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HISTORY.
The Royal and Select Masters' Degrees were side 01
detached degrees of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish
Rite. In the Southern States of the Union, the Supreme
Council initiated, chartered, and fostered Councils of
Royal and Select Masters ; and as rapidly as they were
eelf-sustaining, they became independent.
In this wise the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite has
gradually thrown aside the detached degrees, and rarely
confers any, except the grades designated in the regular
series. The Rite is in amity with Symbolic Grand
Lodges, Grand Chapters, Councils of Royal and Select
Masters, and Grand Commanderies,—recognizing no
other bodies claiming to be Masonic.
Supreme Councils are the governing power over
all Masonry in many nations. A Synoptical History
of all the Supreme Councils that have ever existed,
wth the mode of formation in chronological order,
by the Author of this volume, is published in the
Proceedings, Supreme Council, Northern Jurisdic-
tion, for 1881, pp. 123-150.
A Congress of the Representatives of eighteen Supreme
Councils held at Lausanne, Switzerland, 22
September, 1875, recognized and proclaimed the Constitutions
and Statutes of May 1st, 1786, by whom-
soever written and promulgated, and promised to
maintain and defend with all their power, to preserve
and cause to be observed and respected, the territorial
jurisdiction of the 22 Supreme Councils named
in their schedule, among which were those of the
Northern and the Southern Jurisdiction of the U. S.
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