Jubilee Year of the Supreme Council of Sovereign Grand Inspectors General of the 33rd and Last Degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Part 1
Contributors: James Hodge Codding (Editor); Robinson Locke (Editor)
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: June 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 656
ISBN-13: 9780766165458
Subjects: Freemasonry & secret societies; Sociology; Social Science; Freemasonry
First sentence: Illustrious Burton Smith, 33, Most Puissant Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Council of the Thirty-third and Last Degree, of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States of America, called the attention of that august Body, at its annual meeting in Boston, on September 21, 1915, to the fact that two years later the year 1917 would mark the Fiftieth Anniversary of its organization in its present form, formally addressing the Supreme Council in this eloquent manner: On Friday, May 17th, 1867, at about four o'clock in the afternoon, an assembly of Sovereign Grand Inspectors-General of the Thirty-third Degree convened in the Council Chamber at Freemason's Hall in the City of Boston, Mass.; Josiah H. Drummond was introduced and after taking the Oath of Fealty was declared Most Puissant Sovereign Grand Commander of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States of America, to which office he had previously been unanimously elected by each of the two Supreme Councils theretofore claiming jurisdiction.