. Scotch Rite masonry illustrated : the complete ritual of the ancient and accepted Scottish Rite profusely illustrated. in 1833. In iSTew England the whole secret lodge was lookedon with loathing and abhorrence. The grandfather ofDr. Eichard Storrs, of Braintree, Mass., and Dr. Willis-ton of East Haven, had a saying, a Freemason is hand-in-hand with the devil/ Dr. Hopkins, of Newport, R. I.,in Dr. E. A. Parks Memoir of Emmons, s^ys, ^^the lodgebelongs to the Kingdom of Satan. Later, the wholeAndover Faculty, Woods, Stuart and Emerson, de-nounced it in unmeasured terms. The ground idea ofCongr
. Scotch Rite masonry illustrated : the complete ritual of the ancient and accepted Scottish Rite profusely illustrated. in 1833. In iSTew England the whole secret lodge was lookedon with loathing and abhorrence. The grandfather ofDr. Eichard Storrs, of Braintree, Mass., and Dr. Willis-ton of East Haven, had a saying, a Freemason is hand-in-hand with the devil/ Dr. Hopkins, of Newport, R. I.,in Dr. E. A. Parks Memoir of Emmons, s^ys, ^^the lodgebelongs to the Kingdom of Satan. Later, the wholeAndover Faculty, Woods, Stuart and Emerson, de-nounced it in unmeasured terms. The ground idea ofCongregationalism, since BradshaWy rejects as ^^unlaw-ful all rites not enjoined by the word of God, whichincludes lodges, which are ^inventions of men f and afull half million of Christians in other denominationsregard secret lodges as Synagogues of Satan to be dis-fellowshipped by the children of God. A carefulreading of the analysis of the degrees of this Eite willconvince all candid minds, that they are the ^^abomina-tions and demon-worship of the Scriptures which pre-vent the coming of Christ, LODGE OF CHAPTER II LODGE OF PERFECTION/ Composed of eleven degrees termed the Ineffa-ble Degrees and comprising the fourth to FOURl?:eE^TH degrees AS FOLLOWS: 4th Degree^ Secret Master. 5th Perfect Master. 6th ^^ Intimate Secretary. 7th Provost and Judge. 8th ^^ Intendant of the Building. 9th Elected Knights of the Nine. Note 1.—In 1754, the Chevalier de Bonneville established a Chapterof the high degrees at Paris, in the College of Jesuits of Clermont, hencecalled the Chapter of Clermont. The system of Masonry he there prac-ticed received the name of the Rite of Perfection, or Rite of College of Clermont was, says Rebold, (Hist, de 3 G. L., 46,) theasylum of the adherents of the house of Stuart, and hence the Rite isto some extent tinctured with Stuart Masonry. It consisted of twenty-five degrees, as follows: 1. Apprentice; 2. ^Fellow Craft; 3. Master;
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