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The Most Illustrious Sovereign Grand Master General then opened the Convocation as a Supreme Grand Council of Sovereign Grand Inspectors General of 33° and last degree of the Antient and Accepted Scottish Rite, and he was duly elected Most Puissant Sovereign Grand Commander. He then opened the meeting as an Absolute Grand Sovereign of the 90° and last degree of the Oriental Rite of Mizraim, and was duly elected as its Patriarch. The Sovereign Grand Master returned thanks in an eloquent speech for his election, and conferred the degree of Prince…
1913 · PDF PAGE 5
IN MEMORIAM—JOHN YARKER Absolute Sovereign Grand Master, Rite of Mizraim, 90°, from 1871 down to the present time. Received over twelve patents of 33° of the Supreme Council in various parts of the world. Past Senior Grand Warden of Greece by patent, July Ist, 1874. Hon. Member of Lodge 227, Dublin, 1872, and of various foreign bodies, 1881-3. Among these he received the “Crown of Kether,” admitting to the 5° of the Grand Lamaistique Order of Light. In 1882—3 he acted as General Guiseppe Garibaldi’s Grand Chancellor of the Confederated Rites, w…
1913 · PDF PAGE 9
…ritten. On the motion of Bro. W. Henry Quilliam, seconded by Bro. Aleister Crowley, 33°, 90°, 95°, the Very Illustrious Prince Patriarch Grand Conservator, 33°, 90°, 95°, Bro. Henry Meyer, of 25 Longton Grove, Sydenham, SE., County of Kent, was unanimously elected Sovereign Grand Master General of the Antient and Primitive Rite of Masonry in and for Great Britain and Ireland. The Most Illustrious Sovereign Grand Master General then took the chair and, after returning thanks for the election, closed this Special Convocation. Done in our Sanctuar…
1913 · PDF PAGE 11
…AM—JOHN YARKER REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS AT MAN- CHESTER, WITH Α ΝΟΤΕ ΟΝ ΤΗΕ CIRCUM- STANCES WHICH LED UP ΤΟ ΤΗΕΜ ALTHOUGH the Sovereign Grand Master General departed this life on March 20, 1913, no official notice of the fact was sent out by the senior active officer, the Grand Chancellor General; but a few days after he had received the summons issued in default of such action by the Acting Sovereign Grand Master General, he sent another summons couched in similar terms, calling a special Convocation at Manchester fer 4 p.m., June 28, 1913. Thi…
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IN MEMORIAM—JOHN YARKER [Tlzz's Manifesto following has been issued by order of 6/68 new MI. Sovereign GrandMaster Generalfor G. B. and I.] . To all Sovereign Sanctuaries, Supreme Councils and Masonic Bodies in friendship with the Sovereign Sanctuary of the Antient and Primitive Rite of Masonry in and for Great Britain and Ireland. WE, Grand Secretary General of the Sovereign Sanctuary of the Antient and Primitive Rite of Masonry in and for Great Britain and Ireland, hereby give due Notice to all Sovereign Sanctuaries, Supreme Councils and Maso…
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… Romaine Callendar, M.P., D.L., he became the Commander of the Jerusalem Conclave. Further honours fell to his share, and he was elected Grand Vice-Chancellor of the Province under Brother William Courtenay Cruttenden, P.G.C., and in 1864 was appointed Grand Constable of England. In the same year he was called abroad on commercial business and travelled extensively in America, the West Indies and Cuba. Before he left England he revived the old York degrees of Heredom-Kadosh, formerly worked under the Duke of Sussex, being helped in this importa…
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…. to. Brother Meyer having done so, Brother Quilliam moved that a letter of condolence should be sent to the widow of the late Sovereign Grand Master General. This was agreed to. Brother Meyer then called upon Brother Crowley to read his report ofthe proceedings at Manchester. Brother Crowley complied. The report of the proceedings at Manchester was approved and adopted and ordered to be recorded in the Minutes of the Convocation. Follows a copy of aforesaid report. The election of the Sovereign Grand Master General was then duly held. ` RECORD…
1913 · PDF PAGE 12
…tion these illegalities have been committed? There is not one of you who is ignorant of the answer. The age and infirmity of our lamented Grand Hierophant allowed him to yield to improper persuasion, to be deceived by an intrigue no wilier than those he had so often defeated in his prime, and to relax the strict rules of our Constitution. Even to this exalted Sanctuary there has been admitted, in flagrant violation of Article VI of our Constitution, a man who is not and never was a member of a lodge in good standing working under a Grand Lodge of…
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…ken too seriously when a senile sex-maniac like Leadbeater proclaims his catamites as Corning Christs. It is this, Very Illustrious P.P. Grand Conservators of our sublime Rite, which brings me here to-day. This is the hand which moves the wooden-headed pawn Wedgwood, hardly a man, certainly no Mason, and of what freedom and good report his present intrigue is the best evidence. This is why our Masonic Polonius has been interred hugger—mugger ! This is the secret object of the attempt to hold the election I3
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… Patriarchs, if it is to be done at all, let it be done prOperly. Let us elect Lord Alfred Douglas S.G.M.G., and replace the name of the Grand Architect of the Universe by that of Oscar Wilde 1 That would at least be honest, if not clean. I have no concern with the morals of Mr. Wedgwood or Mr. Leadbeater: it is one of the many favours which my daily thanksgiving recites before the Father of us all that I have no concern with them; but that the latter should impose his boy-mistress, imbecile from abuse, upon us for the Incarnation of the Logos—…
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IN MEMORIAM—JOH N YARKER WE deeply regret to have to record that the Most Illus- trious Brother John Yarker, 33°, 90°, 97°, Sovereign Grand Master General of the Antient and Primitive Rite of Masonry in and for Great Britain and Ireland, Honorary Member of the Sovereign Sanctuaries in and for the German Empire, France, Spain, America, Cuba, etc., died on March 20, 1913, EV. at Manchester. Regm'escaz‘ m Pace! We are obliged to the Universal !??/8877405074 for the following Memorial Article: In the death of Brother John Yarker, of Didsbury, Manch…
1913 · PDF PAGE 6
…s other than Masonic. In 1869 he compiled “Notes on the Temple and Hospital, and the Jerusalem Encampment, Manchester ”--—the Provincial Grand Conclave appreciated this work and complimented the author. Two years later saw an interesting work from his pen, Notes on Με Scientific and Religious Mysteries of Antiquity; Με Gnosis and Secret Sclzools of Με Middle Ages, Modern Rosicracianism; and Με various Rites and Degrees of Free and Accepted Masonry, a book which has been exceedingly well reviewed. A little later, but about the same date, the “Egy…