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76 The Degree Rituals The most recent revision of the 28° ritual, that of 2006, eliminated the ceremonial section in accordance with the policy adopted by the Supreme Council in 1995 and made a few, minor wording and stylistic changes in the prologue and the allegory. None of these changes altered the content of the 1984 ritual.
The Degree Rituals Toleration — The Twenty-ninth Degree The 29° was not part of the Rite of Perfection. Therefore, it was not mentioned in the Francken Manuscript. It appeared for the first time in surviving records in Killian Van Rensselaer’s 1845 manuscript. The ritual was given only in outline form, describing the decorations, signs, and words of the degree, without suggestion as to the content of the ritual. As was the case with many other degrees of the Scottish Rite, it remained for Albert Pike to produce a complete ritual for the 29° based on a purported chivalric order of the Crusades called “Grand Scottish Knight of St. Andrew.” The practice of charity was the primary lesson of the degree. However, it does not appear that the Pike ritual was ever adopted for use in this jurisdiction. The 29° ritual in use at the Union of 1867 was the Hays-Raymond ritual of 1864. Although it obviously was influenced by Pike, borrowing the obligation and other elements from his ritual, the central feature of the degree, now styled “Knight of St. Andrew,” was an innovative dramatic allegory. Captive Knights of St. Andrew granted the request of their captor, the Turkish Sultan, to be made a member of their Order after having been persuaded that the essential tenets of the Koran were compatible with their own Christian beliefs. Thus, the dramatic theme of the degree and its lesson of toleration have remained intact from the 1860’s to the present day. The ritual of 1896 extravagantly expanded the allegory with lengthy speeches and even added a climactic battle scene between the Knights and the Turks. 10 These embellishments were not of long duration, however, and were gradually eliminated from subsequent revisions of the ritual. The rituals of 1907 and 1915 abridged the longer speeches and deleted the battle scene as inconsistent with the lesson of the degree. Further abridgments were made in the ritual of 1933. The changes apparently did not go far enough for the critics. For one, a chairman of the Committee on Rituals, McIlyar Lichliter, complained that the lecture on toleration, which had been a part of the 1864 ritual, was too long and anticlimactic. Finally, after 45 years, the committee again addressed 10 The battle scene also was a feature of the 32° ritual at this period. 77
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