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is the Rite of the Jesuit Chapter of Clermont, the Rite of Perfection or Rite
of Heredom, which is now the 18º of the Scottish Rite.
Chevalier de Bonneville of the Jesuit College of Clermont in
Paris established Rite of Heredom. 1266 To this day, Scottish Rite
Freemasons know their eighteenth degree ceremony as the Jesuit degree
or High Church degree. The Abbé Barruel claimed that this degree was
the Easter Ceremonial of the Knights Templar. 1267
The Chapter of Clermont claimed to be the sole true descendant
of the Knights Templar, fusing together the themes of chivalry, King
Solomon’s Temple and alchemy. It taught that the Knights Templar
recovered dishes marked for alchemical purposes of the Royal Art from a
hollow corner stone in the Temple of Jerusalem. 1268 The dishes were for
the preparation of an alchemical Eucharist, which we looked at in Chapter
1. They hint at the real discoveries in Jerusalem, which we shall learn
more of in Chapter 20. Because of the discoveries in the Temple, Scottish
Freemasonry has stronger links with alchemy than does Craft
Freemasonry. The Scottish Rite focus on the Greater Mysteries reinforces
it further.
Frederick II (1712-86) established the thirty-third degree of the
Scottish Rite in May 1786, shortly before his death. 1269
He formed this new degree to cap the existing system of twentyfive
degrees. 1270 The number thirty-three has many esoteric associations.
Chapter 7 showed thirty-three is a cabbalistic symbol of the sacred names
of BAL and AUM. It is also the thirty-three year life of Jesus. Thrice
three alludes to the Ennead of the Goddess, the Ennead of God and thrice
through the Valley of Death, the third being physiological death.
Frederick II, the second King of Prussia, ruled from 1740 to 1786.
Old Fritz, the enlightened despot, was a highly successful military leader.
He proved an able administrator, lawgiver, companion philosopher to
Voltaire and d’Alembert, prolific writer, musician and patron of French
Rococo artists such as Watteau, Pater and Lancret. 1271 Frederick was also
an ardent political admirer of George Washington. While usually frugal,
Frederick was an avid collector of three hundred extravagantly jeweled
snuffboxes. 1272
He built the famous Masonic Rococo palace of Sans Souci at
Potsdam in 1745. Sans Souci means without care. It gained considerable
attention when Joseph Stalin, Harry Truman and Winston Churchill
gathered at Potsdam in 1945 to decide the future of Germany. Believing
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