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OFFICES 
 
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 CONSTITUTION AND INAUGURATION 
 
 COUNCIL OF KNIGHTS KADOSH, 
 
 INSTALLATION OF ITS OFFICERS, 
 
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CONSTITUTION AND INAUGURATION. 
 
OFFICES 
 
 CONSTITUTION AND INAUGURATION. 
 
 This ceremonial is especially prepared to be used 
 "when a Council of Kadosh is to be constituted and 
 inaugurated, and its officers installed by the Grand 
 Commander-in-chief of a Grand Consistory, assisted 
 b}' members of the same. A Sovereign or Deputy 
 Grand Inspector-general performing it, will easily 
 make the necessary changes, observing that the pas- 
 sages included between double asterisks will be 
 omitted by him. 
 
 The Hall must be fitted up in the most brilliant 
 manner, prepared and arranged as the fourth apart- 
 ment on occasions of reception. 
 
 The officers and members occupy their usual seats, 
 and wear the clothing and insignia of the Degree. 
 
 In the East are a sufficient number of chairs for the 
 officers of the Council. That of the Grand Master is 
 in the centre ; and those of the others on his right 
 and left, in due order. 
 
 The Altar is covered with a black cloth, sprinkled 
 with tears of silver, and fringed Avith silver. On it 
 
12 OFFICES OF CONSTITUTION 
 
 are the Holy Scriptures, the Book of Constitutions, a 
 Templar Cross [triple], of acacia-wood, two naked 
 swords, crossed, and two Kadosh daggers ; and 
 around these, three skulls wreathed with laurel. 
 
 Over the West is a transparency, representing De 
 Molai burning at the stake. Over him are the words 
 " Dieu Je Veut : Spes mea in Beo est." In the East are 
 a Roman Cap of Liberty and a Shepherd's Crook. 
 
 If the officers of the new Council have been elected 
 and appointed, they will occupy their proper stations 
 and posts. 
 
 The elective officers of a Council [or Comm.andery\ are : 
 
 1°. The Commander. 
 
 2°. The First Lieutenant-commander [or Prior]. 
 3°. The Second Lieutenant-commander [or Precep- 
 tor]. 
 
 4°. The Chancellor. 
 5°. The Orator. 
 6°. The Almoner. 
 7°. The Recorder. 
 8°. The Treasurer. 
 
 The appointed officers are : 
 
 9°. The Marshal of Ceremonies. 
 10°. The Turcopilar, or Commander of the Cavalry. 
 11°. The Draper. 
 12°. The First Deacon. 
 13°. The Second Deacon. 
 14°. The Bearer of the Beauseant. 
 
AND INAUGURATION. 13 
 
 15°. The Bearer of the Second Standard. 
 16°. The Bearer of the Third Standard. 
 17°. The Lieutenant of the Gruard. 
 18°. The Sentinel. 
 
 If it is the Grand Commander-in-chief who is to perform the 
 ceremony, and he has assistance, the officers and members 
 of the Grand Consistory who may be present, or those repre- 
 senting them, assemble in an adjoining room, and form procession 
 precisely as in constituting a Lodge of Perfection. Their 
 presence is announced, and they are introduced and received 
 precisely in the same manner as there, with no other differences 
 than those of the titles of the ofScers of the Council, and the 
 like, up to the point where the procession halts, after passing 
 under the arch of steel. 
 
 If the Ceremony is to be performed by the Grand Com- 
 mander-in-chief, or by a Sovereign or Deputy Grand Inspector- 
 General, without assistance, he will be announced, enter, and be 
 received according to his rank, and as nearly as possible in the 
 same manner. 
 
 When the procession or Installing Officer (O), halts, the 
 
 MUSIC STOPS, 
 
 and the Commander Elect, standing with his sword at the 
 salute, will say [unless he prefers to exteraj)orize an address] : 
 
 Com.'. Illustrious G-rand Commander-in-chief, the 
 honors we pay you are but the feeble expression of a 
 profound gratification. Invested with the honors of ■ 
 knighthood, we are anxious to labor with efficiency for 
 the cause that for more than five hundred years has 
 seemed to be lost, against the spiritual and tempoi'al 
 despots. Knowing the power of union and organi- 
 zation, and the comparative inability of isolated 
 
14 OFFICES OF CONSTITUTION 
 
 individual effort, we desire to be constituted and 
 inaugurated a Commandeiy of the Order of Kadosh, 
 a word whose meaning we fully understand. Formed 
 into an organized military and chivalric corps, it will 
 be our constant endeavor to do our duty as Knights, 
 not to win love and honor, or the guerdon of men's or 
 fair women's applause, but, as soldiers of the Cross, 
 who have taken the three vows, to serve God and our 
 country, and the sacred cause of Liberty, Equality, 
 and Human Brotherhood. 
 
 We have learned the first lesson of wisdom, Illus- 
 trious Brother, since we no longer imagine ourselves 
 wise, but are conscious how little we know of the 
 true mysteries of Masonry, of its history and phi- 
 losophy. Prometheus brought fire from Heaven, and 
 from it light flowed among men ; and for this Zeus 
 chained him upon frosty Caucasus, and the immortal 
 vulture gorged upon his vitals. It was still a crime, 
 live hundred years ago, to think and reason ; and 
 not ambition or blasphemy but audacious inquiry 
 awakened the fears of Pontiffs, and caused them to 
 subsidize kings, to destroy an Order which, when it 
 began to think for itself, became formidable. But 
 to-day, knowledge is no longer the forbidden fruit, to 
 eat which is to die ; and we desire to learn, since the 
 wise are like the Gods, knowing good from evil. 
 
 We desire to work, in loving-kindness, for the good 
 of men. We know that 
 
 "True work, true love, can spare the laurelled brow ; 
 The £;reat are Greatest with no diadem." 
 
AND INAUGUEATION. 15 
 
 O/. Very Eminent Commander Elect, we beg you 
 to be assured of our high consideration and esteem 
 for yourself and for these good Knights of the Holy 
 House of the Temple, over whom, when they shall have 
 been constituted a Council, we do not doubt you will 
 worthily rule. We greatly rejoice at the organi- 
 zation of every new body of the Ancient and 
 Accepted Scottish Eite ; and especially when a new 
 Commandery of the Fellow Soldiery of the Temple 
 takes its place by the side of those already in the 
 service, prepared to do battle in the great cause to 
 which we are devoted, and to defend the banners of 
 our ancient Order. With every such addition to our 
 strength, the day draws nearer, for which mankind has 
 sighed so long, when persecution, religious or political, 
 will be impossible, and the atrocities of tyranny will 
 be hated only in history. No church can even now 
 burn a Savanarola, a Servetus, or a Latimer, imprison 
 a Galileo, direct an Eve of Saint Bartholomew, or 
 arm the dragoons of the Cevennes. No king can now 
 send a hundred noble knights, headed by a de Molai, 
 to the stake, or commission an Alva, or slay with the 
 axe or by the fagot those who deny his spiritual su- 
 premacy. No Commodus or Caligula will reappear 
 in the civilized world, to wear the imperial purple, 
 nor will a horse ever again be consul, or a barber be 
 minister to a Louis the Eleventh. 
 
 It is now the excesses of the people, when roused 
 to revolution, or familiar with the bloody horrors of 
 civil war, or drunken with the wine of victory, that arc 
 
16 OFFICES OF CONSTITUTION 
 
 to be dreaded. It is they who are to be taught by the 
 wise and good, to use power with moderation, and 
 after success to remember mercy. 
 
 This is not to be effected by again subjecting them 
 to new tyrants. Neither do we seek, like the Jesuits, 
 to reign over people and kings. To chain the lunatic 
 and cage him, restrains, but does not cure him. 
 Neither arbitrary power nor the arms of knighthood 
 can educate the people to toleration and generosity. 
 In the middle ages, the Orders that wore the white 
 and the red cross too often became instruments of 
 persecution for the Church, as a soldiery enlisted in 
 its service. If, now, they assist by arms to overthrow 
 tyrants, it is not by arms that they must reform the 
 people, eradicate errors, and prevent the ruin of 
 the State, but by means more familiar to Masonry. 
 In this great work, not of freeing men as wild beasts 
 are freed, by unchaining them, but by humanizing 
 them, and educating their hearts and souls as well as 
 their intellects. Masonry and Eeligion ought to be 
 allies ; and will be so, when each again becomes 
 what it once was and always should have continued 
 to be. 
 
 The people always think that 
 
 " Endurance is a crime, 
 That those who wait for justice never gain it ; 
 And that the multitudes are most sublime, 
 When, rising armed, they combat to obtain it. 
 And coming to love blood, as leaves love dew. 
 Seek not alone their rights, but vengeance too." 
 
AND INAUGUKATION. 17 
 
 He should think more than once, that desires to 
 stir angry thoughts in the bosom of a people, and so 
 to excite them to civil war. The wrath and revenge 
 of a people are fearfully energetic, and teem with the 
 direst horrors. They steam up from the lowest Hell. 
 Their rage and revenge, ungoverned by wisdom, 
 
 "Are bad and dangerous thoughts; for well we know, 
 From the sad history of all times aud places, 
 
 That fire and brand and social overthrow 
 Lead but to harder grinding of the faces 
 
 Of those who fight and toil, when all is over." 
 
 The time has come when despotisms may be over- 
 thrown without bloodshed, and kings driven from 
 thrones without anarchy and general license to mur- 
 der and rob. It is for us to use the arms furnished by 
 Eeason, Faith, and Loving-kindness, and so 
 
 " To wait in patience through the night of sorrow, 
 
 And watch the coming glimpses of the dawn 
 That shall assure us of a brighter morrow." 
 
 You have not been asked to promise that you will 
 draw the sword in defence of any religion. Not 
 religion, but creeds, would under that promise claim 
 your swords. You are the Soldiery of the Masonic 
 Temple, of Peace and Toleration, and your warfare 
 is for all the rights of man — among them and chiefly, 
 for the rights of conscience. 
 
 Confident that you understand your knightly duties, 
 and believing that, when constituted, so as to be able 
 to act in concert, you will zealously and efficiently 
 perform them, it will give us much pleasure now to 
 
18 OFFICES OF CONSTITTJTION 
 
 proceed to constitute and inaugurate your Council, 
 and to put you in possession of its Letters-Patent of 
 Constitution, which are to be your TVarrant and Com- 
 mission as a Corps of the Soldiery of that Cross which 
 is the symbol of the devotedness and disinterested 
 zeal that loves to sacrifice itself for others. 
 
 MUSIC. 
 
 The Commander lays aside his sv.'ord, leaves the Throne, 
 advances to Q, and taking his dagger by the point, presents him 
 the handle. O receives it, grasps cordially the Commander's 
 hand, and returns him the dagger. The Commander then 
 respectfully conducts him to the Throne, and stands on his left. 
 
 MUSIC STOPS. 
 
 ©.". Let all the officers, elect and appointed, of the 
 Council of Kadosh now to be constituted, take their 
 respective stations and posts, and let the knights 
 occupy the valleys ! * * Illustrious Brethren, Officers, 
 and Members of the Grand Consistory, advance to the 
 East.* * 
 
 MUSIC. 
 When these directions have been obeyed, the 
 MUSIC STOPS. 
 
 O.". Princes, Knights, Brethren, be seated! 
 
 [The Officers and Members of the Grand Consistory, or those 
 representing them, or assisting O, take seats on the East, on the 
 right and left of the Throne, the highest in rank nearest it, 
 alternately, on either side. Then the Choir or Brethren sing the 
 foUowincr Chant: 
 
AND INAUGURATION. 
 
 19 
 
 CHANT. 
 
 Benedictus Deus Domi- 
 nus Israel, quia visitavit 
 et fecit redemptionem ple- 
 bis su£e. 
 
 Salutem ex inimicis nos- 
 tris et de manu omnium 
 qui oderuut nos. 
 
 Ad faciendam miseri- 
 cordiam cum patribus 
 nostris : et memorari tes- 
 tamenti sui sancti. 
 
 Ut sine timore de 
 manu inimicorum nostro- 
 rum, liberati serviamus 
 illi. 
 
 In sanctitate et justitia 
 coram ipso, omnibus die- 
 bus nostris. 
 
 Sit nomen Domini be- 
 nedictum, ex hoc nunc, 
 et usque in sseculum. 
 Amen! 
 
 Blessed be the Lord 
 God of Israel, because He 
 hath visited and wrought 
 the redemption of His 
 people. 
 
 Salvation from our ene- 
 mies, and from the hand 
 of all who hate us. 
 
 To perform mercy to 
 our fathers, and to re- 
 member His holy cove- 
 nant. 
 
 That being delivered 
 from the hand of our 
 enemies, we may serve 
 Him without fear. 
 
 In holiness and justice 
 before Him all our days. 
 
 Blessed be the name 
 of the Lord, from hence- 
 forth, now and forever. 
 Amen ! 
 
 In lieu of the Chant, may be sung the following 
 
 ODE. 
 
 The burden of the song we sing. 
 
 Serene or glad, shall preach to sorrow- 
 
20 OFFICES OP CONSTITUTION 
 
 That sunshine follo-\vs after rain, 
 
 And after darkest night a morrow ; — 
 
 That those who strive with evil days, 
 
 If their own strength they would but measure, 
 
 Might turn endurance into joy, 
 
 And outward woe to inward pleasure. 
 
 For earth, though filled with care and grief, 
 
 Has joy for those who wisely seek it ; 
 And if the heart be truly taught. 
 
 It may defy the world to break it ; 
 That Truth and Honor are not names. 
 
 But things, to those who prize them given ; 
 And that the more we love our kind. 
 
 The more we make this earth like heaven. 
 
 When the Chant or Ode is finished, O, rapping c5 , says : 
 
 0.". Let all officers, elect and appointed, of the 
 Council to be constituted, resign their stations and 
 posts * * to the oflicers and members of the Grand 
 Consistory, [or, to the Sublime Princes who are here 
 to occupy them], * * first surrendering the insignia of 
 their respective ofBces to the Grand Master of Cere- 
 monies. 
 
 MUSIC. 
 
 During -whicli 7i receives the insignia of all the ofiiccrs, elect 
 and appointed, of the Council, except the Commander, and lays 
 them upon the altar. He then conducts each of the oiScers of 
 the Grand Consistory, or of those who accompany O, and are 
 appointed by him to fill the stations, to their designated stations, 
 bescinnins; with the lowest in rank. 
 
AND INAUGURATION. 21 
 
 As each, approaolies the Station, the occupant rises, bows, 
 retires from it by the left, halts in front, faces the officer who 
 has taken his place, and salutes with the sword. Then he is 
 conducted by 2f to the proper seat in the East, or between the 
 Throne and the Altar. 
 
 When all the officers elect are thus replaced, the 
 
 MUSIC STOPS. 
 Then © says : 
 
 O.". Illustrious Brother Grand Master of Cere- 
 monies, receive the insignia of his office from the 
 Very Eminent Commander, and conduct him to his 
 seat. 
 
 It salutes the Commander, with his sword, sheathes it, 
 receives from him his insignia, lays them on the altar, and con- 
 ducts him to his seat in front of the Throne. Then, drawing 
 his sword, he salutes him. again, and retires to his post. 
 
 Then O, standing, says : 
 
 ©.'. Brother Knights of the Soldiery of the Temple, 
 our Grand Chancellor brings here with him the 
 Letters-Patent of Constitution which you have prayed 
 for. Is it your desire that we now proceed to consti- 
 tute and inaugurate your Council of Kadosh ? 
 
 All : It is. 
 
 ©.•. Fratres Militias Sanctse Domus Terapli, . . . . 
 years have passed away, since, in 1118, eight French 
 noblemen, uniting themselves into a Society, became 
 the Master and Brethren of the Temple. They first 
 displayed the red cross upon the field, in 1148 ; were 
 almost annihilated in storming Ascalon in 1153 ; their 
 principles were confirmed by the Bull Omne Datum 
 
22 OFFICES OP CONSTITUTION 
 
 Optimum, in 1172 ; and they fought the great battle 
 of Tiberias in 1187, in which year the Holy City 
 of Jerusalem surrendered to the Infidels. Other 
 crusades were preached, and the Soldiery of the Tem- 
 ple fought in the Holy Land until the end of the 
 thirteenth century, by the side, in succession, of 
 Eichard Lion-heart of England and Philip Augustus 
 of France ; of Saint Louis and Edward Prince of 
 Wales, at Damietta, G-aza, and Acre ; and wherever a 
 blow was to be struck for the Cross against the 
 Crescent. 
 
 On the thirteenth of October, 1307, all the Templars 
 in France were arrested ; and on the eleventh of 
 March, 1313, the Grand Master was burned. Princes 
 had been members of the Order, and its ambassadors 
 had taken precedence of Christian kings. It had become 
 too powerful by numbers, and wealth, and connections, 
 and it sought to be more jDOwerful still by its influence 
 upon opinions. In the East, the home of Gnosticism, 
 and where the doctrines of Saint John the apostle 
 were ^till supreme, — in that Asia Minor of the seven 
 churches, to whom Paul the new apostle contested the 
 claims of Peter to the pontificate of the G-entile 
 church, — in that Orient of which Patmos, the apoca- 
 lyptic isle, was a part, the Templars had learned 
 doctrines not acceptable to the Roman Bishops, and 
 it is probable that some of them had accepted those 
 of Manes, and were liable to the pains and penalties 
 denounced against heretics. 
 
 To the Monarchs of Christendom, all of whom were 
 
AND INAUGURATION. 23 
 
 at that clay little more than the Deans of the nobility, 
 maintaining a constant struggle against the ambition 
 of their vassals, insecure in their places of power, 
 and without standing armies, the Soldiery of the 
 Temple had become a terror, bj^ their numbers, their 
 immense possessions, and their unity of organization. 
 For the Order dreamed of an Oriental Empire, and 
 sought to obtain by negotiation an eastern seaport. 
 It was a standing army of proud, fiery, indomitable 
 warriors, distributed over all Europe, and obedient to 
 the single will of the Grand Master. The Thrones 
 and the Altars combined against it, and it fell and 
 disappeared in a day. Its pride, ambition, and 
 luxuries swelled the provocations that caused its 
 ruin. During the centuries that followed, while it 
 was merged in other orders, and wore the mask of 
 Freemasonry, it was, as is usual, chastened and puri- 
 fied by adversity. The advances made by science, 
 the revival of letters, the reopening of the treasures 
 of the ancient Grecian and Oriental wisdom, gave it 
 a deeper and a sounder philosophical doctrine, and a 
 wiser and truer religious creed ; and its hereditary 
 desire for vengeance on the despotisms to which its 
 ruin was due, symbolized by the Mitre and the Crown, 
 led it eagerly to adopt the idea that governments are 
 made for the people, and not the people for govern- 
 ments, upon its first announcement to the world. 
 
 If our Order should again become prosperous and 
 powerful, let it avoid the shoals upon which it once 
 suffered shipwreck. Let it become neither haughty, 
 
24 OFFICES OF CONSTITUTION 
 
 nor yaia-glorious, nor luxurious, nor useless. The 
 principles which it adopted in adversity, let it adhere 
 to in its better fortunes. Let the enlargement of the 
 Order and the increase of its members and its Com- 
 manderies be the enlargement of its powers and the 
 confirmation of its desires to benefit mankind, 
 strengthen its hands against all unrighteous usurpa- 
 tion of power by kings, or pontiff's, or popular chiefs, 
 military or civil, and encourage us to hope for the 
 final triumph of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, in 
 the sense in which these are understood by the true 
 Freeraasonrj-. 
 
 In the sense in which these are understood b}' the 
 true Freemasonry ; — because these three words have 
 been the frightful mothers of crimes. Let the Scottish 
 Masonry remember that a specious and plausible 
 philanthropy is the most prolific source of savage bar- 
 barities. Robespierre and Marat were but the con- 
 scientious realizers of the dreamy theories and poetic 
 fancies of Rousseau. To intrust an ignorant and 
 uneducated multitude of any race, and especially of 
 one that has hardly emerged from savago barbarism, 
 with political power, is to liberate the Lisane, dethrone 
 Reason, inaugurate Anarchy, and verily unchain the 
 Devil. 
 
 Let us also remember, in striving to benefit our 
 race, that the multitude is in every country instinctive 
 rather than reflective, and can be attached to ideas 
 only by means of forms, and surrenders its prejudices 
 and changes its habits with difficulty. Popular assem- 
 
AND INAUGURATION. 25 
 
 blies are not swayed by reason, and legislative 
 majorities are little controlled by any sense of justice. 
 Upon an attempt to combat superstitions, it always 
 seems to the people that religion itself is assailed. 
 Socrates was accused of Atheism before the tribunals ; 
 and Jesus was denounced to the authorities as a blas- 
 phemer. Wherefore, those that undertake reforms 
 will be wise, if, like Saint Gregory, one of the great- 
 est among the Popes, they do not permit usages to be 
 suppressed. " Purify the Temples," he wrote to his 
 missionaries ; " but do not destroy them ; for so long 
 as the nation shall see its ancient places of prayer 
 standing, it will repair thither by habit, and you will 
 with the more ease persuade it to the worship of the 
 True God." 
 
 Society has no right to consider itself enlightened^ 
 while it regards the abuses of a system as its excel- 
 lencies, and makes idols of its own prejudices, and 
 looks with horror on attempts to obtain rational 
 reforms, as revolutionary projects ; nor, Avhile it con- 
 tinues to be ignorant that the criminal instincts arc 
 the most frightful of all the mental maladies, and does 
 not comprehend that the diseased should be cured 
 and not put to dea'th, has it any right to consider 
 itself Christian. 
 
 Keep these truths always in view, in the warfai'e 
 which you are incessantly to wage against tyrannies. 
 For there are not only tyrannies of Thrones and 
 Pontificates, but of the People, and Parties, and 
 Opinion, and of the Law. Close around you every- 
 
26 OFFICES OF CONSTITUTION 
 
 where, 3-011 will find evils enough to combat ; and it 
 will be well for you if 3'ou do not become their ally. 
 
 The days have retired but a little way into the 
 past, when men were divided into but two classes — 
 the oppressor and oppressed. Then Thought was 
 imprisoned ; to breathe it was peril, if not death, and 
 it died in the brain where it was born, or was only 
 whispered in the solitudes. The obligations of Blue 
 Masonry are retained, that they may incessantly re- 
 mind us of those wretched days. Now, Thought is 
 free as the wind, and the lightning flashes it across 
 the oceans and around the continents. Nations are 
 enfranchised by it, and the golden glories of Truth 
 begin to illumine the world. A new power has 
 arisen among men, known as Public Opinion, with a 
 new weapon, the Press. Before it even the kings 
 recede, and yield to it and obey its Bulls and Allo- 
 cutions, or it shakes down their thrones into the dust. 
 
 TTe should be but cravens, therefore, if we did not 
 persevere. Whatever the evils of to-day in the 
 country in which we live, they are not invincible ; 
 for they are neither necessary and inevitable, nor in 
 their nature immortal. Neither are we powerless in 
 the struggle against them, and we are no true knights 
 if we yield to discouragement : — 
 
 " The smallest effort is not lost ; — 
 Each wavelet on the ocean tossed, 
 Aids in the ebb-tide or the flow ; 
 Each rain-drop helps some flower to blow, 
 Each struggle lessens human woe." 
 
AND INAUGURATION. 27 
 
 The Brethren now sing the following 
 
 ODE. 
 
 We have a Holy House to build, 
 
 A Temple si^lendid and divine, 
 To be with glorious memories filled ; 
 
 Of Eight and Truth to be the shrine. 
 How shall we build it strong and fair, — 
 This Holy House of Praise and Prayer, 
 
 Firm-set and solid, grandly great ? — 
 How shall we all its rooms prepare 
 
 For use, for ornament, for state ? 
 
 Our God hath given the wood and stone, 
 
 And we must fashion them aright. 
 Like those who toiled on Lebanon, 
 
 Making the labor their delight : 
 This House, this Palace, this God's Home, 
 This Temple with its lofty dome, 
 
 Must be in all proportions fit, 
 That heavenly messengers may come, 
 
 To lodge with those who tenant it. 
 
 Build squarely up the stately walls. 
 
 The two symbolic columns raise, 
 And let the lofty courts and halls 
 
 With all their golden glories blaze. 
 There, in the Kadosh-Kadoshim, 
 Between the broad-winged cherubim, 
 
 Where the Shekiuah once abode. 
 The heart shall raise its daily hymn 
 
 Of gratitude and love to God. 
 
28 OFFICES OF CONSTITUTION 
 
 When the Ode is ouded, O says: 
 
 ©.". Illustrious Brother Grand Master of Cere- 
 monies, form * '^ the members of the Grand Consistory 
 and * * those who are to constitute the Council of 
 Kadosh, in two lines, between the East and the Mau- 
 soleum, according to the ancient custom! 
 
 The members of the Grand Consistory, or other attendants of 
 O, if there are any, are formed in one line on the South side of 
 the hall, facing the Xorth, the officers at the eastern end, and 
 all in regular succession toward the West. The members who 
 are to form the Council also form in one line in similar order, 
 on the Xorth side of the hall, facing the South, the officers at 
 the eastern end. The two lines are eight feet apart. If the 
 Installing officer has no assistants, the Knights are formed in 
 two lines, the officers alternating on the eastern side of the 
 two. 
 
 When the lines are formed, 71 approaches and faces the 
 Throne, salutes, and says : 
 
 14..' . Illustrious Commander-in-chief [Sovereign, 
 etc., or Deiiuty, etc.] — the lines are formed and await 
 your pleasure. 
 
 The Commander-in-chief, or Inspector-general, draws his 
 sword, leaves the Throne, and preceded by 2f , and with the 
 banners on his right and left, advances to the head of the lines. 
 Here he halts, 7i steps to the right, and the banners retire one 
 pace, and he says : 
 
 ©.•. Knights and Brethren, before I can jDroceed to 
 constitute and inaugurate your Council, I must, 
 according to the ancient custom of the Order, receive 
 your vows of fealty and allegiance. These are 
 entirely consistent with your obligations as Masons, 
 
AND INAUGUKATION. 29 
 
 and with the maintenance of your duties as men and 
 citizens. If you are prepared to take them, each 
 will extend his right hand toward this sword, and 
 respond for himself. 
 
 He presents the hilt of his sword. Each extends his right 
 hand toward it, and the vows are taken as follows : 
 
 THE vows. 
 
 ©.•. Knights and Brethren, do you each solemnly 
 vow : 
 
 First : — That you will bear true fealty and alle- 
 giance and owe knightly service to the Supreme 
 Council of the Thirty-third Degree, for the Southern 
 Jurisdiction of the United States, as the lawful Grand 
 Masters of the Order of the Holy House of the 
 Temple of Solomon ; and to the G-rand Consistory 
 within whose • jurisdiction you may reside, as the 
 Gi-rand Priory of the same, until death ? 
 
 Each : — I do. 
 
 Secoxd: — That you will always strenuously endeavor 
 to have the bod}^ which you now desire to form, labor 
 to bring about the reign of Justice and Eight among 
 men ; zealously to propagate the rational principles 
 of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Eite ; and to 
 discountenance intolerance and persecution : 
 
 Each : — I do. 
 
 Third- : — That you will yourselves never be gov- 
 erned by personal animosities or political or religious 
 prejudices, in matters that relate to members of your 
 body, or to other Masons, or to Brethren applying for 
 investiture with the honors of Knighthood. 
 
30 OFFICES OF CONSTITUTION 
 
 Each : — I do. 
 
 Fourth : — That you will contribute to the general 
 good, practise the social virtues, avoid disputes and 
 quarrels, and be kind and courteous to the Brethren 
 of all degrees ? 
 
 Each : — I do. 
 
 O.". Eepeat then with me : 
 
 All repeat as follows : 
 
 All : — These are my sacred and solemn vows ; 
 and I will truly and religiously keep them ; — upon 
 my honor as a Knight Kadosh. 
 
 O sheathing his sword, says : 
 
 0.". Let us kneel and pray ! 
 
 All kneel on the right knee, and lay the right hand on the 
 heart. Then the Primate or © reads the following 
 
 PRAYER. 
 
 Almighty God ! The Nameless, the Unknown ! mani- 
 fested to us only by Thy works ! Eeceive graciously 
 the profound homage that we pay to Thee, and 
 permit us to consecrate to Thee this living Temple 
 and Sanctuary which- we are now afeout to constitute. 
 
 THE CHOm. 
 
 Domine exaudi orationem tneam ! M clamor mea ad 
 Te venial. 
 
 PRATER. 
 
 Take under Thy especial protection all those who 
 shall be lawfully appointed to rule therein, that they 
 may religiously comply with all the obligations by 
 
AND INAUGUBATION. 31 
 
 them contracted toward Thee, and toward all to 
 whom they are bound by the bonds of Duty ! 
 
 CHOIR. 
 
 Divinum auxilium maneat semper nobiscum ! Grati- 
 am tuam, qucBswnus, Domine, mentibus nostris infunde. 
 
 PRAYER. 
 
 Cause It to be that all who constitute this Council 
 shall have but one heart, but one soul, to love, honor, 
 and obey Thee, as Thy Infinite Beneficence requires ; 
 and to love each other as Thou lovest them ! 
 
 CHOIR. 
 
 Salvos fac servos Tuos, Domine Deus Sabaoth, spe- 
 ranies in Te ! Mitte eis, Domine, auxilium de Sancto, 
 et de Sion tuere eos ! 
 
 PRAYER. 
 
 Banish from this Temple all the evil passions, 
 all prejudices, all intolerance ! May all meet each 
 other here, as the children of one Father, whose 
 beneficent hand reaches all His children, and leads 
 them by the same path to the gates of death ! 
 
 CHOIR. 
 
 Esto eis, Domine, turris fortitudinis, a facie inimici: 
 et institutis tuis, quibus progressionem Jiumani generis 
 ordinasti, benignus assisie, ut qui laborant, te auxiliante 
 serventur! 
 
 PRAYER. 
 
 And when the hand on Time's dial points to the 
 last hour of our labors here below, and the powers of 
 
32 OITICES OP CONSTITUTION 
 
 life go away from us, help us to pass through the 
 valley of the shadow of death, and lead us to that 
 Home wherein there are Peace and Happiness for 
 those who love Thee and obey Thy commandments ! 
 
 CHOIR. 
 
 Domine, exaudi orationcm nostram; et clamor nosier 
 ad Te venial / Gloria Deo Domino, per omnia scecula 
 sccculorwn. Amen/ 
 
 ©.•. Rise, my Brethren ! Knights and Brethren, it 
 is our desire now to proceed to inaugurate your 
 Council ; but I see before me the emblems of Regal and 
 Imperial tyranny over the bodies, and of Sacerdotal 
 and Pontifical despotism over the souls of men. They 
 desecrate the monument which your piety has erected 
 to the great and good men who in all time, in despite 
 of these implacable enemies of humanity, have 
 watered with their blood the roots of the tree of 
 Freedom. In what estimation do you hold these 
 sj'mbols ? 
 
 MUSIC. 
 
 For answer, the Commander Elect passes by the rear of his 
 line to the Mausoleum, takes the crown, throws it on the floor, 
 sets his right foot on it, and says : 
 
 CoMM.-. Mat Humaxitt set its foot gist tempo- 
 ral Despotism, as I no ox its emblem ! 
 
 Then he takes the mitre, throws it on the floor, sets his left 
 foot upon it, and says : 
 
 CoMM.'. May max tread in the dust spiritual 
 Tyraxxy, as I do its symbol ! 
 
AND INAUGURATION. 33 
 
 Then pfissiiig across in front of the Mausoleum, he passes 
 by the rear of the other line to its head, and across to his former 
 place. During the whole of this ceremony, he is closely followed 
 by the others of his line in succession (if the other line consists 
 of persons not to be members of the Council : but if both lines 
 are composed of these, he is followed alternately by those of 
 both lines). Each, to follow, faces to the rear, and they so file 
 off one after the other, from the one line or alternately from 
 the two, as the case may be, pass to the west end of the line, 
 across to the rear of the other line, and by the rear of it across 
 to their own line and their place in it, — each, in passing, setting 
 his right foot on the Crown and then his left on the Mitre, 
 and saying, 
 
 "Perish Tyranny! . . Perish Intolerance!" 
 
 When all are again in their places, the 
 MUSIC STOPS, 
 and O says : 
 
 O .". Knights and Brethren, we all have one desire, — 
 to compass the downfall of the Despotisms symbolized 
 by the Crown and Mitre, by which Humanity has been 
 in all ages accursed. To these, it will always be a 
 crime to think. But opinions may become criminal, 
 also, in the eyes of Power, in States that have the 
 forms of freedom. Mankind should never forget the 
 Decemviri, and the Thirty Tyrants, and the Venetian 
 Council of Ten. There are even less moral restraints 
 upon the elected leaders of a victorious people, than 
 upon single Tyrants ; and the worst crimes that have 
 disfigured humanity have been committed in the name 
 of Liberty. There were Tyrants in Israel before the 
 Kings, and in Eome, Marius and Sylla preceded the 
 
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34 OFFICES OP CONSTITUTION 
 
 Emperors. Popular assemblies, clothed with the 
 powers of legislation, are only concentrated mobs, 
 and when the appetite for blood is roused, become 
 bloodthirsty as the mobs themselves. It was the 
 populace that howled for Barabbas to be released, and 
 for Christ to be crucified ; as the Athenian populace 
 hounded Socrates to death, and the Roman populace 
 first raised and then rent Rienzi. It was the same 
 people that yelled for the blood of Charles the First, 
 and was delirious with joy when Monk brought back 
 Charles the Second. It was the same Athenian 
 people that ostracized Aristides and accepted the 
 Thirty Tyrants. A chance as ridiculous as the tossing 
 of a copper determines whether a great man shall 
 be idolized or execrated. 
 
 Persecution, also, and proscription of the right of 
 thought, is not confined to any church. It was the 
 Christian Bishop of Alexandria, Cyril, who incited and 
 employed the human bloodhounds that kennelled in the 
 city, to tear asunder the tender limbs of the Pagan vir- 
 gin Aspasia. The most intolerant of all have been the 
 Church of Scotland, and the Puritans on each side of 
 the Atlantic. Geneva burned Servetus, and Boston 
 hung the patient Quakers by the neck or mercifully 
 compounded their heresy by grubbing out their ears. 
 
 Each sect persecutes and is persecuted in turn. 
 Power, spiritual or temporal, is always abused. To 
 us, the Mitre no more represents the Church of Rome 
 alone, than the Crown, which the first Cassar never 
 wore, represents only Royalty. 
 
AND INAUGURATION. 35 
 
 The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Eite is the 
 apostle of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity ; and to 
 it the word Liberty includes absolute freedom of 
 Thought, Conscience, and Speech, as it does Freedom 
 of Action. But, as it is not irreligious, so it is not 
 the foe of Law, Order, and stable Government. You 
 have thrown down and trodden under foot the sym- 
 bols of temporal and spiritual despotism. But these 
 have also and in all time been the symbols of Loyalty 
 and Faith, without which Society cannot exist. The 
 true King and the true Priest are indispensable to 
 men. The State must have its Rulers, and Religion 
 its Ministers. Good government and religion are 
 gifts from God, as precious and as necessary as the 
 light and air. With what will you replace these 
 fallen symbols ? 
 
 MUSIC, 
 
 For answer to this, the Commander elect takes in one hand 
 the Roman Cap of Liberty, and in the other the Shepherd's 
 Crook. He makes the same circuit as before, followed by all 
 his Knights as before. Where the Crown was, he places the Cap 
 of Liberty, and kneeling on the right knee, says : 
 
 CoMM.". I pay homage to this symbol of the Sovereignty 
 of the People and of Constitutional Government. 
 
 Then, where the Mitre was, he sets the Crook, and kneeling 
 on the left knee, says : 
 
 CoMM.'. I pay homage to the only spiritual fower that 
 God has committed to man. The Good Shepherd giveth 
 his life for his sheep. The Minister of Religion is com- 
 missioned to teach and persuade alone. 
 
36 OFFICES OF CONSTITUTION 
 
 Every other Knight, as he passes, halts at the Cap of Liherty, 
 kneels on the right knee, and says : 
 
 Eaxih : — The People, Sovereign over institu- 
 tions ! 
 
 At the Crook, each kneels on the left knee, and says : 
 
 Each : — The GtOOd Shepherd, that teaches and 
 
 PERSUADES ! 
 When all have returned to their places, the 
 MUSIC STOPS, 
 and O says : 
 
 ©.•. Saint Thomas Aquinas said, " A thing is not 
 just because Grod wills it ; but He wills it, because it 
 is just." The People has the Sovereign right to do 
 what is right, and just, and generous, and that alone. 
 The rights of the man are as sacred as those of the Na- 
 tion. The Sovereignty of the People includes no right 
 to violate contracts, to perpetrate injustice, to sell, 
 deny, or delay justice, to dispense with laws, to imprison 
 without due process of law, to replace Constitutional 
 Government with that of the sword or the Prime 
 Minister, to encroach upon weaker States, to do that 
 which is dishonest and shameless, or cruel and un- 
 generous. 
 
 Eeligion and its ministers too often have the same 
 connection with each other as justice and attorneys. 
 It is not wholly fenced in by the hedges of glebe- 
 land, or dispensed only from the pulpits ; but it should 
 be taught and preached also in the Sanctuaries of 
 Masonry, in the Sanctuaries of Home, in the Forum, 
 
AND INAUGURATION. 37 
 
 and in the market-place ; for it does not consist in 
 dogmas concerning tlie Infinite, impossible to be 
 understood ; but in the practice of the virtues and 
 the performance of the duties of life. 
 
 My Brethren, do you solemnly promise and vow, 
 that you will always bear true fealty and allegiance to 
 the Sovereignty of the People as the first source of 
 political power, maintain it in all its just preroga- 
 tives, and oppose and resist whatever it may seek to 
 do wrongfuUj'', holding tyranny and dishonesty in a 
 Republic to be more odious than when practised by 
 Despotisms ? 
 
 Each : — I do. 
 
 0.". Do you also solemnlj'- promise and vow, that 
 you will reverence all genuine Ministers of Eeligion, 
 who are the Teachers of men, who encourage them 
 to have Faith and Hope, and who persuade them to 
 good deeds ; and thus uphold the Altar as you sustain 
 the Throne, of the only true Sovereignties, those of 
 Eight and Reason ? 
 
 Each : — I do. 
 
 The Brethren or Choir sing the following 
 CHANT. 
 
 Dixit Dominus Domino 
 meo : Sede a dextris meis. 
 
 Donee ponam inimicos 
 tuos scabellum pedum 
 tuorura. 
 
 The Lord said unto my 
 Lord : Sit thou at my 
 right hand : 
 
 Until I make thy ene- 
 mies thy footstool. 
 
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 OFFICES OF CONSTTTDTION 
 
 Yirgam virtutis tuse 
 emittet Dominus ex Sion: 
 dominare in medio inimi- 
 corum tuorum. 
 
 Tecum principium in 
 die virtutis tuse : in splen- 
 doribus Sanctorum : ex 
 utero ante luciferum 
 genui te. 
 
 Juravit Dominus, et 
 non poenitebit eum : Tu 
 es Sacerdos in seternum, 
 secundum ordinem Mel- 
 chisedech. 
 
 Memor erit in saaculum 
 testamenti sui : Yirtutem 
 operum suorum annunti- 
 abit populo suo. 
 
 Quis sicut Dominus 
 Dens noster, qui in altis 
 habitat, et humilia respi- 
 cit in coelo et in terra ? 
 
 Proba me, Deus, et 
 scito cor meum : interroga 
 me, et cognosce semitas 
 meas. 
 
 The Lord will send 
 forth the sceptre of thy 
 power out of Sion : rule 
 thou in the midst of thy 
 enemies. 
 
 With thee is the prin- 
 cipality in the day of thy 
 strength: in the splendors 
 of the saints : from the 
 womb before the day-star 
 I begat thee. 
 
 The Lord hath sworn ^ 
 and He will not repent : 
 Thou art a Priest forever, 
 according to the order of 
 Melchisedech. 
 
 He will be mindful for- 
 ever of his covenant : He 
 will show forth to His 
 people the efficacy of His 
 works. 
 
 Who is as the Lord our 
 God, who dwelleth on 
 high, and looketh down 
 on the low things in 
 heaven and earth ? 
 
 Prove me, G-od, and 
 know my heart : examine 
 me and know my paths. 
 
AND INAUGURATION. 39 
 
 Et vide si via iniquita- 
 tis in me est : et deduc 
 me ill via teterna,. 
 
 When the Chant ends, O says ; 
 
 And see if there be in 
 me the way of iniquity : 
 and lead me in the eternal 
 way. 
 
 ©.•. Knights and Brethren, I accept and approve 
 your declaration of political and religious faith. To 
 it, the Christians of a hundred sects, the Hebrew and 
 the Moslem, can equally subscribe ; for the creed of 
 all, however strange and incongruous the superstruc- 
 ture, is built upon the same two corner-stones, Faith 
 in a God of Mercy, and the Hope of Immortality. 
 To it, also, the Citizen of a Eepublic and the Subject 
 of an enlightened Monarchy can alike consent ; for 
 there is or may be Freedom of action and of con- 
 science. Equality of legal rights, and Fraternity, 
 among the High and the Low, the Noble and the 
 Plebeian, in each. It is indeed quite possible for 
 greater freedom of Opinion, a more perfect equality 
 of legal and civil rights, and a far greater Fraternity 
 to exist, among the governed, under the government 
 of a single Will, than where the people are ruled and 
 used, deceived and abused, by the low ambitions and 
 sordid and greedy purposes of Tribunes of the People, 
 than which, Grod has inflicted no greater plague upon 
 the human race. There is no servitude so base as 
 that of a people to its lowest and basest, who rule by 
 the right of votes that are their own because purchased 
 with a price, and who represent the upper and the 
 
40 OFFICES OF CONSTITUTION 
 
 lower, the scum and dregs, of the populace that 
 burrow and kennel in cities, and constitute the 
 standing armies of pauperism and vice. 
 
 Those who are fit to rule ivill rule, when the men 
 of IxTELLECT are the men of Action'. Intellect is a 
 Force ; but Energy is a more efficient one. This acts 
 immediately, and rules the Present. That acts more 
 in the Future, and gathers potency by Time. The 
 Thinkers of the Past are the Kings of the Present, 
 sitting crowned by the side of the men of Action. 
 An Association or Order of men may combine both, 
 and in it Action and Energy and Thought and 
 Intellect maj' direct and lead, plan and execute, as 
 the theor}' of the Roman Consulate was. It is 
 because the men of Action and not of Intellect 
 govern, and bad men are often the most energetic, 
 that Republics are never long well-governed. When 
 Intellect and Energy of Action are combined in the 
 one man, we have a Caesar, a Richelieu, a Cromwell, 
 a Napoleon, roj-al of soul and with royal rule. 
 
 Read the history of the Order of Loyola, its 
 Statutes, the vows of implicit, unquestioning, unhes- 
 itating obedience of its members, its casuistry, the 
 plan of its hierarchy, ascending to a single "Will, that 
 of the G-eneral of the Order ; and reflect how a 
 dispensation could make crimes committed for the 
 advancement of the Order, lies, robbery of estates, 
 to be meritorious and heaven-deserving acts ; and you 
 may understand how much may be effected by organ- 
 ization and union. Surely God has not enacted an 
 
AND INAUGUKATION. 41 
 
 unalterable law, by force of which the union of good 
 men, upon good principles, for good purposes, and 
 using honest and honorable means, must necessarily 
 be less efficient than the Order of Jesus. 
 
 Kepublics commit suicide, by persistently selecting 
 the incompetent to execute the edicts of the populace, 
 "which are but the echo of the notions of their dema- 
 gogues. An order may die of that disease, or of 
 that lukewarmness, and that inattention to duty, and 
 that want of appreciation of its mission which are 
 like the dry-rot in timber. Select the wisest and 
 most competent and energetic among you to be your 
 officers, zealously second their efforts and carry into 
 effect their plans, and let them govern you instead of 
 being the servants and organs of your whims and 
 caprices ; continue in office, as long as they will 
 consent to it, those who prove themselves worthy ; 
 and in all things act upon the principles which you 
 have here avowed ; and your council will deserve to 
 be entitled ''Illustrious" and its officers "Eminent" 
 and you fortunati laborum. 
 
 " The true Knight, Patriot, Statesman, Sage, 
 
 Guides by his own a future age, 
 
 Who, worthy leader of the van. 
 
 Asserts the dignity of man, 
 
 Asserts the rights, with ti'umjjet-tongue, 
 
 By justice from oppression wrung, 
 
 And raises Freedom's rallying cry. 
 
 With purpose wise and courage high. " 
 
 Above all, my Brethren, forget not that the issues 
 of all things are with God ; and therefore in all 
 
42 
 
 OFFICES OF CONSTITUTION 
 
 things obey His law, and rely upon Him and invoke 
 His assistance and support ; for prayer, like Thought 
 and the Will, is a Force, of the potency whereof we 
 know not the limits, nor its mode of action, but only 
 that the fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth 
 much. 
 
 The Choir or Brethren sing the following 
 CHANT. 
 
 Confitebor Tibi, Do- 
 mine, in toto corde meo : 
 in Concilio justorum, et 
 
 Congregation e. 
 
 Magna opera Domini : 
 exquisita in omnes volun- 
 tates ejus. 
 
 Conlessio et Maguili- 
 centia opus ejus : et justi- 
 tia ejus manet in steculum 
 SECculi. 
 
 Memoriam fecit mira- 
 bilium suorum, misericors 
 et miserator Dominus : es- 
 cam dedit timentibus se. 
 Laudatio ejus manet in 
 sfficulum saeculi. 
 
 Sicut erat in principio, 
 et nunc, et semper, et in 
 
 I will praise Thee, 
 Lord, with my whole 
 heart ! — in the Council of 
 the just, and in the Con- 
 gregation. 
 
 Great are the works of 
 the Lord : sought out ac- 
 cording to all His wills. 
 
 Praise and Magnifi- 
 cence are His work : and 
 His justice continueth 
 forever and ever. 
 
 He hath made a re- 
 membrance of His won- 
 derful works, being a 
 merciful and gracious 
 Lord : He hath given 
 food to them that fear 
 Him. His praise contin- 
 ueth forever and ever 
 
 As it was in the begin- 
 ning, is now, and ever 
 
AND INAUGURATION. 43 
 
 sa3cula sasculorum. Amen ! 
 Alleluia ! Laus Tibi, 
 Doraine, Rex teternse glo- 
 rife! 
 
 shall be, world without 
 end, Amm ! — • Halalu- 
 Yah ! Praise be to Thee, 
 Lord, King of eternal 
 glory. 
 
 Tlie Chant ended, O says : 
 
 O.". In the name of Grod, unto whom be all honor 
 and glory forever, I do pronounce and declare this 
 Council of Knights Kadosh to be duly constituted and 
 inaugurated, under the distinctive name and title of 
 
 Council of Knights Kadosh, No. . . of the 
 
 State of , and in accordance with its Letters- 
 patent of Constitution. Quod honum, faustum, felix 
 fortunatumque sit! — May Peace, Unity, and Loving- 
 kindness always reign in it ! — May it prosper, and all 
 its undertakings be wise and good, and crowned with 
 success ? Return, my Brethren, to your posts ! 
 
 All do so, and remain standing. Then O says : 
 
 ©.■. My Brethren, let us apjDlaud the inauguration 
 of the Council ! 
 
 All give the battery, • • 9 O ® •, with their hands, and 
 then the plaudit — which is, raise the right hand until the upper 
 arm is horizontal, the forearm perpendicular, the hand near the 
 side of the head, upright and open, fingers together, palm to 
 the front: then strike with the right hand the left breast; and 
 bring the same hand smartly down upon the right thigh. This 
 IS done five times, with the cry, each time, as the hand smites 
 the thigh, "Haidad!"* 
 
 The Brethren, still standing, sing the following 
 
 * "n^n : Huzza 1 
 
44 OFFICES OF CONSTITUTION AUD INAUGURATION. 
 
 ODE. 
 
 Evermore the People listen, 
 
 When a mighty Spirit speaks ; 
 None can rule them when unruly, 
 But the man who loves them truly, 
 And from them his impulse seeks. 
 
 What they feel but cannot utter, 
 
 What they hope for, clay and night. 
 By these words he stirs and fires them. 
 Prompts them, leads them, and inspires them, 
 To do battle for the right. 
 
 These the words by which the many 
 
 Cope for justice with the few ; 
 These their watchwords, when oppression 
 Would resist the small concession, 
 
 But a fraction of their due. 
 
 These like swift electric flashes 
 
 Thrill the bosom of the crowd, 
 Rule its pulses, cheer its sadness. 
 Make it throb and pant with gladness, 
 Till it answers them aloud. 
 
 When the Ode ends, O says : 
 
 ©.•. Knights and Brethren, be seated ! 
 
 After which he proceeds with the Offices of Installation. 
 
 END OF THE CONSTITUTION AND IXAUGUEATION. 
 
INSTALLATIOISr. 
 
OFFICES 
 
 OP 
 
 INSTALLATION. 
 
 If the Elective Officers have not already been elected or 
 selected, Q now directs the Knights to proceed to elect them. 
 In that case, the election for each is held by ballot, a majority 
 of votes being necessary to a choice. As each is elected, Q 
 declares him duly elected, to hold his office until the third 
 Easter Monday thereafter. 
 
 If it is not the first Installation of Officers of a Council, O 
 and those who accompany him (if any) will be received in the 
 manner hereinbefore directed, the Commander in office making 
 an appropriate address, and O replying. Then O will assume 
 the East ; and if he has assistance, will cause the officers of the 
 Council to vacate their seats, in the manner hereinbefore 
 directed, and the persons accompanying him to occupy the 
 seats. 
 
 Officers re-elected, need not be re-installed. 
 
 When the elections have been held, or if the Officers have 
 been previously elected or selected, the Offices of Installation 
 will be thus proceeded with : 
 
 O will rap J^ and say : 
 
 0.-. The elected Officers of the Council will be 
 pleased to place themselves in line in front of the 
 Mausoleum, and facing it ! 
 
48 
 
 OFFICES OF INSTALLATION. 
 
 They do so, the Commander in the centre, the others on his 
 riglit and left, in due order of rank. Then © says : 
 
 O .•. Knights Kadosh of the Council, these are they 
 who are to be installed as your officers. Look upon 
 them, and if any one hath any reason to urge why 
 they or any one of them should not now be invested 
 with the office for which he hath been selected, let 
 him make it known. 
 
 0.". Knights Kadosh of the Council, is it your pleas- 
 ure that I shall now proceed to install these officers ? 
 
 All : — It is. 
 
 ©.". '-''^'Officers and Princes of the G-rand Consistory 
 [or. Sovereign G-rand Inspectors- General and Sublime 
 Princes of the Royal Secret], who are here to assist 
 me, Attention! and witness the vows which these Offi- 
 cers of the Council are about to take.** 
 
 They rise : O leaves the East, goes toward the Mausolenm, 
 and by the right of the line along its front, to the Commander 
 elect, leads him one pace to the front, causes him to kneel on the 
 right knee, himself does the same by his side, extends his right 
 hand toward the Mausoleum, causes the Commander to do the 
 same, and says : 
 
 0.". Officers elect of . . . .Council of Kadosh, listen 
 to the vows which your Commander is about to take ! 
 
 The Commander repeats, after © , the following 
 VOWS. 
 
 In the presence of G-od the Father Almighty, and 
 of the immortal Spirits of the Great and G-ood who 
 have died in defence of Human Rights, I do, upon my 
 
OFFICES OF INSTALLATION. 49 
 
 honor as a Kniglit of Saint Andrew of Scotland and 
 Kadosh, solemnly vow : 
 
 That I will support, protect, and defend the G-rand 
 Constitutions and True Secret Institutes, the Regula- 
 tions and Statutes, of the Ancient and Accepted Scot- 
 tish Rite, as the same are accepted and promulgated 
 by the Supreme Council, Mother-Council of the world, 
 of the Sovereigns, the G-rand Inspectors-G-eneral, 
 Grand Elect Knights of the Holy House of the Tem- 
 ple, Grand Commanders of the Holy Empire, of the 
 33° and last degree of the Ancient and Accepted 
 Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, for the Southern juris- 
 diction of the United States ; 
 
 That I will faithfully and diligently perform, to the 
 best of my capacity and ability, all the duties that 
 shall devolve upon me as Commander of this Council 
 of Kadosh and Commandery of the Holy House of 
 the Temple ; 
 
 And that, ever placing my hope in God, I will 
 endeavor to make this Council instrumental in over- 
 throwing Tyranny and Intolerance, and in vindicating 
 the right of man to civil, political, and religious Liberty. 
 So help me God, and aid me to keep this vow ! 
 Amen ! Amen ! Amen ! 
 
 Q.\ Arise, my Brother ! Return to your post in the 
 line, and let your Officers advance ! 
 
 The Commander steps back into the line. The other Offi- 
 cers advance a pace, and kneel on the right knee, extending the 
 right hand toward the Mausoleum. ©, standing, dictates the 
 vow which each repeats. 
 
 4 
 
50 
 
 OFFICES OF INSTAXLATION. 
 
 VOW. 
 
 Each : The same vows of office which in our pres- 
 ence and hearing our Commander hath now taken, 
 on his part, and for the of&ce to which he hath been 
 elected, I do adopt as my own, and in the same 
 august and holy presence do take on my part, as 
 to my office, as if now word for word repeated by 
 me. So help me God, and aid me to keep this vow. 
 Amen ! Amen ! Ame:^ ! 
 
 ©.■. Rise, my Brethren, and resume your places ! 
 
 They rise, and step back into the line. O goes to the right 
 of the line and says : 
 
 0.". You know, my Brethren, to whom the Mauso- 
 leum in front of you has been erected, and who is 
 represented by the laurelled head upon it. De Molai 
 and his heroic Brethren were the victims of Tyranny, 
 Rapacity, and the dread which Despots, temporal and 
 spiritual, have of free and liberal opinion. No fanati- 
 cism actuated Clement the Fifth, or Philip the Fair of 
 France ; but in that case, as often before and since, 
 fear and greed affected a horror at impiety, united to 
 crush a power that might become dangerous, si- 
 lenced Free Thought and Opinion by assassination, 
 and blackened the character of the victim, to justify 
 the murder. I will show you other victims of the 
 cruelty and craft of Spiritual power. Face to the 
 Bast, my Brethren ! 
 
 They face the East and the altar. O goes to the east side of 
 the altar, faces it and them, lays his hand on the skull upon the 
 right, and says : 
 
OFFICES OP INSTALLATION. 51 
 
 ©.•. This laurelled skull represents Socrates, the 
 Athenian Philosopher, who in an age of gross super- 
 stition saw the Truth and taught it, and inspired his 
 great disciple Plato to write his immortal works, the 
 most precious legacy of Heathen Antiquity. The 
 Priests, who lived in luxury upon the popular super- 
 stition, accused him of teaching his disciples to contemn 
 the Gods ; and he was sentenced to drink the fatal 
 hemlock. 
 
 Laying his hand on the skull on the left, he says: 
 
 ©.•. This represents GtALILEo, who rashly ventured, 
 
 " When Thoughts bore tears and death 
 To the wise few that dared to utter them," 
 
 to demonstrate that the world was not stationary, 
 but revolved around the sun. Him those imprisoned 
 in a dungeon, who claimed to be the infallible inter- 
 preters of Grod's word and will, and the Church that 
 claimed to be God's vicegerent, adjudging the state- 
 ment of a physical fact to be a heresy. 
 
 Laying his hand on the skull in the middle, he says : 
 
 ©.•. This represents Htpatia, the noble virgin of 
 Alexandria, who endeavored to rescue the old philoso- 
 phy, and to revive the worship of the old Gods of 
 Greece. Her a savage populace tore to pieces, in- 
 cited by a Christian Bishop, Saint Cyril. So, swollen 
 with pride, and potent in his episcopal palace, the 
 Priest silenced the girl, lest her error should prove 
 too strong for his truth. 
 
 Cover the walls of your Commandery with the 
 
52 OFFICES OF INSTALLATION. 
 
 names of otliei' illustrious victims of Tyranny ; not only 
 that you may be perpetually reminded to execrate 
 tyrants, but that you may learn to despise them. For 
 Truth will conquer at the last. For him who is wiser 
 than his time, the hemlock is distilled, the axe bared, 
 the gibbet erected, and the stake surrounded with 
 flames. The anger and scorn of men pursue him ; 
 malice and envy cover his name with obloquy ; but 
 the fire of Thought cannot be quenched by poison or 
 the axe, nor the spoken word erased from the memo- 
 ries of men. What is abhorred to-day will be adored 
 to-morrow. Trust to the coming years. They have 
 reward in store. The demons of former ages are at 
 last canonized as saints. At last the wrong is proved 
 to be wrong, the truth is known as truth, and justice 
 is done to the dead. Xo truth has ever been de- 
 stroyed, by King or Priest or Faction. Reason never 
 ceases to appeal from the judgments rendered by 
 Force, and never fails to reverse them in the end. 
 Power and Craft may curse the truth, and call it 
 crime, and heresy, and treason. They may distort it 
 and pervert it, and slander and slay its teachers, and 
 call those " rebels" who struggle to liberate States and 
 Xations ; but ever the sun shines by daj^ and the stars 
 by night, and light does not wholly die away from the 
 earth. It is the Martyrs of political and religious truth 
 who win eternal glory. 
 
 Omit none of the great names, either of the old or 
 the new ages ! G-roup them together in constella- 
 tions like the stars. Let there be one at least for 
 
OFFICES OF INSTALLATION. 53 
 
 every day in the calendar. Then emulate them! 
 Let your Council, strong in Faith and Hope, 
 
 " Lead true hearts to struggle for mankind, 
 And like a prophet, standing on the hill. 
 Preach to all men the great Masonic creed, 
 Of Freedom, Progress, Peace, and Brotherhood." 
 
 I give you no special charge, my Brethren, as to 
 the duties of your respective offices. Your organ- 
 ization is both Masonic and Military. As Masonic 
 Officers you are possessed of functions and have 
 duties to perform similar to those of the correspond- 
 ing Officers of other bodies of the Rite. With these I 
 presume you are familiar ; and if you are not, it 
 would avail little for me to recite them to you. 
 
 As Officers of an Order of Knighthood, while you 
 remember that the poorest Knight was entitled, when 
 this Order was founded, to sit in the presence of a 
 Monarch, — the name of Knight and gentle blood 
 entitling the possessor to place himself in the same 
 rank with Sovereigns of the first degree, so far as 
 regarded all but Kingly authority and dominion, — and 
 that if the greatest King wounded the honor of the 
 poorest Knight, he could not, by the law of chivalry, 
 refuse him satisfaction by single combat ; yet the 
 superior in rank and office, while owing all courtesy 
 to those under his command, was entitled to exact the 
 most implicit obedience. You are elected to govern. 
 When the Teutonic warriors . raised one of their 
 number upon their shields and called him King, he 
 
54 OFFICES OF INSTALLATION. 
 
 became indeed a King, to whom all owed homage and 
 Knightly service. 
 
 Permit, therefore, no insubordination, nor delay in 
 the execution of lawful orders, nor evasion of any 
 duty to which any are bound by their obligation as 
 Knights Kadosh. No powers can be more legiti- 
 mate than those which the Knights have by voluntary 
 choice conferred upon you : no laws can be more 
 obligatory than the Institutes and Statutes to which 
 all have voluntarily sworn obedience. They have 
 a sanction which those imposed by force or estab- 
 lished by judicial opinion, or by the whim of the 
 majority of numbers, can never have. 
 
 Illustrious Brother G-rand Master of Ceremonies, 
 assist me to invest the officers of this Council of 
 Knights Kadosh with the insignia of their offices, and 
 conduct them to their former seats in front of the 
 East. 
 
 Zf hands the insignia of Office of each Officer in sviccession, 
 beginning with the Very Eminent Commander, to ©, who 
 invests each with them. As he invests the Commander, he 
 says : 
 
 O.". Very Eminent Commander, I invest thee with 
 the insignia of thy Commandership. Mayest thou 
 wear them long and lay them aside with the regrets 
 of thy Brethren. 
 
 To each of the others he says : 
 
 0.". Eminent Prior, I invest thee with the insignia 
 of thy Lieutenancy : — [Eminent Preceptor, I invest 
 thee with the insignia of thy Lieutenancy : — Worthy 
 
OFFICES FINSTALLATION. 
 
 55 
 
 Brother Chancellor, I invest thee with the insignia of 
 thy Chancellorship : — Worthy Brother Orator (Al- 
 moner, Recorder, Treasurer), I invest thee with the 
 insignia of thy office] : — mayest thou wear them with 
 credit to thyself and profit to thy Brethren ! 
 
 As each is so invested, 7i conducts him to his former seat 
 in front of the East, with his sword drawn, faces him, salutes 
 and returns. When all the elected officers thus stand at their 
 seats, 0, preceded by If and the Beausenifer. returns to the 
 throne, where these open and he passes between them to his 
 seat. Then he says (rapping O) — 
 
 ©.•. Be seated. Princes and Knights ! 
 
 The Brethren or Choir sing the followina; Chant and Ode. 
 
 CHANT. 
 
 Retribue servo tuo ; 
 vivifica me, et custodiam 
 sermones tuos. 
 
 Revela oculos meos ; et 
 considerabo mirabilia de 
 lege tuo. 
 
 Incola ego sum in terra; 
 non abscondas a me man- 
 data tua. 
 
 Concupivit anima mea 
 desiderare justificationes 
 tuas, in omni tempore. 
 
 Testimonia tua medita- 
 tio mea est ; et consilium 
 meum justificationes tuas. 
 
 Grive bountifully to Thy 
 servant; enliven me, and 
 I shall keep Thy words. 
 
 Open Thou my eyes ; 
 and I will consider the 
 wondrous things of Thy 
 law. 
 
 I am a sojourner on the 
 earth ;^ hide not Thy com- 
 mandments from me. 
 
 My soul hath coveted 
 to long for Thy justifica- 
 tion at all times. 
 
 Thy testimonies are my 
 meditation and Thy jus- 
 tifications my counsel. 
 
56 
 
 OFFICES OP INSTAT,T,ATION. 
 
 Yiam veritatis elegi : 
 judicia tua non sum obli- 
 tus. 
 
 Adhajsi testimoniis tuis, 
 Domine : noli me confun- 
 dere. 
 
 Viam mandatorum tu- 
 orum cucurri, cum dila- 
 tasti cor meum. 
 
 Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanc- 
 tus, Domine Deus Saba- 
 oth ! Pleni sunt ccelum et 
 terra glorite tuas. Amen ! 
 
 I have cliosen the way 
 of truth ; Thy judgments 
 I have not forgotten. 
 
 I have adhered to Thy 
 testimonies, Lord : put 
 me not to shame ! 
 
 I have run the way of 
 thy commandments, when 
 Thou didst enlarge my 
 heart. 
 
 Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord 
 God of Sabaoth! Heaven 
 and earth are full of Thy 
 glory. Amen ! 
 
 ODE. 
 
 The Tyrant has not lived in vain ; 
 
 A mighty truth uprears 
 Its radiant forehead o'er his reign, 
 
 And lights the coming years : 
 Though specious Tyranny be strong, 
 
 Humanity is true, 
 And Empire based upon a wrong 
 
 Is rotten through and through. 
 
 Though falsehoods into systems wrought, 
 
 Condensed into a plan, 
 Maj stand a while, their power is nought,- 
 
 There is a God in man. 
 
OFHCES OP INSTALLATION. 57 
 
 His revolutions speak in ours, 
 And make His justice plain ; — 
 
 So, Tyrant, live out all thine hours, — 
 Thou hast not lived in vain ! 
 
 When the ode is sung, O says : 
 
 ©.•. Illustrious Brother Glrand Minister of State, 
 be pleased to pronounce your Allocution. 
 
 The Grand Minister of State or the person representing him, 
 will address the Knights and Brethren of the Council in such 
 terms as he pleases, or may use the following Allocution. 
 
 ALLOCUTION OF THE GRAND MINISTER OE STATE. 
 
 ^ .". Knights and Brethren of the Council: The 
 Past is past, and there dawns another day. Amid its 
 crumbling ruins, let us not deplore the world's yes- 
 terdays, nor lament the lost glories of our Order. For 
 as we see the same stars that shone upon the receding 
 waters of the Deluge and on the tents of Abraham, 
 so the duties of life continue to be in their essence 
 the same as they were then ; and heroism and honor 
 and magnanimity remain the same, and all the 
 Knightly virtues are the same, as when the Templars 
 rode in armor over the desert sands of Palestine and 
 set lance in rest against the Saracenic hosts of Sala- 
 din. The Present needs us. Every age bequeaths 
 to those that succeed it, for their heritage, not ease, 
 nor immunity from labor and danger, nor luxury and 
 the delights of life, but strenuous labor for the Eight. 
 The Present, child and sire of Time, demands the 
 deeds of courageous and earnest men, to make it 
 
58 OFFICES OF INSTAIXATION. 
 
 better than the Past, and that it may not be despised 
 by the Future. The Present must take lessons from 
 the Past, and should in its turn teach the Years that 
 are to come: and the errors and abuses of one age 
 prove at last the most profitable lessons and legacies 
 which it leaves to its successors. 
 
 The ages of Humanity have resembled the geo- 
 logical periods of the earth. Immense convulsions 
 preceded the present quietude. The former ages 
 were the creative epochs that have decided the 
 destiny of the human race. The men of those 
 epochs, like the antediluvian animals, were of a 
 greater and ruder type. Grod swept away pop- 
 ulations by wars, as he exterminated the now 
 extinct races in whose fossils the history of the old 
 world is written. Human life was then all force, 
 activity, and struggle. The Orders of Knighthood, 
 the Crusades, the great revolutions of religious 
 thought, reproduced the commotions and epidemics 
 of the forgotten centuries. In those ages, men risked 
 all, to win all. Then the many lived to toil ; and so 
 they still live. The few lived for glory, and risked 
 all to win all. ISTow, the nations are led by the nose 
 by small attorneys, ambidextrous politicians, and 
 crafty gamesters. Then the path to apotheosis ran by 
 the scaffold ; now it runs through the stock-exchange, 
 the manufactories of shoddy, and the wells of petro- 
 leum. jMazarin succeeded Richelieu, as cunning and 
 craft always step into the ptlaces left vacant by the 
 death of greatness. 
 
OFFICES OF INSTALLATION. 59 
 
 Nevertlieless, Humanity has not aliened its powers, 
 and it holds them hidden in reserve, to reveal them 
 only in its days of fever and of danger. 
 
 The government of ^he world is not a speculative 
 problem : the greatest philosopher is not the man best 
 fitted to teach his fellows what they ought to believe. 
 Consequently, those great moral and doctrinal rules 
 which are called religious, do not spring from calm- 
 ness and reflection. The great religious founders 
 have not been metaphysicians. Men like Moses and 
 Mahomet are men of action, not given to speculation. 
 They master Humanity by proposing action. Hence 
 it is that Charlatans so often succeed in becoming 
 chiefs, and that the men -of Thought and Intellect 
 have so little to do with the daily life of nations, and 
 always disappear in periods of agitation. Then the 
 Burkes and Mirabeaus are failures, and the Couthons 
 and Marats become terrible. 
 
 The great deeds of a Nation are usually done by 
 the minority, and the opposition always creates the 
 glory of a country. The instincts of every peojile 
 teach it that its greatest men can only attain the 
 full measure of their Influence and glory by the 
 sanctification of death and the baptism of blood ; 
 and these, therefore, are those whom it puts to death. 
 The populace is made fickle and cruel, the Tyrant is 
 made savage, by fear, that there may be heroes illus- 
 trious in prison and on the scaffold; or persecutors 
 are created, that there may be martyrs. So God 
 gives opportunities for the only true greatness. The 
 
60 OFFICES OF INSTALLATION. 
 
 great glory of Athens is the memory of Socrates, 
 and she deemed him unfit to live : the greatest Jew 
 of the modern ages was Spinoza, and the Synagogue 
 expelled him with ignominy : Jesus was the glory and 
 came to be the Saviour of Israel, and the people 
 demanded his crucifixion, and the release of a thief. 
 If he were to come again to-day, the leader of the 
 Mormons would be deemed the truer prophet. If he 
 had lived in the days of Bunyan, he would have been 
 imprisoned for months on the charge of " devilishly 
 and perniciously abstaining from coming to church to 
 hear Divine Service," and of being "a common up- 
 holder of several unlawful meetings and conventicles, 
 to the great disturbance and distraction of the good 
 subjects of the kingdom." If he had lived in a later 
 day still, he would have been indicted " for preaching 
 the Gospel of Grod to fallen man, without having first 
 taken the oath prescribed hy the statute of the State, 
 in that case made and provided." 
 
 In politics and in religion, it is always the zealous 
 portion that makes innovations and reforms: it is the 
 party of progress that achieves results. In no insti- 
 tution was reform ever needed more than it is now in 
 Masonry. In none was there ever a more lamentable 
 barrenness of results. Of course the innovator and 
 reformer must be, as he always has been, persecuted, 
 maligned, denounced as impious. When Masonry 
 and Puritanism intermarry, the bed is fruitful of 
 intolerance and a narrow bigotry, of uncharitableuess 
 and prejudices. Everywhere, forms stifle Masonry, 
 
OFFICES OF INSTALLATION. 61 
 
 under the pretext of preserving it. To restore the 
 idea of a worship founded on purity of heart, on 
 loving-ldndness and fraternity, — this noble and sub- 
 lime idea which Jesus announced to the world, and 
 which his followers were soon to discard and betraj'', 
 — to cause this idea to succeed, those who are its 
 apostles must needs make sacrifices. Not otherwise 
 than by crucifixion can it triumph. To conceive the 
 truth, and to love it lightly and par amours is easy ; 
 to give it success among men is difficult. Mahomet 
 resorted to the sword, to reform the Arabians. The 
 baptism of blood is as necessary as those by water 
 and fire. 
 
 True liberty is not connected with particular politi- 
 cal forms. "Eender unto Cffsar the things that are 
 CfEsar's," said the great Master, looking at a coin as 
 the sign by which to recognize the legitimate power, 
 "and to Grod the things that are Grod's." The true 
 liberty is the liberty of the soul, is Truth ; and man 
 may find means of being free even under a tyrant, 
 whether of one or many heads. To enfranchise the 
 soul, and limit the power of the Tyrant or State to 
 the things of earth, is to insure the final downfall of 
 tyranny. 
 
 The contrast of the ideal with the sad reality, will 
 always produce in humanity those revolts against cold 
 reason which common minds call folly or madness, 
 until the day of their triumph comes, when those 
 who opposed and persecuted them are the first to 
 acknowledge their foresight and wisdom. Ideas of 
 
62 OFFICES OF INSTAMATION. 
 
 reform are always revolutionary ; and the ideal is 
 always a Utopia. To use the ideal so as to effect the 
 practical and useful, to recognize the prejudices, the 
 weaknesses, the follies, and the vices of man as forces 
 which must be taken into account and managed in 
 arranging the machinery of government or institu- 
 tions ; to know and see what would be the best, if 
 men were nearer perfection, and while aspiring 
 toward this, to be content with the greatest prac- 
 ticable degree of excellence, — this is wisdom. Folly 
 endeavors to enact well-balanced and nicely-adjusted 
 constitutions, that are jarred to pieces by the strain 
 of the first working. So Locke and Shaftesbury 
 made a constitution for South Carolina, that would 
 not work at all ; and some forgotten Frenchmen, one 
 for revolutionary France, which all France strove to 
 support and defend, and which fell to pieces within a 
 year. 
 
 It must always be remembered, by those who would 
 effect reforms, that all great things are achieved 
 through the instrumentality of the People, and that 
 the People are led, onlj- by yielding to their ideas. 
 To those who seek to use them, their ignorance is 
 more profitable than their enlightenment, their pre- 
 judices than their reason. These the bad and crafty 
 abuse, and the wise and good must use them. Rudely 
 assailed, attacked in front, they always prove invin- 
 cible. The wise reformer, like the wise statesman, 
 must take humanity with its illusions, its contradictions, 
 and its follies, and act upon these and use them. 
 
.OFFICES OF INSTALLATION. 63 
 
 Minos did not receive his laws from Jupiter, nor 
 Numa his from the nymph Egeria, nor Mahomet the 
 Koran from the Archangel GTabriel. Osesar very well 
 knew that he was not the son of Yenus. It is always 
 a question for the wise, whether they will turn the 
 superstitions, the prejudices, and the passions of the 
 people to useful account, or permit the knaves and 
 miscreants with which the world always abounds to 
 use them to the people's harm. 
 
 Therefore, in seeking to reform or instruct men, 
 be satisfied with that which is practicable and possible. 
 Do not believe a Utopia possible. No political or 
 religious Millennium is near at hand. Seek only to 
 secure to each people and race so much freedom and 
 so much truth, political and religious, as it is fitted to 
 receive and able to digest. Too much light dazzles 
 weak eyes and blinds them. Truth, like the most 
 valuable medicines, becomes in large doses a poison. 
 Even axiomatic truths and principles of unquestion- 
 able verity, applied without qualification or limitation, 
 become the most dangerous falsehoods in the hands 
 of anarchists in religion and politics, those worst 
 enemies of Grod and Humanity ; and poison the 
 world. Not every race is fitted for freedom, nor 
 every man of any race. It has been truly said that 
 Grod has at different epochs given men such religious 
 creeds as they were capable of receiving. The great- 
 est truths have been wholly misunderstood by the age 
 to which they were revealed, and have borne no good 
 fruit for centuries. The religion of Love produced 
 
64 OFTICES OF INSTALLATION. 
 
 ten centuries of persecution. Sometimes a truth has 
 wrestled with error and prejudice for ages, and when 
 at last victorious, has wrought, pushed to extremes 
 and unqualified, more mischief and caused more 
 miseries than the falsehoods it overcame. The prin- 
 ciple, that all men have a right to personal freedom, 
 would let loose the madman, and unchain the felon. 
 
 Remember also that abstract ethics and treatises 
 and sermons on morality have little influence on men. 
 Seneca reformed no one in all Rome ; and of the 
 teachings of Jesus, those that are most admiralile 
 have had the least effect. His followers do not love 
 their enemies, or pray from the heart for them that 
 despitefuUy use them and persecute them. Few of 
 them do unto others that which they would have 
 others do unto them. Few forgive as they hope to be 
 forgiven. Fewer still turn the other cheek to be 
 smitten. There are few who do not seek to lay up 
 treasures on earth : there are almost none who love 
 their neighbor as themselves. For the vast majority 
 of men these principles are too sublime ; so that they 
 are hardly deemed to form a joart of the Divine law. 
 He, and John who preceded and Paul who followed 
 him, effected more by pursuing abuses and vices into 
 their hiding-places, and dragging them forth to the 
 light to strangle them ; by sharp, pointed rebuke and 
 bold denunciation. If you would abolish the worship 
 of idols, you must shatter the idols themselves, as 
 Mahomet did those of the Arabs, and grind them to 
 powder, as Moses did the golden calf. Popular errors 
 
OFFICES OF INSTALLATION. 65 
 
 and evil habits are lilce trees deeply rooted, and will 
 not fall before persuasive words or moral lessons ; 
 and common-places, never so often repeated in the 
 Temples of Masonry or Eeligion, hardly stir their 
 leaves. 
 
 Therefore the Knight and Soldier of Truth must 
 march against wrong and error side by side with the 
 Sage ; his aim being to effect some practical good, and 
 not to make men perfect and earth a paradise. To do 
 this he must use such weapons as are at hand and 
 most effectual. Not by the holding up of the hands 
 of Moses, alone, did Israel overcome ; but by the 
 courage and arm of Joshua. 
 
 Let the insignia with which you are now about to 
 be invested, ever remind you of your duties and of 
 these lessons of the world's experience. Fear not 
 that you will not find enemies to conquer. They are 
 within the Lodge and Council as well as without ; 
 they are in the Temple and the Market-place alike. 
 The world is still full of charlatans, persecutors, and 
 tyrants ; and every Knight Kadosh can find oppor- 
 tunity near at hand to vindicate the rights of free 
 action, of private judgment, and of conscience. 
 
 Superstition, from the Latin word superstes, surviv- 
 ing or outliving, is the sign outliving the idea, in 
 politics and religion. Forms last, after the substance 
 has rotted out. It is the formula preferred to the 
 reality, the rite without reason. Faith became insen- 
 sate because isolated. Its altars are erected every- 
 where, and either in morals, philosophy, politics, or 
 
66 OFFICES OF INSTATTiATTON. 
 
 Eeligioa, there is no man who does not worship at 
 them. Xot the Prodigal Sons only eat husks. It is 
 the corpse of Eeligion and political Faith, the death 
 of life, brutalization substituted for inspiration. 
 
 Fanaticism, the same at heart in politics and re- 
 ligion, is the Temple [Famim], put in the place of 
 God, the human and temporal interest of the Priest 
 or Sect in place of the honor of the Priesthood, the 
 wretched passion of man working for its profit the 
 faith of the believer. 
 
 In the fable of the ass loaded with relics. La Fon- 
 taine tells us that the animal thought it was himself 
 which was adored. He does not tell us that the 
 majority of men think that it is infidelity or atheism 
 not to adore the ass. Those who thus worship the 
 donkey are the superstitious. If one smiles at the 
 nonsense of their creed, his assassination is a meri- 
 , torious act, like the slaughtering of Coligni and Ser- 
 vetus. It is but a single step from Superstition that 
 is but stupid, to Fanaticism that is cruel. 
 
 To worship the dead shells of scarabsei and the 
 untenanted exuvite out of which the living moth has 
 emerged, has been too common to be wondered at, 
 whether in politics or religion. "What else are the 
 dead formulas that once were living symbols ? This 
 is StJPERSTiTiox, — religion or politics interpreted by 
 Folly, and setting up for idols the husks and shells 
 and shadows of the Truth. To it Osiris is truly a 
 black god. It would far rather renounce God than 
 the Devil. In religion and politics it erects in the 
 
OFFICES OF INSTALLATION. 67 
 
 centre of civilization the bloody altars of barbarism, 
 and sacrifices on tliem to Baalzebub and Moloch ; 
 often purchasing also, by the rank bribery of corrupt 
 legislation the alliance or support of the sordid wor- 
 shippers of Mammon. 
 
 Those who confound religion or patriotism with 
 superstition and fanaticism, borrow from stupid itj- its 
 blind prejudices, and, perhaps, from fanaticism its 
 injustices and savage fury. What does it matter 
 whether they are called Inquisitors or Puritans, 
 loyalists upholding a Throne or Dynasty, or Republi- 
 cans wrathful against Kings and Nobles ? The true 
 Religion condemns and always has condemned the 
 assassins. Men are always alike. If a Pontiff com- 
 manded the burning of Savonarola, the Revolutionists 
 who hated the Inquisition and execrated the eve of 
 Saint Bartholemew, massacred the poor priests of 
 France, in the name of humanity and reason, as 
 Carrier drowned his boat-loads in the Loire in the 
 name of Liberty and Patriotism. 
 
 The true Kadosh will be equally the enemy of 
 Despotism and Anarchy, the two monsters reeking 
 with blood that are fated to at last rend and annihi- 
 late each other. Soldier of Liberty, he will not con- 
 sent to substitute the arbitrary will of the populace 
 for legitimate constitutional authority ; since that is 
 not freedom but Tyranny. When Authority ends. 
 Liberty is in the agonies of dissolution. 
 
 In his warfare against Superstition and Fanaticism, 
 he will not seek to destroy Faith or to lessen or 
 
68 OFFICES OF INSTALLATION. 
 
 destroy Eeligion. Nor will he protest against vio- 
 lence by violence, since that is to justify it, and force 
 it to reproduce itself. If Jesus had gone to Rome to 
 stab Tiberius, could he have effected what he did by 
 dying on the cross, pardoning those who put him to 
 death, and giving up life for the benefit even of 
 Tiberius? Brutus, slaying Ctesar, did not save the 
 liberties of Rome. Cherea, killing Caligula, only 
 opened the way for Claudius and Xero. To triumph 
 over evil by the good, over selfishness by abnegation, 
 over ferocity by pardon, is the secret of the eternal 
 victory. The tears of all the centuries will not suf- 
 fice to wash out a single stain of blood. 
 
 Follow unfalteringly that path and aim at that 
 object which your conscience tells you is right. 
 Accept persecution and obloquy, if need be, as your 
 reward. The head that rolls upon the scaffold may 
 be saluted and honored as the head of a martyr. 
 
 Every man who dies for an idea is a martyr, for in 
 him the aspirations of the spirit have overcome the 
 animal fears. lu a war waged for an idea, every man 
 who falls is a martyr, for he dies for his idea and for 
 others. Those who die for what they believe right, 
 are as holy a sacrifice as the victims of duty ; and in 
 the great struggles of Revolution against Power, mar- 
 tyrs fall on both sides alike. Honor to all who combat 
 bravely and loyally ! Right is the root of Duty, and 
 our Duty is to defend what we believe are rights. 
 Dishonor to the traitors and cowards only ! The 
 Elect are those Avho dare. Every man, we repeat. 
 
OFFICES OP INSTALLATION. 69 
 
 who suffers for his convictions is a martyr of the 
 faith. 
 
 The angel of liberty was born before the dawning 
 of the first day, before the awaking even of intelli- 
 gence ; and God called it the Morning-Star. For the 
 old glories of the world it is the Star of the Evening ; 
 for the Truth born again, the brilliant Star of the 
 Morning. But Liberty is not license ; for license is 
 Tyranny. The slaves of the law, who constitute 
 themselves tyrants of consciences, the Pharisees of all 
 synagogues and churches and of political orthodoxy, 
 are more despotic in Democracies than under the 
 Csesars. They are to-day, and will be to-morrow, 
 what they were in the time of Cai'aphas. 
 
 When the last idols shall have fallen prostrate, 
 when the last material chains riveted upon coilsciences 
 shall have been broken, when the last murderers of 
 the Prophets, the last suppressors of the Word shall 
 have been confounded, then the lawful vengeance of 
 the Kadosh on the real murderers of de Molai and his 
 brethren will be complete. Then the Oracles of Hate 
 will have been silenced, and the false gods anni- 
 hilated. The great revolutions of the world are the 
 tillage of God, and they succeed each other inces- 
 santly. They have also long roots in the past, and 
 are prepared for by imperceptible agencies during 
 centuries, and they follow one another like the undu- 
 lations of the sea. 
 
 The nations succeed each other like the generations 
 of men ; and nothing is stable, because all advances 
 
70 OFFICES OF INSTALLATION. 
 
 toward perfection. Every nation, also, must have its 
 convulsions and periods of transition, before its insti- 
 tutions can become permanent, its characteristics well- 
 defined, and authority, established by precedent and 
 prescription, be in equilibrium and harmony with 
 individual liberty. Parchment Constitutions are hut 
 parchment, and shrivel up before the scorching flames 
 of popular excitement and the angry fury of unrea- 
 soning majorities. 
 
 Meanwhile, the nation makes progress ; and prog- 
 ress is life. Over the ruins and graves of nations, 
 humanity marches on to its goal. God began and 
 will complete His work. 
 
 The great man who dies devises to his country the 
 fruit of his toils. The great nation that is extin- 
 guished upon the earth, is transfigured into a star, to 
 illuminate the obscurities of history. What it has 
 written by its acts remains engraved in the eternal 
 book. It has added a page to the Bible of the human 
 race. 
 
 Toil, then ! be patient, persevere, and, if need be, 
 suffer. Soldiers of the Cross and of the Holy House 
 of the Temple ! The innocent victims of the Roman 
 Catacombs, the Hebrews and Protestants massacred 
 during the bloody ages, the Priests of the Abbaye and 
 the Carmelites, the guillotined during the reign of 
 Terror, Royalists slaughtered, and Revolutionists sac- 
 rificed in their turn, the soldiers of freedom whose 
 bones have bleached all over the world, the tortured, 
 the toiling, the suffering, the brave children of Prome- 
 
OFFICES OP INSTALLATION. 71 
 
 theus who have dared all things, dreading neither the 
 thunderbolts nor the vulture of Caucacus, — it is these 
 to whose scattered ashes honor is due, and to their 
 memories veneration ; for they have been the Heroes 
 of Progress and the Martyrs of Humanity. 
 
 After the discourse, O rises, thanks in fit terms the Grand 
 Minister of State, seats himself again, and says: 
 
 0.". Illustrious Brother, G-rand Master of Cere- 
 monies, conduct the Very Eminent Commander of the 
 Council to the seat on my left, and the other digni- 
 taries and obligated officers to their respective sta- 
 tions, beginning with the lowest; and let ** the 
 officers of the Grand Consistory ** (or, those) who 
 now occupy their seats, retire therefrom ! Be seated. 
 Knights and Brethren! 
 
 All sit down, except 21, who conducts the Commander to 
 the seat on the left of O. The latter rises, receives him court- 
 eously, causes him to be seated, and then sits down again. 
 Then 2[ conducts each other officer to his station, beginning 
 with the lowest. As each approaches, the person occupying 
 the seat rises, retires from the seat by the left^ and returns to 
 his first place in the East. 
 
 Then © says: 
 
 0.'. Yery Eminent Commander, be pleased to 
 announce the names of the Knights appointed by 
 you to the other offices of the Council. 
 
 The Commander does so, and © says : 
 
 0.". Let the officers appointed by the Yery Emi- 
 nent Commander repair to the Mausoleum ! 
 
 They do so, and © says : 
 
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 0/. Knights and Brethren, the duties of the Mar- 
 shal of Ceremonies are the same as those of the 
 Master of Ceremonies in other bodies of the Ancient 
 and Accepted Scottish Rite. The Turcopilar, for- 
 merly the Commander of the Cavalry, commands all 
 detachments and escorts, and has in charge the Ban- 
 ners of the Order. The Draper superintends the 
 equipment of the Knights, and sees that the Council 
 is properly furnished, and its hangings, furniture, and 
 arms are kept in repair and fit for use. 
 
 The duties of the other officers I need not recite. 
 They are too well known to need to be repeated. If 
 any of you should require instruction in regard to 
 them, it will be imparted by your superior officers, 
 whom I charge you to respect and obej^ as good and 
 true Knights should. Kneel, and take the oath of 
 office! 
 
 They kneel on the right knee, extending the right hand 
 toward the Mausoleum; and standing in his place dictates 
 the vow, which each repeats: 
 
 TOW. 
 
 Each : — The same vows of office which in our 
 presence and hearing our Commander hath taken, 
 on his part, and for the office to which he hath been 
 elected, I do adopt as my own, and in the same 
 august and holy presence do take on my part, as to 
 my office, as if now used for and repeated by me. 
 So help me God, and aid me to keep this vow! 
 Amen! Amen! Amen! 
 
OFFICES OP INSTALLATION. 73 
 
 O.". Rise, my Brethren! Repair to your posts 
 and enter upon the discharge of your duties ! 
 
 Each repairs to liis post ; and © says : 
 
 ©.•. Illustrious Brother G-rand Chancellor, read 
 the Letters-Patent of Constitution of the Council ! 
 
 The Grand Chancellor does so, and then hands them to O, 
 who raps ® 9 O at "which all rise, and he, rising and holding 
 them in his hand, says: 
 
 ©.•. To order, Illustrious Brethren and Knights 
 Kadosh ! ... In the name and by the authority of 
 the ** Grand Consistory of the Sublime Princes of 
 the Royal Secret, of the 32d degree, of the State 
 
 of , under the jurisdiction of the ** Supreme 
 
 Council, etc., .... and by virtue of the powers in 
 
 me vested as , I do declare and 
 
 proclaim, that the officers of Council of Ka- 
 dosh, No , lately constituted and inaugurated 
 
 under these Letters-Patent of Constitution, have now 
 been duly qualified, charged, and installed, and that 
 the said Council is now duly and fully organized to 
 do all things that a regular Council of the Kadosh 
 and Commander}' of the Holy House of the Temple 
 may. May the Source and Supreme Ruler of the 
 Universe smile upon and bless its lawful labors ! 
 
 Immediately the Choir or the Brethren sing the following 
 Chant and Ode: 
 
 CHAl^T. 
 
 Qui habitat in adjuto- 
 rio Altissimi, in protec- 
 
 He that dwelleth in the 
 aid of the Most High shall 
 
74 
 
 OFFICES OF INSTAILATIO:^'. 
 
 tione Dei coeli commora- 
 bitur. 
 
 Dicet Domino : Suscep- 
 tor meus es Tu, et refagium 
 meum : Deus meus, spe- 
 rabo in Eum. 
 
 Quoniam Ipse liberavit 
 me de laqueo venantium, 
 et a, verbo aspero. 
 
 Scapulis suis obumbra- 
 bit tibi : et sub pennis ejus 
 sperabis. 
 
 Scuto circumdabit te Ve- 
 ritas ejus : non timebis a, 
 timore nocturne. 
 
 A sagitta volante in die, 
 a negotio perambulante in 
 tenebris, ab incursu et dse- 
 monio meridiano. 
 
 Tu es, Domine, spes 
 mea : Altissiraum posuisti 
 refugium tuum. 
 
 Non accedet ad te ma- 
 lum : et flagellum non ap- 
 propinquabit tabernaculo 
 tuo. 
 
 abide under the protection 
 of the God of Heaven. 
 
 He shall say to the 
 Lord: Thou art my protec- 
 tor and mj refuge : My 
 God, in Him will I trust. 
 
 For He hath delivered 
 me from the snare of the 
 hunters, and from the 
 sharp word. 
 
 He will overshadow 
 thee with His shoulders ; 
 and under His wings thou 
 shalt trust. 
 
 His Truth shall compass 
 thee with a shield ; thou 
 shalt not be afraid with 
 the terror of the night. 
 
 Of the arrow that fiieth 
 in the day ; of the busi- 
 ness that walketh about in 
 the dark ; of invasion, or 
 of the noon-day devil. 
 
 Thou, Lord, art my 
 hope : thou hast made the 
 Most High thy Eefuge. 
 
 There shall no evil come 
 to thee ; nor shall the 
 scourge come near thy 
 dwelling. 
 
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 75 
 
 Quoniam Angelis Suis 
 mandavit de te : ut custo- 
 diant te in omnibus viis 
 tuis. 
 
 In manibus portabunt 
 te : ne forte offendas ad 
 lapidem pedem tuum. 
 
 Super aspidem et basi- 
 liscum ambulabis : et con- 
 culcabis leonem et draco- 
 nein. 
 
 Quoniam in me spera- 
 vit, liberabo eum : prote- 
 gam eum, quoniam cogno- 
 vit nomen meum. 
 
 Clamabit ad me, et Ego 
 exaudiam eum : cum ipso 
 sum in tribulatione ; eri- 
 piam eum, et glorificabo 
 eum. 
 
 Longitudine dierum re- 
 plebo eum : et ostendam 
 illi salutare meum. 
 
 For He hath given His 
 angels charge over thee: 
 to keep thee in all thy 
 ways. 
 
 In their hands they shall 
 bear thee up ; lest thou 
 dash thy foot against a 
 stone. 
 
 Thou shalt walk over 
 the asp and th.e basilisk ; 
 and thou shalt trample 
 under foot the lion and 
 the dragon. 
 
 Because he hoped in 
 me, I will deliver him. 
 I will protect him because 
 he hath known My Name. 
 
 He shall cry to me, and 
 I will hear him. I am 
 with him in tribulation. 
 I will deliver him, and I 
 will glorify him. 
 
 I will fill him with 
 length of days : and I will 
 show him my salvation. 
 
 ODE. 
 
 High praise from all whose gift is song, 
 
 To him in danger tried. 
 Whose pulse in battle beateth strong. 
 
 As if to meet his bride. 
 
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 Higli praise from every moutli of man, 
 
 To all who boldly strive, 
 Who fall where first the fight began, 
 
 And ne'er go back alive. 
 
 But chief his fame be quick as fire. 
 
 Be wide as is the sea, 
 Who dares in chains and bonds expire, 
 
 To keep his country free. 
 To these let every poet sing. 
 
 And praise in Heaven belong; 
 Among the stars their plaudits ring. 
 
 Chiming to mortal song. 
 
 -"o" 
 
 Like Grod's own voice, in after years 
 
 Resounds the Warrior's fame, 
 Whose Soul his hopeless country cheers, 
 
 Who is its noblest Xame. 
 But nobler still in darkened cell 
 
 The Statesman bowed with years 
 Whom, fettered in Power's citadel, 
 
 Slaves consecrate with tears. 
 
 These glories on the noblest fall 
 
 Who walk life's flinty ways : — 
 The King who dares not nobly fall 
 
 Dies basely all his days ; 
 The prisoner who pines alone. 
 
 Crushed by a falling cause, 
 Xeeds not the splendors of a Throne, 
 
 Xor his own time's applause. 
 
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 When the Ode is concluded, O rises and says to the Com- 
 mander, who on being addressed, also rise : 
 
 ©.•. Very Eminent Commander, your Officers, 
 elect and appointed, are at their several stations 
 and posts, and it only remains for you to assume 
 yours. After the discourse with which we have 
 been favored, and in which the sublime doctrines of 
 the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite have been 
 expounded in such language as conviction and sin- 
 cerity alone could dictate, — and, indeed, after the 
 obligations which you have taken as a Knight Kadosh, 
 and, as Commander here, I need not reiterate the les- 
 son nor enforce the duty. 
 
 Should the spirit of our doctrine ever be found in 
 opposition to the letter of the written law, hesitate 
 not to sacrifice everything to the inalienable rights of 
 charity and justice, whatever may be the consequences ! 
 "Whenever called on to act, remember him who said. 
 " The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life." 
 
 There is a word, my Brother, that was never 
 heard in the sanctuaries of antiquity. It is the only 
 word that enables man to comprehend the Deity, and 
 it contains an entire revelation. This word is inade- 
 quately rendered by our English word "Charity" and 
 little less so by the word "Love." Caritas is Affec- 
 tion and Loving-Kindness ; and the manifestation in 
 the world of the spirit of this Cliarity made God visible, 
 as it were, ujjon the earth. Before Charity, Faith 
 prostrates itself, and Science, vanquished, bows down. 
 Here is evidently something greater than Humanity : 
 
78 OFFICES OF INSTALLATION. 
 
 Charity proves by its works that it is not a dream. 
 It is stronger than all the passions : it triumphs over 
 suffering and death. It enables all hearts to compre- 
 hend Grod, and seems already to fill eternity by the 
 realization of its legitimate hopes. 
 
 God is for us only the Spirit of Charity. Ortho- 
 doxy is but the Spirit of Charity refraining from 
 the discussion of matters of faith, in order not to 
 shake the confidence of the feeble, or trouble the 
 peace of the Universal Communion. The Church 
 Universal is nothing else than a Communion in the 
 Spirit of Charity. By this spirit onlj^ can the Church 
 be infallible : it is the divine virtue of the Priesthood. 
 
 Duty of men, guaranty of their rights, proof of their 
 immortality, eternity of happiness commenced for 
 them on this earth, glorious object of their lives, end 
 aud means of their efforts, perfection of their individ- 
 ual, civil, and religious morality, the spirit of Charity 
 comprises everything, applies to everything, may 
 hope everything, attempt everything, and accom- 
 plishes everything. 
 
 The Cross of the Passion, the Cross of Saint 
 Andrew, the Cross of the Kadosh, are all to us sym- 
 bols of Charity and Love, which are in the Greek but 
 one word, agape, because upon it he who preached 
 the Gospel of Love died for his brethren, — and yet 
 the Cross has been to more than a million of armed men 
 the Symbol of Persecution, the emblem of a furious 
 and persecuting zeal, though One who died upon it 
 appealed to God to pardon his murderers, by the 
 
OFFICES OP INSTALLATION, 79 
 
 sublime cry, ' ' Father, forgive them ! for they know not 
 what they doT There is the whole code of Charity for 
 feeble humanity in the prayer, as there is in the 
 pardon of the woman taken in adultery : and both 
 the sublime act and the sublime prayer are repudiated 
 by the whole Christian world of men and women. 
 It was the Spirit of Charity alone, exhibited in par- 
 doning the malefactor in whose heart the feeling of 
 pity and loving-kindness had not been wholly deadened 
 by a life of vice, that entitled him who died because he 
 loved his people, to cry unto Grod, " Father, to Thy 
 hands I intrust my spirit." We deserve GtOd's 
 Mercy in proportion to our . Charity. 
 
 To believe together is better than to doubt sepa- 
 rately : but it was not Faith that enabled twelve 
 fishermen and artisans of Galilee to establish a doc- 
 trine that at length possessed itself of the throne of 
 the Cffisars. They loved the truth more than they 
 loved life, and each went out alone into the world, to 
 preach it to the peoples and the kings. Tried by 
 tortures, they proved faithful to the end, and their 
 pains and death were the death-blow to Paganism. 
 The prisoner who represents a great idea is victor 
 over those who imprison and torture him : for con- 
 victions are passive until persecution gives them 
 active energy : and to give a sect or a people a reli- 
 gious or political martyr, is to consolidate opinion and 
 arm it with a resistless power. 
 
 We shall have conquered the enemies of Humanity, 
 when we shall have constituted our Hierarchy upon 
 
80 OFFICES OF INSTALLATION. 
 
 an obedience so noble and so grand by the spirit of 
 Charity, that so to serve is to reign ; when we shall 
 have formulated the Faith of all, and the Hope of all, 
 and put this symbol under the safeguard of the 
 Charity of all. Woe unto the worshipper of self, who 
 appropriates to himself a single word of this Divine 
 inheritance of the utterance of God ; for he is a Dei- 
 cide who would dismember the body of the Lord. 
 
 The symbol of this Charity is the Holy Ark of our 
 Ineffable degrees, the Ark of the Sanctuary, which 
 represents the Soul of the righteous man wherein the 
 Divine Presence always dwells between the winged 
 cherubim, Reasox and Faith, whose plumes meet 
 over the Mercy-Seat, where the sins of feeble human 
 nature are expiated. "Whoever, with unhallowed 
 hands, touches this ark, is smitten with eternal 
 death, because he is disinherited of Charity, by seek- 
 ing to use the holy things of Religion and the generous 
 impulses of the people for his own sordid profit. 
 This symbol, dear to the Rose Croix and Kadosh, like 
 the unfading and immortal Rose upon the Passion- 
 Cross, is the sacred heritage of our children, the price 
 of the blood of our spiritual ancestors. 
 
 Charity — word long without meaning to mankind, 
 ahvmjs without meaning to the ambitious, the greedy, 
 and the revengeful ! It consoled the Martyrs in the 
 prisons of the Ca?sars, as it did Yergniaud and his 
 friends waiting to be beheaded to-morrow in the 
 abused name of Liberty. The Popes forgot it when 
 they excommunicated Masons ; and Saint Martin of 
 
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 Tours remembered it, when he protested against the 
 persecution of the Priscillianists, and withdrew from 
 communion with the tyrant who insisted on imposing 
 faith by the sword. 
 
 By it, Saints have consoled the world for crimes 
 committed in the name of Religion itself, and for the 
 scandals of the Sanctuary profaned. 
 
 By it, Vincent Saint Paul and Fenelon won the 
 admiration of even the most impious ages. By it, the 
 Cross has become the symbol of nations, and its folly 
 their wisdom ; because all noble hearts comprehend 
 that it is greater to believe, with those who love one 
 another and for each other sacrifice themselves, than 
 to doubt with the selfish and rule with the slaves of 
 vice or ambition. 
 
 Never cease to impress it upon the Brethren of all 
 degrees, that a great crime is the greatest possible 
 misfortune to the criminal, and he deserves our hate 
 infinitely less than our pity. 
 
 Teach them that he who thinks himself better than 
 others, is likely to be the least worthy and least 
 wise of all. 
 
 Teach them that the least perfect among all the 
 acts of Loving-kindness is better and avails more than 
 the most admirable word of piety ; and a little charity 
 is worth more than any amount of influence and 
 power. 
 
 And let them never forget that to pray together is 
 the communion of the same Hope, the same Faith, and 
 the same Charity. 
 
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82 OFFICES OF mSTATT.ATIOK. 
 
 And finally, permit none to forget that Jesus said 
 to the Samaritan woman : " Woman, believe me, the 
 hour Cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, 
 nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. . . . The 
 hour Cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers 
 shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth ; for 
 the Father desireth such to worship Him. God is a 
 spirit ; and they that worship Him must worship in 
 spirit and in truth." 
 
 Let the rival Rites in Masonry, and the rival and 
 hostile Sects in religion, admit that these have been, 
 unto them, empty words ! Do you strive to make them 
 real and efficient, by Charity and Toleration ! 
 
 O now hands the Commander the Letters-patent of Con- 
 stitution, saying : 
 
 ©.•. Take in charge the Letters-patent of Consti- 
 tution of your Council, by which it receives existence 
 and authority to work. Receive also this symbol 
 \Jianding him the mallet] of lawful authority and consti- 
 tutional government. Let the two ever remind you 
 that while the Masonry of the Kadosh inculcates the 
 principles of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, it also 
 maintains the necessity of Law, Order, and Subordi- 
 nation. Man is none the less a free agent, because 
 God is omnipotent. Necessity, the mandatory expres- 
 sion of the Divine Wisdom, and Liberty, are in equi- 
 librium. So, if Power is just, may the authority of 
 the Supreme law in the State, and individual liberty, 
 co-exist in harmony. Freemasonry repudiates the 
 
OFFICES OF INSTALLATION. 83 
 
 notion that social evils are to be corrected by viola- 
 tions of law, or that private vengeance is to usurp 
 the law's prerogative. The Kadosh> as you know, 
 have no cry of revenge. " Yengeance is Thine, 
 Lord ! THOU wilt repay !" — Be pleased now, Yery 
 Eminent Commander, to resume your rightful station. 
 
 They exchange places, and O continues, (if any persons have 
 assisted him) : 
 
 0.'. Illustrious Brethren, for whose kind assistance 
 I am grateful, assist me in congratulating the Yery 
 Eminent Commander and his Council ! 
 
 These rise, and with him give the batteiy of the Kadosh, and- 
 with the sign, cry H times, n.-. a.'., and remain standing. 
 
 The Commander responds to O, if and as he thinks proper; 
 and then says : 
 
 CoMM.". Attention, Knights ! — Let us salute the 
 Illustrious Grand Commander-in-Chief [or Sovereign, <&c.], 
 and those who have assisted him. 
 
 All the Knights give the battery, and, with the sign, the same 
 exclamation. Then all are seated. 
 
 If the Installing Officer is alone, he will by himself give the 
 battery and the plaudit, and be replied to and saluted, as if 
 accompanied by others. 
 
 Afterward, the Knights are offered the floor, and the box of 
 fraternal assistance is passed. If then © wishes to retire before 
 the Council is closed, he so indicates to the Commander, 
 who says: 
 
 CoMM.-. Attention, Knights ! — The Illustrious 
 
 **, with those who have assisted him, 
 
 is about to retire. 
 
84 OFFICES OF INSTALLATION. 
 
 The i^arallel lines are formed, as when they entered; — © lead- 
 ing, and the others behind him in due order. The procession is 
 formed; they pass under the Arch of Steel, the Commander 
 and his Lieutenant standing at the salute. Then they halt, 
 open ranks, face inward, and reverse their order, and march 
 out, O in the rear as when they entered. 
 
 The Council is then closed in the usual manner. 
 
 The record of the luauguration and Installation is 
 entered in the record-book of the Council, and signed 
 by O, and those who acted as Lieutenant-Com- 
 manders, Grrand-Chancellor, and Grand-Master of 
 Ceremonies, and as many of the others who accom- 
 panied O, as may have acted as officers. 
 
 THE END. 
 
I^AME S 
 
 FOR 
 
 COUNCILS OF KADOSH. 
 
 Gilbert de Lact A Templar wlio surprised Nou- 
 
 reddiu in his tent, and entirely 
 defeated him. 
 
 Odo de St. Amand Gr.-. M.-. 1170. 
 
 Walter de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick. 
 
 John" de Lacy Constable of Chester. 
 
 Alan de Neville 
 
 Ingeam de Bruce 
 
 Gut de Creon 
 
 William de Crespignt 
 
 Egbert Fitz Parnell Earl of Leicester, who, bearing 
 
 the arms of Eichard L, un- 
 horsed and slew the Soldan in 
 tourney. 
 
 Baldwtne de Elandres 
 
 Eeginald de Argentine . . . A Templar who bore the stand- 
 ard in a great battle near 
 Antioch, until, his hands and 
 legs being broken, he was 
 there slain. 
 
 Hugh de ISTeville Slew a lion in the Holy Land, 
 
 first shooting him with an 
 arrow, and then fighting him 
 with the sword. 
 
 Egbert de Bruce of Annandale 
 
 John de Deux Earl of Richmond. 
 
86 
 
 NAMES FOK COUKCILS OF KADOSH. 
 
 JoHK DE Lact Earl of Lincoln. 
 
 EiCHAED DE Claeb Earl of Gloucester and Hereford. 
 
 HuGUES DES Paxexs Founder and Gr.'. Master. 
 
 Geoffeot DE Saixt-Ademak . Original Founder. 
 
 EuDES DE Saixt Amant Gr.-. Master of Templars. 
 
 Guy DE LusiGXAif King of Jerusalem. 
 
 TViLLiAii DE SoxxAC Gr.-. M.-. 1249. 
 
 EeGIXALD DE ViCHlER " " 1251. 
 
 EVEEAED DES BaeEES " " 
 
 EOBEET DE CeAO>- " " 1136. 
 
 Beejtaed DE Teemelat '• " 1151. 
 
 Bertraxd DE Blaxquefoet . . " " 1151:. 
 
 Philippe de Xaplous " " 1168. 
 
 Waltee du Mesxil .Slew an envoy of the assassins 
 
 in 1172. 
 
 Aexold de Toue eouge Gr.-. M.-. 1180. 
 
 WiLLiAii DE LA MoEE Last Master of the Temple m 
 
 England. 
 
 Geeaed db Riderfoet Gr.-. M.-. 
 
 Jacquelixe DE Maillt Marshal of the Temple, per- 
 formed prodigies of valor at 
 the fatal battle of the Brook 
 Kishon, Friday, May 1, 1187. 
 
 Baliax d'Ibelix 
 
 EoBEET DB Sable Gr.-. M.-. 1191. 
 
 ■\Yalter de Cliftox 
 
 "WiLLiAir DE la More Gr.-. Preceptor in England, 1309. 
 
 WiLLiAii DE Beaujeu Gr.". M.-. — killed storming Acre. 
 
 Philippe du Plesseis Gr.-. M.-. 1201. 
 
 William de Chartebs " " 1317. 
 
 PlEEEE DB MOXTAIGU '" " 1218. 
 
 Heemax^ DB Peeigoed " '■■ 1233. 
 
 Eeigxald d'Aegextox Balcanifer — killed in 1333. 
 
 "William de Moxtfereat . . .Preceptor of Antioch, 1333. 
 Eobeet de Saxdfoed Preceptor in England. 
 
NAMES FOR THE COUNCILS OP KADOSH. 87 
 
 Ameht de St. Mauk Master of the Province of Eng- 
 land, 1330. 
 
 William de Kochefort Gr.-. M.*. 1344. 
 
 Geoffroi Bisol Original Pounder of the Order. 
 
 PaYEIT DE MONTDIDIBR " " " 
 
 Archambatjd DE St. Agkak. . " " " 
 
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