Scottish Rite Masonry Illustrated - The Masonic Trowel

232 “n~ RATHER DARKNESs VISIBLE.”
in the faces of Mormons, conjurers, spirit-worshipers,
and sleight-of-hand men. As the little child’s face
draws and reflects the light of the countenance of a
godly mother; every Mason, who believingly, worships
Satan, transformed into an angel of light, reflects the
light that devils see by!
•‘Yet from those flame,, no light
“But rather darkness vialble.
Such is Masonry, and such are Masons. May the
God of light save us from “fellowship with devils.”
(1. Cor. 10, 20.)
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CHAPTER LIII
TWENTY-NINTH DEGREE; KNIGHT or ST. ANDREW,”’
OR PATRIARCH 01 THE CRUSADES.
ZENITH.
It is the twenty-ninth grade of the Ancient and Ac-
cepted Rite, and the eleventh con ferred in a Grand
Consistory.
INTRODUCTION —This is supposed to be the first grade
Note 337.—’ Grand Scottish Knight of St. Andrew. The 29th degree
of the Ancient and Accepted rite. It is also called ‘Patriarch of the
crusades.’ in allusion to Its suppoaed orIgin—during those wars, and it is
also suanetimes known by the name of ‘Grand Master of Light.’ This
degree is devoted to toleration and freedom of man in the great moral
attributes. It inculcates equality—representing the poor Knight equsl
to the monarch, and exhibits the requisites of Knighthood; protection
to the defenseless and innocent: the posseasica of virtue. pstience, and
firmness—and lepresents the Knight as the exponent of truth, and one
alike without fear and wilbout reproach. The asaemhly is called a
chapter. Two apsrtments are required. In the first apartment the hangings
are crimson, supported hy white columns. DurIng the reception this
room represents the court of Sniadin. the great Sultan of Egypt and
Syria. The second apartment should be a well-furnished room, decorated
in the eastern style. The presiding officer is styled venerable
Grand Master. The Knights are all dressed in crimson robes, with a
large white cross of St. Andrew on the breast. The Jewcl is two interlaced
triangles, formed by arcs of large cIrcles, with the conca,e outward,
of gold, and enclosing a pair of compasses optn to twenty-five
degrees. At the bottom, and to one of the points ii suspended a St.
Andrew’s Gross, of gold, surmounted by a Knight’s hemlet; on the
centre of the croas Is the letter ‘I. Inclosed in a,, equilateral triangle,
and this again in a ring formed by a winged serpent; between the two
lower arma of the cross may he anapended a key. “—Macor’s Esoyclo.
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