Scottish Rite Masonry Illustrated - The Masonic Trowel

426 SUBLIME PRD’ICE OF THE ROYAL SECRET.
HOURS OF LABOR :—The hour for the marching of the
army is the fifth after the setting of the Sun.
MARCH :—The march is five steps, starting alternately
with the right and left foot, and bringing the feet together
at each step.
~vATCH-wORD~ :~—Thcre are seven watch worlds, one
for each day in the week, and seven other words are
given in answer to each watch-word, and are as follows:
Monday, watch-word, Darius, answer, Daniel.
Tuesday, watch-word, Xerxes, answer, Habakkuk.
Wednesday, watch-word, Alexander, ans. Zephaniab.
Thursday, watch-word, Phi ladel phus, answer, Haggai.
Friday, watch-word, Herod, answer Zachariah.
Saturday, watch-word, Hezekiah, answer, Malachi.
Sunday, watch-word, Cyrus, answer Ezekiel.
(The manner In which the watch-words are to be
given and the answers received, has already been stated
at the opening. During the explanations given by the
Illustrious Commander in Chief, the Grand Master of
Ceremonies causes the candidate to execute the movements.)
Commander in Chief—Be seated my brother, while
we endeavor to explain to you the esoteric meaning of
the camp, or tracing-bo~rd of this degree. However,
before we proceed fo give you those explanations, we
deem it necessary to call your attention to the two most
prominent systems in the Ancient and Accepted Rite.
The first was promulgated in 1762, by nine commissioners
appointed by the Council of Emperors of the East
and West, and by the Council of the Princes of the
Royal Secret. The first named body was created at
Paris in 1758, the latter instituted in 1759, at Bordeaux,
by said Council of Emperors.
Not. 888.— watuhwueda. Used in the thirty-second degree f the
Ancient and Accepted 5eottLah Rite because that degree has a mititary
form but not found in other de reca of MasOnry. —M~ckoya ~qs1oaadiA
at lre.mn.oury. Astiole #atohworda.
INITIATION. 427
-lip to 1762 the great number of Scottish degrees had
created much confusion, hence the necessity of settling
the regulations of the “Masonry of Perfection.” Such
was then the name borne by our Rite, and of classifying
the degrees of the system adopted by the Council of
Emperors of the East and West. Those regulations,
consisting of thirty-five articles, and the list of degrees,
twenty-five in number; the last of which was the
Sublime Commander of the Royal Secret, were promulgated
on the 21st of September, 1762.
The camp before you was evidently made for that
system. Adapted to our present one, it is arbitrary. Now
in 1786, Frederick Second, King of Prussia, who ac
cording to many was at the head of the order in Europe,
framed, or rather approved it is said, a new constitution
of our rite in eighteen articles, changing the
name of Rite of Perfection into that of Ancient and
Accepted Scottish Rite, and adding eight new degrees
to the old system thus extending the number of degrees
to thirty-three, the last of which is Sovereign Grand
Inspector General. My brother, we here give you a
full list of the degrees of each system:
In 1762. In 1786.
1. Entered Apprentice. Entered Apprentice.
2. Fellow Craft. Fellow Craft.
3. Master Mason. Master Mason.
4. Secret Master. Secret Master.
5. Perfect Master. Perfect Master.
6. Intimate Secretary. Intimate Secretary.
7. Intendant of the Building. Provost and Judge.
8. Provost and Judge. Intendants of the Building.
9. Elected Knight of Nine. Elected Knight of Nine.
10. Elected Knight of Fifteen.Elected Knight of Pifteen.
11. Chief of the Twelve Tribes.Sublime Knight Elected.
12. Grand Master Architect. Grand Master Architect.
13. Royal Arch. ~iyil Arch.