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…ary 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, Manchester, England, whom the Great Architect of the Universe called from labour in March last, Masonry has lost her greatest living authority on high grades, of all of which Brother Yarker was a Past Master, an ardent devotee, and on which he was …
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…vereign 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 OF THE ELECTION OF THE SOVEREIGN GRAND MASTER GENERAL THE Members of the Sovereign Sanctuary having pro- duced their certificates…
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… 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. This was illegal for two reasons : First, because Article XI of the Constitution provides that twenty days’ notice must be given ; secondly, because by Article II the Grand Administrator General or his substitute had not fulfilled the conditions there imposed upon him, and because notices were not issued to all the Prince Patriarch Grand Conservators of the Rite. Brother Cr…
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…master-fool of the movement, who was at least unquestionably honest. Is it then to defeat her intrigues that I am come to this Valley of Manchester from my peaceful encampment in the Valley of Paris? No, a thousand times N0! Let our Rite, the heir of all secular glory, be soiled and degraded by this creature as she will; I for one will not lower visor or lay lance in rest. What is it 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.…
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…ave induced me to exchange the amenities of my encampment in the Valley of Paris for the sterner and gloomier grandeurs of the Valley of Manchester. Who is the woman of whom I speak? What are her antecedents? Is it a Blavatsky or a Joan of Arc that seeks to I2
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… F. G. Irwin. Chief of the Red Branch of Eri in successionto Major F. G. Irwin. High Priest of the 7th degree of Knight Templar Priests, Manchester, revived from 1868 to 1875. In addition, he received many civil decorations from foreign countries as a testimony of appreciation for his notable work. It would fill pages to give a detailed list, but these are a few of those best known in this country: Constantinian Order of St. George, granted 1874 by H.H. Demetrius Rho- dacanakis, Hereditary Grand Master and Prince of Rhodes, descendant of the Emp…
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…prolific writer on many subjects 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…
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…antine, 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 that in 1870 the Royal Grand Council of Ancient Rites appointed him Royal Grand Superintendent of Lancashire of these and other old Orders. For his Masonic scholarship and literary work, he was elected a member of the Masonic Archaeological Institute at its establish- ment in 1862. The same year he was created a Sovereign Prince Rose Croix of the Palatine Ch…