Scottish Rite Masonry Illustrated - The Masonic Trowel

372 REPUBLICAN APPOINTMENT OF A MASONIC REBEL.
into this degree, they must have been flph)oiiited by the
Jew Inspector Morin, who was appointed by the “CoLlncil
of Emperors,” at Paris, in 17G1, to inspect lodges in
the New World, confer their degrees, aiid report to
them. Morin set up for himself, and his cmzployers
denounced him as an “audacious juggler;” recalled his
patent, and appointed a weak Brother Martin in his
place. Little cared Mori’n for that. lie appointed sixteen
other Inspectors, thirteen of whom were Jews.
These created a degree of Inspectors, which is this 31st
degree! And when Morin had made money enough by
the sale of Masonic degrees and dignities, he disappeared
from history, and Masonic writers say they know
not where he lived, or when he died! But his work
lived after him. his “Inspectors,” in 1801, becariie
the present Supreme Council, Southern Jurisdiction,
Charleston, S. C.; added eight degrees to the twentyfive
commItted by “the Emperors” to Mann; altered,
stretched, and modified the twenty-five, and made “The
Ancient, Accepted Scottish Rite” of thirty-three degrees,
which now rules the Masonic world ; of which
Albert Pike, of Washington is now (1887) Sovereign
Grand Inspector General, with a salary of $1,000 a
month, “ad vitam.;” (for life) with access to ~dasons
of both parties in Congress, who gave his son a clerkship
under Hayes’ (Republican) administration; with
a salary of $2,000 a year. Gen. Pike was a rebel secessionist.
If these facts, taken wholly from the highest Masonic
authorities, are true, the “Ancient, Accepted Scottish
Rite” is as liable to indictment for swindling, getting
money under false pretenses, and gambling practices, as
mock auctions, lotteries, Faro Banks, and rrhree Monte
men. And if the Masonic charters granted by Congress
CLAIMS TO RULE JUDICIALLY THE MASONIC ORDER. 878
and the State Legislatures, can be withdrawn, the laws
will treat the lodges as they are now handling the institutions
of Mormonism. The two institutions axe
morally and legally the same.
The jewel of this thirty-first degree is a “Teutonic
cross;” the jewel of an order, or degree, which both
Mackey and Macoy say was unfit to be put into the
Ancient and Accepted Soottish Rite; and that it was
only admitted to fill up a gap. And the members who
are judges, wear no aprons, which are badges of labor.
They are above it. (Note 361.)
But these are trifles. Here in this thirty-first degree
we have a “Sovereign Tribunal,” or Supreme Court;
meeting in magnificent court-rooms, with court oflicers,
“Advocate,” and “Defender ;“ claiming to rule, judicially,
the Masonic order; and aspiring to rule all secret
orders; which draw more, far more money from the
people of the United States, than the Civil Government.
It administers its own oaths; issuing its own
decrees; and swearing its subjects to obey them, on pain.
of death; and that in the preceding degree, (Knight of
Kadosh) which claims to be softened and modified
from the seven old Kadoshes which breathed, says the
ritual: “Nothing but vengeance;” and our own Court,
and Legislative records show, not only “breathed
vengeance,” but executed it. And so powerful have
these secret lodges become, at times, and so dire their
secret “vengeance,” that every nation in Europe has, at
times, suppressed them in self-defense. And now,
England and Sweden, and Denmark live by sufferance
of the lodges; adopting the compliance which the devil
demanded of Christ, viz., practicing their secret worships
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This is sufficiently horrible. But if this were all, the