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Freemasonry In France.
dip loma , emanating from the Supreme Council of Oharlestown ; 3 rd . The Constitution of Bordeaux of 1762 and . that of 1786 . Bros . Haguet and De Grasse-Tilly soon were in league , and the Lodge " Saint
Alexandre" complaisautly granted them the use of its Lodge room ; they thereupon decreed the establishment of — ( 1 ) A General Grand Lodge for the United Rites . ( 2 ) A Grand and Sovereign Consistory of Prime Masons for the Scottish Rite of
Heredom . ( 3 ) A Supreme Council 33 degrees of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite . Thus , within four years after the proclamation of the unity of French Freemasonry , the Grand Orient witnessed the reappearance of the Philosophic Scottish Kite and the Rite of Perfection , and it witnessed also the creation of a new
Order called the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite . Were we writing a critical history of French Freemasonry , we shouid have little trouble to prove that the Lodge " Contrat social , " having entered into treaty with
the Grand Orient , all the lodges which held from that lodge their constitutions , including the Lodge ' ' Saint Alexandre , " should have respected the treaty , we should he able to prove that Bro . Hacquet had no ri ght to establish for his own ends the Rite of
Heredom , of 25 degrees , which was merged iuto the Grand Orient of France in 1786 , when the " Council of Emperors of the East and West , " uniting with the " Grand Chapter General" effected the fusion which was noticed in the previous article .
It will be still more easy to demonstrate that the order calling itself the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite could never have been founded by Frederick King of Prussia , but that it was the work ° f some masons who had unskilfully resusratated
the Rite of Heredom and added to it ei ght new degrees , and in giving to the " 3 rd degree the title that the Sovereign Council had in 1761 attached to the functions conferred on Stephen Morin . But su eh is not end the aim of the
our ; prep . . t writing being only to prove that the iJ , | losophic Rite bad , ' in IS 14 , ceased its ^ dependent existence , and that it was ac ° epted b y the Grand College of Rites of
the Grand Orient of France , no one has ever dared to contest ; that the Rite of Heredom or Rite of Perfection of 25 degrees resumed its allegiance to the Grand Orient in 1804 , remained faithfully attached to it as the Rite of Kilwinning and the Rite Rectifie" and that the Concordat
, of 1804 gave to the Grand College of Rites the rig ht to assume the title of Supreme Council for France and the French possessions , a rig ht of which no one had the legal power to deprive it . Let us now examine the following Rites : —
I . —THE PHILOSOPHIC SCOTTISH RITE . Thory , who was one of the staunchest supporters of this Itite , gave great prominence in bis "Acta Latornorum " to the " Mother Lodge , " side by side with the Grand Orient and the Supreme Council ,
but from 1801 to 1814 we find but little notice of the creation of lodges in the various departments . The nomination , in 1807 , of Bro . Cambaceres to the dignity of Grand Master , and the reception , in 1808 , of Bro . Askeri Khan , Ambassador of the Kin « of Persia at the Court of France .
This reception was made with great pomp by Bro . Thory himself , who records with pleasure that , in return for a copy of the Regulations , the new initiate made a present to the lodge of a sword which bad been used by him in twenty-seven battles .
Let us acid that , in 1805 , Lodge "Saint Alexandre , " having become the Mother Lodge , caused to be reprinted the " General Regulations , " by a vote of the Assembly of the 5 th day of the third monthA . L . 5776 . These regulations
, were signed by Bro . Deleutre d'Avignon . \ Accepted by the Grand College of Rites since the time when the Grand Lodge ceased its separate jurisdiction , the Philosophic Scottish Rite became an integral part of the Grand Orient of France .
2 . —THE SCOTTISH RITE OF HEREDOM OR OP PERFECTION . We have already shown bow the llite of Heredom of 25 degrees , also called the Rite of Perfection or of the Princes of the Royal Secret , bad from its origin submitted to the direction of the Grand
Lodge of France , and ended by merging itselt into the Grand Orient . The Sovereign Council which practised it had no x 2
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Freemasonry In France.
dip loma , emanating from the Supreme Council of Oharlestown ; 3 rd . The Constitution of Bordeaux of 1762 and . that of 1786 . Bros . Haguet and De Grasse-Tilly soon were in league , and the Lodge " Saint
Alexandre" complaisautly granted them the use of its Lodge room ; they thereupon decreed the establishment of — ( 1 ) A General Grand Lodge for the United Rites . ( 2 ) A Grand and Sovereign Consistory of Prime Masons for the Scottish Rite of
Heredom . ( 3 ) A Supreme Council 33 degrees of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite . Thus , within four years after the proclamation of the unity of French Freemasonry , the Grand Orient witnessed the reappearance of the Philosophic Scottish Kite and the Rite of Perfection , and it witnessed also the creation of a new
Order called the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite . Were we writing a critical history of French Freemasonry , we shouid have little trouble to prove that the Lodge " Contrat social , " having entered into treaty with
the Grand Orient , all the lodges which held from that lodge their constitutions , including the Lodge ' ' Saint Alexandre , " should have respected the treaty , we should he able to prove that Bro . Hacquet had no ri ght to establish for his own ends the Rite of
Heredom , of 25 degrees , which was merged iuto the Grand Orient of France in 1786 , when the " Council of Emperors of the East and West , " uniting with the " Grand Chapter General" effected the fusion which was noticed in the previous article .
It will be still more easy to demonstrate that the order calling itself the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite could never have been founded by Frederick King of Prussia , but that it was the work ° f some masons who had unskilfully resusratated
the Rite of Heredom and added to it ei ght new degrees , and in giving to the " 3 rd degree the title that the Sovereign Council had in 1761 attached to the functions conferred on Stephen Morin . But su eh is not end the aim of the
our ; prep . . t writing being only to prove that the iJ , | losophic Rite bad , ' in IS 14 , ceased its ^ dependent existence , and that it was ac ° epted b y the Grand College of Rites of
the Grand Orient of France , no one has ever dared to contest ; that the Rite of Heredom or Rite of Perfection of 25 degrees resumed its allegiance to the Grand Orient in 1804 , remained faithfully attached to it as the Rite of Kilwinning and the Rite Rectifie" and that the Concordat
, of 1804 gave to the Grand College of Rites the rig ht to assume the title of Supreme Council for France and the French possessions , a rig ht of which no one had the legal power to deprive it . Let us now examine the following Rites : —
I . —THE PHILOSOPHIC SCOTTISH RITE . Thory , who was one of the staunchest supporters of this Itite , gave great prominence in bis "Acta Latornorum " to the " Mother Lodge , " side by side with the Grand Orient and the Supreme Council ,
but from 1801 to 1814 we find but little notice of the creation of lodges in the various departments . The nomination , in 1807 , of Bro . Cambaceres to the dignity of Grand Master , and the reception , in 1808 , of Bro . Askeri Khan , Ambassador of the Kin « of Persia at the Court of France .
This reception was made with great pomp by Bro . Thory himself , who records with pleasure that , in return for a copy of the Regulations , the new initiate made a present to the lodge of a sword which bad been used by him in twenty-seven battles .
Let us acid that , in 1805 , Lodge "Saint Alexandre , " having become the Mother Lodge , caused to be reprinted the " General Regulations , " by a vote of the Assembly of the 5 th day of the third monthA . L . 5776 . These regulations
, were signed by Bro . Deleutre d'Avignon . \ Accepted by the Grand College of Rites since the time when the Grand Lodge ceased its separate jurisdiction , the Philosophic Scottish Rite became an integral part of the Grand Orient of France .
2 . —THE SCOTTISH RITE OF HEREDOM OR OP PERFECTION . We have already shown bow the llite of Heredom of 25 degrees , also called the Rite of Perfection or of the Princes of the Royal Secret , bad from its origin submitted to the direction of the Grand
Lodge of France , and ended by merging itselt into the Grand Orient . The Sovereign Council which practised it had no x 2