Pyrrho Clidensis Redivivus: A Consideration of the Rosicrucian Brotherhood

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in Europe, and which exists in all
its splendor. The General Council is
still held there, and it is the Seat of the
Sovereign Grand-Master in office.
This Mountain A reference to the legendary "Mount Heredom" or Kilwinning in Scotland, which many 18th-century Masonic traditions claimed was the source of the high degrees. is situated between
the West and the North of Scotland,
sixty miles from Edinburgh.

There are other secrets in Ma-
sonry which have never been
known among the French, and which
have no relation to the Apprentice,
Fellowcraft, and Master; Degrees which
were created for the generality of Ma-
sons, and which have appeared in public
under the title The Betrayed Masons original: "des Maçons trahis" — referring to the 1744 book L'Ordre des Francs-Maçons trahi, one of the earliest and most famous exposés of Masonic ritual., and others.
These High Degrees, which
reveal to you the true purpose for which
Masonry was created, and the true
secrets which have never been known,
are nothing other than what follows.

The Saracens having seized the
Holy Places, otherwise called Pa-
lestine, where all the mys-
teries of our august Order took place,
which they made serve for the most The sentence continues on the next page: "...profane exercises."