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Gelli was the head of the P2 Lodge - a shadowy Masonic organisation
whose members once included prominent politicians, businessmen
and military officers.
he Judge said the trial will start on October 6th and will involve the
convicted Cosa Nostra treasurer Pippo Calo, Roman crime boss
Ernesto Diotallevi, Sardinian financier Flavio Carboni and his ex—girl
friend Manuela Kleinzig.
The prosecutor’s inquiry has focused on millions of dollars that flowed
through the bank’s off shore accounts in the weeks preceding Calvi’s
death.
Shortly before Calvi’s hanging, the bank he headed at the time,
Banco Ambrosiano, had gone bankrupt. It was then Italy’s largest
banking group and worked with the Vatican.”
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SUBLIME
By ANON
“The sublime degree of a Master Mason” is a wonderful phrase. I
have found in some of my reading that bone of the things used in
reading old documents is to pick upon a phrase that was not used at
the time the document was purported to be written, or to dates it was
referring to. For instance, when I was doing some reading about the
life of Prince Hall, it was mentioned that some old re-written Minutes
from African Lodge No. 459 were unreliable because they contained
the phrase “Being Raised to the Sublime Degree of a Master Mason”
when that term was not used until 1817. Thus the researcher had
some doubts as to the date of the re-written Minutes.
According to Mackey, the first time the word “sublime” was used in
conjunction with the Third Degree was in a book called “Masonic Discourses”
published in 1801, although its use only became wide
spread 1817 and shortly thereafter, because of a book called the
“Freemasons’ Library”.
It was also about that time that Jeremy Cross used the phrase in his
book “ Hieroglyphic Chart” (1) and he also began to use the phrase “
Sublime Degree of a Master Mason” in his lectures.
It is therefore considered that prior to 1817, other words must have
been used to describe the Third Degree of the Blue Lodge.
In an edition of the Constitutions published in Dublin, Ireland, in
1769, The Master Mason Degree is spoken of as “The Most Respectable”.
Roberto Calvi
(1) The book “ Hieroglyphic Charts” was widely used in the USA as a text book by
many Masons and Lodges.