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names should be burned between the two columns by the serving brother . This is what the Supreme Council called maintaining and feeding the sacred fire of Scottish Rite Masonry . In 1 S 19 the Grand Orient endeavoured

to stay this shameful persecution and these Masonic scandals ; overtures ivere made to the Supreme Council of Pompei , in the interest of all ; the propositions of the Grand Orient were more than , reasonable , and they can be read in their entirety in the " History of the Three Grand Lodges , "

by Rebold ; but the Supreme Council , relying , in its illegal existence , upon the protection of the Minister of Police , rejected every proposition for yielding the supremacy Avhich appertained to it in virtue of the sublime knowledge of Avhich

it ivas the depository . It ivas in consequence of this refusal that the Grand Orient thought proper to publish the important circular of the 31 st March , 1 S 19 , by Avhich it declared irregular every Masonic association , and all Masons , except those of the Grand Orient , and decreed that no lodge under its jurisdiction should either admit them or hold

communication with them . From this time the two portions of the Supreme Council ceased almost simultaneously their union , and the Supreme Council established by the Sovereign Grand Inspectors-General , in the midst of the Grand Orient of Franceremained the

, only regular authority . Besides the Supreme Council of America had no reason for its existence in Paris , for the reconciliation , since 1 S 15 , had opened to them the means of return to their homes . The proof of the truth of the facts

Avhich we have just recounted , ancl the error of Count Muraire , AVIIO pretended that the Supreme Council of America had been the continuation of the Supreme Council of France , is , that when the dissentient members AVIIO had taken part in

the latter , desired to retrace their steps , it Avas done under the presidency of Count Valence , Lieutenant Grand Commander , and not under that of the Count de Gazes , Avho Avas afterwards nominated Sovereign Grand Commander of both factions by the Supreme Council of America . It ivas not till after the demission of Prince Camhaceres that the Count de

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A alence could be nominated Sovereign Grand Commander , and after a dormancy of seA'en years . So far from acknowledging that the Supreme Council of America had been its successor , the Supreme Council of France , in 1 S 21 , deigned to receive itappreciating the disinterested

, and truly Masonic sentiments Avhich , in soliciting its reunion , the Supremo Council had g iven such honourable evidence . How , then , does the Supreme Council explain what Rebold calls an interregnum o seven yearsClavel a putting in

dor-, mancy , Findel an illegality , and Count Muraire a dispersion . By its return , says the latter , the Supreme Council recovered its position , its ri g hts , and with them its ancient possessions . It would be more just to say that by its

return the Supreme Council recovered the position by the Sovereign Grand Inspectors-General , AVIIO , not having been dispersed , had preserved and unfurled the flag of the Scottish Rite in the midst of the Grand Orient of France , Avhich ivas not at all incompatible . Tt was in violation of the Charter of

Constitution that the dispersed Grand Inspectors-General reunited themseli'es and erected a second Supreme Council , side by side ivith that Avhich was at that time duly performing its functions , and raised , illegally , altar against altar . The consequence of this action resulted

in the Grand Constitutions of 1786 , Avhich the Supreme Council , reunited in 1876 , at Lausanne , haA'e considered as the Constitutional Charter of their origin , and which they invoked to repulse , notably , the Supreme Council of Louisiana . ( To be concluded in our next , )

Dented Him Masonic Burial.

DENTED HIM MASONIC BURIAL .

AUTHOR UNKNOWN , ( From I he "Masonic Jewel . " ) [ Ix Galesburg , 111 ., Dec . 22 , 1875 , Dr . J . M . Moi'sc , an old ancl esteemed citizen , was stricken with apoplexy , and died be-