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THE HISTORY OFORGANIZED MASONIC

ROSICRUCIANISM

R.W.FRA. HAROLD V. B. VooRms, 1X0

Chief Adept, New Jersey College, S.R.I.C.F.

Author of

“General Lafayette, Citizen and Freemasonof Two Countries”

With a Foreword by

M.W.FRA. FREDERICK W. HAMILTON, 1X0

SupremeMagus, Societatis Rosicrucianaein

Civitatibus Foederatis

M.W.FRA. FREDERICK W. HAMILTON, TX0SupremeMagus in Civitatibus Foederatis

NocALoL~ PREss

1935

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Edition limited to ,ifty-two copies

COPYRIGHT, 1935

B~ HAROLD VAN BUREN Vooiuiis

Printed in the Un4ted Statesof America

by theNOCALORF Puss, CHARLOTTE, N. C.

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FOREWORD

So far as I am aware the work which follows is the first one

to set forth in detail the history of the Societas Rosicrucianasince its foundation in Englandin 1865. Although the So-ciety hasnever hada large membership,it has shown astonish-ing vitality. Not claiming descentfrom the Rosicruciansofthe later middle ages, it has no traditions to propagateandnoassertionsto defend. Unconnectedwith other organizationsof more or less Theosophicaltendency which makeuse of theRosicrucianname,it hasalwaysheldclosely to its own aimsandpurposes. It is neithermystic nor esoteric. It is a society ofstudentsand investigalors interestedin the history, traditions,philosophy,andsymbolismof Freemasonryor allied to it.

Justat this time the Society,especiallyin the United States,is taking on a new leaseof life. Interest in the study of themorephilosophicaspectsof Freemasonryandof its history andtraditions has been greatly stimulated. As a natural conse-quenceMasonic scholarsand investigatorsare moved to unitein groupsin which they may find sympathyandassistance.Thetime is fully ripe for the production of such a work as this.

FraterVoorhis has donean excellent piece o work and haslaid us undera great obligation. With the skill and patienceof a born investigator he has sought out the original sources,pieced togetherthe sometimesscanty evidence,and given us acomprehensiveand reliable view of the developmentof theSociety since it was foundedin England.

I cannot too heartily thank Frater Voorhis for his work ortoo strongly commendit to our Fratresgenerally.

FR~D~RJCK W. HAMniirON, 1X0

SupremeMagus,

SocietasRosicrucianaein

Civitatibus Foederatis.

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CONTENTS

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

Soctetas Rosicruciana

SocietasRosicruciana





in Anglia

in Scotia

in Graccia

in Canada

in Civitatibus Foederatis,Part I

in Civitatibus Foederatis,Part II

Fratreswho haveattainedtheVIII and IX Grades

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ILLUSTRATIONS

M.W.Fra. Frederick W. Hamilton, 1X0, SM.,S.R.I.C.F.

M.W.Fra. Win. John Songburst,1X0, SM., S.R.I.A.

M.W.Fra. CharlesE. Meyer, 1X0, First SM. in U. S. A.

M.W.Fra. J. Mason Allan, 1X0, SM., S.R.I.S.

M.W.Fra. W. J. B. MacLeod Moore, 1X0, SM., S.R.1.C.

Monument erectedto M.W. Frater Moore

Reproductionof pagefrom S.R.I.C.F. records

Reproductionof Charterissuedto FraterAlbert Pike

Reproductionof letter from M.W. FraterMeyer to FraterPike

Reproductionof reply from Frater Pike to N{.W. FraterMoore

Facsimile of Warrant of MassachusettsCollege, S.R.I.C.F.

Facsimile of receipt covering paymentof fee for Massa-chusettsCollegeWarrant

R.W.Fra. Arthur D. Prince, 1X0, S.S.M., S.R.r.C.F.

R.W.Fra. J. Hugo Tatsch, 1X0, J.S.M., S.R.I.C.F.

R.W.Fra. Harry 0. Pollard, 1X0, Treas-Gen.,S.R.I.C.F.

R.W.Fra. JosephW. Work, 1X0, Sec’y-Gen.,S.R.I.C.F.

R.W.Fra. Sam P. Cochran, 1X0, Chief Adept in Texas

R.W.Fra. Harold V. B. Voorhis, 1X0, Chief Adept inNew Jersey

R.W.Fra. J. Ray. Shute, II, 1X0, Chief Adept in NorthCarolina

R.W.Fra. William M. Brown, 1X0, Chief Adept in Virginia

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PREFACE

Custom has succeededin establishingthe necessityof pre-fixing somethingto whateveris sent abroadin the form of abook. With the hope that he may be acquitted of a chargeof vanity or folly becausehe hassomethingto say, which so faras he knows, has not yet been said, the author usually giveshis preface the form of an apology—frequently veiled butusually quite openly.

The objectof this authoris to setdown, in simple language,the discoveredhistorical dataconcerning our Society. Pro-

lixity has purposely been avoided, in the belief that a tersebook would standa better chanceof being read than a morepretentiousvolume. The objectis thereforeoneof utility ratherthanoneof literary expression.

Rosicrucian history has not been of perennial interest butwithin the last few years therehas beena revival of interestwith the addedzest causedby new investigatorsand a certaiDactivity within the modern Rosicruciansocieties,Masonic andotherwise. This work is entirely devotedto what may, quiteunderstandingly,be called the “Masonic RosicrucianSociety.”RefereDcesto otherSocietiesor groupscalling themselvesRosi-crucian or claiming to be Rosicrucian in substanceor naturehaveneitherplacenor attention herewith. It is my sole desireto give a conciseref4encebook to presentand future Fratresof our Society.

Acknowledgementis made:

To Most Worthy Frater J. Mason Allan, 1X0, SupremeMagus in Scotia, to whom I am especially grateful for his

patient researchesand persistentreviewing of many details ofthe early recordsof the Society.

To Right Worthy FraterJosephW. Work, 1X0, Secretary-Generalof our High Council, for his promptand completere-plies to my inquiries regarding details of the records of theSociety

To Brother Henry V. A. Parsell for the unlimited useof hisexceptionallywell-equippedlibrary and his ever willingness toextend his seeminglyunlimited knowledgeof all matters per-taining to Rosicrucianresearch.

To Right Worthy Frater John Raymond Shute, II, 1X0.Chief Adept of the North Carolina College,for editing the MS.and preparingandarrangingthe cuts.

To Right Worthy Frater J. Hugo Tatsch, 1X0, JS.M.,Right Worthy Frater J. Edward Allen, V1110, and RightWorthy Frater William Moseley Brown, 1X0, who sharedthe

burdenof readingthemanuscriptandproois,and whosetimelysuggestionscontributed materially to the final publication ofthe text,

And finally, to Lucille Voorhis, my wife, whosepatienceincorrectingand rewriting the MS. was only exceededby thatof her untiring effort in writing the many letters connectedwith the investigationitself.

To record my sincerethanks for the unfailing assistanceoflibraries and other individuals of whom I have made inquir-ies, to show my appreciationfor their help would be no greaterif their nameswere listed. My acknowledgmentof their manycourtesiesis therefore extended“en bloc.”

If the interest of the Fratres in this history of their Societyequalsthat of all of thosewho have aidedme, the labour hasnot beenfor naught.

HAROE.D V. B. VOORHIs, TX0

RedBank,NewJersey,U. S. A.Februaryaa, 1935.

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Chapter 1

THE HISTORY OF ORGANIZED MASONICROSICRUCIANISM

HE last few years have seenan increase,or moreIT~i1 properly a revival, ol generalinterestin Rosicrucian-ism. An interest among Freemasonshas been es-pecially noticeable becausethe two orders have a

common spiritual descent. This revival has arouseda keeninterest in the history of the Rosicrucianswhich is entirely

logical. It is extremely difficult, however, to lift the thickveil which obscuresthe history becausethe ancient brethren

of the RosyCrossdid not allow their secretsto becomecommonknowledge. The search for the origin of the RosicruciaDs

carriesus back to a very lemote past. It leads us through a

series of hidden traditions coming down to us by way of theBrahmins of India, Hermes Trismegistus of Egypt, Orpheusof Greeceand other repositories.

The Rosicrucians,while living among men, could not be

found becausethey hadno organizationor societyknown to the

uninitiated. They did not seek fame or care for distinctionof honors andthey were,and still are, quite indifferent to put-

ting their knowledge to commercial use.It is not necessaryto be identified with a lodgeor society or

order to bea Rosicrucian. Therehavebeenand therearesome

such individuals even in this country. While a few of thesehavebecomemembersof exoteric societiesto be in touchwithother congenialspirits and avenuesof fraternal strength,mostof them remain unknown.

Rosicrucian history, thetefore, is obscured in considerable

darkness,prior to the formation ol an exoteric society in 1866.

Like ancientFreemasonty,with whichRosicrucianisminterlacesto some extent,the difficulty of researchlies in the scarcity ofpublishedrecords.

CHAPTER 1

Rosicrucianismis a survival of the early forms of INITIA-TION well known to students of the occult under variousnames. The nominal Founder of our Society—ChristianRosencreutz—didnot invent the doctrinesthat were promul-gated in the 15th century. He can be regarded,however,asthe Founderof the systemas it becameknown to the world atlargeupon thepublication of the FAMA FRATERNITATISin 1614.Only a few personsseemto havebeengiven the right tofunction as recognizedmembersof RosicrucianColleges. Fludd(died 1637) of Englandand lVlaier of Germanyare examples.

In our presenthistory we are not concernedwith mattersRosicrucianbeyond the era of the extant organizedSociety.We are,therefore,in the main, concernedwith its history in itsrelation to our own Society, that is to say, the Masonic Rosi-crucians.

It is well, beforeactually embarkingupon the seaof our ex-istence, to consider our status ifi general. We “are by nomeansthe only descendantsof the original Collegium, for inGermanyand Austria thereare other RosicrucianCollegesofmore direct descentthan our own, which are not fetteredbyany of the limitations which Freemasonryhas imposeduponus, and some of these,although not composedof manymem-bers, include studentswho understandmany curious phenome-na, which our Zelato~shavenot studied.” (THE ROSICRU-ClANS by W. Wynn Westcott). “Earlier EnglishRosicrucianCollegeshaveno Masonic basis,and some fraternities abroadcertainly admitted women on equal terms, of which fact thereis extant literary proof.” (HISTORY OF THE SOC. ROS.IN ANGLIA by W. Wynn Westcott, 1900. See also “TheAdmission of Sigismund Bacstrom,” dated Sept. 12, 1794, inTHE ROSICRUCIAN of Oct. 1876.)

Connection has been establishedin several instances withotherRosicruciangroups as indicatedby the following excerptsfrom DATA OF THE HISTORY OF THE ROSICRU-ClANS by W. Wynn Westcott,page11:

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In 1~87, by permissionof S.D.A., a Continental RosicrucianAdept,the Isis-Urania Temple of Hermetic Studentsof Ihe G.D. was formedto give instructionin the Mediaeval Occult Sciences. Dr. W. R. Wood-man, the SM., with S.A. and S.R.M.D., becamethe Chiefs, and thelatter wrote the Rituals in modern English from old RosicrucianMSS.(the property of Frater SA.), supplementedby his own literary re-searches. Frater D.D.C.F., in 1892, supplied the Ritual of an AdeptGrade from material obtained from a Frater, L.E.T., a ContinentalAdept. Severalother Temples sprang from the Isis-Urania, viz., theOsiris, at Weston-super-Mare;the Horns, at Bradford; the Amen Ra,at Edinburgh; and the Ahathoor, at Paris, in 1894, which was conse-cratedby F.ER. Frater SA. resigned from this Association in 1897,and theseEnglish Templessoon after fell into abeyance.

[n 1890 the Rosicruciangroupson the Continentwere reformedundera revised Constitution, and several Fratres of the S.R.I.A. have re-ceived ADEPTSHIP from the Continental Fraternity.

During the year 1899-1900the gradeSocius (or Associate)Honoris Causa was conferred upon Dr. Gerard Encausse(Papus) and Brother CaesarKupferschmidt.

It is not within our provincenor is it our intention to recordor discussthe nature of any Rosicrucian group hereinaftermentioned—asidefrom our own. Being in contact with allof the known Rosicrucianbodies,more especiallywith thosein the United Statesof America, we will endeavorto iecordasmany data, commensuratewith the purposeof our study, togive a conciserecordof Rosicrucianactivities from a historicalviewpoint as, it is believed, may be desiredby the inquisitivemind.

The Society of Rosicrucianswas given its presentdefiniteform in 1866 by Robert Wentworth Little of England, actualFounderof the reconstructedSociety.

Frater Little was educatedfor the Church, but turnedaside to enterthe Civil Service; after some yearsof service in Dublin, he migratedto Londonand became an official at Freemasons’Hall in 1862, becom-ing Cashier in 1866, in which position he remaineduntil his appointmentin 1872, to the office of Secretaryto the Royal Masonic Institution forGirls, in which he did excellent work up to the time of his death.(Obituary.)

Frater Little died on April 12, 1878, in his 39th year. Hewas buried at Croydenin Surrey, England.

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Chapter II

SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANA IN ANGLTIA

Brother William Henry White, GrandSecretaryof EnglishFreemasonryfrom 1810 to 1857 (died 1867), is believed tohave come into possessionof certain Rosicrucian papersandrituals on his attainingoffice in 1810. Of thesehe madeno ac-tive usebutuponhis retirementin 1857,passedon the informa-tion containedin them to Brother Robert Wentworth Little,at the same time admitting and recognizingBrother Little asa Frater, therebyqualifying him to confer the gradesof theorder upon others.

The only literary evidenceof the source of our Rosicrucian ritualfrom Brother W.H. White is containedin a letter in possessionof thesociety ~‘~‘*** The original MSS. which Little possessednever cameinto possessionof thepresentIviagus [Westcott] who hasthusfew proofsin writing of the historic basis, whicii he lays down in this sketch ofthe society. The most natural conclusion is that Little returnedthesepapersto someobscureportion of the recordsat Freemason’sHall,and that they are therestill, althoughthe preseniofficials havenot tracedthem. This explanation is very probable,becausein September,1871,a Brother Iviatihew Cooke raised a complaint in Grand Lodge againstMasonic officials for discovering,using and removing old manuscriptsfrom the record rooms of Freemason’sHall. Thesepapers suppliedthe basis for the recon~titutionof the Order of the Red Crossof Romeand Constantineas w~11 as of the RosicrucianSociety. They *ereboth Christian bodies,and their records had been hidden away sincethe time of the GrandMastershipof the Duke of Sussex,in 1813, who,favouringthe Unitariandoctrine,did all in his power to removeChris-tian grades from notice.

Our records~include a letter from the Rev. T. F. Ravenshaw,GrandChaplain of ~ligland,one of the earliestFratresof the Society, con-firming much of the historic information which the author receivedfrom Dr. Woodman, Woodforde, Mackenzie and Irwin. This letterrecites as follows~ (I) That the first S.M., Frater Little, explainedtohim thatthe GermanFraternityhad an establishedregulationwhich per-mitted distinguishedmembersto conferRosicruciangradesin dueorderon suitablepersons. (2) That a certainVenetian Ambassadorto Eng-land in the last century, had conferred Rosicruciangradesand knowl-

edgeoh students in England; these in their turn had handed on therule and tradition to others, of whom one of the last survivors wasFraterWilliam Henry White, GrandSecretaryof English Freemasonryfrom 1810 to 1857; he retired and lived until 1866 [sic] (3) Fromthe papershe possessed,Frater White admitted Frater Robert Went-worth Little. (4) Thesepapers came into Little’s possessionat Free-masons Hall on Frater White’s retirement from office. (5) Therituals are mentionedas being imperfect for open ceremonial use.(HISTORY OF THE SOC. ROS. IN ANGLIA by Dr W. Wynn

Westcott—1900).

The SocietasRosicrucianain Anglia was designedin 1865by Frater Little with the aid of Kenneth R. H. Mackenzieasan EnglispMasonicRosicrucianSociety of a less esotericchar-acter than the continentalRosicrucianbodies. (SeeNote.)

Mackenzie’squalifications for the work were gained duringhis stay in Austria where he received Rosicrucian initiationwhile living at the residenceof Count Apponyi, as an Englishtutor. He also receivedmuch occult knowledgefrom the Abb6AlphonseLouis Constant,better known as the famous Kab-balist and Occultist, ~liphas L~vi Zahed, whom he visited onDecember3 and 4, 1861, andwith whom he corresponded.

DespitetheseadmirableRosicrucianandoccult qualifications,Mackenziewas barred from membershipin the newly formedRosicrucian Society of England becausehe was not at thattime a brotherof the Masonic fraternity. This deficiency washealed on March 9, 1870, when he was duly initiated in theRoyal Oak Lodge, No. 871, at Freemasons’Hall, London.

It wasnot, however, until April 11, 1872, that the SupremeMagus Robert Wentworth Little proposedBrother KennethR. H. Mackenzieas an honorary member. The proposal re-ceiveda favorableballot at the meetingof July 18, 1872,andonOctober 17, 1872, BrotherMackenziewas advancedto the De-greeof Zelator in due form. (He died July 3, 1886.)

ThuswasinauguratedEngland’spoint of contactwith legiti-mateand genuineRosicruciansources.

Note. These statementsare made, notwithstanding the existence,at hand asthis is written, of The Tree of Common Wealth, by Edmonde Dudley, Esq.,isOS.]5i0, priated for The Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross,” Manchester, Eng-land, i859.

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CHAPTER II

The earliestextant minute book of the Society containstheminutesof the meetingheld on June 1, 1867,and contii~uestherecord until January,1871. From that time until April, 1873,thereare no written records. The signaturebook, which givesthe names of the Fratres who attendedeach meeting fromApril, 1873, to January,1875, anda set of quarterlynoticesareextant. From January,1875, to date, the written minutesarecomplete.

In 1868,THE ROSICRUCIAN, a magazine,wasestablishedin London, the first numberappearingin July. It containsaresumeof the proceedingsof Metropolitan College and wasissuedquarterly. The last numberappearedin October, 1879,thirty-six numbersbeingpublished. From 1885to date, Metro-politan College hasprivately printed its transactionsin annualvolumes. Therewill be found mostof the paperspresentedatthe convocationsand in the Study Club of the College as wellasmany referencesto High Council matters. Therehavebeenprinted, at varioustimes, proceedingsof the High Council forthe Fratresof the Third Ordet. Taking all of the aboveintoconsideration,an unbrokenrecord of the Society and its HighCouncil is availablein recordedform.

In the first issueof THE ROSICRUCIAN, we find a noticefor a meetingof the RosicrucianSociety of England for July2, 1868. The Rt.~Hon. Lord Kenlis (later made The ~arlof Bective) is listed as Honorary President,the other officersbeing as follows:Robert WentworthLittle S.M. & M.W. Master-GeneralWilliam JamesHughan,S.S.M.&R.W.DeputyMaster-GeneralWilliam H(2ry Hubbard J.S.M. & V.W. PrimusAntientWilliam Robert Woodman,M .D.. - - V1110, Secretary-General

On page6 are found the “Rules andOrdinancesof the Rosi-crucian Society of England.”

On October8,1868, Rt. Hon. The Earl of Jerseyacceptedthe office of HonoraryVice-Presidentand in the January,1869,issue of THE ROSICRUCIAN we find the Earl listed, to- M.W.FRA. Was. JOHN SONOHURST, 1X0

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getherwith Frederick Martin Williams, Esq. M.P., as Honor-ary Vice-President.

At the meetingat which the Earl of Jerseywas electedwefind that “Twelve Brethrenhaving been proposed, secondedand balloted for, were approvedfor the gradeof Zelator; ofwhom the following, being present,receivedTHE RITE OF

PERFECTION.” There were sevenelectedBrethren presentandtwenty-five Fratres. We find THE RITE OF PERFEC-TION as the entranceceremony for a number of years andthen this designationno longer appearsin the records. Fromthis it might be assumedthat it waspart of the presentZelatorGradeor in the ritual of the ORDEROF SECRETMONI-TOR which was included in the RosicrucianGrades in 1868but properly excludeda few years later on the recommendation

of FratresWoodmanandMackenzie.Colonel Francis Burdett was elected an Honorary Vice-

Presidenton January14, 1869, in the presenceof thirty-fiveFratresand received THE RITE OF PERFECTION. Heis listed in the April, 1869, issueof THE ROSICRUCIAN for

the first time, together with the other two Honorary Vice-Presidents.

At the April 8, 1869, meetingof Metropolitan College, Cap-tain F, G. Irwin of Bristol was given permissionto form aCollegeat that city to be composedof twelve members,includ-ing himself as Chief Adept. The College was opened byCaptain Irwin in January, 1870 and severalAspirants weregiven the SecondGrade.

At the samemeetingat which permissionwas givento forma College in Bristol, Frater Angelo J. Lewis (who does notappearto have been an officer of either the Grand ImperialCouncil or Grand Senateof the Knights of the Red CrossofRomeand Constantine)posteda noticeof motion, to wit: “1—That new admissionsinto this Societybe restrictedto members

of the Red CrossOrder. 2—That the regalia of the Red Crossbe wornat meetingsof this Societyby thosewho are Knights of

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thht order.” On July 8, 1869, this matter was brought upwhen “F’rater Lewis withdrew his motion for the present.” OnOctober P1, 1869, this same Frater “withdrew his motion tin-conditionally.” This is a matter of interestbecausepracticallyall of the high ranking officers in the Red Cross Order werealso high ranking officers in theRosicrucianSociety.

On July 14, 1870, Brother Hargrave Jenningswas electedan Honorary Member as was Rt. ~Honorahle Lord Lytton, thelatter being requestedto acceptthe office of GrandPatron ofthe Order and he is so listed in the July, 1871, issueof THEROSICRUCIAN. Lord Lytton died on January18, 1873,andin the February,1874, issueof THE ROSICRUCIANwe findThe Earl of Bective listed as Grand Patron, Colonel FranisBurdett as Honorary Presidentand FrederickMartin Williams,The Earl of Jerseyand John Hervey, Esq., the Grand Secre-tary of English Freemasonry(who wasadmitted to the Collegein 1870) are listed as Honorary Vice-Presidents.

On February28, 1871, Frater C. F. Matier was orderedtoform a College in Manchester.

At the Octobermeetingof 1871, the formation of a Collegeat Cambridgewasconsideredon the petition of FraterJ. OxleyOxland. Although nothing further is mentioned concerning

this College it is listed in 1877 under the nameof UniversityCollege togetherwith the other Colleges under aegis of the

English Society.On April 2A, 1873, it is recorded“That M. Alphonse Louis

Constant(occult name~liphas Levi Zahed) of Paris,be electedan Honorary Foreign Memberof the Society and that FraterMackenziebe requestedto transmit a noticeto him of the fact.”

In August, 1873, thereis recordedanessayon Rosicrucianisn~

by Albert Mackey~f the United Statesof America. This ap-pears to be the first mention of an American having any con-nection with Rosicrucianism. So far as is known Mackeyneverbecamea memberof an exoteric RosicrucianSociety.

The High Council was rendered distinct from Metropoli-tan College in 1874 and the activities of the College itself are

so headedon January8, 1874. We find the first recordingofa High Council meetingon April 24, 1874,when “It was de-

cidedthat the governmentof the Rosicrucian Society be vestedin the High Council, consistingof the Magi andMagistri Tem.ph, the 90 and 8O~~ and that the “titles Master-GeneralandDeputy Master-Generalbe abolishedhenceforth.”

In thenoticefor the January14, 1875,meeting,the Secretary-General indicates his grade (honorary ninth) by the use ofthe Arabic numeral inside of a triangle. This appearsto bethe first printed useof this designation.

On October6, 1877, Yorkshire Collegeat Sheffield wascon-secrated. It became dormant in 1880. On December 17,1877, Burdett College at Middlesex, London and HamptonCourt held its preliminary meeting. It was not successful

and finally mergedwith Metropolitan Collegein April, 1879.The first SupremeMagus, RobertWentworth Little, died on

April 12, 1878, at the ageof 39 years. He left a sealedletterappointing as his successorDr. William Robert WoodmanasSupreme Magus. The Adepti acceptedhis nomination and

on April 15th, Dr. Woodman acceptedthe office.In January, 1879, shortly after the new Supreme Magus

cameto his office, a new Zelator certificate was approved.York Collegewas formed on November5, 1879, at the time

of the institution of the Province of Yorkshire. The Collegewas openedat Queen’s Hotel, York, under the rule of R.W.FraterThomas Bowman Whytehead.

In March, 1881, FraterA. M. Broadley receivedthe Hon-orary Eighth Gradeand was given permissionto form a Col-lege in Tunis, Africa.

A paragraphin theJune 1, 1881,numberof THE KNEPH,theofficial organof theAntient andPrimitive Rite of Masonry,

published in London and edited by Brother Kenneth R.H.Mackenzie, LL.D, tells us that “members of the RosicrucianSociety in Englandwill be glad to hear that the long-promised

certificate and sealhasat last been issuedby the Authorities.We congratulate our enthusiastic Brother Dr. Woodman,

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P.G.S.B.,upon this auspiciouseventand we trust that the un-selfish labor he hasdevoted to this interesting branch of Ma-sonic science,will bear good fruit in the future.”

In January,1885, Metropolitan College startedits issue ofAnnual Reportswith abstractsof the lectures read before theCollege. We find in the 1887 report of a lecture deliveredbyR.W. FraterDr. William Wynn Westcott,Honorary 90 titled“The ZelatorRitual of the Societas..Rosicrucianaof the UnitedStatesof America.~~

DemiurgusCollege,Melbourne, Australia, was warrantedonJanuary21, 1886, under the rule of Frater J. D’Amer Drew,Chief Adept.

In 1887threelearnedmembersof the Society,FratresWoot~-man, Westcott and S. L. McGregor Mathers, received theCHABRATH ZEREH AUR BOKHER or Order of theGoldenDawn.

Newcastle College, Newcastle, England,was warrantedonJune18, 1890. It was consecratedon July 23, 1890.

In 1900 a Study Group was formed by the Society in Lon-don. Its activities are reportedin the Transactionsof Metro-politan College.

Dr. Woodman, SupremeMagus, died on December21, 1891,after a few monthsof illness. As in the previouscase,at thedeathof SupremeMagus Little, a sealedletter was left (withhis nephew) addressedto the society appointingas his suc-cessorDr. William Wynn Westcott, ‘who in February, 1892,at the next quarterly meeting, was officially proclaimed assuch. Frater Woodman was buried at Willesden CemeteryThe Royal Horticultural Society has erecteda handsomeandappropriatecenotaphto bis memory. A photographof the~cenotaphis shown..~positepage48 of the 1912 NletropolitanCollege Transactions.

Berlin College, Berlin, Germany,was warranted on April10, 1902, underthe leadershipof TheodoreReuss,Hon. 80. Inthe minutesof October9, 1902, we find this entry: “The S.M.

said the new Provinceof Germaniawhich he had formed, andthe new College of Berlin were consecratedon July 8, 1902,with much success,R.W. Frater TheodoreReuss, Hon. 80,

of Berlin, who was initiated in Pilgrim Lodge 238, London,being the first Magus and Celebrantof the College. ***TheS.M. said he had designeda small certificate of membershipof the Society, suitable for carrying in a pocket-book;thesewould be issuedto all new Fratresin addition to the largecer-tificate already in use, and any presentmember could haveone on application.” On April 13, 1905, the list of Honorarymembers carried Fratres Ladislas de Malczovich, 90, EmilAdrianyi, 50 T. Reuss, 50 and R. Gross, 50 The Collegewas declareddormantby the High Council on July 11, 1907.

On October9, 1902, FraterDr. Robert JamesBlackham ofthe Army Medical Serviceand four candidatesof whom he ap-proved, receiveda warrant for a College at Umballa, NorthernIndia.

In the Transactionsfor 1902 we find the activemembersofthe Society shown by a degreedesignationin Roman numeralsfor the first time in print.

In the minutesof January12, 1905, ‘we find the following:“Brother JamesWilliam Squires, P.M., of Cbippewa FallsLodge, No. 176, Wisconsin, U. S. A., was duly electedandbeing in attendance,was then admitted in solemnform by theR.W. Celebrant,the secrets‘being given by the M.W. SupremeMagus.” Ele was a residentof London at the time andwas inEngland for some time afterwards. He was erasedfrom theCollege roll on Jan.9, 1909.

FraterSquireswasborn in Bridgewater, England,on March20, 1864. Justwhen he came to America is not known but in1887 he wasemployedas a bookkeeperin ChippewaFalls, Wis-consin. He was made a Master Mason in Chippewa FallsLodge, No. 176, on October 11, 1887, and was W.M. in 1895.He was subsequentlyan accountantin a large lumber concernand when the lumber businessceasedtherehe went to Eng-land for, a numberof years. Later he returnedto the United

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Statesand residedin Ohio where he died on October 18, 1916.He is buried in the Masonicplot at ChippewaFalls, Wisconsin.

ChristchurchCollege at Christchurch,New Zealand,was thenext College warranted. The event took place on January11, 1906. V.W. Frater S. Clifton Bingham, who was ad-mitted to the Society in East of Scotland College, March 17,1902, and certified a memberof ChristchurchCollege, S. I. RA., on November 28, 1905, was made the Celebrantof theCollege.

LadysmithCollege at Ladysmith, Natal, South A frica, wascharteredon July 12, 1906, witb FraterThomasClegg as firstCelebrantand Wynn Westcott College at Buenos Ayres, ~~ir-gentina, South America, came into existenceon October 11,1906, with FraterW. H. Dyke as first ruler.

In 1907 the SupremeMagus visited the Provinceof SouthAfrica betweenthe monthsof April andJuly.

“The M.W. SupremeMagus in formed the Fratresthat, incompany with 10 membersof the Metropolitan College, heattendedat Bradford on the 28thof March, 1908, and conse-crateda new College there,which had been namedWoodmanCollege in memory of IVI.W. Frater William Robert Wood-man.” It was warrantedon March 21, 1908.

Emil Adrianyi, 50, is listed in 1909 Transactionsas livingin Pontet,Austria.

A warrant was issued for a second College in the NorthWestern Provinceof India on April 15, 1909. The Collegeselectedthe nameof Pymander,andCaptainGorhamwasmadethe first Celebrant. It was located at Rawal Pindj.

On July 8, 1909, Rudyard Kipling of Lodge No. 783 waselectedand admitted to the Gradeof Zelator.

Robert Fludd Colle~e was warrantedfor Bath, England,onNovember29, 1909. Frater George Norman was made thefirst Celebrant.

At the High Council meetingof January13, 1910, a petitionwas received from the Sheffield Masonic Literary Society to‘evive Yorkshire College—first referredto by William Wynn

M.W.FRA. CHARLES E. MEYER, 1X0F~’rst SupremeMagusin U. S.A.

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Wes~cott as HallamshireCollege—in that city. The petitionwas approvedand on April 9, 1910, the revived Collegewasconsecrated,andDr. JohnStokeswasmade80 and its Cele-brant. It started‘with 43 Founders.

In the minutes of High Council for April 14, 1910, thereis recordedthat “Letters from a Brother Geo. Plummer, of

New York, were read and considered,regardingthe grant ofa warrant for a new College in New York, by reasonof thepreviousCollegesbeing all in abeyance,and it was resolvedtorefer the matter to the Secretary-Generaland Frater W.J.Songhurst for enquiry and report to the High Council inJuly.” No further referenceconcerningthis matter has been

found in the minutes.On October 13, 1910, “The R.W. Secretary-Generalinformed

the Fratresthat at a meetingof the High Council which hasjust beenheld, a warrant had been grantedfor the revival ofthe LancashireCollege at Bolton.”

From DATA OF THE HISTORY OF THE ROSICRU-ClANS, page 12, we obtain the information that “In 1911 aCONCORDAT betweenthe SupremeMagus of England andColonel Todd Stewart, the SupremeMagus of Scotland,wassigned, and General Thomas J. Shryock was recognized asSupremeMagus in the United Statesof America.”

Birmingham and Midland College at Birmingham, England,

was warrantedon June5, 1915,with FraterWalton Walter asthe first Celebrant.

William Wynn WestcottCollege was warrantedon May 31,1919, at Brighton, England. The first Celebrantwas J. \V.Hobbs.

MerseyCollege was warrantedon April 23, 1921, in Liver-pool, England. The first Celebrantwas G. E. Osborne.

The London Collegeof Adeptswas warrantedon September

29, 1922. It is composedof membersof Metropolitan Col-

lege who have the Adept grades. These grades are workedat the pleasureof Metropolitan College. The first Celebrantwas FraterG. F. Irwin, V1110.

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On June19, 1924, MetropolitanCollege of Scotia celebratedits jubilee. In the 1924 Transactionsof Metropolitan Collegeof London,a recordingof the affair is spreadover two pages,and a half pagecut of M.W. FraterJoseph Inglis, S.M. inScotia, is reproduced. A letter from M.W. Frater WilliamWynn Westcott, SM. in Anglia, from Durban,Natal, Africa,is printed in full.

On July30, 1925, the SupremeMagusdied at Durban,Natal.A photographof the stone erectedover his remains is repro-ducedoppositepage24 in the 1925 Transactionsof the Metro-politan College.

The Secretary-Generalissued a summonsfor the ElectoralCollege, which met in Mark MasonsHall on October8, 1925,at 3 P. M., and Frater W. J. Songhurstwas nominatedandelectedby unanimousconsent.

The English Society has had twenty-four regular Collegesin its sixty-six years of existence, including the College ofAdepts. In addition it has also formed a Study Group. Someof the Colleges were never active and some are dormant. Itis likewise responsiblefor the formation of the High Councilsof Scotlandand Greeceandindirectly thoseof CanadaandtheUnited States.

The SocietasRosicrucianain Anglia has at the presentthir-teen activecollegesincluding the College of Adepts as follows:Chartered1867—Metropolitan College, London, England.1871—LancashireCollege, Manchester,England.1877—HallamshireCollege, Sheffield, England.1879—York College, York, England.1886—DemiurgusCollege, Melbourne, Australia.1890—NewcastleC~1ege,Newcastle,England.1906—ChristchurchCollege, Christcburch,New Zealand.1908—WoodmanCollege, Bradford, England.1909—RobertFludd College, Bath, England.191S—Birmingham& Midland College,Birmingham, England.

1916—-William Wynn Westcott College, Brighton, England.1921—MerseyCollege, Liverpool, England.1922—LondonCollege of Adepts, London, England.

The following haveheld the office of SupremeMagus:1867-1878 Robert WentworthLittle1878-1891 William Robert Woodman1891-1925 William Wynn Westcott1925 to date William JohnSonghurst

The presentSenior SubstituteMagus is R.W. Frater Dr.GeorgeNorman,1X0, andthe Junior SubstituteMagusis R.W.FraterDavid Flather,1X0.

The other officers of the High Council are:

Secretary-General,Lt. Col. T. M. Wakefield, 90

Recorder-General,Col. F. M. Richard, 90

Chaplain-General,Rev. G. F. Irwin, 90

Treasurer-General,Lt. Col. C. Powney,90

Librarian-General,G. C. Parkhurst-Baxter,90

Director-Generalof Ceremonies,F. J. Asbury, 90

The Chief Adepts,Representativesof Colleges, etc.

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The presentRosicrucianSociety in Scotland dates its con-tinuous existence from October 24, 1873, at which time theCollege of the East of Scotland,now known as MetropolitanCollege, was inaugurated. The Society in Scotia is the parentSociety of tbe Societas Rosicrucianain the United StatesofAmerica.

There is somedifferenceof opinion as to whether therewasan earliergroupof the Society in Scotlandemanatingfrom theEnglish body. For the sakeof reference,the belief, that anearlier group existed, is supportedby the following evidence(no contemporaryrecords being in possessionof either theMetropolitan College or the High Council in Scotia).

1. In Dr. Win. Wynn Westcott’s HISTORY OF THESOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANA IN ANGLIA, privatelyprinted in London in 1900, a statement,attributed to R.W.FraterWilliam JamesHughan,PastSenior SubstituteMagus,is madethat therewas “a Societyof Rosicrucians”in Scotland,with FraterAnthony O’Neal Haye as Chief andJ. M. Bairns-father as Secretary,before 1867.

2. In THE ROSICRUCIAN for October, 1868, page 24,anotherstatementsays that “Frater Haye is the Chief of theScottishRosicrucians.”

3. Dr. Westcott, in his History, statesthat FraterO’NealHaye “was the Chief in Scotia, andremainedso until CharlesF. Matier was appointed SupremeMagus in 1870.” MostWorthy FraterJ. Mason Allan, 1X0, presentSupremeMagusof the Society in Scotia, calls attention to the fact that FraterMatier wasnot a ..~emberof the Society in 1870, andgives areferencefrom THE ROSICRUCIAN of January,1871 , page125, showinga noticedated January5, 1871, and summoninga convocation of the Societas Rosicrucianain Ariglia to beheldon January12th,wherein Matier’snameis in the list of the

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aspirantsto the Gradeof ZELATOR. He was not admittedcn that date, however, but on Tuesday, February 28, 1871(see THE ROSICRUCIAN of April, 1871, page 152). Thearticle likewise states that “authority was granted to FraterMatier to found a College of Rosicruciansat Manchester.”

4. The minutesof the Convocationof the SocietasRosicru-cianain Anglia of April 8, 1869, sbow that BrotherDavid Mur-ray Lyon, M.A., of Ayr (Grand Secretaryof the GrandLodgeof Scotland 1879-1890),was admitted an Honorary and Cor-responding Member for Scotland.

5. Dr. Westcott further states that Brother John Laurie(Grand Secretaryof the GrandLodge of Scotland 1872-1877)was admitteda Frateron January13, 1870,and “appointedbyDr. Woodmanto be Magusin Scotia.” This is not recordedinthe printed minutes of January 13th nor any of the recordsnear that date. In 1873 FraterLaurie was Chief Adept. Dr.Woodmandid not becomethe SupremeMagusin Anglia until1878. He could not, therefore,have appointedFrater Lauriea Magus in 1870. FratersMatier and Laurie were declaredMagi in Scotia in 1876.

Most Worthy Frater Allan concludes from the evidencethat:

1. A Rosicrucian Society was formed in Scotland in 1866but that it becamedefunct.

2. That East of Scotland College was formed in 1873 under

a commission from the SocietasRosicrucianain Anglia.3. Theseconclusionsare not affectedby the fact that several

membersof the laterbody had also beenmembersof theearlier body.

The inaugurationmeetingof the East of Scotland Collegewas held on October24, 1873, in Freemason’s1-jaIl, fl~dinburgh,FraterCharlesFitzgeraldMatier, Hon.90, beingcommissionedto open the College. It was presidedover by the newly ap-pointed Chief Adept, Frater Laurie. Three brethren,includ-ing the Provincial Grand Masterof AberdeenshireEast, were

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received into the Society and promoted to the grade ofTHEORICUS.

It appearsthat the College was subject to the Society inAnglia, the supremeauthority exercisedby the premier Collegein London, which the following year receivedthe name, “TheMetropolitan College of England.” The High Council in An-glia, comprising the Magi and Magistri, was constitutedonApril 24, 1874, and the daughtercolleges, including that ofthe East of Scotland,came uncter its jurisdiction.

As abovementioned,FratresMatier and Laurie were consti-tuted the first Magi in Scotland. They wereso constitutedat ameeting of the High Council in Anglia meeting in London,January 13, 1876. The action resulted from a proposal bySupremeMagus, M.W. Frater R. Wentworth Little, whichwas secondedby R.W. FraterW. H. Hubbard,Junior Substi-tute Magus. From this date the Societas Rosicruciana inScotiacan be regardedas having~entered upon an independentexistence. At this meetinga resolution was passedthat “theritual be revisedby the SupremeMagi of Englandand Scot-land.” Thus is shown the immediate co-equal status of theSupremeMagi of the two Societies.

At the timeof his appointmentas SupremeMagus in ScotiaFraterMatier was Chief Adept of the College of Lancashireandthe Northern Countiesand continuedto be so until April18, 1877. Thus he held, for a short time, high office in theRosicrucianSocietiesof bothEnglandand Scotland.

The first charterissuedby the newly createdHigh Councilin Scotiawas for an AmericanCollege. The following is a listof all of the chartersissued:

A—Oct. 24, 1873,JohnLaurie, Metropolitan College. (TheEast of Scotland ~llege.)

1—May, 1878, JonathanJohn French, Illinois, U. S. A.(Dormant.)

2—Dec. 27, 1879,CharlesE. Nleyer, Pennsylvania,U. S. A.(Dormant.) M.W.FRA. J. MASON ALLAN, 1X0

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3—Apr. 18, 1880, Alhert G. Goodall, New York, U. S. A.(Dormant.)

4—May 4, 1880,Alfred F. Chapman,Massachusetts,U. S. A.5—May 10, 1880, ThomasJ. Shryock, Maryland, U. S. A.

(Dormant.)6—Oct. 27, 1880, JamesDalrympleDuncan,The Collegeof

the Westof Scotland.7—Apr. 18, 1908, WilLiam G. P. MacMuldrow, The Cape

Colony College. (Dormant.)8—Sept. 5, 1913, Rev. Henry Guy Sclater, The County of

Fife College. (Dormant.)

9—Nov. 13, 1923, Alexander Finlay Mackenzie,The Inver-nessCollege.

The first referenceconcerningthe Illinois College was foundin a letter from MW. FraterCharles E. Meyer, first SupremeMagus of the Society in the United States, to Albert Pike,

Washington,D. C., datedJuly 10, 1880. Nothingwasknownconcerningthis College in America. M.W. Frater J. MasonAllan, 1X0, in searchingfor a recordof the procedurein Scot-land came upon an old chartulary which containedas a firstcharter entry one in favor of “Frater JonathanJohn French,Magister Templi, V1110, (Veritas ~Asamicaiae) Honorary 90

of Scotland,”which gave him authority to open and hold aCollegefor the stateof Illinois, U,. S. A. FraterAllan remarksthat “The copy, however, is incomplete in two respects:(1)while it wasgrantedin the month of May, 1878, the day of themonth has not heen entered;and (2) the namesof the Magiwho signed the charter have not been entered.” (See men-tion of this charterin letter of CharlesE. Meyer underCana-dian Society history.)

The Metropolitan,West of Scotland,and InvernessCollegesare active. Completedata on the first two arealready in printso this information will not be repeatedhere. (See METRO-POLITAN COLLEGE 1873-1923 by J. Mason Allan; andJUBILEE HANDBOOK 1880-1930—WESTOF SCOT-LAND COLLEGE by S. H. RainsandA. D. Mac Kinven.)

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In a letter from M.W. FraterJ. Mason Allan, 1X0, S.M. inScotia,datedAugust24, 1933,he says:

The Charterf or the Cape Colony College was grantedin responsetoa petition from fourteen Brethrer~but unfortunatelyno list of theirnameshasbeenpreserved,and the only namewe know is that of FraterMacMuldrow. He was a Scotsmanwith interestsin SouthAfrica, andtravelled much between this country and the Cape. He died in thiscountry [Scotland]quite recently We have no record of any of theactivities of the College,and I doubt if it wasever very active. It hasprobably beenmoribund for many years.

The County of E~ife Collegehasbeen dormantsince 1923, but therehavebeensomesuggestionsmade recently that it shouldbe resuscitated,and this matter is at present under consideration.

The following Most Worthy Fratreshaveheld the office ofSupremeMagusin Scotia:

1876-1877,Charles Fitzgerald Matier.1877-1893,Lord Inverurie. (Made the Earl of Kintore in

1880.)1893-1908,JamesDalrymple Duncan.1908-1918,Col. JamesTodd Stewart.1918-1931,JosephInglis.1931- , J. Mason Allan.The presentSenior SubstituteMagus is R.W. FraterJohn

Sime, 1X0, andthe Junior SuhstituteMagus is R.W. FraterJ.C. Duncan,1X0. The other officers of the High Council are:

Secretary-General,William S. Mallock, V1110.Recorder-General,JamesSime Waterston,9Q~

Chaplain-General,HenryLessels,V1110.Treasurer-General,ThomasJ. Wenning,V1110.Librarian-General,JamesBarclay, V1110.The Chief Adepts, Representativesof Colleges, etc.

Chapter IV

SOCIETASROSICRUCIANA IN GRAECIA

The following letter, dated Athens, Greece,July 14, 1880,was written by His Imperial Highness Prince Rhodocanakis(titular Macedonianprince) in reply to a letter from FraterAlbert Pike:

WhenI was in London in 1871. [ was createdan Honorary Magusofthe RosicrucianSociety of England,whosefounderwasthe late BrotherLittle, andwhose HonoraryPresident,theEarl of Bective, with powersto establish a Supreme Lodge ol that Society for the Kingdom ofGreece

On my arrival here I establishedone. I announcedthe fact to Lon-don, and I was acknowledgedin due course. A few years later, Inominatedour friend, Colonel MacLeod Moore as Honorary Memberof this SupremeCollegeanda M?agus,]X0, andgrantedhim a Warrant,to establisha SupremeCouncil in Canada;this he has done~

The only referenceto this matter in the archivesof the Eng-lish Society is found in the Golden Book where appearsa statementof admissionof Prince Rhodocanakisin October1872. Rt. Worthy Frater Richard, 90, Secretary-GeneraloftheSociety in England,who has informedmeaboutthis matter,further states:“It is thoughtthat he went to Manchestersome-time after his admissionbut nothing further is known of himin connectionwith the S.R.I.A.”

It is obviousthat the datein the Golden Book and that in thePrince’s letter do not agreebut as the Prince was in GreeceinJuly, 1872, just after returning from London, it is morethanlikely that the year 1871 is the correctone.

Practically nothing is known concerning the RosicrucianSociety itself in Greece. It is not probablethat it functionedat all as an operativeentity. The body (if it may be termedsuch in this instance) has no accessihlerecords. The onlymemberknown besidesthe Prince is Prof. EmmanualGellanis,who was Secretary-General.

Information concerningPrince Rhodocanakisis so difficulttb find that, in the interestof future investigation,I am setting

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down all thathas beenfound concerninghim after a ratherex-tensivesearchin American libraries.

It is significant to note that the Prince was one of the fiveFreemasonswho are known to have been honoredwith theacademicdegreeentitled “Doctor of UniversalMasonry” ema-nating from the American Body of the “Allied Masonic De-grees”, viz.:

Josiah H. Drummond,U. S. A.William JamesHughan,England.TheEarl of Euston,England.D. Murray Lyon, Scotland.DemetriusRhodocanakis,Greece.

Prince JoannesRhodocanakis.born May 11, 181? (Greekstyle) wasour Prince’s father. He wasmarried on the Islandof Chios (Scio), a small island in the Aegean Seaabout 32miles in length, which was a possessionof Turkey. The mar-riage took place on February 19, 1840, and on December3,1840, on this sameisland, Prince Demetrius (namedafter hisgrandfather)was born. He was the 8th titular or hereditaryEmperorof the ByzantineEmpire. He is a direct descendentof NicephorusDucas Rhodocanakis,first King of the Islandof Rhodes and founder of the Royal and Imperial House ofRhodocanakis. A copper coin struck during his reign A.D.914-929was owned by His Holiness Pope Pius IX.

The Prince becamea British subjectby lettersof naturaliza-tion dated December24, 1867 (see Report of NaturalizedAliens, printed by order of the Houseof Commonsand datedJuly 7, 1868, page18). Although he residedin• West Worth-ing, Sussex,England,in September,1870,he wasmadea Masonin Edinburgh St. Andrews Lodge, No. 48, in Scotland,in Oc-tober, 1869.He wasreceivedinto the A.A.S.R. of Scotlandandon April 28, 1870,~s madea 33~ Mason. In 1872he return~dtoGreeceandon July 11th of that yearwas electedGrandMasterof the Grand Lodgeof Greece,a hody which was foundedbyhim. On the next day, throughhis efforts, the SupremeCoun-

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dl •of the A.A.S.R. was formed and the Prince was chosenSovereignGrandCommander,an office which he held until hisdeath, thirty yearslater. He wasGrand Masterof the GrandLodge for nine years.

A letter datedOctober30, 1878, from the Prince, showsthathe had created General John Meredith Read, United StatesMinister to Greece,a 330 Mason by permissionof the authori-ties in the United States.

Prince Rhodocanakisis principally known in English speak-ing Masonic circles for his work THE IMPERIAL CON-STANTINIAN ORDER OF ST. GEORGE,London, 1870,and its relation to the Order of the Red Crossof Constantine.

He diedon September15, 1902, in the Grecianislandof Syra,one of the Cycladesgroup, eleven miles long, in the AegeanSeasomeninety miles from Chios, the island of his birth.

The only other Rosicrucianconnections,which havecometo light and in which the Prince figures, will be found in thehistory of the Society in Canadawhich follows.

In a letterto the writer datedDecemher8, 1933, the GrandSecretary-Generalof the Supreme Council, A.A.S.R., forGreece,writes: “. - - we hbve been,unfortunately,not able todiscover further information as to the effectsof Prince Rodo-canachi [sic] or anything concerning activities or names ofyour Society (Rosicrucian] in Greece.”

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SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANA IN CANADA

MW. Frater William J. B. MacLeod Moore, first SupremeMagusof Canada,wrote to FraterAlbert Pike in Washington,D. C., on April 26, 1880, from Laprairie, Provinceof Quebec,Canada,as follows:

The Rosicrucian Society of Canada~is supremeand independentandwas organizedby charterfrom H I Highness,The Prince Rhodocanakis330 1X

0 SupremeMagus of the RosicrucianSociety for the Kingdomof Greecc,bearing the date of 19 Sept, 1876 There is one ProvincialCollegeat thevillage of Mailland, Ontario

Frater N. W. J Haydon,VIP, of Toronto, Ontario,Canada,

a memberof the New JerseyCollege, U. S. A., has discoveredconfirmatoryevidencesubstantiatingthe abovein the form of aletter from Prince Rhodocanakisdated June 30, 1876. Theletter is addressedto Col. W. J. B. MacLeod Moore asasking him to preparea declarationto be signed by his pro-posed associatesin the College, promising obedience andsecrecy. Frater Haydon says: “What may be the originaldraft of this declaration is attachedin Colonel Moore’s hand-writing and is signed by himself, T. D. Harington, 330; Geo.C. Longley, 320; John Dumbrille, 320; Robert G. Heney, 320;

A. G. Hewey, 180; D. Collins, 180; all of Maitland, Ontario,Canada,andJ. Easton,180,of Prescott,Ontario. This is datedMay 31, 1876.”

The Society appearsto havebeen started with nine chartermembers,althoughonly eight are listed above. For threeyearslittle or nothing was accomplished. In April, 1880, a corre-

spondencewas enteredinto betweenFrater Moore and AlbertPike concerning matters Rosicrucian. The correspondenceshows the true fact~of the inactivity of the CanadianSocietyand Pike’s connectionwith organizedRosicrucianismin Amer-ica. Extracts from the letters,therefore, follow:

The first letter, datedLaprairie, Provinceof Quebec,Canada,

April 14, 1880, informed Frater Pike that the Rosicrucian

M.W.FRA. W. J. B. MACLEOD Moonz, 1X0First SupremeMagus in Canada

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rituals would be sent to him to copy and return. It also statedthat “Harington, Longley and myself have it all in our ownhandsin Canadabut havedonenothing asyet” The followingday the the rituals were sent with anotherletter to Pike stat-ing: “Of course we make you a member of our Society in

Canada,and as you are a residentof the U. S., and not ofCanada,we give you the Gradeof Magus,or 1X0, the highest,and atiach you to our College as an Honorary Member. ~‘~‘

In this way we preserveour rule of lim~t~ng the IX Gradeto 3 only in Canadaand still give you the distinction yourdistinguishedMasonic careerand brilliant talentsso justly en-title you to Harington and Longley, my two con1r~res 1X0areonly too happyto associateyou with us.”

Concerningmattersof information and ritual, FraterMooresaysthat he only sendspart but will try to obtain the rest fromEngland commenting: “I must tell you honestly I have not

paid much attention to it, but both Harington and Longleyare willing to give you all of the assistancein their power. Thefact is, thereareso few who careor understandanythingaboutit, that heretoforeit hasbeenuphill work, and,like many othergood anddesirableassociations,allowedto die out for the wantof material.”

In the next letter addressedto FraterPike, dated April 26,1880, we find the following:

By the old law and custom of the Society, any Society lawfully or-ganizedas the SupremeBody in any country or nation, is at liberty togrant a charter of constitution to any other nation, in which theSociety has not before existed,as was done to Canadaby the Societyof Greece.

I believe the Society has an existenceand an organizedbody in theUnited States. I think Frater Meyer of Philadelphia has instituteda College. I think he derives his authority from Englandas he enteredthe Society at York, and he is an Hon. Member of the College there, ofwhich I am also a member. If the Philadelphianshave a regular war-rant of constitution for the United States,you would be required, Ipresume,in courtesy, to apply to them for authority for a ProvincialCollege at any point in the Northern Jurisdiction. If they have notthis charter or warrant from a lawful national Society, then they are

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self constitutedand illegitimate. If the latter is the case,then you andtwo othersasthe 3 Magi could be granteda charterby us, for thewholeUnited Statesif you so wished it.

Every supremeand independentSociety governs the whole nationfor which its charter gives its authority. We will except the U. S.,which may havetwo jurisdictions, Northern and Southern.

The United Statesmight very properly, following the system of A.and A.S. Rite, be divided into two jurisdrct~ons,that of the North andSouth. We will be quite willing and even desirous to grant to youand two other associatesthat you may na~,me (whom we will createHon.1X

0 of Canada) a charter acknowledgingyou to be the supremeandindependentCollege of the Rosicrucian Society of the United States,the territory to be embracedto be the sameas that at presentincludedin the jurisdiction of the S.J of the A and A S. Rite.

You can alter, addto, changeor abolish the rituals, as you may seelit. Indeed it is very desirablethat you should do so, as it m”st beconfessedthat what rituals we at presenthaveare very poor affairs.If you will takethe matterin handand bring your store of Rosicrucianand Hermeticlearningto bear on thematter, you will conferthe greatestfavor on the Society generally.

Canadawill adopt with thanks any system of rrtual that you maypropose.

Enclosedwith the letter was a summonsfor York College,England,for a convocationon February24, 1880, which con-tainedIhe information that M.W. FratresW. J. Hughan,Hon.1X0; W. J. B. MacLeod Moore, 1X0, SM. of Canada,andCharlesE. Meyer, 1X0, of Philadelphia,would be proposedasHonorary Members.

The remarkof Moore concerningthe rituals is reflectedina letter from Prince Rhodocanakisto Fraler Pike, bearingthedate of July 14, 1880, as follows:

For myself, I found the rituals so full of nonsensethat I returnedthem and usednonewhatever. I havetried to give the Society a sortof literary form and to connectit as nearly as possiblewith Hermeti-cism. You are aware that the Rosicrucianorder of which we areSupremeMagi pretendsto represenithe older fraternity of the RoseCroix which flourishecKihe first fifteen years‘of the 17th century. ‘Ifyou could yourself write Rituals for the various degreesof Rosicru-cianism,having as a basisthe old ceremoniesof that Order, the presentOrder would owe a debt of great gratitude to you. Brother JohnYarker, a very learnedand ill-used Mason, and a personal and dear

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frienrl of Colonel Moore and myself, knows better than anybody elseeverything relating to this Order, and would be of greatassistancetoyou if you wereto write to him.

When the dateof thesecommunicationsis taken into con-sideration and the close connectionexisting between FratresMoore arid Rhodocanakis.I believe I am able to detecta ratherconcertedeffort on the partof thesetwo Fratresto bring FraterPike into a frame of mind to write the proposedriutals.

There is a letter extantfrom JohnYarker to Co[onel Moore,datedApril 27, 18~6,andstating: “It is but fair to inform youthat the English Societyof Rosicruciansholdunderno warrantand have no authority to start the rite other than what youwould haveyourselves. We havea very excellentCollege inLancashirebut we havetwice arrangedto breakoff altogetherfrom the London College as it is entirely in the handsof thosewho will not attendto its affairs.”

In a letter dated May 17, 1880, FraterMoore stated:“I atoncesendyou a ProvisionalAuthority to enableyou to declareyour College established. Let me know if thereis any altera-tion you would wish madeor othernamesadded,before I havea warrant properly engrossedbr you. I enclose for you

to look over my authority fror H.I.H. Prince Rhodocanakisand othercertificates. FraterMeyer wrote to Longley a day ortwo ago for our regulations. He was informed that you werea 1X0 of the CanadianCollege.” The charterbears the dateof May 17, 1880, the two Magi selectedto act with FraterPikebeing Charles Levi Woodbury, of Boston, Massachusetts,andWilliam Morton Ireland, of Washington,D. C. (Reproduc-tion of the warrant in color by courtesyof MERCURY, Vol.

II, Number 12, June18, 1917.)Then follows a letter dated May 29th which continueson

matterstakenup in previousletters and announcesthe receipt

of a letter from FraterWhyteheadof York College, England,which states,amongother items: “I haveonly the 1st and2ndrituals andthe S.M. (Dr. Woodmanof Exeter) seemsto havelost sight of some of the grades. They were first got from

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Germany, I believe, by the late Bro. Wentworth Little, whofoundedthe English Order.”

From this, it would appear, that Metropolitan College,founded in 1866, either possessedno rituals of any gradehigher than the secondor that the managementhad been solax that rituals were lost after being receivedby FraterLittlein 1857 from F~rater White or those which FraterMackenziebrought with him on returning from his stay with CountApponyi. A

On the sameday that Frater Moore wrote Frater Pike aletter waswritten by CharlesE. Meyer, 722 Arch Street,Phila-delphia,to FraterPike. It statedthat the PhiladelphiaCollegehad been establishedfor two yearsand that “certain parties,whose namesI am not at liberty to mention, are working toget control of the Society for the United States.” He furtherstates: “I havehad a very unpleasantexperienceof the RedCrossof ConstantineOrder in this country. I was determinedas the S. Magus of the only College in the United States tocircumventthese personsand so set on foot the organizationof a GrandHigh Council of the United Statesand thus keepthe Society in the handsof thosewho would valueit for whatit is worth and keepout thosenot worthy. Had I known thatyou wereof the 1X0 it would havebeenmuch pleasureto havehad you with us in the organization, and hope you may bepleasedto work with us. Why not organizea College in Wash-ington, D. C., unlessyou have one already formed? I willbe pleasedto know thenameof your Collegeand, if one is notyet formed, which I infer in your letter, and you would liketo organizeone, I shall be pleasedto know the nameyou selectand shall forward the matterall I can Let me know the dateof your 1X0 and Latin motto. What hasbeen done,has beendone for the sole he~efit of the Society. I do not think, amsure, thereare not 5 in the United States.”

On June2, 1880,anotherletter from FraterMoore to FraterPike says: “You haveour full sanctionto makesuch changesan(l amendmentsand to do any and evervtlwngyou consider

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TheRosicrucian Socleif is calculated to isseetthe requireineistsof Free aisd Ac.cepted Masons,ashowish to study the scienceand Antiquities of the Crafi andtrace itthroughits successivedevelopmentsto the presenttime

it is entirely non-masonic in its character,wiih ihis sole exception that eseiyaspirant is required to belong to iheMasoisic Fiaterisiiy 1 his is necessaryasit will befound in anirquaiianresearchihatthereare many points of iesemblaure betweentheesotericsof Masonryand thoseof Rosicrucianism,which it wouldbe impossibleto discusawith any degreeof fulnessbefore gentlemenwho weie gnoi aist of at least the fistthree Grades of Freemasonry

The object ol the Society heitig purely hiteraiy and antiquarian, ii is almost unne-cessaryto state ihat no interference with or opposition to, any rite of Freemasoniy is iii-tendedor even tolerated It affords to all a common platfoim to discassfor their mutualimprovement—the writiugs and doings of those ancient seorthirs to whom we mostunquestionably attribute a great, if not the greater part of the Ficemasonryofthe preseistcentary

No aspirant can lie admitted into the Societyunless he he a Master Mason uiudof good moiai character, truthful, faithful and intelligent He must be a man of goodabilities so as io he capableof ondeistanding ihe revelationsof philosophy and science.possessisig a miisd free from prejudice and anxious for insirucAion He must be a be-liever in the fundamental principles of the C~rsriuian dontriur. a true philainthrophist anda loyal saliject Names of aspirants maybe submitted bf any usember of the Society,aud if approved alter the usual scrutiny they shall be placed on the roll of isovires, and1-mailoted for, as vacaisciesoccur in the list of members

The Society in conformity with ancient usage, is divided into Colleges ofthirty-six members uisd no mbre Collegesare composedof nine classesor grades, andthe number ofbrethren in each class shall be restricted as hollows.

1st or Grade of Zelator, . . 5 Hembems.zud or Giade of ~Iheormcus..3md or Grade of l~eacticus, . . . 6

4th or Grade of Philosoptmus,. . 5The shove foim the trot order -

5th or Grade of Adeptus Junior, . . . . 4 Membeis.6th or Grade of Adeptus Major,.. . 3yth or Grade of Adeptos Exemptus . 2

These composethe secondorder,

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9th or Grade of i\Iagus.These are the third (Or highest) order, and thememberathereof shall be entitled to

seatsin the Council of the Society

THE FoLLOWiNG Cou,EoEs HAVE FoRtitFo ViE I-ItOH Cou~cti, OF TuE

RosiceruciAN sociETy OF THE UNiTED STArES OF Ar,mnnicA

PI-lILAIjELPIIIA COLLEGE, Philadel~~hia,Charles E Meyer, Ix, M. T.722 Arch Street, Phuladelplums,Pa.

NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE, New York City, Albert G Goodall. IX, N T.tz nroadwsy, New York City, N Y

MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE, Boston, Alfred F Chapman, IX, M T.223 washington Street, EoOon, Mass

CITY or PALrIMORE COLLEGE,BaIt ,Thor,uasJ Shuryoch, VIII, I-Ion IX, M T

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best. We do not know of any restriction, excepting,of course,that it would not beadvisableto increaseor eliminate the num-ber of grades,or alter the names,but as respectsany changesyou may wish to make in the rituals, etc., you have supremepower. We all feel quite certain that thereare no more ritualsextant,beyond those sent to you. Neither FratresYarker, ofManchester,nor CaptainIrwin, of Bristol, know of any more.”

Five weeks later a letter datedJuly 10, ~88O,and written inPhiladelphiaby Frater Meyer was received by Frater Pikewhich says: “We havegonetoo far with our High Council tostop. We haveformed it accordingto Masoniclaw and usage.You must know that severalyearsago a charterwas grantedby Scotlandto the late Bro. J. J. Frenchof Chicago—thiswasfor the stateof Illinois.” (See referenceunder the history ofthe ScotiaSociety.) A Ietter* is thenquoted from Englandasfollows:

Ford House, Exeter, EnglandJune7, 1880

CharlesE. Meyer,SupremeMagus, RosicrucianSociety, U. S. of AmericaMost Worthy Frater:

It is with heartygood wishesthat I greetyou as the SupremeRulerof your Orderin the United Statesof America, andyour two colleagues,FraterAlbert G. Goodall, S.S.M., andFraterAlfred F. Chapman,J.S.M.I am sure that all our Collegeswill unile in cordially welcoming youinto our Order, and our High Council will alwaysbe pleasedto recip-rocatewith yours in furtheringthe advancementof Rosicrucianscience.As the Su~remeMaguso~f the Order in EnglandII shall alwaysbe readyto recognizeyou as holding a similar position in America andmay youand your colleaguesbe long spared to reciprocatewith the Fratresinthe Mother Country.

Your Brother,Win. Robert Woodman,1X0SupremeMagusin Anglia.

~(Note. This letter is printed on page 10 of the report of the first AnnualConclaveof the Grand High Council of the United States, Boston, 1880, but inthis report the date of the letter is given as July 5, ise,o. This must be anerror as it could not have been written on that day and yet be quoted by FraterMeyer in his letter written in Philadelphia on July 10th. The date June 7this evidently the conect One.)

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Anotherletter receivedby FraterPikepertinentto Rosicru-clan activities at the time waswritten on July 15, 1880, by R.M. C. Graham,25 Wall Street,New York City, as follows:

I duly receivedyour letter with regardto Rosicrucianmatters andlearn from Bro. Goodall that he is organizing a College here, that hehad reserved a place for me, but I declined to join, telling him that Ialready had the degrees,and if you did not interest yourself in it, Iwould not.

Frater CharlesLevi Woodburyof Boston, who was one ofthoseproposedby FraterPikeas a ‘~V1agus,wrote a letter datedOctober 14, 1880, to Fratet Pike in which he gavethe lattersome information concerninga meetingwith FratresChapmanand Meyer in Boston, in which they discussedthe whole Rosi-crucian siluation. Nothing of value in the premisesi~ con-tainedin the letter.

Frater Harington wrote to Frater Pikeabout this time andsenthim the regular warrant. (Seeplate oppositepage.) Theletter is datedPrescott,Canada,NoveThber15, 1880.

The next item of interest is a letter from CharlesE. Meyer,SupremeMagus,to FraterPikecontaininga copy of the Reso-lution passedby the “High Council SocietatisRosicrucianae”inthe United Statesgranting the rank of Hon. Past SupremeMaguson FraterPike. It is reproducedfrom a photostathere-with togetherwith FraterPike’s reply, written the day follow-ing receiptof the letter from FraterMeyer.

It may be notedthat Frater Pike’s reply is not in his hand-writing nor is it that of Bro. MacGrotty, who did all the orna-mentalpenmanshipin FraterPike’s manuscripts. It is believedto be in the handwritingof Brother Pike’s son,who wasat thattime helping him as Secretary.

In passing,it is interestingto know that Frater Pike actually

startedto work on a setof lawsand rituals for his High Council.This book has been\preservedand it is hoped that it will bemadeavailableto the F’ratres in due time.

This would seemto be GeneralPike’s final connectionwithmattersRosicrucian.Let us now returnto the CanadianSocietyproper.

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Ju’st how active the Society becamein CalIlada and when itcan be said to haveceasedactive existenceis a matter of con-

jecture. Most of the official documentswere destroyedin afire at La PrairieBarracks,wherethey werestored. The threeMagi were all prominent CanadianFreemasons.Colonel Wil-liam JamesBury MacLeod Moore, initiated into Freemasonryat the ageof 17 years in 1827 in Aberdeen,Scotland,is bestknown as SupremeGrand Master of Knights Templar ofCanada. He was born at Kildare, Ireland, in 1810, and diedin Prescott,Ontario, Canada,on August31, 1890. Col. Moorereceivedthe degreesof the A. and AS. Rite in New York Cityin 1863. In 1868 he was madean active memberof the Su-premeCouncil of Englandand Walesand in the sameyearheintroducedthe rite in Canada.

ThomasDouglasHarington was born in Windsor,England,on June 7, 1808, and died in Prescott,Ontario, Canada,onJanuary 13, 1882. He ~wasmade a Freemasonin LeinsterLodge, No. 283, Irish Regiment, Kingston, Ontario, in 1843.From 1860 to 1863 he servedas Grand Masterof the Grand

Lodgeof Canada. He wasSovereignGrandCommanderof theA. and A.S. Rite of Canadafrom 1874 to 1882 anda memberof the various Masonic bodiesexisting duringhis time.

George ChanningLongley was born in Maitland, Ontario,Canada,on December24, 1827, and died in Toronto, Ontario,on February 23, 1885. He wasthe first Chief Adept of Do-minion College No. 1. He was a memberof many Masonicbodiesandthe recipientof threehundredand fifty-five degrees,accordingto his notebook. He was receivedinto Freemasonryin OgdensburgLodge, No. 128, Ogdensburg,New York, U. S.A., in 1852. On April 17, 1882, hewaselecteda 330 Mason inthe Thompson (Cerneau) Scottish Rite Body in New YorkCity. During the same yearhe was madethe first SovereignGrandCommanderof the Canadianbranchof that body.

Most Worthy FraterDaniel Spry, 1X0, was SupremeMagusof the CanadianSociety following the deathof Colonel Moore.

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FraterSprywasGrandMasterof the GrandLodgeof Canada.

A letter datedMay 17, 1886, is extant,signed by R. L. Pat-tersonof Toronto as Secretary-Generalof the CanadianHighCouncil. This shows the Society was active as late as thatdate.

There was a College startedin Peterboroughalso, but it isnotknown if it ever receiveda oharter. However,FraterE. H.D. Hall says:“It did not survive for very long.”

From the aboveand from information supplied by FratresN. W. J. Haydon, VIP, and A. J. B. Milbourne, VIP, whoaremembersof theNew JerseyCollegeresiding in Canada,thefollowing list of known membersof the CanadianS’~ciety iscompiled:

*\~illiam J. B. MacLeodMoore, Prescott.

‘ThomasD. Harington, Prescott.*George C. Longley, Prescott.*John Drumbrille, Maitland.*Robert G. Heney,Maitland.*J. Easton,Prescott.*A. G. Hewey, Maitland.*D. Collins, Maitland.*Daniel Spry, Barrie and Toronto.*R. L. Patterson,Toronto.*Sir JohnM. Gibson, Hamilton.*Hugh A. Mackey, Hamilton.

OsborneShephard,Hamilton.E. H. D. Hall, Peterborough.

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SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANA IN CIVITATIBUSFOEDERATIS—PART I

News of the formationof a RosicrucianSociety in Englandbecame known to a number of eminent Freemasonsin theUnited States,who interestedthemselvesin an effort to intro-ducethe Society in this country.* As a result,during a Masonicpilgrimage of Mary Commandery,No. 36, Knights Templar,of Philadelphia,Pennsylvania,to Great Britain and Ireland,the party visited York, England. At midnight on July 25,1878, BrotherCharlesE. Meyer, PastMasterof Melita Lodge,No. 295 (Pennsylvania); Daniel Sutter, Past Master ofPhoenix Lodge, No. 230 (Pennsylvania),and Charles W.Packer, PhiladelphiaLodge, No. 72 (Pennsylvania),receivedthe ZELATOR Grade in York College in the presenceofFratresof York and Sheffield Colleges. SubsequentlyBrotherMark Muckle, Past Master of Hermann Lodge, No. 125(Pennsylvania),wasadmittedin Metropolitan Collegeof Lon-don.

In a letter to Frater W. J. B. MacLeod Moore, SupremeMagus of the RosicrucianSociety in Canada,from FraterE.B. Whyteheadof York College,England,regardingthe above,he says: “We gavethe ‘degree’ to the 3 or 4 AmericansfromPhiladelphia in 1878, and they applied for a warrant, but notbeing able to evokea response,they transferredtheir applica-tion to the SupremeMagus in Scotia, and got one and arenow working under it.” This warrant (charter) was madeout in the nameof CharlesE. Meyer for a college in Pennsyl-vaniaand was datedDecember12, 1879, accordingto recordsof our Societyprinted in 1880.

Considerable discrepancyhas been found in the various

*There is nothing known concerning the outcome of the J. J. French-Illinois college. The only Information found has been already given underthe Scotia history. As this college had no part in the format ion of the So-ciety In the U. S A. no further reference to it Is made here.

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charterdatesas heretoforepublishedin different recordsof theSociety. Most Worthy FraterJ. Mason Allan, 1X0, SupremeMagusof the SocietasRosicrucianain Scotia,has madea verycareful searchfor data in the files of his High Council in anendeavorto clarify this discrepancy. Concerningthe matterof Charters,he says:

I should state that the contemporary records of our High Councilfor theseearly yearsare lost—tie earliestentriesin our Minute Bookhaving obviously beenwritten some time after the eventsIhey record—how much later can not now be determined. Amongst the earliestoftheserecordsare what purport to be copies of the Charters issued tothe four American Colleges. I enclosecopiesof theseas they appearin the Minute Book They are in the handwriting of R.W. FraterR. S. Brown, who was then Secretary-General,andcomparingthehand-writing with what goes beloreandwhat follows, one could safely inferthat all four were written at one “sitting.”

In any case,I am satislied that our early records,though “scrappy,”are,reliable so far as they go, and that the recordscopied by FraterBrown Into the existing Minute Book were copied from someearlierand reliable sonrce—possiblyfi om lo6sesheetsor from an old MinuteBook which had become dilapidated. This last point suggestsitselfto me becausethe contemporaryminutes of the East of ScotlandCol-lege in those days are similarly very briel indeed—not such as wouldsatisfy our historical sense nowadays—andthat the old Minute Bookitself is in a dilapidatedcondition. At that time Frater Brown wasalsoSecretary of the East of Scotland College.

In a subsequentletter from M. W. FraterAllan, datedAu-gust24, 1933,he says:

We haveonly this month recoveredan old chartulary which contains‘~‘~‘ MS. copiesof chartersissued by the High Council in Scotia, Theseare all in termssimilar to the four of which I sent you copies.

A copy of the Philadelphiacharter, the first of the four re-ferred to by M.W. FraterAllan, shows the date of December27, 1879. As the original is not in the archivesof High Coun-cil, it is not possible to ascertainwhich date is correct. It ismade out in “the nameof Charles E. Meyer (P.M. of MelitaLodge, No. 295, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,Chairmanof theGrand Lodge Library Committee for twenty-oneyears, PastGrandHigh Priest, and Grand Secretaryof the Grand RoyalArch Chapterof Pennsylvaniafor thirteenyears).

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On April 9, 1880, anothercharter was grantedby the So-ciety in Scotia for New York College,Albert G. Goodall (P.M.of Montgomery Lodge, No. 19, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,but then affiliated with Holland Lodge, No. 8, of New YorkCity) being named as first Chief Adept. The date of thisCharter in our printed i-ecords agreeswith the copy in theMinute Book of the High Council in Scotia. The originalcharteris not in our archives.

These charters were issued by authority of the SupremeMagus in Scotia,Lord Inverurie (Lord Kintore—”the formerbeing the courtesytitle which he bore before he succeededtothe earldomon the deathof his father in 1880”) and, if simi-lar to the Massachusettscharter issued at Ihe same source,were signed by his lordship; R.W. Frater H. Y. D. Cope-land, S.S.M.;R.W. FraterD. Murray Lyon, J.S.M.;andRob-

ert S. Brown, Secretary-Generalof the High Council of theRosicrucianSociety in Scotland.

Alfred F. Chapman,of Boston (who was GeneralGrandHigh Priestof the GeneralGrandChapterof the United States

of America, 1883-86)was qualified from the First to the NinthGradeon April 19, 1880,by CharlesE. Meyer. On April 20th,the following day, Frater Chapmanqualified John Haigh, ofSomerville, Massachusetts,and Albert C. Smith, of Boston,Massachusetts,with the Gradesincluding the Honorary Ninth.

On April 21st Caleb Saunders,of Lawrence,Massachusetts,was similarly qualified and the fees of forty dollars and fifty

centswere4orwardedto FraterMeyer.

The sum of £2/2/0 was sent to the Society in Scotland fora warrant (charter). A receiptfrom the SocietasRosicrucianain Scotia br that amount,dated October8, 1880, and signed

by G. Dickson (Dr. GeorgeDickson, S.S.M. of Scotia, 1893-1901) 90 Treasurer-General,is pastedin the RecordBook ofMassachusettsCollegeandis reproducedherewith.

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Goodall in the city of Philadelphia,Pennsylvania,on April21, 1880, and created the Grand High Council known as“SocietasRosicrucianaRepublicaeAmericae.”

High Council’s Officers were:SupremeMagus Charles E. Meyer, Philadelphia, Pa.Senior Substitute Magus Albert G. Goodall, New York, N. Y.Junior Substitute Magus Alfred F. Chapman,Boston, Mass.Treasurer-General ThQmas 3. Shryock, Baltimore, Md.Secretary-General CharlesT. McClenachan,New York, N. Y.

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MassachusettsCollege was warrantedon May 9, 1880,and0

charteredon June5, 1880, accordingto the printed record ofthe first High Council meeting. The copy of the charter inthe Minute Book of the High Council in Scotiashowsthe dateof May 4, 1880. The actualcharterdate, howeve., is June5,1880, and the charter is madeout in the nameof Alfred E.Chapman (P.M. of Zetland Lodge, Boston, Massachusetts).The Charteritself, engrossedby hand in red, black, and goldcharacterson the first pageof the MassachusettsCollege Mm-ute Book, is an interestingdocument. It appearsthat the bookwas purchasedin Boston,Massachusetts(the stationer’s labelbeing pastedin the front) and the four signaturesthereonaredoubtlessthose of the officers of the SocietasRosicrucianain 0

Scotia (by comparisonwith facsimile of the West of ScotlandCollege charter dated October 27, 1880, and reproducedinJUBILEE HANDBOOK of that College,1930). From this itwould appearthat the book must have beensent 10 Scotlandfor the signatures. (Seereproductionherewith.)

Frater Chapman was editor and publisher of THE LIB-ERAL FREEMASON, which had its beginnIng in 1877. Inthe March, 1891, number (its last) thereappeared,along withthe obituary notice of Frater Chapman,this significant sen-tence: “The’~resentnumberclosesthe fourteenthvolume, and

0with it THE LIBERAL FREEMASONwill ceaseto exist.”

MassachusettsCollege is the only oneof the four original col-legesthat has survived (Maryland College will be referred tolater), although there was a period when the record of the

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meetingswas not enteredin the Minute Book. There was ameeting on March 2, 1896, and the next entry is March 31,1909. Three of the older membershave verified this point.In one other year, namely 1929, no meeting was held. Eu-geneA. [lolton, Chief Adept from 1909to 1927,died on March21 of the latter year. A regular meetingof the collegewas

held on November 11, 1926, which was the last that he at-tended. The next meetingwas called for April 25, 1928, whenDr. Frederick W. Hamilton, presentSupreme Magus, pre-sided and FraterArthur D. Prince was elected Chief Adept.

On May 29, 1883, JosephT. Dyer wasadmitted to the col-lege. He died on August 14, 1932, the oldest Rosicrucianinthe United States. The oldestliving Rosicrucianat this writingis FraterFiederick L. Baker, VII’, who was admitted to thecollegeon May 17, 1887, and the next oldest is FraterJosephW. Work, 1X0, Secretary-General,and Secretaryof Massa-chusettsCollege, who was admitted on November6, 1894.

The following Fratreshave been Chief Adepts ol Massa-chusettsCollege:

Afred F. Chapman June5,1880, to March 20, 1891John Haigh July 11, 1891, to August 20, 1896EugeneA. Holton March 31, 1909, to March 21, 1927Arthur D. Prince April 25, 1928, to date

Onememberof MassachusettsCollege deservesspecialmen-tion—FraterSylvester C. Gould, who was admitted on Febru-ary 10, 1885. He was a residentof Manchester,New Hamp-shire,andwas engagedin publishingvarious Masonic journals.He wasparticularly learnedin Rosicrucianmattersandwe areindebted’to him for preservingmany of the records of the

activities of our Society not found elsewhere. [n January,1907, THE ROSICRUCIAN BROTHEREIOOD, an octavomagazine,was first issuedby FraterGould. Therewere nineissues,Volume III, Number 1, for January, 1909, being thelast. FraterGould also publisheda number of pamphletsinseparateform containingRosicrucianarticles and studies. In

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passing,it may benotedthat is was throughFraterGould thatthe presentSocietasRosicrucianain America,underthe leader-ship of Dr. George Winslow Plumnier, with headquartersinNew York City, owes its origin.

Another very learned Fraterof MassachusettsCollege wasDr. SeranusBowen, 1X0 (J.S.M. in 1891), who gaveseveralpaperson Rosicruciansubjectsin MassachusettsCollege,someof which wereprinted.

A paperentitled THE ROSICRUCIANS—THEIR ORI-GIN, THEIR TEAC FlINGS, THEIR ANSWER TO THERIDDLE OF THE SPHINX was read by Frater JosephHoraceGoodspeedbefore MassachusettsCollege on November18, 1912. It was subsequentlyprinted—208copic~.

At a meetingof the College in February,1884, FraterJohnHaigh, 1X0, exhibiteda MS. copy of rituals of a largenumberof the gradesin the York and ScottishRites; also a first editionof ANDERSON’S CONSTITUTIONS ol 1723.

Maryland College was charteredon May 10, 1880, and theprintedrecordsof our Society show the samedate as the copyin the Minute Book of the High Council in Scotia. The char-ter was madeout in the nameof Thomas J. Shryock (for 33years Grand Master of Masons in the State of Maryland).The original charteris not in the archivesof our High Council.

All efforts, that havebeenmade to locate the charters orany of the archivesof Pennsylvania,New York and MarylandColleges,havebeen fruitless.

There was publishedin THE KEYSTONE (Philadelphia,Pennsylvania)of February7 and 14, 1880,an addressdeliver-edby FraterCharlesB. Meyer at a meetingof the PennsylvaniaCollegeheld ok~i January30, 1880, in Freemasons’Hall, 814 Fil-bert St., Philadelphia. It waspublishedin pamphletform sometimelater in the sameyear. The title of thepamphletwas: “ThePennsylvaniaFreemason’sHall, Philadelphia, 1802.” In anote at the end of the addressthe statementis made that it R.W.FRA. ARTHUR D. PRINCE, 1X0

Senior SubstituteMagus, S.R.I.C.F.

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was the last meetingheld in the old hall and gives a list ofthose presentas follows:

CharlesE. Meyer John HanoldDaniel Sutter John SartainMark Richard Mu~zkle August R. HallJamesS. Barber ThomasR. PattonJohn L. Young Henry Sartain

TheseFratrestogetherwith CharlesW. Packerare the onlyFratres known to have been membersof the PennsylvaniaCollege.

On September21, 1880, therewas openeda meetingof theHigh Council of the SocietasRosicrucianain Boston, Massa-chusetts,Most Worthy Frater CharlesE. Meyer, 1X0, presid-ing. Representativesfrom all four collegeswere present. By

virtue of their inherentpowers,a constitutionwas adoptedandthe four collegesconsecratedwith Chief Adepts as indicatedinthe abovecharters.

On the secondday of the meeting,Frater George0. Tyler(ShaweneganLodge, No. 134, Three Rivers, P.Q., Canada),a residentof Vermont and a very prominent Mason and manof considerablemeans,was admitted and High Council char-

teredBurlington (Vermont) College. It appearsthat the col-

lege was never actually formed for no record of it is in ourarchivesand nothing concerningsucha project is to be foundin the Masonicor secularpressof the period. The charter isnot in the,archivesof our High Council.

At this meeting,those piesentalso “reproclaimedsaid crea-

tion, formation, and constitution of such Society and Orderunder the Sovereigntitle SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANA IN

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, holding the Sov-ereign power of governing itself and regulatingall the Gradesof the Society of the Rosicrucianswithin the boundaryof theUnited States;of determining and perpetuatingthe ritual andphilosophyof the Society, in substantialaccordancewith thatunderwhich it was warranted.”

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Aside from variousactivities notedin the minutesof Massa-chusettsCollege and the printed record of all that has to dowith the original formationof the Society in the United States,thereareno minutesof High Council until 1908. In 1932whenFrater JosephW. Work, 1X0. was elected Secretary-General(havingbeenTreasurer-Generalsince 1908), he causeda per-manentMinute Book for Hig~i Council to be madeandcopiedinto it all of the recordsin possessionof High Council. Anyinformation relative to High Council’s activities between 1881and 1908 is, therefore, from externalsources.

A note in the minutes of MassachusettsCollege states thatWilliam RobertWoodman, S.M. in Anglia, The Earl of Kin-tore, S.M. in Scotia, William JamesHughan, Pas..J.S.M. inEngland,Colonel Win. J. B. MacLeod Moore, S.M. in Canada,and Prince Rhodocanakis,S.M. in Greece,weremadehonorarymembersof the High Council of the United Stateson Sep-tember 21, 1880, in Boston, Massachusetts.Whether or notFrater Woodman and the others were notified of this honorconferredupon them is questionablefor in 1887 FraterWood-man was madean Honorary90 in the Societyanda certificateissuedto that effect. It would seemthat this actionwould besuperfluoushad the first actionbeenconsummated.

On September16, 1885, the High Council of the UnitedStates met in the Hotel Brunswick, Boston, Massachusetts,and FratresSylvesterC. Gould and Dr. SeranusBowen wereduly receivedand elevatedto the VIII Grade,MagisterTempli—the ritual being performedby Frater Charles T. McClena-chan, 1X0, Secretary-General.

Brother George F. Moore, later Sovereign Grand Com-manderof the 4~ncient and Accepted Scottish Rite for theSouthern Jurisdi~tion of the United States, was given theVIII Grade by Frater Charles T. McClenachan,1X0, sometime in 1885, in the presenceof Most Worthy FraterW. J. B.MacLeod Moore, SupremeMagus in Canada,in Frater Mc-Clenachan’shotel room.

R.W.FRA. J. HUGO TATSCH, 1X0

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In July, 1887, nine Fratresfrom the Colleges in the UnitedStatesmadea social and businesstrip to Europe,as follows:

Charles E. Meyer, TX0 Supreme Magus

CharlesRoome,TX0 Senior SubstituteMagusAlfred F. Chapman,1X0 Junior Substitute MagusThomasJ. Shryock, 1X0 Treasurer-GeneralCharles T. McClenachan,TX0 Secretary-General

4 John Sartain,V1110Daniel Sutter, V1110

Charles W. Packer,VIII 0John L. Young, V1110The SocietasRosicrucianain Anglia (meeting on April 14,

1887) called a special General Convocationand a quarterlymeeting of Metropolitan College at Freemason’sHall, GreatQueen Street, London, on July 22, 1887, and received the

eminent Rosictuciansfrom the United Statesat a jubilee con-vocation. They were welcomedby Most WorthyFraterWood-man, SupremeMagus in Anglia, in an eloquent addressof

congratulation,who observedthat:The RosicrucianSociety of the United Statesof America was con-

ceived in England, born in Scotland,nurturedby York and now heartilywelcomed, and its dignity and importance recognized by a GeneralGrand Convocationof the Societiesin Anglia.

The Masterof the Temple, FraterRobert Roy, V1110, then

performedthe ceremonyof ZELATOR, assistedby Frater S.L. MacgregorMathers, as Conductor of Novices, Frater T.W. Memon, as Chaplain,and four Fratresas Ancients. TheSupremeMagus in the United Statesexpressedhis deepap-preciation of the work.

The Supreme~Magusin Anglia, Most Worthy Frater Wil-liam R. Woodman, ]X0, then conferred the Honorary 9thGrade upon FratresMeyer, Roome, Chapman,Shryock andMcClenachanand the Honorary8th Gradeupon FratresSar-tam, Sutter, Packer and Young. Certificates were granted

to eachFraterandthe record duly madein LIBER AUREUS,“The Golden Book,” on July 30, 1887. Following the convo-cation, the Fratresenjoyeda sumptuousbanquetat HolbornRestaurant.

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A facsimilecopy of FraterSartain’scertificatewill be foundin TITlE FOUR ELEMENTS by Frater Sartain, 2nd. ed.,n. d., with a frontispieceportrait of the author, royal octavo,in papercovers,30 pages. (A third edition was also printed.)Thecertificate is signedby Most Worthy FraterWilliam Rob-ert Woodman, SupremeMagus, and Right Worthy FraterWilliam Wynn Westcott, Secretary-General.

In October, 1887, the SupremeMagus in the United States,Most Worthy FraterCharlesF. Meyer, 1X0, conferredgradesHONORIS CAUSA upon four Fratresof the High Councilin Anglia as follows: The 9th Gradeon FratresWilliam RobertWoodman, SupremeMagus, William Wynn Westcott, Secre-tary-General,and JamesLewis Thomas,and the 8th rade onFraterRobert Roy. The certificateswereduly forwardedandacknowledged,and announcedon October 13, 1887, in Metro-politan College, London, at which quarterly meeting FraterJohnSartain of Philadelphia,Honorary 8th Grade,was pres-ent.

At this meeting, Frater Westcott read an interestingpaper,with comments, titled: “The Zelator Ritual of the SocietasRosicrucianaof the United Statesof America.” The full textof this lecturemay be found in the Transactionsof Metropoli-tan College for 1887. The following pertinentitems are con-tainedtherein:

Our American fratres, ever perseveringand energetic,had no soonersucceededin placing the Orderfirmly in its new home, than they set towork making researchesinto the printed books ol the forgotten pastand the curious collection of MSS., chiefly German,•concerning theRosicrucianswhich may yet be found in a survey of the greatlibrariesand the private collections of mystics. As a result of these labourstheir Nigh Council issued in 1883 a splendidly executedvolume of sup-plementary rituals ~nd lectures based upon all the Rosicrucian lorestill extant.***~~***

It should not be forgotten that although this presentexoteric So-ciety was developedby our lale M.W. Frater Little in 1866, assistedby our S.M. Dr. Woodman and by others, yet it was a rejuvenescenceof an earlier still extantexoteric one, overlying an esotericand veiledhierarchy, a reliable notice of whoseexistenceso late as 1836 is af- R.W.FRA. HARRY G. POLLARD, TX0

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forded by the ANACALYPSIS of Godfrey Higgins, see volume I,page723 and volume II, pages243 and 248. He statesthat, althoughworking on similar lines, he did not ioin the “Rosicrucians” then atwork becausehe was at ihe time of writing unwilling to fetter him-self in publishing his opinions.

The fratres may rest assuredthat the presentZelator ceremonyisessentiallyof ancientdate,although it be that this English High Coun-cil is not at liberty to makeits completegenealogypublic.

At the conclusionof the lecture we find the following note:The Historical Lecture of our fratres in the United Stateswas then

read, in extenso,but can not be here reproduced. MS. copies may beobtainedfrom the Secretary-Generalon applicationat 3s. each.

As mentionedabove, the High Council minutesin the pres-ent Minute Book begin in 1908. There is, however,ampleevidencefrom other sourcesthat High Council met at irregu-lar intervals, apparentlywhen the occasion required it. TheSociety in England, Scotland,Canada,and the United States

was contemporarywith the formation and activities of theRed Crossof Cdnstantineand most of the Officers and mem-bers of one were closely c.onnectedin the other. In fact oneis often confrontedwith Red Cross of Constantineactivitiesin Rosicrucianarchivesandvice versa—themeetingsfrequentlybeing on the same day or days. Hence,we have found evi-dence from this source that confirms our opinion concerning

meetingsof the Society.Following the death of the Supreme Magus, Charles E.

Meyer, High Council met in Boston,Massachusetts,on October7, 1908, with all of the living memberspresent,FraterThomas

J. Shryock presiding. The otherwere FratresRowell, Rich-ardson and Work. An election of officers resulted in thefollowing:

SupremeMagus ThomasJ. Shryock, Baltimore, Md.Senior SubstituteMagus EugeneA. Holton, Boston, Mass.Junior Substitute Magus Albert L. Richardson,Boston, Mass.Treasurer-General JosephW. Work, Newton, Mass.Secretary-General Benjamin W. Rowell, Lynn, Mass.

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SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANA IN CIVITATIBUSFOEDERATIS—PART II

Some time in 1911 three Masonic brethren in Minnesotawereadmitted to the college in Maryland. This is certain be-cause the following dispensatibnwas granted,preceding thefirst meetingheld in Minnesotaon November25, 1911:

Office of the SupremeMagus, High Council SocietasRosicrucianae[sic] ThomasJ. Shryock,9th0, Grand Magus.

By the power in me vested, I herebygrant this my DispensationtoFratresTrevanionWilliam Hugo, George Win. Buck and William Al-bert McGonagle,all of the Baltimore College, to open and hold a Col-lege of the Societas Rosicrucianae [sic], 4th Grade, for the State 9of Minnesota,at Duluth, andsuch further territory as theHigh Councilmay hereafterdesignate,and I do hereby appoint Frater TrevanionWilliam Hugo to have the power and right to confer the oidersup toand including the 4th Gradeupon such brethrenas they may selectasbeingfit andworthy to receivesame.

This Dispensationto continueuntil such time as the High Councilmay meet in session.

[Signed] ThomasJ. Shryock, 1X0SupremeMagus.

The dispensationwasnot dated. The first meetingwasheldin Duluth on the datementionedabovewhen nine nameswereballoted upon by the three Fratresmentionedin the dispensa-tion and declaredelected. How many more meetingsof thecollege were held is not certain but the minutes.and recordsof the college in the archivesof High Council show six more,as followsM~y 23, 1912—Duluth—3present—Addressof 6 pagesby T. W. HugoDec. 5, 1912—Du’luth—3 present—Ritualscopied—(3 copies)Dec. 6, 1913—Duluth—8present—Addressof 9 pagesby T. W. HugoSept. 19, 1915—St Paul—6presentand2 guests—Addresses,Dr. Cham-

berlain, 4 pages;andT. W. Hugo, 7 pagesJuly 25, 1918—St.Paul—3 present—CelebrantpresidedSept. 30, 1919—St. Paul—2present—Celebrantpresided R.W.FRA. JOsEPH W. WORK, TX0

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High Council met in Boston, Massachusetts,on June 14,1912. All five of the memberswere present. Frater T. W.Hugo was elevatedby conferring on him the VIII and IX

Gradesandthen electedto membershipin High Council. Min-nesota College was chartered with Frater Hugo as the firstChief Adept. The original Charteris in the archivesof HighCouncil andthe dateagreeswith the minutesof High Council.

4 A note in theminutesstatesthat on August8, 1912, thecharterfor “NorthwesternCollege,” as it was known, was forwardedto FraterThomasJ. Shryockfor his signature. It appearsthatthis was accomplishedas the original charterbearsall the sig-naturesof the Magi and Secretary-General.

The full membershipof Minnesota College with the fees

paid at the time of admissionare as follows:*Trevanion William Hugo, TX0 Charter $ 75*George William Buck, V110 Charter $ 75*William Albert McGonagle,V110 Charter $ 75*Jehiel Weston Chamberlin Nov. 25, 1911 $100Renwick Barwise Knox Nov. 25, 1911 $100

*William Hayes Laird Nov. 25, 1911 $100fjohn Fishel Nov. 25, 1911 $100Charles Wesley More Nov. 25, 1911 $100

*Robert Bdward Denfeld Nov. 25, 1911 $100*William Chester White Nov. 25, 1911 $100fNathaniel Pitt Langford Sept. 18, 1915 $100

According to the minutesof MinnesotaCollege, in 1913 sixof the membersbecame AssociateMembers of Metropolitan

College,London,principally to receivethe Transactionsof thatCollege. The Transactionsof that College, however, do notrecord such membership. These Fratres were Hugo, Buck,McGonagle,Laird, Fi~heI, andMore.

In a reporton the conditionof the Collegemadeout on July9, 1918, the namesof eight brethrenwho hadbeenelectedbut

not paidtheir feesaregiven. Onewasfor 1911, five for 1912,and two for 1915. As their namesdo not appearelsewherein the records,it is apparentthat they neverbecamemembers.

“Deceased. tAiSliated with New Jersey college.

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T. W. HugoJ. W. ChamberlinR E. DenfeldJohn Pishel

The first entry in the Treasurer’s book of the college isNovember 27, 1911, and the last October 14, 1914, at whichtime therewas$452.54in ibe account. The last entry in theMinute Book, however,is September30, 1919, when the col-lege was opened with Frater Chamberlin presiding and theonly other Frater present being John Fishel, Secretary-Treasurer. Attached to the minutes is a letter from ChiefAdept Hugo explaining the reasonsfor the meetingand givingconsentof the othermembers(who were absent)to what wasto take place. The minutes are self-explanatoryso they arequoted:

By direction of the Chief Adept, Frate~ T. W. Hugo, a meetingofNorthwest College, SocietasRosicruciana,was held at St. Paul, Minn.this 30th day of September,A D. 1919 at 12 :30 P.M. at which FraterJ. \V. Chamberlinand John Pishel were presentand FratresT. W.Hugo, W. A. McGonagle,G. W. Buck, R. B. Knox, C. W. More, R.E. DenfeldandW. E Richardsonwere constructivelypresent. (Italicsmine.)

AbrahamLouis Betz, GustaveSchultz, Clark FrancisBuck,Jr., andJensChristianNielsen, all of New Orleans,Louisiana,were recommendedby Frater T. W. Hugo and John Fishel.They were elected and granted demits and then the collegerecommendedto High Council an application for a new col-lege to be held in Louisiana. No one seemsto haveany fur-ther knowledge of what happenedto the application nor doesthereappearin High Councilminutesany referenceto this mat-ter, whatsoever. Suffice it to say that no collegewas charteredin Louisiana.

We now return to the meetingsof High Council, the nextbeing a specialconclaveheld at Boston,Massachusetts,on Sep-tember 30, 1912. Five of the six membersof High Council

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were present (Frater Hugo being absent). A vote to adoptthe rituals of the High Councils in Anglia and in Scotia wastakenwith the result that such a measurebecameofficial. Itwasalso voted in the affirmative that we enterinto the concor-dat with these two High Councils, as they had entered intosuch an agreementon March 23, 1911. R.W. FraterT. W.[lugo was electedPrimusAncient andFratresEverettC. Ben-ton, HenryN. Fisher and J. Albert Blake wereelevatedto theVIII Grade.

The next meeting of High Council was a special convoca-tion held on October26, 1916, in Boston,Massachusetts.Thedeathof R.W. FraterAlbert L. Richardson,IX”, Junior Sub-stitute Magus, was reported and Frater T. W. Hugo waselectedto fill the vacancy (he was the only absentee).

In the DULUTH MASONIC CALENDAR some timeearly in 1918 thereappearedanannouncementof a High Coun-cil, SocietasRosicruciana,meetinganda list of officers. Amongthose listed are ~breemembersof New York College, to wit:

GeorgeH. Fish,VIII” Brooklyn, N. Y. (died May 31, 1905)JamesF. Collins, VII]” Brooklyn, N. Y. (died April 2, 1896)Samuel Jones, VIII” New York, N. Y. (died Aug. 11, 1892)

I havealso come upon the nameof Frater JamesH. Cod-ding of New York as having been a memberof New YorkCollege.

The meetingwas apparentlycalled for the 16th of Septem-ber, 1918, but the recordin the Minute Book of High Councilshows that it was held on the 17th. We find the entry headed“ANN~AL MEETING, Boston, Massachusetts.”

On motion and by unanimousvote FratresBush, Hamilton,Blake, Pollard, Chamberlin,McGonagle,Buck and Fishel wereadvancedto the VIII Grade, Election of Officers resultedinthe following selections:EugeneA. Holton, IX”, Boston, Mass. SupremeMagusTrevanionW Hugo, IX”, Duluth, Minn. Senior Sub. MagusJ. Albert Blake, IX”, Boston, Mass. Junior Sub. MagusJosephW Work, IX”, Newton,Mass. Treasurer.General

On September18, 1915, the officers were:

Chief AdeptCelebrantExponentSecretary-Treasurer

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Benjamin W. Rowell, IX”, Boston, Mass.Arthur G. Pollard, VIII”, Lowell, Mass.Everett C. Benton, VIII”, Belmont, Mass.Jehiel W. Chamberlin,VIII”, St. Paul, Minn.William H. L. Odell, VII”, Dorchester,Mass.William A. McGonagle,VIII”, Duluth, Minn.E~rederick‘W. Hamilton, VIII”, Cambridge,MassSamP. Cochran,VIII, Dallas, TexasR. Perry Bush,VIII”, Chelsea,Mass.JamesS. Blake, VIII”, Allsto9, Mass.

John Fishel, VIII”, St. Paul, Minn.Winihrop C. Durfee, VII”, JamaicaPlains, Mass,

JosephH. Goodspeed,VII”, Boston,Mass.Charles C. Homer, Jr, IX”, Baltimore, Md.

Secretary-GeneralPrimus AncientSecundusAncientTertius AncientQuartus AncientQuintus AncientSextus AncientSeptimusAncientPrecentorConductorof

NovicesTorch BearerGuardian of the

CavernsMedallistHerald

This appearsto be the first time that all of the offices ofHigh Council in the United Stateswere filled.

At this meetinga charterwas grantedto TexasCollegewithSam P. Cochran, VIJI”, as first Chief Adept. The charterwas apparentlymade out with the date of April 4, 1918, butwaslost in transit andneverreceivedby FraterCochran. TheCollege wasset to work on February2, 1919.

The next meeting of High Council washeld on October 17,1918,whenFraterCharlesC. Homer, IX” of Baltimore, Mary-land, was authorizedto carry on Maryland College in view ofthe fact that the charter could not be locatedafter the deathof FraterThomasJ. Shryock on February3, 1918. The au-thorizationwas to continuein effect until revokedor the origi-nal charter found. Frater Homer died on March 9, 1923.Nothing further is known concerningthe college.

On September20, 1921, seven membersof High Councilmet in Boston,Massachusetts.The meetingwas presidedoverby FraterFrederickW. Hamilton. Nothing is mentionedcon-cerning who the SupremeMagus was, but apparentlyit wasM.W. Frater EugeneA. Holton who succeededto the officeupon the death of M.W. Frater Thomas J. Shryock. As

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FraterHolton was not presentat the meetingandthe electionof officers which took placedoesnot includea SupremeMagus,this assumptionis probablythe correctone. The result of theelectionwas as follows:

Frederick W. Hamilton Senior Substitute MagusJ. Albert Blalce Junior Substitute MagusJosephW. Work Treasurer-GeneralBenjamin W. Rowell Secretary-GeneralArthur G. Pollard Primus AncientEverett C. Benton SecundusAncientWilliam A. McGonagle Tertius AncientSamP. Cochran Quartus AncientR. Perry Bush Quintus AncientJamesS. Blake SextusAncientJohn Fishel SeptimusAncientCharlesC. Homer, Jr. PrecentorWinthrop C. Durfee Conductorof NovicesJamesH. Goodspeed Torch Bearer

FratresW. Wynn Westcott and SamuelW. Rogers of theHigh Council in Anglia weremade honorarymembersof theUnited StatesHigh Council.

On March 2t, 1927, MostWorthy FraterEugeneA. Holton,SupremeMagus,died andFrater FrederickW. Hamilton suc-ceededhim as SupremeMagus.

On May 9, 1931, Most Worthy FraterHamilton gavea dis-pensationto form a college, to be known as New JerseyCol-lege, to Brother 1-larold V. B. Voorhis, Mystic BrotherhoodLodge, No. 21, Red Bank, New Jersey. The organi~ationmeetingwasheld in Masonic Temple, New York City, on May22, 1931 (in Grand Lodge Library) and the secondorganiza-tion meeting in the apartmentsof Brother E. A. King of Pitts-burgh, Pennsylvania,in Washington,District of Columbia. Atthis meetinga petition was addressedto SupremeMagusnam-ing FraterRobert I. Clegg,VII”, who had receivedthe Gradesin MetropolitanCollege,London, England,to be Chief Adept,IX”. ,,( The ZELATOR Grade was received in person byFraterCleggoii January10, 1924). Henry R. Evans,Wash-

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ington, D. C., was namedas Celebrant;J. Hugo Tatsch,NewYork City, as Suifragan;Hiram E. Deats, Flemington, NewJersey,as Treasurer;and Harold V. B. Voorhis, Red Bank,New Jersey,as Secretary. The petition was signed by thirty-sevenfounders.

On October 29, 1931, a set of ordinanceswas approvedforNew JerseyCollegeby SupremeMagus.

On November 17, 1931, Frater Voorhis addressedtheFratres of MassachusettsCollege on the subject “The NewTriangle Masonic Derivalion Theory.”

On December3, 1931,Right Worthy FraterRobertI. Clegg,IX”, passedaway. The Secretarypreparedand issued,in thenameof New JerseyCollege, a memorialbrochure. Dr. HenryB. Evans,VII”, of Washington,D. C., Celebrant,assumedtheposition of acting Chief Adept.

On February 5, 1932, Supreme Magus appointed FraterHarold V. B. Voorhis,Chief Adept of NewJerseyCollege,andelevatedhim to the IX Gradeand FraterFrederickT. Hurley,VII”, was appointedacting Secretaryof the college.

On May 10, 1932, High Council met in Washington,D. C.,with the SupremeMagus,Most Worthy FraterFrederickW.Hamilton, IX”, presiding. The appointmentof Right WorthyFrater Voorhis as Chief Adept, IX”, of New JerseyCollegewas confirmed. FratresJ. Hugo Tatsch and Harry 0. Pol-lard wereelevated to the IX Grade. Election of officers washeld with the following results:FrederickW. Hamilton, IX”, Mass. College SupremeMagusArthur D. Prince, IX”, Mass. College Senior Substitute MagusJ. Hugo Tatsch, IX”, N. J. College Junior SubstituteMagusHarry G. Pollard, IX”, Mass. College Treasurer-GeneralJosephW. Work, IX”, Mass. College Secretary-General

A charter was issued for New JerseyCollege with RightWorthy Frater Harold V. B. Voorhis, IX”, as first ChiefAdept.

It was moved and carried to issue a duplicate charter forTexasCollege as the original hadbeenlost in the mails.

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New JerseyCollege held its first annualconvocationin thenewly dedicatedGeorge Washington Masonic National Me-morial building at Alexandria, Virginia, on May 13, 1932.The charterwas presentedto the newcollegeby Right WorthyI~rater J. Hugo Tatsch, 1X0, acting for High Council, andFrater Voorhis was given his certificate for the IX Grade.Following the consecrationof the college, the election of offi-cers was held and,after the regular businesswas transacted,the collegewas closed.

Following this meetingFratresJ. Ray. Shute,II, J. I~dwardAllen, and Kennon W. Parham, all of North Carolina, ap-proachedthe Chief Adept with the idea o forming a collegeinthe Stateof North Carolina. During the next few monthscor-respondencewasenteredinto concerningsucha project, whichculminatedon August 27, 1932, when thesethree Fratrespe-titioned SupremeMagus for a dispensationto open a collegeto be known as Nprth Carolina College. On August29, 1932,this petition was approvedby Right Worthy Frater HaroldV. B. Voorhis, 1X0, Chief Adept of the New JerseyCollege,for New JerseyCollege,and the SupremeMagus grantedthedispensation.

On September13, 1932,High Council met in Boston, Massa-chusetts,in special convocation,five members being present(Hamilton, Prince, Tatsch,Work and Pollard) and grantedacharterfor North Carolina College,namingJ. Ray. Shute,II,(PastMasterof MonroeLodge, No. 244, andthe North Caro-lina Lodge of Research,No. 666) as Chief Adept. The charteris datedSeptember9,1932.

Formal and actual consecrationof the college took place onJanuary IA, 1933, in Hotel Carolina,Raleigh,North Carolina.The election of officers and other businessmatters were car-ried out and the newly appointedChief Adept, Right WorthyFrater Shute, delivered an addresstitled: “The RosicrucianSociety.’>’ Following the dinner, a paper entitled, “Notes onAncient Religion,” was read by FraterH. McNeill Poteat.

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At High Council meetingof September13, 1932, SupremeMagus madethe following Gradeelevations:

J. Ray. Shute, II, IX” North Carolina CollegeSamuel A. Vanner, VIII” MassachusettsCollegeJohn L. Stevens,VIII” Texas CollegeHiram E. Beats,VIII” New JerseyC6llegeFrederickT. Hurley, VIII” New Jersey CollegeJohn EdwardAllen, VIII” North Carolina CollegeKennon W. Parham,VIII” North Carolina College

On November10, 1932,a specialconvocationof High Coun-cil was held in Boston,Massachusetts,with FratresHamilton,Prince,Tatsch,Work and Pollardpresent. At this meetingthefee for the first two gradeswas reducedto $10.00, the yearlyHigh Council fee for eachcollegewas made$1.00permemberand $2.00 for newly mademembersduring the year. Certainother changesin the constitutionof High Council were madeand it wasorderedprinted.

Only July 17, 1933, a specialconvocationof High Councilwas again held in Boston, Massachusetts.In the absenceofthe SupremeMagus, Rt. Worthy Frater Arthur D. Prince,IXI”, Senior SubstituteMagus, presided. (Present: Prince,Tatsch, Work, Shute,Brown.)

Dispensations were grantedfor two new Colleges: 1. Vi r-ginia College with Dr. William Moseley Brown, VII”, actingChief Adept. 2. United Forces College with Major J. HugoTatsch,IX”, actingChief Adept. The matterof the changeof

the nameof the Society was taken into considerationand re-ferredto SupremeMagus.

On December27, 1933, the Annual Convocationof HighCouncil was held in Boston,Massachusetts. (Present:Ham-ilton, Tatsch, Work, Pollard, Voorhis and Chipman). A fewminor changesin the Constitution were adopted; a definiteregulationregardingJewelsfor the Societyandchangeof namewas adopted. The printing of a ZELATOR Ritual was leftin the handsof the Magi.

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Supreme Magus appointed the following Committee onHistory:

Harold V. B. Voorhis, IX”, ChairmanJ. Edward Allen, VIII”William MoseleyBrown, VII”

SupremeMagus made the following EIGHTH GRADEelevations:

Henry R. Evans Ray V. Denslow

EdgarW. Timberlake Curtis ChipmanHerbert W. Dean D. Rufus Cheney

Electionof additionalmembersto High Council washeld forthe periodending at the Annual Convocationin 1935, at whichtime the next Annual Election is in order for the “Representa-tive Council” (SeeSection4—Constitution of High Council).

On January26, 1934, the SupremeMagus elevated FratresHubert M. Poteatand FrankC. Abernethyto the VIII Grade.

The CharterofVirginia College is datedApril 20, 1934,andis madeout in thenameof Dr. William MoseleyBrown (GrandMaster of Masons of Virginia) who was appointed ChiefAdept, IX”, by the SupremeMagus.

On May 7, 1934, theSupremeMagusauthorizedRt. WorthyFratresTatsch,Voorhis and Shute to conductthe consecrationof Virginia College with Dr. William Moseley Brown as ChiefAdept. This authorizationwas carried out on June23, 1934,in the JohnMarshall Hotel at Richmond,Virginia, after theconferring of the Eighth Gradeon FratresWilliam MoseleyBrown, C. Vernon Eddy and E. Fenno Heathand the NinthGrade on Frater William Moseley Brown. The election ofofficers and other businessmatters were carried out and thenewly madeChief Adept Rt. Worthy FraterBrown deliveredan eloquentaddresson IRosicrucianism. Dinner was servedatthe hote4.

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Chapter VIIIHigh Council at this time consistsof:ACTIVE REPRESENTATIVES

SupremeMagusSenior Sub. MagusJunior Sub. MagusTreasurer-GeneralSecretary-GeneralPrimus AncientSecundusAncientTertius AncientQuartiusAncientQuintus AncientSextus AncientSeptus Ancient

Frederick W. Hamilton, IX”Arthur D. Prince, IX”J. Hugo Tatsch, IX”Harry C. Pollard, IX”JosephW. Work, IX”Sam P. Cochran,IX”Edgar W. Timberlalce, VIII”HerbertW. Dean,V[II”Ray V. Denslow,VIII”Curtis Chipman, VIII”D. Rufus Cheney,VI [I”Albert A. Schaefer,VIII”

ASSOCIATE REPRESENTATIVES

Chief Adept Mass. CollegeChief Adept, Texas CollegeChief Adept, N. J. CollegeChief Adept,N. C. CollegeChief Adept, Va. CollegeCelebrant,Mass. CollegeCelebrantN. J. CollegeCelebrant,N. C. CollegeCelebrant,Va. College

Arthur D. Prince, IX”Sam P. Cochran, IX”‘Harold V. B. Voorhis, IX”J. RaymondShute,II, IX”William M. Brown, IX”Curtis Chipman, V1110GodfreyPittis, VII”J. EdwardAllen, VII]”ClarenceJ. West, VII”

FRATRES WHO HAVE ATTAINED THE VIIIAND IX GRADES

1. CHARLES E. [VIEYER

Born—Philadelphia,Pa., 1839.

Died—Philadelphia,Pa., January15, 1908.

Picture—Reproducedherewith.

Master Mason—Melita Lodge, No. 295, Phil., Pa., June3, 1860.

2. ALBERT G. GOODALL

Born—Montgomery,Ala., October 31, 1826.

Died—NewYork, N. Y., February 19, 1887.Picture—Proc.A.A.S.R. (N.J.) 1887.

MasterMason—MontgomeryLodge, No. 19, Phil., Pa.,

September21, 1854.ResignedNovember7, 1872.AlT. Holland Lodge, No. 8, New York, N. Y., March

11, 1873.

OTHER MEMBERS OF THIRD ORDER

(Having No Vote in H. C.)

Samuel A. Vanner, VIII”John Fishel, V1110Donald J. Sargent,VIII”Hiram E. Deats, VIII”Frederick T. Hurley, VIII”Kennon W. Parham,VIII”Frank C. Abernethy, VIII”HubertMcN. Poteat,VIII”E. Fenno Heath, VIII”C. VernonEddy, VIII”

3. ALFRED F. CEAPMAN

Born—Fort Lawrence, Nova Scotia, September7, 1829.Mass. CollegeN. J. CollegeN. J. CollegeN. J. CollegeN. J. CollegeN. C. CollegeN. C. CollegeN. C. CollegeVa. CollegeVa. College

Died—Boston, Mass., March 20, 1891. -

Picture—Proc.GeneralGrandChapter,R.A.M., 1886.

Master Masbn—St. Paul’s Lodge, Boston, Mass., July12, 1859.

AlT. MassachusettsLodge, Boston, Mass., April 16,1860.

AlT. Zetland Lodge, Boston, Mass. Charter Wor.Master.

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4. THOMAS J. SHRYOCKBorn—Baltimore, Md., February 27, 1851.Died—Baltimore,Md., February3,1918.Picture—Trans.A.S.S.R. (S.J.) 1919.MasterMason—WaverlyLodge, No. 152, Baltimore, Md..

August 20, 1874.

5. CHARLES T. McCLENACHANBorn—Washington,D. C., April 13, 1829.Died—New York, N. Y., December10, 1896.Picture—Proc.A.A.S.R. (N.J.) 1897.MasterMason—MunnLodge, No. 190, New York, N. Y.,

March 17, 1854.Demitted February2, 1855.Aff. EmpireCity Lodge, No. 206, New York, N. Y.,

February15, 1855.Demitted June 1, 1857. —

Aff. Howard Lodge, No. 35, New York, N. Y., De-cember23, 1856.

Stricken from roll on October 11, 1867.Re-Aif. March 22, 1872.Dropped at own requeston December11, 1885.Aif. Chancellor Walworth Lodge, No. 271, New

York, N. Y., Dec. 23, 1885.

6. GEORGE0. TYLERBorn—L1owell, Mass., September19, 1837.Died—Somerville,Mass., October 11, 1911.Picture—Proc.A.A.S.R. (N.J.) 1912.Master Mason—ShaweneganLodge, No.

Rivers, P.Q., Canada,March 12, 1862.134, Three

7. BENJAMIN WINSLOW ROWThLLI~orn—Chichester,N. H., August 18, 1845.Died—Lynn, Mass., August 22, 1927.Picture—Proc.A.A.S.R. (N.J.) 1928.Master Mason—St. Paul’s Lodge, South Boston, Mass.,

April 7,1877.

R.W.FRA. WM. M. BROWN

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8. CHARLES ROOMEBorn—New York City, N. Y., August 4, 1812.Died—New York City, N. Y., June28, 1890.Picture—Proc. A.A.S.R. (N.J.) 1890.Master Mason—KaneLodge, No. 454. NeW York. N. Y.,

January2, 1866.

9 JOHN HAIGHBorn—Dukefie[d, Cheshire, England, December31, [832.Died—Somerville,Mass., August20, 1896.Picture—Proc.Grand Council, R. & SM. Mass., 1884Master Mason—GrecianLodge, Lawrence, Mass., March

14, 1860.Demitted September29, 1871.CharterMember PhoenicianLodge, Lawrence,Mass.,

November 5, 1870.

10. ALBF2RT C. SMITHBorn—Boston,Mass., March 14, 1845.Died—B6ston,Mass., August 24, 1921.Picture—Proc. A.A.S.R. (N.J.) 1921.Master Mason—JosephWarren Lodge, Boston, Mass.,

March 24, 1868.

11. CALEB SAUNDERSBorn—Andover, Mass., September4, 1838.Died—Lawrence, Mass., December 19, 1917.

Picture—In office of Grand Commandery‘of Mass.& R.I., Boston, Mass.

MasterMason—TusconLodge, Lawrence,Mass., Decem-ber 10, 1863.

Demitted September25, 1871.CharterMemberPhoenicianLodge, Lawrence,Mass.,

November 5, 1870.

12. WILLIAM T. R. MARVINBorx~—Boston, Mass., December 30, 1832.Died—Brookline, Mass., February24, 1913.

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Picture—Historyof ColumbianLodge, 1795-1895.(Mass.)Master Mason—Columbia Lodge, Boston, Mass., June

3,1858.

13. SERANUSBOWENBorn-~--Abington,Mass., February14, 1840.Died—Boston,Mass., April 7,1899.Picture—Proc.Grand Council R. & S.M. of Mass., 1894.MasterMason—St.John’s Lodge, Boston,Mass., Septem-

ber 4,1865.Demitted October 6, 1873.Aft. St. Alban’s Lodge, Foxboro, Mass., June9, 1873.Demitted January6, 1879.Aft. Washington Lodge, Roxbury, Mass., June 11,1885.

14. EUGENE A. HOLTONTBorn—Nashua,N. H., January-13, 1847.Died—Boston, Mass., March 21, 1927.Pictuxe—A.A.S.R. (N.J.) 1927.Master Mason—JosephWarren Lodge, Boston, Mass.,

October22, 1872.

15. ALBERT LEWIS RICHARDSONBorn—Boston,Mass., November 20, 1846.Died—Boston,Mass., March 17, 1914.Picture—Proc.A.A.S.R. (N.J.) 1914.MasterMason—Mt. LebanonLodge, Boston,Mass., June

[2, 1871.

16. JOSEPHWILLIAM WORKBorn—Newburyport,Mass., May 20, 1852.Died—Picture—Reproducedherewith.Master Mason—St. John’s Lodge, Newburyport, Mass.,

April 4,1878.DemittedDecember3, 1885.AfT. Columbian Lodge, Boston, Mass., January 7,

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17. TREVANION WILLIAM HUGO

Born—Bodinnoc,Cornwall, England,July 24, [848.Died—Duluth, Minn., February 27, 1923.Picture—Trans.A.A.S.R. (S.J.) 1923.Master Mason—MindenLodge, No. 253, Kingston, Ont.,

Canada,April 4, 1872.Demitted October 1, 1888.AfT. Palestine Lodge, No. 79. Duluth, Minn., De-

cember3, 1888.

[8. CHARLES CHRISTOPHER HOMER, JR.

Born—Baltimore,Md., October 15, 1870.Died—Baltimore,Md., March 9, 1923.Picture—Trans.A.A.S.R. (S.J.) 1923.Master Mason—GermaniaLodge, No.

Md., June 1,1896.160, Baltimore,

19. SAMUEL POYNTZ COCHRAN

Born—Lexington, Kentucky, September11, 1855.Died—Picture—Reproducedherewith.Master Mason—GoldenRule Lodge, No.

Ky., August2,1880.Demitted April 4, 1898.AfT. Dallas Lodge, No. 760, Dallas,

1898.

345, Covington,

Texas, April 4,

20. FREDERICKWILLIAM HAMILTONBorn—Portland,Maine, March 30, 1860.Died—Picture—Reproducedherewith.Master Mason—Atlantic Lodge, No. 81, Portland, Me.,

November29, 1881.Demitted April 20, 1892.AfT. Union Lodge, No. 10, Pawtucket, R. I., June

8, 1892.

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Demitted November7, 1900.AfT. Washington Lodge, Somerville, Mass., Jan. 10,

1901.

CharterMemberSomervilleLodge, Somervil[e, Mass.,September11, 1913.

21. JOHN ALBERT BLAKE

Born—Danvers, Mass., April 15, 1843.

Died—Maiden, Mass.,November27, 1926.Picture—Proc.A.A. SR. (N.J.) 1927.Master Mason—Amity Lodge, Danvers, Mass., July 13,

1866.

22. ARTHUR DOW PRINCE

Born—Lowell, Mass., July 5, 1867.Died—Picture—Peproducedherewith.

Niaster Mason—William North Lodge, Lowell, Mass.,April 15, 1891.

Aff. Kilwinning Lodge, Lowell, Mass., May 29, 1918.Charter Member William Sewall Gardner Lodge,

Lowell, Mass.,April 3, 1929.

23. ROBERT INGRAHAM CLEGG

Born—Accrington, Lancashire,England, May 13, 1866.Died—Cleveland,Ohio, December3, 1931.Picture—THEBUILDER—February,1928.Master Mason—Tyrian Lodge, No. 370, Cleveland,Ohio,

January24, 1906.

2’1. HAROLD VAN BUI?EN VOORHIS

Born—Red Bank, N. J., January3, 1894.Died—Picture—Reproducedherewith.Ma~sier Mason—Mystic BrotherhoodLodge, No. 21, Red

Bank, N. J., June11, 1920.

25. JACOB HUGO TATSCH

Born—Milwaukee, Wis., January29, 1888.Died—Picture—Reproducedherewith.Master Mason—OrientalLodge, No. 74, Spokane,Wash.,

June28, 1909.

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26. HARRY G. POLLARD

Born—Lowell, Mass., February 19, 1875.Died—Picture—Reproducedherewith.

MasterMason—AncientYork Lodge, Lowell, Mass.,June11, 1896.

Charter Member William Seawall Gardner Lodge,Lowell, Mass., March 31, 1929.

27. JOHN RAYMOND SHUT~, II

Born—Monroe, North Carolina,January14, 1904.Died—

Picture—Reproducedherewith.Master Mason—MonroeLodge, No. 244, Monroe, N. C.,

April 29, 1926.Charter Wor. Master North Carolina Lodge of Re-

seaxch,No. 666, Monroe, N. C., Nov. 7, 1930.

28. WILLIAM MOSnLEY BROWN

Born—Lynchburg,V~i., February27, 1894.Died—Picture—Reproducedherewith.MasterMason—MountainCity Lodge, No. 67, Lexington,

Va., January2, 1923.

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FRATRES WHO HAVE ATTAINED THE VIII GRADE

1~.*Sy1vesterC. Gould2~~*GeorgeF. Moore3*John Sartain4-....*Daniel Sutter5*Charles W. Packer

6~*John Llewellyn Young7*Everett C. Benton

8~*Henry N. Fisher9...*GeorgeH. Fish

1O~~*JamesF. Collins11 —‘~SamueIJones12~*R. Perry Bush13~*JamesS. Blake1~4~*Arthur G. Pollard

15~*Wi]liam A. McGonagle16~*JehielW. Chamberlin17~~*GeorgeW. Buck18— JohnFishel19— Samuel A. Vanner20~*John L. Stevens21— Hiram E. Deats22— FrederickT. Hurley23— JohnEdward Allen24— Kennon W. Parham25— HenryR. Evans26— EdgarW. Timberlake27— HerbertW. Dean28— Ray V. Denslow29— Curtis Chipman30— D. Rufus Cheney31— HubertM. Poteat32— Frank C. Abernethy33— C. Vernon E~ddy34— E. Fenno Heath35— Albert A. Schaefer

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