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…o all Sovereign Sanctuaries, Supreme Councils and Masonic Bodies in friendship with the Sovereign Sanctuary of the Antient and Primitive Rite of Masonry in and for Great Britain and Ireland. WE, Grand Secretary General of the Sovereign Sanctuary of the Antient and Primitive Rite of Masonry in and for Great Britain and Ireland, hereby give due Notice to all Sovereign Sanctuaries, Supreme Councils and Masonic Bodies in friendship with the Sovereign Sanctuary in and for Great Britain and Ireland, and to all Members of the said Rite, that the lamen…
1913 · PDF PAGE 10
…Convocation as a Supreme Grand Council of Sovereign Grand Inspectors General of 33° and last degree of the Antient and Accepted Scottish Rite, and he was duly elected Most Puissant Sovereign Grand Commander. He then opened the meeting as an Absolute Grand Sovereign of the 90° and last degree of the Oriental Rite of Mizraim, and was duly elected as its Patriarch. The Sovereign Grand Master returned thanks in an eloquent speech for his election, and conferred the degree of Prince Patriarch Grand Conservator of the Rite on Bros. Robert Ahmed Quill…
1913 · PDF PAGE 4
… of much activity, a Masonic Renaissance, in which the Very Illustrious Brother John Yarker played an important röle, and many other old Rites were rescued from the oblivion into which they had fallen—such were the Rite of Mizraim, the degree of Ark Mariners, the Red Cross of Constantine, Babylon, Palestine, Philippi, etc., and, the most notable of all, the Ancient and Primitive Rite which was established by him in Manchester in 1871. Very properly, therefore, we find that in 1870 the Royal Grand Council of Ancient Rites appointed him Royal Gran…
1913 · PDF PAGE 5
IN MEMORIAM—JOHN YARKER Absolute Sovereign Grand Master, Rite of Mizraim, 90°, from 1871 down to the present time. Received over twelve patents of 33° of the Supreme Council in various parts of the world. Past Senior Grand Warden of Greece by patent, July Ist, 1874. Hon. Member of Lodge 227, Dublin, 1872, and of various foreign bodies, 1881-3. Among these he received the “Crown of Kether,” admitting to the 5° of the Grand Lamaistique Order of Light. In 1882—3 he acted as General Guiseppe Garibaldi’s Grand Chancellor of the Confederated Rites, w…
1913 · PDF PAGE 14
of S.G.M.G. without due notice, to drag our holy Rite into the mire, to chain it to the chariot wheels of a Krishnamurti, to make us pandars to the antique and impotent uncleanness of a senile sodomite. Shall we allow the Antient and P. Rite to be dragged at the heels of this filthy and ridiculous movement? Shall we be beslavered by these blasphemous bestialities; we, the Conservators of a Rite hallowed alike by its own nature and by the glory with which antiquity surrounds it; we, generation after generation of whose ancestors, even beyond the …
1913 · PDF PAGE 11
…ulfilled the conditions there imposed upon him, and because notices were not issued to all the Prince Patriarch Grand Conservators of the Rite. Brother Crowley, however, attended in order to protest against the illegalities. He further found a person claiming admission whose status he knew to be doubtful. The proceedings therefore began and ended with the following Speech: Very Illustrious Prince Patriarch Grand Conservators of the Sovereign Sanctuary of the Antient and Primitive Rite, Although I rise to protest against the illegality of the pre…
1913 · PDF PAGE 13
…trigues that I am come to this Valley of Manchester from my peaceful encampment in the Valley of Paris? No, a thousand times N0! Let our Rite, the heir of all secular glory, be soiled and degraded by this creature as she will; I for one will not lower visor or lay lance in rest. What is it then that has brought me hot—foot to this illegal Convocation? What but that last infamy which has roused even the holy calm of our Most Illustrious Sovereign G.M. General in Austria to hurl the lightnings of his excommunica- tion against its perpetrators? Ve…
1913 · PDF PAGE 9
… of 25 Longton Grove, Sydenham, SE., County of Kent, was unanimously elected Sovereign Grand Master General of the Antient and Primitive Rite of Masonry in and for Great Britain and Ireland. The Most Illustrious Sovereign Grand Master General then took the chair and, after returning thanks for the election, closed this Special Convocation. Done in our Sanctuary in the Valley of London, this thirtieth day of June, Nineteen hundred and thirteen, Εν. ἩΕΝκγ MEYER, 33°, 90°, 96°, Sovereign Grand Master General. SAINT EDWARD ALEISTER CROWLEY, 33°, 90…
1913 · PDF PAGE 12
… I speak a man free and of good report, I should perhaps have held my peace. I am not here to stickle even for the funda- mentals of our Rite. But he is not even a free man, but the hired tool of a woman. Do you wonder if I protest that a woman——and women are excluded even from symbolic Masonry—should seek the usurpation of our Sovereignty? And yet this alone would not have induced me to exchange the amenities of my encampment in the Valley of Paris for the sterner and gloomier grandeurs of the Valley of Manchester. Who is the woman of whom I s…
1913 · PDF PAGE 3
…ve to record that the Most Illus- trious Brother John Yarker, 33°, 90°, 97°, Sovereign Grand Master General of the Antient and Primitive Rite of Masonry in and for Great Britain and Ireland, Honorary Member of the Sovereign Sanctuaries in and for the German Empire, France, Spain, America, Cuba, etc., died on March 20, 1913, EV. at Manchester. Regm'escaz‘ m Pace! We are obliged to the Universal !??/8877405074 for the following Memorial Article: In the death of Brother John Yarker, of Didsbury, Manchester, England, whom the Great Architect of the…