Blanchard J (anti-masonic) - Scotch Rite Masonry Illustrated Part I

OPENING CEREMONIESSUBLIME KNIGHTS ELECTED.Thrice P,Liasant—Brother Inspector, what is yourduty to this Chapter?Inspector—To see that we are all secure.Thrice Puissant—Are you a Sublime K.night Elected?Inspector—Thrice Puissant, my name will convinooyou.Thrice Puissant—What time is the Chapter open?Inspector-.—TWelve o’clock at midnight, the hour otthe reconciliation of reason and feeling.Thrice Puissant—(Knocks seven, 0000000.) I declarethis Chapter of Sublime Knight. Elected open. (Onerap; all are seated.)CHAPTER XVIIIELEVENTH DEGREE OR SUBLIME KNIGHTS ELECTED.’INITIATION.Abater of Cereiiiotties—(Knocks seven at the door.)Iiispector—Thrice Puissant, there is an alarm at thedoor.Thrice Puissant—Brother Expert see who knocks atthe door of our Chapter.Expert—(Goes to the door, knocks seven and opensit.) Who knocks at the door of our Chapter?Master of C~eremonies—Brother Joabcrt, a MasterElect of Fifteen, who has passed through all the precedingdegrees, and beseeches you to confer on him the degreeof Sublime Knight Elected.Expert—Thrice Puissant, it is Brother Joabert, aMaster Elect of Fifteen, who has passed through all thepreceding degrees, and beseeches you to confer on hii~the degree df Sublime Knight Elected.Thrice Puissant—Has his conduct been without reproachand are the Illustrious Knights satisfied with it?Expert—(To Master of Ceremonies.) Has his con-Nate •S.—”Suhlime Knight heated. (Sublime Cb.vtlier sin.). Calledalso Sublin,e Knight Elected of the Twelve. The eleventh degree of theAncient and Accepted 5cotttsh Rite lie legend is that it was instituted byKing Solomon after punishment had been inflicted on certain traitors atthe Temple. both as a recompense for the zeal and constancy of the litus.trious Elect Fifteen, who bad discovered them, and also to enabie himto elevate other deserving brethren from the loser degrees to that whichhad been vacated by their promotion Twelve of these fifteen he electedSublime Knights and made the selection by hailot that be might givenone offense, putting the names of the whole In an urn. The first twelvethat were drawn he formed into a Chapter. and gave them command overthe twelve tribes, bestowing on them a name which In Hebrew signifiesa true man. —Maeheya Enayelapaedia of Freemasonry, Artlale SublimeKnight Elected.