Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-07-05


when, on the 18th Of May, 1862. the
Grand Hierophant, the Bro Marconis,
petitiOned the Grand Master to give a
new life to the Rite, by admitting it
among those which are protected by the
authority of the Grand Orient of France.
| You need not be told that the Bro.
Marconis obligated himself to renounce
every kind of authority over the Rite
it was a necessary consequence of his
! petition.
" The Grand College of Rites was con
suited the Council Of the Order was
called on to decide; and from its decis-
ion of date 4th August and 18th No
vember 1862. resulted the admission
/ in principle Of the Rite of Memphis
among the number Of those which work
under the obedience of the Grand Orient
| of France, but not the recognition of the
series of its 80 degrees.
"These were the conditions
LIST. The Lodges of the Rite of Mem
phis shall be admitted into the bosom Of
the Grand Orient, upon conforming to
the formalities prescribed by the stat
! utes
&" %. They are authorized to work in
the three first symbolic degrees of App.
Fellow Craft and Master, according to
the Ritual and Ceremonial peculiar to
| that Rite
Sd. The members of these Lodges will
be recognized as regular Masons, bit
oalv to The degree Of Muster, however
high their grade and dignities in the Rite
of Memphis.
4th. These Brethren are under an ex
press obligation to deposit in the Secre-
tariat of the Grand Orient their Masonic
titles, to be there uised and regularized
to the degree of Master.
9Th. No Mason of the Rite of Mem
/ phis shall claim to possess any other
/ degree than that indicated by this UiSd.
9th. Every Mason Of the Rite, hold
ing any title whatever, not UiSed by the
Grand Master, will be deemed an irregu-
lar Mason, and will not be allowed to
visit any Lodge of the Jurisdiction.
9TH. The MasOns of the Rite of Mem
phis. like those of every other Bite de
| pendent on the Grand Orient Of France.
can obtain degrees above that Of Master
only by conforming to the dispositions
of Articles 1870, 1877, etc, Of the General
Statutes of the Order.
8th. No body superior to the Sym
bolic Lodge can be created, to work in
the Rite Of Memphis, excepting Brethren
who have complied with the fOrmalities
imposed by articles 1870. 1877, etc, of the
General Statutes of the Order.
9th. Finally, it will hereafter belong
to the Grand Orient of France alone, to
deliver to Masons received in the bodies
of the Rite of Memphis, all Masonic
titles, Of whatever nature and degree
they may be.
These we're the conditions that were
accepted by the Chief of the Rite, who
had abdicated, and by the Lodges and
Masons that the Grand Orient was
pleased to receive and we cannot too
| strongly commend them to the attention
of all Masonic bodies and Masons, and
! especially to the vigilant attention of
presiding officers, that the abuses which
| the Orients of Roman. Marseilles and
Alexandria have witnessed may not be
repeated.
The President having invited discus
sion Of the Report, the Bro Beringer
remarked that the Council is not in pos
| session of an isolated fact only, but Of a
continuous system of Masonic offences ON
the part of the Bros Marconis and
Carence Consequently he thinks that
/ the conclusions Of the report should be
adopted, and the affair referred to the
Committee on Litigation, with directions
to institute proceedings against the de-
linquents and bring them before the
Chamber of Justice and Appeal.
! The Bro. Grain seconds the PROPOSE
ton of the Bro Beringer, and ex-
presses his regret that the Council has
not already used severe measures as to
the Bro. Marconis, who has paid no re-
gard to the successive and fraternal re-
mOnstrances received by him.
The President, while in favour of the
reference to the Committee on Litigation,
thinks that it ought not to be deter
mined, at present, that the 3D.. shall
be sent before the Chamber of Appeal
to be tried there but thinks it advisa-
bic to publish the report in the Bulletin,
! in this respect proposing TO modify the
proposition. He also proposes to print
the report by itself, and send sufficient
number Of copies wherever it may be ne
cessary, to inform the bodies and Ma
sons as well in respect of the true situa-
alton Of the Bro. MarcOnis, as Of the
pretended powers Of the Bro Clarence /
This administrative measure would per
haps suffice to recall these Brethren to
their duty, and IN any ease would put
the Council in a condition to defend
itself against them.
The President adds that he thinks it 1
will be well to remind Masons and bodies F.
that only Lodges regularly constituted
have the right to initiate and that the /
right of comforting the high degrees, to .
the Kad.' inclusive, belongs exclusively |
to the Chapter and Councils regularly /
instituted.
The last degree Of Freemasonry in the
different Rites, can be conferred only by
the Grand College of Rites.
It is our duty, the President said in
concluding, to advise the bodies and
Freemasons, that everything outside Of
the conditions prescribed by ourstatutes
is Irregularities that may have serious
consequences for those who commit
them, and which serve only to bring the
Institution into disrepute. Wherefore
we cannot too earnestly caution them
against those persons who, engaging IN
the traffic Of degrees, make of Masonry
trade and merchandise.
After some other observations. the
Council adopts the report Of the Com
mittee, modified as proposed by the
President and orders it inserted az e.
tense in the official Bulletin, and if ne
cessary, separately printed and circu-
lated wherever needed"
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