An encyclopaedia of freemasonry and its kindred sciences : comprising the whole range of arts, sciences and literature as connected with the institution (1887)
Mackey, Albert Gallatin, 1807-1881, McClenachan, Charles T. (Charles Thompson) · Philadelphia : L.H. Everts · leaf 253
of the Three Globes. Frederick II., kingof Prussia, who was the head of the Ancientand Accepted Scottish Rite, is said to havemerged this body into his own Rite, addingto its twenty-five degrees eight more, so as tomake the thirty-three degrees of which thatRite is now composed. The… … who are still called the Secretary and theTreasurer of the Holy Empire, the double-headed eagle, which was the ensign, as ithas been seen, of that empire, was appropri-ately adopted as the symbol of the govern-ing degree of the Rite. The jewel of the thirty-third degree, or EAGLE EAST 237 Sovereign…
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