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

CLOSINGCEREMONIESKNIGHTS OF THE EAST OR SWORD.Thrice Excellent—(Strikes 5 and 2 with the pommelof his sword,) Princes and Knights, this council isdosed.Thrice Excellent—(Together all clap 5 and 2.) Glorybe to God, Honor to our Sovereign and prosperity tothe Knights of the order. AU retire.YIPTBBNTSLHISTORICAL ANALYSISDiouu, KNIGHTS OP THE EAST OR SWORDA Jewish D~gree—”3eUeve a Us That Tbe7 All Might be Daed.”This is a Jewish degree. There is no hint as to whoinvented it. But “The Kni~iht of the Sword” was the15th in the “Rite of Perfection,” which the Jew, Mann,brought from France. This rite had 25 degrees. ButMacag says (Encyc. Art Rite of Perfection,) StephenMann and others introduced some modifications andadditions into the rite and transplanted it into theUnited States, under the name of “The Ancient and AcceptedRite.” But who are Stephen Morin and others?Robert Folger, 33, and “Ex-Secretary General,” saysthat thirteen out of sixteen of them were Jews; ofcourse, ex-Jews, for some of the degrees complimentChrist, which sincere Jews will not do. They were thereforeJews who retained nothing of Judaism but itshatred of Christ—(Foiqer’s History, p. 88.) Hencethis fiimsey degree bespatters the Jews with praise.7,000 of them cut to pieces and drowned an armed forcein the Euphrates, “to a man,” as Jack Falstaff deniolishedhis enemies, in fiction, (see Note 187), and theRitual (p. 399), makes King Cyrus say, as the candidate’schains are being taken off: “May those badges ofservitude never again disgrace the hands of a Mason;and more especially, those of a Prince of the house ofJudah I’~ Their leader, Morin, was afterward cashieredand recalled by the body which appointed him, forfalsehood, and forgery of Masonic Constitutions, andsunk out of history. No one knows where he died.(See Folger, p. £1, Doc.) And the whole web-work ofthis degree shows its Jewish origin. Though, in thepreceding degree God is insulted as a “formidable God,”and the candidate is told he is to leave “the Solomonian,mystic furniture behind him,” yet the stories of this do-