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ROSfCRUClANS AND FREEMASONS. 407
the Ceremonies, and the brethren are " Most Respectful
Knights." The annual festival of the order is celebrated
on Shrove Tuesday. The jewel is " a golden compass, ex-
tended on an arc to the sixteenth part of a circle, or twenty-
two and a-half degrees," according to Mackey. Carlile
describes it as a triangle formed by a compass and a quarter
of a "
circle. Between the legs of the compass is a cross
resting on the arc of the circle ; its centre is occupied by a
full-blown rose, whose stem twines around the lower limb
of the cross ;
at the foot of this cross, on the same side on
which the rose is exhibited, is the figure of a pelican wound-
ing its breast to feed its young,
which are in a nest sur-
rounding it ; while on the other side of the jewel
figure of an eagle, with wings displayed.
circle the P /. W
of the Order." 1 A
/.
is the
On the arc of the
of the degree is engraved in the cipher
triple crown surmounts the head of the
Order. This symbolism is undoubtedly borrowed from the
Rosicrucians,
supposed
which is the whole extent of the connection
to subsist between the two Orders. The Rose-
Cross degree in Freemasonry is admitted to be " a modern
invention." The ritual of the receptions in the three points
of this degree will be found in Carlile's " Ritual of Free-
masonry," and in the first volume of Heckethorn's " Secret
Societies of all Ages and Countries."
1
Mackey 's "Lexicon of Freemasonry," p. 2C9.