Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-11-23


mated, in enc sense appropriately, and in
another most inappropriately, the
: American Rite" Appropriately, be-
cause it is not known out OF the United
States insppropriately, because it is moi
in any true sense Of the word Rite
: which is an aggregate oAdegrees, be-
+ longing to one system, and under one
governing body or head.
Ifitis pretended to be Rite, it is not
known, in all its parts, in England, Scot.
land, Ireland, or on the Continent Of
Europe, as a Rite. The Chapter degrees
are none of them known or worked on
the Continent. They are not all known
or worked in the British Islands; and
the Royal Arch degree is very different
even there, from that which it is here.
The Council degrees are not known at
all on the Continent, nor do we think
they are worked in England, Scotland
or ireland. The Red Cross degree is not
worked anywhere except in the United
States. and was manufactured by WEBB
out of two degrees of the old Rite OF
Perfection and of the Ancient and Ac-
cepted Scottish Rite; and the Templar
| degree hardly resembles in any feature
that in use in England, Scotland or Ire
land, and is not known st all on the
Continent. The Order of the Temple in
France is totally different thing.
The Grand Commandery of Missouri
has permitted itself to be greatly de-
ceived. The degrees of the American
Scale have no more right to be called
Masonic, than those of dozen other
Rites, older than they, and in their ma
ture infinitely more Masonic. The truth
is that the York. Rite Masonry has no
resi-, history, far beyond the year l7l7.
At the beginning of the 18th century, as
is now very well known, there was only
one degree, that Of Apprentice. Soon
after the Masters degree began to be
worked, English Lodges were established
in Paris, in the year I72l, and other de-
graes we're so rapidly made, that in
| I747 CHARLES EDWARD STUART created
a Chapter of Rose CrUiX at Arras, in
France: in I748, the Rite de lG Hie5te-
Bgu or des IcOsSdi8 Fideies was estab-
lished at Toulouse, with nine degrees,
/ and in 1850 a Lodge styled Saint Jean
| a, Ec0sse was established at Marseilles,
/ which afterwards assumed the title of
Scottish MOther-LOdge Of France, whose
regime finally consisted of Is degrees.
The first of the Flu degrees is said to
have been framed at Lyons in 1743. The
/ Chapter Of Clermont, of the high degrees,
in which the Templar system was re-
vived, was established in 1854, at Paris,
4 at first with six degrees. And as early
as 1858, and probably before, the Coun-
/ ell or Chapter Of Emperors Of the East
and West was established at Paris, work
I ing the Rite Of Perfection in 25 degrees
In France, two Rites are worked. One
! is the Rit lfOderHe or French Rite, which
is the Rite ofthe Grand Orient of France,
adopted by it in 1886, and consisting Of
the three Blue degrees and four others,
to-wit: Elu, EcosSdis, knights Of the
Ettst and Rose Cr0iz.
The Rite of Heredom or Perfection, in
twenty-five degrees, was certainly
worked in France at least one hundred
and ten years ago, the last degree being
the Prince Of the Royal Secret, the eigh-
teenth the Rose Croix, and the twenty
| fourth the Kadosh. We have Mss. RI
tuals Of the twenty-ffth, more than sew
enty years old.
The Primitive Scottish Rite was estab-
/ lished at Namur in Francs in l770, and
consisted of thirty-three degrees. The
/ Rite Of Strict Observance conferred six (;
the Regime RgoTD1e or Rectife, Of
| Dresden, had seven; the Rite Of the
| Grand Lodge Of the three Globes, at
Berlin, has ten; the Swedish Rite had
twelve; and the Rose Croix Rectified, OF
/ Schroeder of Marburg, in Hesse Csssel,
/ established in 1866, had seven.
Every one of these, and several others
/ that we might name, were older by
| MANY wears than what with q very bold
| fmpudence the Missouri Grand Com
mandery calls the only legitimate Rite Of
| Masonry in existence. II ii is proper to
call ana Rite bastard and illegitimate
one, none deserves it more richly than
the American, which is one of the latest
/ in the world, younger than the Rite OF
/ Misraim Of Bedsrride. and, as including
J an. a. h,
/ Rite Of Memphis of Marconis de Negre
| And as to its degrees, there is not one Of
! them, above or beyond the three blue
! degrees, that is not near sixty years
younger than several degrees of the Rite
| of Perfection, which had been Rite
1 forty years before most Of them were
heard Of. II the Royal Arch is older, it
is not so in its American form. And it
is perfectly well known that after LAW
RENEE DERMoTT, in 1879, set up Ma
sonry Of his own in opposition to the old
Grand Lodge Of England, and called his
followers Ancient Masons," and gave
degree which he called tue
Royal Arch, the legitimate body said
mat Il kgletO nothing about any such
Iegree as the Royal Arch. This was the
body which Dr. OLIVER, in his Revela-
tions Of Square, calls ''the COnstitu-
tiouaI Grand Lodge" And he states
that in 1854 the Rituals Of the Ecossais,
the ELIJ and RAMsAY's Royal Arch had
been brought by some Brethren from
a vaI in Il oslor No,
"a, meeting at the BEN JONsOE's Head,
! Spitalfields. He says and il is the exact
/ truth, that when the followers of DER.
/ MOTT established a Grand Lodge Of their
own, about 1854, they commenced the
practice Of a species of Masonry un-
] known in former times. They instituted
q novel degree, which they called the
/ Royal Arch, compounded out Of a por-
ton Of the third degree, AND PROM
VARIOUS CONTINENTAL INNOVATIONS,
which gave them vast advantage in
the minds Of curious and unthinklng
persons, over the pure ancient system
| praotised by the Grand Lodge, inasmueh
as it held out the prospect of superior in
formation, and greater insight into the
design of Ancient FreemasOnry."
And again be says that Doctor MAN
NINGHAAl, r. W. 81, OF those whom
DERNOTT impudently called Modern .
AIasons, ascertained by visiting one OF
the so-called ancient Lodges - that the
pretended Ancient Masonry consisted OF
nothing more than reconstruotion OF
ISAsIsAY's Royal Arch, adapted by the
genius of Graft Masonry, the principal
feature of which was a transfer Of the
real landmarks Of a Master Mason to q
new degree, unknown TO the fraternity
before the date of this unnatural sehism." J"
He told them that they were distin-
guished by an apparatus which could NOT
substantiate an antiquity Of more than
ten or a dozen years and we're making
fearful havoc with the Landmarks, by
snbdividing the third degree into two
separate and distinct portions, to lend 6
sanction TO the nei0 and lHntenG6Ie doc.