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A Short Masonic History: With Some Account of the Higher Degrees, Volume 2
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by Frederick Armitage, Digital Text Publishing Co. (Editor)
Frederick Armitage
A Short Masonic History: With Some Account of the Higher Degrees, Volume 2
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by Frederick Armitage, Digital Text Publishing Co. (Editor)
Frederick Armitage
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A Short Masonic History: With Some Account of the Higher Degrees, Volume 2, written by Frederick Armitage, Solicitor Member of the Law Society, Member of Correspondence Circle of Quatuor Coronati Lodge, Member of St. Paul's Ecclesiological Society, &c. With illustrations. Published in London in 1911. A continuation from Volume 1 with much more information that was not included in the previous volume. (212 pages)
FOREWORD:
OWING to the favourable reception accorded by Freemasons, not only in England, but also in America and South Africa, to the Author's first volume of the "Short Masonic History," he has been encouraged to supplement it by the present work. This continues the account of the Craft, and attempts to show how the mystical ideas of the Freemasons swept onward in full flood, and proceeded to form many tributaries to the main river in the shape of other Masonic bodies, which became known as Higher degrees. It is not always easy to trace the rise and course of these streams, from the rapidity with which they were formed, and the manner in which they gave way to other societies, which absorbed their ideas, and added to them.
The author desires to thank his many Masonic friends who have aided him by advice and suggestion in this work, and in particular he desires to thank the proprietors of "The Freemason" and "The Connoisseur," and the British Museum authorities for permission to reproduce illustrations from their works.
FRED. ARMITAGE, P.M.,
CONTENTS:
Foreword — Chapter I. Introductory — Chapter II. The King's Mason's — Chapter III. The Alchemists — Chapter IV. The Craft in its Early Days — Chapter V. The Grand Lodge at York — Chapter VI. The Book of Constitutions — Chapter VII. The Ritual — Chapter VIII. The Legend in the Third Degree — Chapter IX. The Mark Degree — Chapter X. The Royal Ark Mariners — Chapter XI. The Royal Arch — Chapter XII. Templar Masonry — Chapter XIII. The Knights of Malta — Chapter XIV. The Early higher degrees — Chapter XV. The Royal Order of Scotland — Chapter XVI. The Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite — Chapter XVII. Some other Higher Masonic Degrees — Chapter XVIII. Cagliostro and His Egyptian Order — Chapter XIX. Lady Masons — List of Authors Quoted
The Publisher has copy-edited this book to improve the formatting, style and accuracy of the text to make it readable. This did not involve changing the substance of the text. Some books, due to age and other factors may contain imperfections. Since there are many books such as this one that are important and beneficial to literary interests, we have made it digitally available and have brought it back into print for the preservation of printed works of the past.
EXCERPTS:
...The first of the higher orders to which we must allude was called "The Council of Clermont," which was a Christian order, savoring more of the Church than of the Craft, and was patronized by the Jesuits, who in those days had no scruples in recognizing Masonry. It was founded in 1735 by the Chevalier de Bonneville with six degrees; three of Craft Masonry and three of the Knight Templars. It was probably named after the Comte de Clermont, a member of the French royal family, who in after years was Grand Master in France.
...Another order was the "White and Black Eagle," founded in 1756, which contained seven degrees, supposed to be seven steps up a mysterious ladder; while from the ashes of the council of Clermont emerged the "Emperors of the East and West," which originated in 1758. The ritual, consisting of 25 degrees, dealt with the doctrine of the mystical numbers, and culminated in the "Mysteries of the Mysterious Rose," the lineal ancestor of the i8th degree of Rose Croix. As a rival to the Emperors of the East and West, another order, called "Knights of the East," was instituted by Pirlat, a tailor, at Paris in 1762, which combined within it the doctrines of Egyptians, Hebrews and Christians. The author of the ritual was Baron Tschoudy, a mystic and student of alchemy, who in 1766 formed another order called the "Flaming Star," referring to the Templars at the time of the Crusades.
...In 1760 was established at Avignon, which is near Marseilles, by one Pernetti, a fresh order called the "Illuminati of Avignon," founded on the doctrines of Emanuel Swedenborg, himself a Mason; and in 1766 the idea was carried a step further by Chastanien, the master of a Paris Lodge, who created a society called "Socrates, or the Perfect Union." This was afterwards established also in London; and finally, in 1783, a new and more orthodox rite was instituted in Paris by the Marquis de Thome, under the title of the "Rite of Swedenborg." Pernetti afterwards, in 1760, founded, in the same town of Avignon, the "Hermetic Rite,"....
FOREWORD:
OWING to the favourable reception accorded by Freemasons, not only in England, but also in America and South Africa, to the Author's first volume of the "Short Masonic History," he has been encouraged to supplement it by the present work. This continues the account of the Craft, and attempts to show how the mystical ideas of the Freemasons swept onward in full flood, and proceeded to form many tributaries to the main river in the shape of other Masonic bodies, which became known as Higher degrees. It is not always easy to trace the rise and course of these streams, from the rapidity with which they were formed, and the manner in which they gave way to other societies, which absorbed their ideas, and added to them.
The author desires to thank his many Masonic friends who have aided him by advice and suggestion in this work, and in particular he desires to thank the proprietors of "The Freemason" and "The Connoisseur," and the British Museum authorities for permission to reproduce illustrations from their works.
FRED. ARMITAGE, P.M.,
CONTENTS:
Foreword — Chapter I. Introductory — Chapter II. The King's Mason's — Chapter III. The Alchemists — Chapter IV. The Craft in its Early Days — Chapter V. The Grand Lodge at York — Chapter VI. The Book of Constitutions — Chapter VII. The Ritual — Chapter VIII. The Legend in the Third Degree — Chapter IX. The Mark Degree — Chapter X. The Royal Ark Mariners — Chapter XI. The Royal Arch — Chapter XII. Templar Masonry — Chapter XIII. The Knights of Malta — Chapter XIV. The Early higher degrees — Chapter XV. The Royal Order of Scotland — Chapter XVI. The Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite — Chapter XVII. Some other Higher Masonic Degrees — Chapter XVIII. Cagliostro and His Egyptian Order — Chapter XIX. Lady Masons — List of Authors Quoted
The Publisher has copy-edited this book to improve the formatting, style and accuracy of the text to make it readable. This did not involve changing the substance of the text. Some books, due to age and other factors may contain imperfections. Since there are many books such as this one that are important and beneficial to literary interests, we have made it digitally available and have brought it back into print for the preservation of printed works of the past.
EXCERPTS:
...The first of the higher orders to which we must allude was called "The Council of Clermont," which was a Christian order, savoring more of the Church than of the Craft, and was patronized by the Jesuits, who in those days had no scruples in recognizing Masonry. It was founded in 1735 by the Chevalier de Bonneville with six degrees; three of Craft Masonry and three of the Knight Templars. It was probably named after the Comte de Clermont, a member of the French royal family, who in after years was Grand Master in France.
...Another order was the "White and Black Eagle," founded in 1756, which contained seven degrees, supposed to be seven steps up a mysterious ladder; while from the ashes of the council of Clermont emerged the "Emperors of the East and West," which originated in 1758. The ritual, consisting of 25 degrees, dealt with the doctrine of the mystical numbers, and culminated in the "Mysteries of the Mysterious Rose," the lineal ancestor of the i8th degree of Rose Croix. As a rival to the Emperors of the East and West, another order, called "Knights of the East," was instituted by Pirlat, a tailor, at Paris in 1762, which combined within it the doctrines of Egyptians, Hebrews and Christians. The author of the ritual was Baron Tschoudy, a mystic and student of alchemy, who in 1766 formed another order called the "Flaming Star," referring to the Templars at the time of the Crusades.
...In 1760 was established at Avignon, which is near Marseilles, by one Pernetti, a fresh order called the "Illuminati of Avignon," founded on the doctrines of Emanuel Swedenborg, himself a Mason; and in 1766 the idea was carried a step further by Chastanien, the master of a Paris Lodge, who created a society called "Socrates, or the Perfect Union." This was afterwards established also in London; and finally, in 1783, a new and more orthodox rite was instituted in Paris by the Marquis de Thome, under the title of the "Rite of Swedenborg." Pernetti afterwards, in 1760, founded, in the same town of Avignon, the "Hermetic Rite,"....
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940016434803 |
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| Publisher: | Digital Text Publishing Company |
| Publication date: | 04/23/2013 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 212 |
| File size: | 790 KB |
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