Chapter 94
M. P. Pres.^ — I invest you with the White CJollar and
Jewel of this Degree, see that the purity of the former
and the lustre of the latter be never sullied or dimmed
by injustice, inhumanity, or impurity.
THE
THIRTY-SECOND DEGREE
OF
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SUBLIME PRINCE OF THE ROYAL SECRET,
AEGUMENT.
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TMs is the 3rd and last of the Kadosh Degrees, and
consummates the Templarism of Masonry. The Degree
was originally a Christian Degree of Knighthood; its
object was for a long time to reconquer the Holy Land
and plant the Banner of the Cross on the ruined walls of
Jerusalem. Many of the Knights of the Crusatlers were
Masons, and thus became acquainted with the legend
which Masonry had preserved. The Knights Kadosh are
the legitimate successors of the Templars. — C. T. Mc.
Clenachan, 33°, U.S.
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DECOEATIONS.
Bodies of this degree are styled Consistories. Tlie
hangings are black, strewed with tears of silver, skeletons,
human skulls, and crossbones.
In the East is a Throne, to which you ascend by seven
steps, draped with black satin, hke the hangings, but
strewed with flames without tears. Before the Throne is
an Altar covered with black satin, strewed with tears;
on it are painted or embroidered a death's-head and two
crossbones; over th© death's-head is the letter J, and
under the crossbones the letter M.
On this Altar are the Book of Constitutions and Statutes
of the Order, a Naked Sword, a Sceptre, and a Balance.
In the West are the two Wardens. In front of each is
a table, covered with crimson cloth, lined and edged with
black, and strewed with tears. On each cover in front
are the four letters N — K — M — K. On each table are two
naked swords crossed.
The Hall is divided into two parts by a balustrade. In
the West is the Camp of the Princes.
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OFFICEES AND TITLES*
The Master is styled Illustrious Commander-in- Chief j
the two Wardens, Lieutenant Commanders; and the
Orator, Minister of State. Besides these officers there
are a Grand Chancellor, Grand Secretary, and Keeper of
the Seals and Archives, Grand Treasurer, Grand En-
gineer and Architect, Grand Hospitaller, Grand Master of
Ceremonies, Grand Captain of the Guard, Grand Standard
Bearer, and Grand Sentinel.
The are also in the Hall, west of the Officers on the
right and left, fourteen members clothed in red, without
aprons, and each having on his breast, suspended from a
black ribbon worn as a collar, the Jewel of one of the
Degrees — -viz., numbering these members from one to
fourteen, they wear respectively the Jewels of the 30th,
28th, 25th, 21st, 19th, 18th, 16th, 14th, 13th, 10th, 8th,
7th, 5th, and 3rd Degrees.
The first five are the Standard Bearers of the Corps
that encamp around the pentagon, and the last nine are
Commanders of the Corps that encamp around the nana-
gon.
The names of the first five are as follows : — ■
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4th Garimont — ■
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5th Amariah —
do.
The names of the
others are—
1 st Malachi— f or the Tent
2nd Zerubbabel—
do
3rd Nehemiah —
do
4th Joabert —
do
6th Paleg—
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Otli Jelioiada — for the Tent N
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8th Joshua — do. ... -.. ... ... N
9th Ezra — do. I.
THE CAMP
Is a nonagon enclosing a heptagon, which encloses a
pentagon, and that an equilateral triangle, and that again
a circle. On the sides of the nonagon are nine tents with
a flag, pennon, and letter to each. Each tent represents
an entire camp, and the several sides of the nonagon are
thus assigned by the rituals to the Masons of the several
Degrees from the 1st to the 18th as follows: —
S. — Flag and pennon white, sprinkled lightly with
crimson. That tent indicates the camps of the Knights
Rose Croix and Knights of the East and West, 18th and
17th Degrees. The Commander, Malachi.
A.- — Flag and pennon light green. That tent indicates
the camp of the Knights of the East or Sword, and
Princes of Jerusalem, 15th and 16th Degrees. The Com-
mander, Zerubbabel.