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Title: Scotch Rite masonry illustrated : the complete ritual of the ancient and accepted Scottish Rite profusely illustrated
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Blanchard, Jonathan, 1811-1892 Scottish Rite (Masonic order)
Subjects: Scottish Rite (Masonic order) Freemasonry Freemasonry
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : E.A. Cook
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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in 1833. In iSTew England the whole secret lodge was lookedon with loathing and abhorrence. The grandfather ofDr. Eichard Storrs, of Braintree, Mass., and Dr. Willis-ton of East Haven, had a saying, a Freemason is hand-in-hand with the devil/ Dr. Hopkins, of Newport, R. I.,in Dr. E. A. Parks Memoir of Emmons, s^ys, ^^the lodgebelongs to the Kingdom of Satan. Later, the wholeAndover Faculty, Woods, Stuart and Emerson, de-nounced it in unmeasured terms. The ground idea ofCongregationalism, since BradshaWy rejects as ^^unlaw-ful all rites not enjoined by the word of God, whichincludes lodges, which are ^inventions of men f and afull half million of Christians in other denominationsregard secret lodges as Synagogues of Satan to be dis-fellowshipped by the children of God. A carefulreading of the analysis of the degrees of this Eite willconvince all candid minds, that they are the ^^abomina-tions and demon-worship of the Scriptures which pre-vent the coming of Christ, LODGE OF PERFECTION.
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CHAPTER II LODGE OF PERFECTION/ Composed of eleven degrees termed the Ineffa-ble Degrees and comprising the fourth to FOURl?:eE^TH degrees AS FOLLOWS: 4th Degree^ Secret Master. 5th Perfect Master. 6th ^^ Intimate Secretary. 7th Provost and Judge. 8th ^^ Intendant of the Building. 9th Elected Knights of the Nine. Note 1.—In 1754, the Chevalier de Bonneville established a Chapterof the high degrees at Paris, in the College of Jesuits of Clermont, hencecalled the Chapter of Clermont. The system of Masonry he there prac-ticed received the name of the Rite of Perfection, or Rite of Heredom.The College of Clermont was, says Rebold, (Hist, de 3 G. L., 46,) theasylum of the adherents of the house of Stuart, and hence the Rite isto some extent tinctured with Stuart Masonry. It consisted of twenty-five degrees, as follows: 1. Apprentice; 2. ^Fellow Craft; 3. Master; 4.Secret Master; 5. Perfect Master; 6. Intimate Secretary; 7. Intendant ofthe Building; 8. Provost and Judge; 9. Elect of Nine;scotchritemasonr01blan

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