This is a terrific lecture given by Ill. Bro. Brent Morris, 33rd on the early history of High Degree Masonry in the U.S. His analysis and contrast of the nascent York Rite degrees and the degrees of the Royal Secret (what would become the Scottish Rite) is especially interesting.
Devotion to the interests of the People; detestation of Tyranny; sacred regard for the rights of Free Thought, Free Speech, and Free Conscience; implacable hostility to Intolerance, bigotry, Arrogance and Usurpation; respect and regard for labor, which makes human nature noble; and scorn and contempt for all monopolies that minister to insolent and pampered luxury.
Raison d'ĂȘtre
This blog is intended to be a record of my journey into Freemasonry as well as periodic articles on, about, or related to the subject of Freemasonry.
Manthanein (pronounced man-tha- nine) is a transliteration from the Ancient Greek and means "to learn."
I am a Freemason ۞ I am a member of the Scottish Rite ۞ I am a Fellow of the Grand College of Rites ۞ I am a Christian ۞ I am a lawyer ۞ I have a master's degree in Theology and Apologetics
The Mason to whom Freemasonry is not a grave and serious affair is a false Mason; and if anything in the cremonial seems absurd or trivial, it seems so only to ignorance, which we are glad to enlighten, or to self-conceit, which is not worth enlightening.
-From the Entered Apprentice degree of the Scottish Rite