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… in the minutes hereinafter written. 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 Conv…
1913 · PDF PAGE 7
…riendship with the Sovereign Sanctuary in and for Great Britain and Ireland, and to all Members of the said Rite, that the lamented Most Illustrious Bro. John Yarker, 33°, 90°, 97°, Sovereign Grand Master General of the Antient and Primitive Rite, departed this earthly life and was called to the Grand East on March 20th, 1913, E.V., and that a Convocation of Prince Patriarch Grand Conservators of the said Rite on June 30th, 1913, Εν. held in London, unanimously elected the Very Illustrious Bro. Henry Meyer, 33°, 90°, 96°, henceforth to be Sover…
1913 · PDF PAGE 13
…then that has brought me hot—foot to this illegal Convocation? What but that last infamy which has roused even the holy calm of our Most Illustrious Sovereign G.M. General in Austria to hurl the lightnings of his excommunica- tion against its perpetrators? VeryIllustrious P.P.,I am no prude. But I am a stickler for the value of words: and I deem that the French slang “ Petit Jesus ” is being taken too seriously when a senile sex-maniac like Leadbeater proclaims his catamites as Corning Christs. It is this, Very Illustrious P.P. Grand Conservato…
1913 · PDF PAGE 15
IN MEMORIAM—]OHN YARKER I invite not merely every Very Illustrious Ρ.Ρ., but every decent man, to sustain my protest by following me from this illegally and treacherously convoked assembly. The Convocation was then adjourned sine die by unanimous consent. To this speech we attach an account of the legal proceed- ings on which it is based : IN THE COURT OF THE DISTRICT JUDGE OF CHINGLEPUT O. 5. No. 47 of 1912 J. NARAYANIAH-P!az'7ztzj Versus MRS. ANNIE BESANT—Defendant THE WRITTEN STATEMENT OF THE _PLAINTIFF I. J. NARAYANIAH, the plaintiff above,…
1913 · PDF PAGE 10
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 11
…person claiming admission whose status he knew to be doubtful. The proceedings therefore began and ended with the following Speech: Very Illustrious Prince Patriarch Grand Conservators of the Sovereign Sanctuary of the Antient and Primitive Rite, Although I rise to protest against the illegality of the present Convocation, it is not in order to quibble over the letter of our Constitution that I have left my peaceful encampment in the Valley of Paris. When I see illegality, I ask myself, What has prompted it? I I
1913 · PDF PAGE 14
… and radiant, veiled only ever and evermore by the blinding light of its own glories, unsullied by even the shadow of disgrace? No, Very Illustrious Prince 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 …
1913 · PDF PAGE 12
and in this case, the Chancellery fortunately reposing in the trained legal hands of Very Illustrious Brother Higham, it is certain that no inadvertence has been committed. I pass over therefore the breach of Article II and Article XI, which render this Convocation powerless to proceed to the business for which it purports to have been summoned, and I ask at whose instigation 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 t…
1913 · PDF PAGE 4
… several scions of the French Royal Family, were Grand Masters. It was a time of much activity, a Masonic Renaissance, in which the Very Illustrious Brother John Yarker played an important röle, and many other old Rites were rescued from the oblivion into which they had fallen—such were the Rite of Mizraim, the degree of Ark Mariners, the Red Cross of Constantine, Babylon, Palestine, Philippi, etc., and, the most notable of all, the Ancient and Primitive Rite which was established by him in Manchester in 1871. Very properly, therefore, we find t…