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578 BOOK OF THE A. AND A. KITE.
stars and ten swords, steel arch, swords clashing and gavela
beating.
The Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Council, or
his Special Delegate and Proxy, with eleven stars and eleven
swords, steel arch, swords clashing and gavels beating.
But no honors are to be rendered to any Mason whose dignity
or rank in the Ancient and Accepted Rite shall be inferior to that
in which the Presiding Officer is clothed ; or when the Commanderin-Chief
of the Consistory shall, in any inferior body, have been
already received and be present : except, in any case, when the
visitor is an active member of the Supreme Council, or its Deputy,
or a Sovereign, or Past Sovereign Grand Commander, or the
Special Delegate or Proxy of the Sovereign Grand Commander.
In the Consistoiy no honors are paid to any one not possessing
the thirty-third degree, except Commanders-in-Chief of other Con-
sistories, and Past Commanders-in-Chief of the Consistoiy itself.
These have six stars and six swords.
FORMS OF REFECTIONS,
COMMONLY TERMED FEASTS OR BANQUETS.
ARRANGEMENT.
The regalia of office should be worn, and the hall hung with
garland-,, banners, and emblems. The table should be in the
form of a .semicircle. If in that form, the Master sits in the middle
of the convex side ; the Senior Warden, at the extremity on
Lis right ; the Junior Warden, at the extremity on his left; the
Deputy Master, at the Master's right hand ; the Secretary, on the
right of the Senior Warden ; the Treasurer, on the left of the
Junior Warden ; the Hospitaller, on the right of the Deputy
Master ; the Orator, on the left of the Master ; the Master of
Ceremonies, in front of the Master; the Keeper of the Seals, on
the left of the Senior Warden ; the Captain of the Guard rn the
right of the Junior Warden.