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Reprints of Rituals of Old Degrees

Reprints of Rituals of Old Degrees

Paperback

Secret Societies

Publisher Price: $35.00

ISBN10: 1637236883
ISBN13: 9781637236888
Publisher: Westphalia Press
Published: Mar 3 2025
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Originally printed by Albert Pike in 1879, this enlarged edition includes a variety of important early rituals. In 1789 the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania chartered a lodge in Port-au-Prince, which introduced Ancient York Masonry to Saint-Domingue. Although no French language copy of Pennsylvania's Craft ritual is known to exist, there are surviving manuscripts of their high degrees, the so-called Ancient Ma-sonic Rite of York. These are the ritu-als which Thomas Smith Webb received and modified (post-1796) and which formed the basis the York Rite practiced throughout the United States today. Translated from Huet de Lachelle's manuscript (dated 1795) it includes early forms of the 4 Past Master, the 5 Mark Mason, and the 7 Royal Arch Mason. Also included are the Mark Master Mason (1804), which Pike believed was the earliest known copy, as well as the rituals of the English Knights Templar (1851), the Grand Maitre Ecossais or Scottish Elder Master, and an Old Ceremony of Royal Arch Exaltation. Added to the work are important catechisms and rituals which shed light on the collection, while the introduction provides a context.

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