate is admitted, and presented to the Second
Captain to whom he gives the Sign and Word, he is then
presented to the First Captain, to whom also he gives the
Sign and Word; he is then directed to halt in the West,
facing the E. C, and gives the Sign and Word.)

E. C. — Our new Companion will attend to a portion of
the Holy Scripture, which the Eev. Prelate will read.

(Prelate reads from the 1st of St. Peter, chap. 2nd, verse
1st to 17th inclusive.)

E. C. — Sir Knight Expert, let the Cup of memory be
presented to our new Companion in Arms.

(Expert presents a Cup of Wine.)

E. C. — Worthy Bro., at your first admission you were
refreshed with bread and water, we now invite you to
refresh yourself with the Cup of memory, which you will
dedicate to seven distinct Libations, you will repeat after
me. —

E. C— To Order Sir Knights.

(The Knights all rise to order. Eminent Commander
dictates to the Candidate, who repeats after him, and
drinks to each of the following memorials.)

E. C— First Libation: ''To the Memory of Moses,

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Besaleal, and Asleab, the three Grand Masters who pre-
sided over the Holy Lodge." — Drink.

E. C. — Second Libation: "To the memory of Solomon,
King of Israel, Hiram, King of Tyre, and Hiram Abiff ,
the three Grand Masters who presided over the Sacred
Lodge."- — Drink.

E. C. — Third Libation: To the memory of Zerubbabel,
the Prince of the People, Haggai the Prophet, and Jeshua,
the Son of Josedeck, the High Priest, the three Grand
Masters who presided over the Grand or Eoyal Lodge." —
Drink.

E. C. — Fourth Libation: "To the Memory of John the
Baptist, the forerunner of Christ. — ^Drink.

E. C. — Fifth Libation: "To the memory of John the
EvangeMst, who finished, by his learning, what the former
commenced by his zeal." — Drink.

E. C. — Sixth Libation: "To the Pious Memory of all
those Valiant Knights who sealed their faith with their
blood under the banner of the Cross." — Drink.

E. C. — The next is called the Obligation toast and is

drunk from the S and seals the rest of the Libations :

Seventh Libation: "To all Knight Templars, wheresoever
dispersed over the face of earth and water." — Drink.

E. C. — Sir Knights, resume your Stalls.

E. C. — You will now attend to another portion of
Scripture, which the Eev. Prelate will read.

(Prelate reads from Eevelation, chap. 2nd, verse 17th.)

Expert advances to the Candidate with a drawn Sword,
and presents the Stone.

After the E. C. has given the following address, Expert
asks the Candidate from what part of the body he shall
draw blood with his sword.

E. C. — Worthy Bro., it was customary at the period of
the Institution of our Order for each Noyice to be required

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to sign his name with his blood on the North East Corner
of the Mystical Stone, before he could obtain the Sacred
Word it enshrines.

Are you prepared to sign your name on the Stone which
is now presented ?

(Expert now ascertains and announces to the E. C.
that he is willing to sign.)

E. C. — Worthy Bro., accepting your ready acquiescence
as a sufficient proof of your devotion to our Order, we
dispense with the observance of the custom further than
to require you to moisten the pen with your lips and
write your initials with it upon the Stone.

(After the Candidate has signed, he is shewn the word,
and a small stone presented to him by the Expert as a
Memorial.)

E. C. — You will carefully preserve that Memorial, for
should you wish to gain admission into a Knights Templar
Encampment, you will, on presenting that stone and ex-
plaining the circumstances under which you received it, be
recognised and admitted as a Companion of our Order :
approach Bro. and receive the highest honor I can at
present bestow upon you.

(The Candidate is conducted to the East, the Eminent
Commander descends from the Throne, the Standards are
raised, and the Candidate kneels before the Eminent
Commander, who gives the Accolade as follows.)

E. Q. — In the name of the Holy, Blessed, and Glorious
Trinity, and by the authority vested in me as a Knight
Commander, I make thee a Knight of the Holy Temple.

(The Eminent Commander lays his Sword on the
Candidate, first on the left, then on his right shoulder,
and on his head as he pronounces the following words.)

E. C. — Be Loyal, Brave, and Free; arise, Sir Knight
A. B.

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(After which the Chamberlain presents the Eibbon,
Badge, and Star of the Order on a cushion to the E. C,
who throws the Eibbon over the right shoulder, and says.)

E. C. — Wear this Eibbon and Badge, the Ensign of our
Order, and this Star, an emblem of the reward which the
Great Captain of our Salvation has promised to those
who conquer in his name, even the emblem of himself, he
being the bright Morning Star, whose rising brought
health and Salvation to mankind, and light to those who
sat in darkness and in the shadow of death; bear this
ever in mind, and continue his faithful soldier unto death.
We clothe you with this mantle, pure white, ennobled with
the Eed Cross of the Order. ^ It is an unequivocal symbol
of Light and Purity; it has been honored and venerated
in all ages by every nation and every people since the
Creation of Light out of darkness ; it is the most exalted
dignity that can be conferred, and I exhort you not to
disgrace it by actions which may reflect discredit on our
Order, into which you have this day had the honor to be
admitted.

Eeceive it undefiled, and produce it without spot before
the tribunal of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, that
you may obtain Eternal Life.

Lastly, I present you with this Sword, which, in the
hand of a Valiant and Christian Knight, is endowed with
three most excellent qualities —

"Its Hilt with Justice,"
*' Its Blade with Fortitude," and
"Its Point with Mercy,"
which gives this important lesson that, having faith in the
Justice of our cause, we must press forward with un-
daunted fortitude, ever remembering to extend the point
of mercy to a fallen foe.

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E. C. — I will now entrust you witli the Grand Word,
Grand Grip, and Grand Sign of the Order.

(The Eminent Commander gives the Word, the Grip?
and Sign of the Order. Expert conducts him to his Stall,
the Standards are raised and the Heralds proclaim.)

E. C. — Heralds, you will now proclaim.

First Herald. — Sir Knight of the Temple, our Bro. and
Companion, Sir Knight A. B. is this day Installed a
Knight of our Illustrious Order.

Second Herald. — Long Life, Honour, and Prosperity to
our newly installed Knight Companion, Sir Knight A. B.
To our Most Eminent and Supreme Grand Master, the
Grand Officers and all other Knights of this Order.

(The Sir Knights salute thrice, and the new Knight
from his Stall salutes in return.)

E. C. — Sir Knights, you may now take your seats.

E. C. — I will now explain to you the symbols of the
Order ; the three great Lights placed at the angles of an
equilateral triangle represent the three favourite Apostles
of our Saviour, viz., Peter, James, and John, of whom
the last-named was the most beloved, for leaning on our
Saviour's bosom, he received the instructions which he
communicated so faithfully to the other Disciples.

The nine smaller Tapers distributed equally between
those already noticed are emblematical of the nine other
Apostles, of whom one represented by the Taper ex-
tingiushed by you betrayed his Lord and Master. You
may now relight the Taper (this is done), so may our
Saviour bestow on you the light of his reconciled counte-
nance and keep you from falling. The Skull and Cross
Bones, the emblems of Mortality, are placed at the foot of
the Cross. These collectively remind us of the place
called in the Hebrew Golgotha, unto wliich Simon of

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Cyrene was constrained to bear the Cross upon which our
Saviour was crucified.

The Skull also reminds us of the fate of one Simon of
Syracuse, who was admitted into our illustrious Order,
but violated his Obligation by betraying his trust to the
Infidels. They, although they profited by the treason,
despised the traitor, and caused his h — to be struck off,
which they sent on a charger to the Grand Master of the
Knight Templars, who ordered it to be placed on the
point of a pinnacle, or spire, the S — to be laid open, and
the b — exposed to the scorching rays of the sun, as a
warming to all others.

It is in allusion to this circumstance that the Penal
Sign of a Knight Templar had its origin. — Gives Sign.

The Lamb, the Dove, and the Cock, are sacred emblems
of this Order. The first is emblematical of the Paschal
Lamb, slain from the foundation of the world.

The Dove, of the Almighty Comforter, which descended
in a bodily shape on Christ at his Baptism, whereby his
divine mission was indicated to St. John the Baptist.

The Cock in this Monitor of the Order, for as his crowing
heralds the morn, like the sun ushering in the new born
day, so let it at that still hour caU to our remembrance
our duties as Knight Templars, and remined us to ask
thus early for assistance to perform them throughout the
coming day.

May we ever welcome that sound as a friendly caution,
and never have reason to fear it as the periodical memento
of a broken vow.

The following charge may be given at discretion.

CHAEGE TO A KNIGHT TEMPLAE.
Sir Knight Companion; as you have past the first

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Degrees of Masonry, and have been balloted for, admitted,
and dubbed a Kniglit Companion of our most Christian
and Sublime Order, you are to mark and learn all those
parts of our rules and mysteries which you will find to be
ingeniously calculated to form and qualify you to engage
in services of great moment.

We have been informed that you earnestly desired and
sought to be admitted and united to our Christian Order,
and that from free and disinterested motives, so we kindly
intreat you to receive the instructions which we do now or
may hereafter inculcate or enjoin.

However strange and difficult our Ceremonies may at
first appear, we trust that you will be modestly inquisitive
and uniformly attentive, in order to acquire such pleasing
instructions as will be most expedient to forward the great
purpose of rational and social converse.

As we are orderly assembled for the most valuable of all
purposes, so we are likewise enlightened in a peculiar
manner, and strongly connected in the bonds of brotherly
love, governed by certain and allowed rules, supported by
decency, guarded by secrecy, skilled in mystery, both
delightful and instructive, possessing the affection of each
other, and seriously devoting ourselves thereto at stated
times and seasons, apart from all temporal concerns, con-
versing together without dissimulation or reserve, and
abounding in mirth, affability, and good humour.

We conceive you to be well informed in the three great
quahfications which are essential to form the character of
a Grand Mason, viz.: — Morality, Secrecy, and Brotherly
Love.

We expect that you will join with us in all things, in
labour and refreshment, in silence and mirth, always re-
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adversity, and to be like the rest of your Brethren,
obedient to the Eminent Commander, respectfully atten-
tive to all Presiding Officers, and decent and diligent
while in the Encampment.

If your time will possibly allow, you are on no account
to disobey the Summons of your Encampment, but be
punctual to the hour appointed.

To all these promises we expect that you will cheerfully
comply ; and we sincerely wish you much success in the
issue of your labours.

END OF THE KITUAL OF THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR DEGREE,

TIXT'XJ J^Xj

OF THE

)Cr0m,

BEING THE 18th DEGREE OF THE ANTIENT
• AND ACCEPTED RITE.

HISTORICAL AND INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.

■:o:-

This Degree is the most ancient and most generally prac-
tised of Historical Degrees of Freemasonry. It ie
generally supposed to have been instituted in Palestine by
the Knights Templar in the 12th century, and one writer
informs us that Prince Edward, afterwards Edward 1st,
was there admitted into the Order. We also learn from
Eagon, who wrote a work entitled "Orthodoxie Macon-
nique," that it owes its origin to a pious monk named
John Valentine Andrea, who hved in the early part of the
17th century. This Andrea wrote two treatises, entitled
" Judicorum de Fraternitate E. C. ;" and "Noces Chimi-
ques de Eozen Crutz."

The Ancient and Accepted, and commonly called Scot-
tish Eite, has been identified by Dr. Eobinson with Illu-
minism, who ascribed its origin to the association of Dio-
nysian artificers. Chevaher Eamsay endeavoured to
prove that it arose during the Crusades ; Mr. CHnch says
it originated from the institution of Pythagoras, and Mr.
Barruel, also an American writer, that it is a continua-
tion of the Templars ; anyhow it must be allowed to be of

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origin remote enough to entitle it to be called ancient.
The reason of it being designated Scottish Eite is, that it
is supposed to have derived its first establishment from
Scottish Masons.

In Prussia, France, and Scotland the principal degrees
of the Eite appeared in an organized form in 1713. Lord
Derwentwater and his associates were working in Lodges
of Herodim in 1725 in Paris, when the Grand Lodge of
England sent to France the Ancient York Constitutions.
Many Scotch brethren, Jacobites, being in France at this
time, were initiated in many of the higher degrees of this
rite. Findel and others assert that the Eite took its
origin about the year 1740, from Michael Andrew Eamsay,
a Scotchman, commonly called "Chevalier Eamsay," born
at Ayr in 1686, and died in France 1743, and that from
the time of the banishment of the Stuarts from England
in 1688 secret alliances had been kept up between Eome
and Scotland, Charles Stuart having retired in 1719
to Eome, that as these communications became more
intimate, the hopes of the Pretender increased; that
Eamsey attempted to corrupt the loyalty and fealty of
Freemasonry in the Grand Lodge of Scotland founded in
1736, and being unable to do so conceived the scheme of
assembhng and more fully banding together the faithful
adherents of the banished royal family in the higher
grades, and thus filling their private Coffers.

Thory, in the Acta Latamorum, says that "Eobert
Bruce, King of Scotland, created the order of St. Andrew
of Chardon, after the battle of Bannockburn; to this order
was afterwards united that of Heredom, in order to unite
the Scotch Masons who formed a part of his small army
that defeated the English. Eobert Bruce taking for him-
self and successors the title of Grand Master, and founded
the Eoyal Grand Lodge of Heredom, at Kilwinning." The

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late Bro. Dr. Oliver informs us that this Order was after-
wards confined to the two Degrees of Heredom and
Kosycross. Bro. Chas. T. Mc. Clenachan, P.G.M., United
States, in a work of his on the subject, says "the following
is perhaps the most reliable and probable history of the
origin of the degrees of the Ancient accepted Scottish Eite.
At or about the period of the Masonic revival and excite-
ment in the early part of the 18th century, there was felt
a desire for a deeper research into the arcana of Free-
masonry, and a thorough examination of the esoteric
doctrines of the Order. The more ardent and brilliant
minds of Europe determining to explore the Kabala, and
enticed by so enobling a study, resolved to establish a
superior grade of Masonry, for the exclusive propogation
of the Mysteries as yet so little known to them, embracing
the Historical, Philosophical, and Chrivalric. With this
purpose in view, attempts were made to establish separate
and distinct organizations, wherein the sublime truths
might be revealed and cultivated."

Nearly all these projects were ephemeral, and were out-
lived by their projectors, while the "Eite of Perfection,"
the germ of the organization of the Ancient and Accepted
Scottish Eite — based upon the pure principles of Masonry
and the elucidation of the occult mysteries, containing
twenty-five degrees — gradually approached development.
Doubtless the course of the Chivalier Eamsay, in 1740
hastened the consummation of the systematizing and em-
bodying the degrees which had theretofore been for many
years detached and unlocated.

Bro. J. Howe inform us that " The earliest record of the
practice of any of the Degrees of this Eite is that of the
Lodge of St. George de la Observance, No. 49, in Covent
Garden, London, and working the * Sublime degrees.*
There is also proof that some of the degrees, the 18th,

192 THE ROSE CROIX DE HEREDOM DEGREE,

28th, and 30tli, were practised in the Midland Counties, at
Nottingham, in the last century, by some brethren who
were descendants of the Ancient York Masons, under the
authority of Lord Eancliffe, G.M. of the Templars."

Bro. Preston informs us ''that in 1787 a Grand Chapter
of Harodim was opened. Though of ancient date and
practised in different parts of Europe there is no record
prior to this of its establishment in England." We are
indebted also to Bro. J. Howe for the following remarks
on the subject — "It is not the rule at present to practise
any of the degrees of the Ancient and Accepted Kite below
the 18th Degree, but some were continued to be practised
up to a very recent period, and little over thirty years ago
they were conferred on Brethren now living at the Crown
Tavern, Clerkenwell Green." We have been told that
this association was a Council of the nine Excellent
Masters, and thus might be analogous to the Supreme
Council; but we are unable to learn what degrees were
conferred, for excepting as to the Ark Mariner or Noa-
chite and the Eose Croix, the survivors have no know-
ledge. When the Duke of Sussex came unto power he
exerted all his influence to suppress the practices we have
referred to. At the death of the Duke of Sussex it was
thought desirable to assemble the scattered fragments of
the ancient degrees, and by general consent of the
remaining members of the Ancient Order to form a
general governing body of the Ancient and Accepted Eite,

The present degrees of the Knight Templar and the
Holy Arch not being found to exist amongst the ancient
degrees of the Order; it seemed impossible to combine
them in the rite, and thus it was thought better to
establish an Independent Conclave for the degree of
Knight Templar, by a general accordance of the various
existing Encampments, a great Majority of which acceded

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thereto, and those with one exception have since joined. It
was then that an interview took place between the leaders,
and it having been satisfactorily ascertained that none of the
existing Encampments ever had any authority by warrant
from any legally constituted authority to give the Degrees
of Eose Croix ajid Kadosh, they being Degrees of the
Ancient and Accepted Eite, it was agreed to discontinue
any assumption of authority over those Degrees on the
part of the Grand Conclave, whilst the Supreme Council,
on their part, discontinued any authority or interference
with the Templar Degree.

Knight of tlie Eagle and Pelican is one of the titles
applied to a Eose Croix H — E — D — M. Freemason; yet
that Degree is not strictly an order of Knighthood in the
commonly received sense of the term. The Novice is
still in search of the Truth and the lost Word; he journeys
for a period of years, learning the three virtues which are
to guide him, from a place of horror and gloom to that place
from which merges at the appointed time the sacred initials,
giving glory to Masonry and light and hfe to the world.
This Degree is pliilosophical, the end of which is to free the
mind from those encumbrances which hinder its progress
towards perfection, and to raise it to the contemplation of
inimitable truth, and the knowledge of divine and spiritual
objects. A Mason admitted to the Eose Croix Degree will
easily gain admittance to all foreign lodges. In France
there are two systems of the A. and A. Eite, the one simil-ar
to the English Eite and the other called ''the French
Eite," also "the Grand Orient," the latter has seven De-
grees, three symbolic and four higher; the first three,
"Craft;" fourth, the "Elect;" fifth, the "Scotch Master;"
sixth, the "Knight of the East;" seventh, the "Eose
Croix;" it is also in accor dance with the Supreme Councils
of Ireland, Scotland, Germany, and the Brazils.

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194 THE EOSE CEOK DE HEREDOM DEGREE.

The Emblems of this Degree are the Eagle and Pehcan,
the Cross and the Eose. The Eagle is a symbol of Christ
in his divine character, vide Deuteronomy xxxii. 11. The
Pehcan is an emblem of our Saviour shedding his blood
for the salvation of human kind.

The Cross, as with the Egyptians, is a symbol of ever-
lasting life, but since our Saviour's time on earth it has
been adopted by all Christians as an emblem of Him who
died for the redemption of the human race.

The Eose is figuratively Christ, hence he is called "the
Eose of Sharon." Eagon says "that the Cross was in
Egypt an emblem of immortality, and the rose of secrecy ;
the rose followed by the cross was the simplest mode of
writing "the secret of immortality."

The Motto of this Degree is " Ne plus ultra." Bro. Howe
informs us — "In the original form of the Order of Knights
Templar in this country it was the next step taken above
the simple Templar Degree, and was followed by that
of the Kadosh. All Encampments being qualified to give
those Degrees, the emblems of all are engraved on the
certificates issued prior to 1851, and the seal confirms the
grant. The * Ne plus ultra' is at the top of the Masonic
Ladder; the K.D.S.H. uniting the whole structure. But
at the present day, so desirous is the Supreme Council to
disavow the Knights Templar, that the Candidate for the
Eose Croix is, at the time of receiving the Degree, allowed
to wear the Jewels of any Masonic rank he may have
attained, except that of the Knights Templar. The Eose
Croix Degree possesses similar characteristics to the
Templar; the objects of both Degrees are the same; the
Templar perhaps confining itself more to fact, while the
Eose Croix displays more of the allegory ; hence in the
latter was afforded a better opportunity of interweaving
the symbols of Craft Masonry with an emblem of the

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Christian faith. The older Masons are united in the
opinion that these Degrees ought never to have been
separated. The high consideration in which the Eose
Croix is held is shown in the circumstance that its ritual
has met with universal acceptance ; the Symbolic Degrees
are in all countries identical, so also is the Eose Croix —
and this cannot be said of any other Degree. In Scotland
the Eose Croix Degree is given under the Eite of the
* Eoyal Order of Heredom and Eosy Cross,' as well as
under the sanction of the Supreme Council of the Thirty-
third Degree. To be ehgible there for this Order the
brother must be acknowledged as a Eoyal Arch Mason by
the Grand Chapter of Scotland." No satisfactory expla-
nation can be found for the word '' Heredom," it appears
by Eagon in his " Orthodoxie Maconnique" to have been
invented by the Stuart party, and is a corruption of the
Latin word hseredium, signifying "a piece of ground fallen
by inheritance;" whereas Mackay says in an old M.S. of
the Scotch Eites that Heroden is the name of a Mountain,
situated in the N.E. of Scotland, at which place the first
or MetropoHtan Lodge of Europe was held, and that the
present orthography is the French method of spelling it.

The Eose Croix Knight selects his name, taking, if
possible, one not already assumed by any member of the
Chapter; to ascertain which reference is had to the
''Eegisterof Characteristics," which each Chapter must
keep, and in which the Secretary registers the name and
the characteristics of the Candidate as soon as he selects
the latter. If he desires to select a name which some
other Knight already bears, an adjective should be added
to distinguish him; as, if there be already a brother styled
*'Eques a Sinceritate," or "ab Excellentia," the new
Knight should be called "Eques a Sinceritate vera," or

*' ab Excellentia eximia," &c. " Eques a (or "ab"" when

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the noun that follows begins with a vowel) Toleratione,'*
&c.
Characteristics that may be adopted by

EOSE CROIX KNIGHTS.

SUBSTANTIVES.

Ab Honestate — Honesty.

A Verecundia — Modesty.

A Comitate — Amity.

A Veneratione — Venera-
tion.

A Virtute— Virtue.

A Magnanimitate — Mag-
nanimity.

A Lenitate — Mildness.

A Prudentia — Prudence.

A Sapientia — Wisdom.

A Justitia — Justice.

Ab ^quitate — Equity.

A Liberalitate — Liberality.

A Sinceritate — Sincerity.

A Fraternitate — Frater-
nity.

A Habilitate — Dexterity.

A Benevolentia — Benevo-
lence.

A Gratia — Grace.

Ab Honore — Honor.

A Veritate — Truth.

A Firmitate — Firmness.

A Vigor e — Vigor.

A Severitate — Severity.

A Hospitaiitate — Hospi-
tality.

A Luctu — Mourning.

A Moestitia — Sadness.

A Candor e — Candor.

Ab ^mulatione — Emula-
tion.

A Zelo— Zeal.

A Decoro — Decorum.

A Civilitate — Civility.

A Hilaritate — Joyousness.

Ab Austeritate — Austerity.

Ab Obedientia- -Obedience.

A Docilitate — Docility.

A Fervore — Terror.

Ab Amicitia — Friendship.

Ab Indulgentia — Forbear-
ance.

A Suavitate — Suavity.

A Caritate — Affection.

A Spe — Hope.

A Fiducia — Confidence.

A Fide— Faith.

A Bonitate — Goodness.

Ab Amore — Love.

A Modestia — Modesty.

A Moderatione — Modera-
tion.

A Temperentia — Temper-
ance.

A Silentio — Silence.

A Taciturnitate — Tacitur-
nity.

A Reticencia — Reticence.

A Fortitudine — Fortitude.

A Constantia — Constancy.

A Humilitate — Humility.

A Pietate —
A Rob ore—
A Tristetia-

Piety.

-Strength.

—Sadness.

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A Castitate — Chastity.

A Sobrietate — Sobriety.

Ab Ji^quanimitate — Equa-
nimity.

Ab Integritate — Integinty.

A Puritate — Purity.

Accurata — Punctuality.

A Generositate — Gene-
rosity.

Ab Affabilitate- -Affability.

A Commiseratione — Com-
mi-seration.

A Misericordia — Mercy.

A dementia — Clemency.

A Toleratione-- Toleration.

A Eeveratione--Pieverence.

Ab Amore Patriae — Patriot-
ism.

A Gratitudine — Gratitude.

ADJECTIVES.

Magnus — Great.
Maj or — Greater.
Maximus — Greatest.
Summus — High.
Grandis — Large.
Optimus — Best.
Fortis — Strong.
Bonus — Good.
Mellor— Better.
Sincerus — Sincere.
NoYus — New.
Insi^-nis — E xcellent .
Verus — True.
Exactus — Exact.
Ardeus — Ardent.
Constans — Constant.

Firmus — Firm.
Sublimus — Sublime.
Excelsus — Lofty.
Superbus — Superb.
Str ennus — E nergetic .
Candidus — Candid.
Ingennus — Ingenious .
Fulgens — Shinning.
Lucidus — Bright.
Decorus — Decorous.
Purus — Pure.
Indulgens — Indulgent.
Suavis — Corteous.
Sanctus — Secret.
Liberalis — Liberal.

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MOST WISE SOVEREIGN.

HIGH PRELATE,

FIRST GENERAL.

SECOND GENERAL.

GRAND MARSHAL.

RAPHAEL.

CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD.

D I K E C T I 0 N S

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This Degree requires Three C'bambers, and, if possible,
an Outer or Preparation Eoom for the reception of Candi-
dates, where the preceding Degrees, to the 17th inclu-
sive, are to be given by name, unless the same is done in
extenso. The next is named "the Black Eoom," this
should be hung with black, the floor covered with an oil
cloth representmg a Mosaic pavement in black and white
squares or lozenges, in the East two Black curtains ar-
ranged so as tb be drawn asunder entirely, and sufficiently
open to show the Altar, which should be raised, and on it
three steps covered with black with a white border, on
which silver or white Swords are worked. Behind and above

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the upper step a Transparency, on wliicli appears three
Crosses, in the Centre or Highest Cross should be the
(^TjMystic Eose (Black), placed in the centre of the Cross,
and surrounded by a Crown of Thorns, the other two
Crosses should have a Skull and Crossbones at the feet.
Behind the Curtains and at the foot of the Altar should be
a Triangular Table, covered with black cloth, and white "'
fringe round the edge, on which must be placed Three
Waxlights, a Bible, Compasses, and Triangle. Beside the
Altar there should be a Couch for the M. W. S. to recline
on. On the Altar, before the Transparency, at the foot of
the Cross, there should be placed a Rose made of Black • - '.\
Crape. In the centre of the room must be the Tracing > ^
Board, and on the floor a painting of seven circles in
white upon a black ground, and in the centre a Eose. In
the North, South, and West there must be Three Pillars,
six feet high, in the Capitals of which must be inscribed
" Faith, Hope, and Charity," or rather their initials "F.
H. C," painted on small tins or cards, and suspended by
a Hook to each Pillar. Each Column must be surmounted

by Eleven Lights, disposed in a box
having eleven holes, and the letters
" F. H. C." respectively in the
centre. If the Black Eoom be
sufliciently large it may be divided
into two by a second black curtain
behind the Altar, at aU events
4here must be a passage thence to
the Eed Eoom, according to the position of the Apart-
ments. From the Black Room should open the Chamber
of Death, and thence the Red Room, but if this cannot be
managed, the Candidate, after having been refused ad-
mission in the second part of the Ceremony, must be sent
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formed into the Chamber of Death. The Chamber of Death
must have the emblems of mortahty strewed about, and ^ /
sundry obstacles so placed that the Candidate may have-
some difficulty in groping his way to the Black Curtain, ^/
behind which a Lamp of Spirits of Wine and Salt must
be placed, and the Wick of the Lamp also strewed with
Salt, and two or three persons in winding sheets grouped
around it as Corpses; the Chamber of Death may be
lighted by Transparencies, representing Skulls, Crossbones,
&c., or by seven flambeaux fixed in Skulls and Crossbones.
The Third or Ked Eoom must be brilliantly illuminated,
and all the Brethren in their highest costumes ranged
under their Banners, the room hung with red; in the
centre the Tracing Board, the representation of the Mys-
terious Ladder of Seven Steps; on the Altar must be
Seven Steps and Thirty-three Lights, behind a Trans-
parency, representing the Blazing Star of Seven Points ;
in the centre the letter G. On the top step of the Altar
must be the Cubic Stone, in front of which a Bed Eose
opened, with the letter G in the centre. The Altar must
be profusely decorated with Eoses, and perfumed with
Atta of Eoses. No Cross should appear in this part of the — -
Degree, but the WOED, when found, can be suspended to
a Silk Thread, stretched across by small hooks behind
each letter and about the cubic stone, when they can
easily be removed previously to the WOED being burnt.
The last part of the Ceremony is given in the Eed Eoom,
arranged as above, except that the Ladder is to be re-
moved, and a Pedestal covered with a white cloth placed
at the East end of the Tracing Board, on which are placed
a Salver of Biscuits or Passion Cakes, a Cup on each side, -^-r: ^ T
one containing the Loving Mixture, and the other Spirits [ G^;
of Wine and Cloride of Strontian, in which to burn the '-'^ .
WOED, and a Salt Cellar with Salt. In conferring the ^

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Degree of Eose Croix tlie Degrees are given by name from
the Fourth to the Fourteenth inclusive in a Grand Lodge
of Perfection. A Grand Lodge of Princes of Jerusalem is
then declared open, and the Fifteenth and Sixteenth De-
grees are conferred by name ; the Grand Lodge of Princes
of Jerusalem is tlien closed, and a General Lodge of the
Knights of the East and West is opened, the Degree is
given by name, with the Signs, Tokens, and Words. The
Grand Lodge of the Knights of the East and West is then
closed, and the Eighteenth or Rose Croix Degree is then
conferred in extenso ; the great length of time necessary
is a sufficient excuse for not giving the others in that
manner.

Li oj)ening each Lodge the following words are said : —
"By the power vested in me by the Supreme Council of
the Most Puissant Grand Sovereign, Grand Inspector
General of the Thirty-third Degree, I declare this Grand
Lodge of open."

The following Table will show the different Degrees and
their arrangement.

GRAND LODGE OF PERFECTION.

4. Secret Master.

5. Perfect Master.

6. Intimate Secretary.

7. Provost and Judge.

8. Superintendent of Buildings.

9. Elect of Nine.

10. Elect of Fifteen.^

11. Subhme Elect.

12. Grand Master Architect.

13. Royal Arch.

14. Scotch Knight of Perfection.

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GRAND LODGE OF PRINCES OF JERUSALEM.

15. Knights of the Sword of the East.

16. Prince of Jerusalem.

GRAND LODGE OF THE KNIGHTS OF THE
EAST AND WEST.

17. Knights of the East and West.

Battery

Password N . L . . H . I
The Word N . D . A . A

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THE

CEREMONY OF OPENING

IN THE 18th DEGEEE.

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The Most Wise and Perfect Sovereign knocks one, to be
answered by the 1st and 2nd Generals, and on the door
to be answered from without.