Lectures of the Antient and Primitive Rite of Freemasonry tr & comp by John Yarker 33° 97° 90° compr Masonic Charges and Lectures 1880 & Lectures of a Chapter Senate and Council 1882 (1990).pdf

LECTURES OF THE

ANTIENT AND PRIMITIVE

RITE OF FREEMASONRY

TRANSLATED AND COMPILED BY

JOHN YARKER

Masonic Charges and Lectures

Lectures of a Chapter, Senate, and Council

Masonic Charges and Lectures, a series translated from the

French by John Yarker, first published Manchester:

J.W. Petty & Son, 1880

Lectures of a Chapter, Senate and Council according to the

forms of the Antient and Primitive Rite by J-E Marçonis,

translated by John Yarker, first published London:

John Hogg, 1882

This electronic edition prepared and issued by

Unspeakable Press, Leng

2005

This work is in the public domain.

Last revised 29.01.2008

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LECTURES OF THE

ANTIENT AND PRIMITIVE

RITE OF FREEMASONRY

TRANSLATED AND COMPILED

JOHN YARKER

33 ° 97 ° 90 °

COMPRISING

Masonic Charges and Lectures ( 1880 )

Lectures of a Chapter, Senate, and Council, according to the

forms of the Antient and Primitive Rite, but embracing all

Systems of High Grade Masonry ( 1882 )

Unſpeakable Preſs

333 Via Nefanda, Lelag, Leng

2005

Editorial note

The present e-text comprises two volumes published by Yarker in the

1880 s. Masonic Charges and Lectures contained the Orator’s discourses

for the 4 °- 33 ° of the Antient and Primitive Rite (Reduced Rite of

Memphis), in a somewhat haphazard order. Lectures of a Chapter,

Senate and Council consisted of the “lectures” (catechisms) of the 4 °-

30 °, bound up with the “Grand Book of Maxims.”

Neither work was written by Yarker. Masonic Charges and Lectures

was compiled from unspecified earlier sources; the 7 ° lecture for

example was said in the introduction to a Kessinger Publishing reprint

to be largely plagiarised from an 1852 exposé of the Northern

Jurisdiction Scottish Rite rituals. On first publication the volume was

subtitled “a series translated from the French.” In the introduction to

Lectures of a Chapter, Senate and Council , Yarker states that the

contents were “translated from the published works of Jacques

Etienne Marconis” (founder of the Rite of Memphis). Many sections

were in turn drawn from earlier Masonic rites.

The discourses making up the first part of this work have been re-

arranged in degree order, largely based on the account of the Antient

and Primitive Rite in the third edition of The Freemason’s Manual by J.

How, and the retrospective survey of the degrees which comprises the

final lecture. The placing of a few is conjectural.

Besides these two volumes, Yarker published the constitutions,

official history (read: foundation myth) and “public ceremonials” of

the Antient and Primitive Rite, and in 1881 privately printed the

complete rituals 4 °- 33 ° as Manual of the Degrees of the Antient and

Primitive Rite . I have not so far managed to locate a copy.

No attempt has been made to retain layout or pagination from the

print editions. Some manifest typographical errors have been corrected,

although some other apparent errors, and several near-unintelligible

or nonsensical passages (mostly in the second part), possibly a result

of mistranslation, have been allowed to stand.

“T.S.A.O.T.U.” is an abbreviation for “The Supreme (or ‘Sub-

lime’) Architect of the Universe,” a Rite of Memphis variation on the

traditional Masonic title of God, or strictly speaking the Demiurge.

All footnotes are by the editor of the present e-text.

CONTENTS

MASONIC CHARGES AND LECTURES

F IRST SERIES : C HAPTER OF R OSE C ROIX

Second Class: College

4 ° Masonic Science as Related to the Temple of Jerusalem

5 ° TheMason,aSonofGod . . . . . . . .

6 ° History of the Sacred Vault of Enoch . . . . .

7 ° TheIneffableName . . . . . . . . . .

Third Class: Chapter

8 ° Mission of the Knights of the Sword. . . . . .

9 ° CaptivityoftheIsraelites. . . . . . . . .

10 ° The Temple of Jerusalem as a Masonic Type . . .

11 ° Instruction of the Degree of Rose Croix. . . . .

History of the Degree of Rose Croix . . . . . .

S ECOND SERIES : S ENATE OF H ERMETIC P HILOSOPHERS

Fourth Class: Senate

12 ° TheCabirianMysteries . . . . . . . . .

13 ° MoralGeometry . . . . . . . . . . .

14 ° TheTabernacleandtheTemple . . . . . .

15 ° SerpentWorship. . . . . . . . . . .

16 ° TheMagianMysteries . . . . . . . . .

17 ° TheHermeticCross . . . . . . . . . .

Fifth Class: Areopagus

18 ° MasonryandtheCrusades . . . . . . . .

19 ° Masonry and the Eastern Philosophy . . . . .

20 ° ExtensionofMasonicPrinciples . . . . . .

T HIRD SERIES : S UBLIME C OUNCIL

Sixth Class: Consistory

21 ° OnSymbols . . . . . . . . . . . .

22 ° SapenathPenach. . . . . . . . . . .

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