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trine heretofore referred to, was afterward
developed into the Kadosh, which we find in
1758 incorporated as the Grand Elect Kadosh
into the system of the Council of Emperors
of the East and West, which was that year
formed at Paris, whence it descended to the
Scottish Rite Masons .
Of all the Kadoshes, two only are now important,
viz . : the Philosophic Kadosh, which
has been adopted by the Grand Orient of
France, and the Knight Kadosh, which constitutes
the Thirtieth Degree of the Ancient
and Accepted Scottish Rite, this latter being
the most generally diffused of the Kadoshes .
Kadosh, called also the Holy Man . (Kadosch
ou l'HommeSaint.) The Tenth and last
degree of the Rite of Martinism .
Kadosh, Grand, Elect Knight . The
Sixty-fifth Degree of the Rite of Mizraim .
Kadosh, Knight . The Thirtieth Degree
of the Scottish Rite . (See Knight Kadosh .)
Kadosh of the Jesuits . According to
Thory (Act . Lat ., i ., 320), this degree is said to
have been invented by the Jesuits of the College
of Clermont. The statement is not well
supported . De Bonneville's Masonic Chapter
of Clermont was probably, either with or
without design, confounded with the Jesuitical
College of Clermont . (See Jesuits .)
Kadosh, Philosophic. A modification of
the original Kadosh, for which it has been substituted
and adopted by the Grand Orient of
France . The military character of the Order
is abandoned, and the Philosophic Kadosh
wear no swords . Their only weapon is the
WORD .
Kadosh, Prince . A degree of the collection
of Pyron .
Kadosh Prince of Death . The Twentyseventh
Degree of the Rite of Mizraim .
Kamea. Hebrew, P"nP, an amulet . More
particularly applied by the Kabbalists to
magic squares inscribed on paper or parchment,
and tied around the neck as a safeguard
against evil . (See Magic Squares .)
Kansas . In the year 1855 there were three
Lodges in Kansas, holding warrants from the
Grand Lodge of Missouri . On November 14,
1855, two of these Lodges met in convention
at Leavenworth . In consequence of the absence
of the third Lodge, the convention adjourned
until December 27 1855, on which
day the two Lodges of SmitLton and Leavc ;nworth
met, and, Wyandot Lodge being again
absent, the delegates of these two Lodges organized
the Grand Lodge of Kansas, and
elected Richard R . Rees Grand Master .
But these proceedings were considered illegal,
in consequence of the convention having
been formed by two instead of three Lodges ;
and, accordingly, another convention of the
three chartered Lodges in the Territory was
held March 17, 1856, and the proceedings of
the previous convention ratified by a reenactment,
the same Grand Master being reelected
. There are 389 Lodges under the
Grand Lodge of Kansas .
The Grand Royal Arch Chapter was established
January 27, 1866 .
The Grand Council of Royal and Select
Masters was organized December 12, 1867 .
The Grand Commandery was organized
December 29, 1868 .
Karmatians. A Mohammedan sect that
became notorious from its removal of the celebrated
black stone of the Kaaba, and, after
retaining it for twenty-two years, voluntarily
surrendered it . Founded by Karmata at
Irak in the ninth century .
Kasideans . A Latinized spelling of Chasidim,
which see.
Katharsis . Greek, rca8aposs . The ceremony
of purification in theAncient Mysteries .
Miiller says (Dorians i, 384) that "one of the
important parts of the* Pythagorean worship
was the pcsan, which was sung to the lyre in
spring-time by a person sitting in the midst of
a circle of listeners : this was called the katharsis
or purification ."
Keeper of the Seals. An officer called
Garde des Sceaux in Lodges of the French Rite .
It is also the title of an officer in Consistories
of the Scottish Rite . The title sufficiently indicates
the functions of the office .
Kellermann, Marshal . Duke de Valmy,
born 1770, died 1835 . Member of the Supreme
Council and Grand Officer of Honor of
G . 0 . of France ; elected 1814 . Served in the
battles of Marengo, Austerlitz, and Waterloo .
Kelly, Christopher . A Masonic plagiarist,
who stole bodily the whole of the typical
part of the celebrated work of Samuel
Lee entitled Orbis Miraculum, or The Temple
of Solomon pourtrayed by Scripture Light, and
published it as his own under the title of Solomon's
Temple spiritualized ; setting forth the
Divine Mysteries of the Temple, with an account
of its Destruction . He prefaced the book
with An Address to all Free and Accepted Masons
. The first edition was published at
Dublin in 1803, and on his removal to America
he published a second in 1820, at Philadelphia
. Kelly was, unfortunately, a Freemason,
but not an honest one .
Kenning's Masonic Cyelopaedia . Edited
by Rev. A . F . A . Woodford, in London, contemporaneously
with the Encydopwdia of
Dr . A . G . Mackey, in America, but published
by the well-known Bro . George Kenning,
198 Fleet Street, London, to whom the work
is dedicated in affectionate terms . Kenning's
Cyclopa:dia is rendered unusually invaluable
in consequence of the fulness of its bibliography.
Moss's well-known Bibliographie
der Freimaurer does not become so great a necessity,
having Kenning; yet other subjects
have not been permitted to suffer in consequence
of the numerous short biographic
sketches . The work is an admirably arranged
octavo of nearly seven hundred pages .
Kentucky. Organized Freemasonry was
introduced by the Grand Lodge of Virginia,
which, in the year 1788, granted a charter for
Lexington Lodge, No . 25, at Lexington . This
was the first Lodge instituted west of the Alleghany
Mountains .
Three other Lodges were subsequently chartered
by Virginia, namely, at Paris, George-