THE ARCANE SCHOOLS - Fort Myers Beach Masonic Lodge No. 362

in this degree of Inquisitor Commander changed to a thorough examination
under charges against Masonic law and duty before the Order of the Five
Brethren." The candidate is on trial, primarily by the "one infallible,
unerring Judge" of Deity, but also by the accumulated history of human
lawgivers -- handed down from King Alfred the Saxon, Socrates, Confucius,
Minos, Zoroaster, and Moses. If found worthy, the virtues of repentance
and forgiveness are proclaimed, and the candidate is advanced.
The Lodge, styled a Supreme Tribunal, is hung in white. There are ten
gilded columns, and the words "Justitia" and "Equitas" in the East, as
well as the Tetractys of Pythagoras. In the West, over the Counsellors
(i.e. Wardens), are the words "Lenitas" and "Misericordia," as well as
the sacred word of the 18th degree in gold. The Master is styled the Most
Perfect President, and is flanked by a Defender on his right and an Ad-
vocate on his left.
Battery: [?]. No apron is worn in the Supreme Tribunal, but in inferior
bodies, a white sheep-skin apron with a silver Teutonic cross may be worn.
The jewel is a silver Teutonic cross. The jewel may be suspended from a
white collar, with a gold triangle with a "31" inside it. But in inferior
bodies it may be suspended from a golden chain, the links of which form
the eight fundamental degrees of Masonry: The 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 14th,
16th, 18th, and 30th.
32. SUBLIME PRINCE OF THE ROYAL SECRET
This degree, originally a Christian degree of Knighthood, "consummates
the Templarism of Masonry." Only "a lover of wisdom and an apostle of
Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity" is eligible to partake of this exalted
degree, which is military in character (as the previous degree was ju-
dicial). The Chivalric nature of Masonry is explained by the Knightly
Armor of the Templar, which is buckled upon the novitiate piece by piece.
The Lodge, styled a Consistory, is hung in black, strewed with silver tears,
skulls and cross-bones, and skeletons. In the East is a throne, ascended
by seven steps, and draped in black satin with flame tears. An altar
before the throne is also draped in black satin, with a skull and cross-
bones, and the letter J above it, and the letter M below it. In front of
each Warden in the West is a table, covered in crimson, with crossed swords
and the letters "N-K .'. M-K .'." .
Also in the West is the "Camp of the Princes:" a nonagon, which encloses
a heptagon, which encloses a pentagon, which encloses a triange, which
encloses a circle with a cross inside it. On the sides of the nonagon
are nine Tents, each denoted by a letter, a flag and pennon, a Commanding
Officer, and assigned to certain degrees of the A.A.S.R.:
Flag and Pennon Camp of... Commanding Officer
1. S White & crimson 18th, 17th Malachi
2. A Green 16th, 15th Zerubbabel
3. L Red 14th Nehemiah