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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…
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…
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…atriarch 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 Sanctuary in the Valley of London, this thirtieth day of June, Nineteen hundred and thirteen, Εν. ἩΕΝκγ MEYER, 33°, 90°, 96°, Sovereign …
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…sly agreed. 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…
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IN MEMORIAM—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, …
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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…
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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…
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…s 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 Conservators of our su…
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…ary 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 Chapter of the A. and A. Rite by Brother Cruttenden, M.W., but as their claims conflicted with the old Templar grades he ceased attending. It would be impossible to enumerate all the offices he held and all the honours that were bestowed upon him; here, however, is a short list of the more important: Royal Grand Commander of the Rose Croix and Kadosh, 1868 to 1874. Sco…