Scottish Rite Masonry Illustrated - The Masonic Trowel

374 THE ~iT5 OF THE LODGE ARE MOVABLE.
National Christian Association never would have ~,xisted.
This very degree, as indeed do all the others~
pretends to honor Christ, by quoting His words, and
lauding Him as a human law-giver, (see page 88k) and
yet fills its pages with the teachings of Brahma, Osiris.
Apollo, and Bel, (see Page 346, and the degrees generally)
as equally authoritative with Christ’s. It lauds
Moses, on the same page with Christ, (332) and, in
a degree or two back, assails Moses’ teachings with
a savage bitterness equal to that of the coarsest infidel
the United States ever produced. The Bible says of
the harlot: “Her ways are movable, that thou canst
not know them.” (Prov. 5, 6.) And false religion is
the “Great whore that sitteth on many waters.” And
Masonry, or the secret lodge system, is the “image” of
that beast. And the ways of the lodge are “movable,”
like those of the “mother of harlots !“ This is what calls
on every child of God, on every patriot, every philanthropist,
who does not wish to see the religion of Egypt
transferred from the Nile to the Mississippi, to rise,
and call on God for deliverance from this “Ancient and
Accepted Rite;” which, in this thirty-first degree, and in
all its degrees, puts~ the mysteries of Osiris on a level
with the revelations of Jesus Christ!!
CHAPTER LIX
THIRTX-SECOND DEGREE, OR SUBLIME PRINcE 0, THE
ROYAL SECRET.’
DECORATIONS —Bodies of ihis degree axe styled Consistories.
The lodge is held in a high place, the second
story of a building at least. The hangings are black,
strewed with tears of silver, skeletons, etc., death’s heads
and cross bones.
In the East is a throne, to which you ascend by seven
Note I7O.—fiuhimme rrznoe of the Royal fleeret. The 32nd degree of
the Ancient and Accepted rite, nod for many years. or until the lnatltu.
tiun of tbe 33d degree, this was the highest degree, or no pius ultra of
Masonry. The hody is styled a Conaistory. and shonid be held In a
buildIng of two storIes. The omcers are, a Thrice lilusirlous Commander.
lint and Second Ueutenants, a Minister of State a Grand Chancellor. a
Grand Treasurer, a Grand Secretary, and a Grand Captain of tha Guard.
in the East a throne, elevated on secen steps. Which Is the seat of the
Thrice liluatrious Commander, who wears a robe of royal purple, and
he and the IJenteasanta. wear swords The collar of this d ree a hiack.
lined with scarlet, and in the center, at the point, a donbie-neaded eagle.
of allver or gold, on a red Teutonic cross a ron Ia of white satIn.
wIth a border of gold lace one Inch wide, lined with scarlet; on the
flap Ia a double.headed eagie. on each aide of which is the flag of the
country in which the hody ii located, the flag of Proasia and the Deause.
ant of the Kadoab degree; on the apron Is the camp of the Crusaders.
which Is thua explained; it is composed of an enneagon. within which is
InscrIbed a heptagon, wIthin that a pentagon, and in the center an
equilateral triangle, wIthIn which Is a circle. Between the heptagon and
pentagon are placed fiwe standards, in the designs of whicj are five let.
term, which form a particular word. The first standard is purple, on
which is emblamned the ark of the cosenant. wIth a palm tree on each
aide; the ark has the motto Laus Dec. The second is bloc, on which is a
lion, of gold. couchant. holding in his mouth a golden key, with a coliat
of the same metal on his neck, and on it Is the devIce, Ad majoram Del
gles’Iaan. The third 15 white, and dis lays a heart in flemee, with two
wings; it is surmounted by a crown ~/‘laurels. The fourth is green. and
bears a double-headed black eagle, crowned, holding a sword in his right
claw, and a bleeding heart in his left. The fifth bears a black ox, on a
field of gold. On the aides of the enneagon are nine tents, with flags
representing the dIvisions of the Masonic army; on the angles are nine
pinlons, of the same color as the flag of the tent that precedes It. The
hail of the Consiatory is hung with black, strewed with tears of sliver.
The Jewel is a double-headed white and bigck eagle, resting on a Teu.
tonic cross, of gold, worn attached to the collar or ribbon. The members
are called sublime Princes of the Royal Secret. The moral of the
degree teaches oppoeltion to bigotry. superstititlon, and all the nasslons
and vicee which dlerrace human nature. —Xaoc~a Emyolordla sad
Diotionary of Preamasonry, Article Sublima Prizes ef the oya Eseret.