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

254 ODJECT IN FALSIFYING HISTORY.Art,” given Masonry by Charles, was adopted and usedin that French system, sent here by Mann; and thatour American . Masonry u that system. And thisattempt to obliterate the meaning of the title, “RoyalArt,” in this degree, to make the lodge popular in ourRepublic, by denying its history and well known sourceis a part of its one grand system of fraud and falsification.Mackey’s home was Charleston, S. C., the seat of thePike Suprema Council, whose rite was brought there byMorin from a “Council of Emperors” in Paris. Andthe attempt to obliteratethe Romish and “Royal” Originof the Scottish Rite can only succeed by abolishing history.As well attempt to prove that its Supreme Coinmandcr,Pike, did not fight against the United Statesflag at Pea Ridge; and that “Empire” was not the objectof the secession rebellion.UCHAPTER XXImTHIRTEENTH OR ROYAL ARCH”’ DEGREE.ARIES OR TIlE RAM.This is an important arid interesting grade ~n theineffable series for this reason; the more a Freemasonprogresses in the study and practice of his Sublime Artthe more he feels a desire to penetrate Ihe secrets ofnature and to approach us Divine Author. Mattersthat have only been obscurely hinted at and darklyshadowed forth in the preceding grades, in this, rapidlyculminate towards the development of the grand mysteryof masonry, fully explained in the Sublime Degreeof Perfection.The dark clouds and mists that have hitherto veiledthe sacred mysteries now begin to be dispelled; theglorious dawn illumines the East with its bright effulgenceand its rays penetrate into dark and hidden places.Vote IU.—”floyal Aich Masonry. That dl,Ision of specnlati,e Vasonrywhicb Is engaged in the investigation of the mysteries connected with theRoyal Arch, no matter undcr what name or in what Rite. Thus themysteries of the Knight at the Ninth Arch constitute the Royal Archuasonry of the Ancient and Accepted Scottiah Rite Just as much as thoseof the Royal Arch of Zeruhhebei do the Royal Arch of the York endAmerican Rites.’ —Mackeys Encyclopaedia of Freemaaonry, Article Royalh,ch Masonry.