The San Francisco call., 1899-05-14

degrees of Entered Apprentice d, Fellow
Craftsman % and Master mason 81.
From that point the Master Mason, who
to reach that point has TO devote a great
deal of time TO study, that he may obtain
a full understanding of the principles of
Masonry, may elect to take the ten de-
grees of the York Rite or the thirty de-
grees of the Scottish Rite He is also
privileged TO take them in both rites,
should he feel so inclined.
The York Rite is divided into three sec
TONS, the first of which is the Chapter Of
Royal Arch Masons. with the degree of
Mark Master "a, Past Master (5I.' Most
Excellent Master (6). RovaI Arch Master
o. the Council of Royal and Select Mas
ters, with the degrees of Royal Master
(S), Select Master 90 and Super Excellent
Master (10; and then the Commandery of
Knights Templar, which has three orders
and these are only conferred on Royal
Arch Masons. They are the Red Cross
Knight QD, Knight Templar q0 and
Knight of Malta Q3). That is the sum
nit of the York Rite.
These are progressive steps into higher
Masonry from the symbolic lodge and
We're recognized long before the Scottish
Rite was introduced. Each division has
IFS grand body end the highest of all in
this rite is the Grand Encampment Of the
United states, of which Reuben Hedley
Lloyd is the head, with the title OF most
eminent grand master of the Grand En-
campment of the United States of Amer
lca He has under his Jurisdiction forty
senting an individual State or Territory
except Massachusetts and Rhode Island,
WUlCl are combined. These combined
States, and New York and PENNSYLVANIA
have the largest membership. each hav-
ing something in excess of II 600. Then
there are 1902 communicates under the
jurisdiction of the Grand Encampment
which have a membership of about 112 00a
These are exclusive of subordinate com
manderies in Delaware, Idaho Nevada
New Mexico. the Hawaiian Islands. South
carolina ana Utah, which have an ag-
Brings up tbe tdfa Of Of sPouF s lSP and
about u3,SD In California alone the
membership in the symbolic or blue
lodges is nearly % 600, in the chapters OF
Royal Arch MasOns about 500 in the
councils Of royal and select MaSons about
12g0, while in the communicates it is about
Most Eminent Grand Master LLOYD. who
mas been an earnest worker on behalf of
Lhe fraternity is a native of Ireland. He
came to the United States with his pa
rents when very young; came TO Cali
tornia in the early fifties and has since
peen Californian in the fullest sense of
that word. As this article deals with him
only from the point Of a Mason il will
not touch upon his civil or professional
NE. tie received the degree of entered
apprentice in Oriental Lodge No IA in
1873. received the other degrees a few
California chapter also in that year, and
the following year was received as q
companion of the Red Cross, the follow
ated Knight Templar and Knight of
Malta. His labors won for him as an
officer in the line OF Templarism recog-
,
beStOwing on him the highest office that
ii is possible TO offer.
He filled many offices in the various
branches of the order. and also took the
degrees of the Scottish rite in 1881 re- =
ceiving the thirty-first and thirty-second
on the 10th of May of that wear The
Supreme Council of the rite in Washing
ton elected him honorary inspector gen
eral of the thirty-third degree. and in
January, 1891. he was coroneted an hon
orary thirty-third degree member. He is
a charter member of Islam Temple was
its first active potentate and for services
rendered TO FreemaSonry he was elected
an honorary member of the Masonic Vet
eran Association of the Pacific Coast
What is commonly known as the Scot
tish rite is laid down in the Latin con
stitution Cautious ScoticIas Ritus AC-
ceptus. which translated is ancient and
accepted Scottish rite. which. while Ii is
the youngest. is most extensively diffused
In 175S there was organized in paris
France, a body that was known as tbs
Council of the East and West This body
lnsututed the rite of perfection, which
consisted of twenty-five degrees. the high
est of which was Sublime Princes of the
Royal Secret. In 1T61 this council issued
patent or deputation 10 Stephen NORM
granting him authority TO propagate the
rite IN the western continent whittier he
was about to proceed. In that wear he
reached San Domingo, where he com
menced to disseminate the rite appoint
ing many inspectors for the West indies
and for the territory which Subseol1entlv
became the United States. One of these
upon him the title of deputy inspecto-
general for South Carolina. In 17S9 h.
introduced the rite in that State by the
institution of a Grand Lodge of Perfec-
ton in the city of Charleston. Other in
spectors We're subsequently appointed. and
in 1901 the first supreme council of the
world was opened in the city named bv
John Mitchell and T. Dalcho by virtue
of authority promulgated some time prior
by Frederick, King of Prussia This be
came the mother supreme council. and
from it. either directly or indirectly every
supreme council in the world derived its
power To be instituted
An examination of the archives has re-
vealed the fact that up to that time but
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