The history of freemasonry : its legends and traditions, its chronological history (1906)
Mackey, Albert Gallatin, 1807-1881, Singleton, William R. (William Reynolds), 1819-1901, Singleton, William R. (William Reynolds), 1819-1901. History of the symbolism of freemasonry, Hughan, William James, 1841-1911 · New York : the Masonic History Company · leaf 86
their new system, to develop new degrees. The task, therefore, to which our attention must now be di-rected, is first to demonstrate that the primitive ritual accepted in1717 by the Speculatives consisted of but one degree, if for con-venience I may be allowed to use a word not strictly and… … CHAPTER XXXIII THE ONE DEGREE OF OPERATIVE FREEMASONS IN the articles of union agreed to in 1813 by thetwo Grand Lodges of England, the Moderns and the Ancients as they were called, it wasdeclared that pure Ancient Masonry consists ofthree degrees and no more. If by AncientMasonry it was intended…
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