The Royal Arch of Enoch by Robert W. Sullivan IV

Author:Robert W. Sullivan IV [Sullivan IV, Robert W.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Rocket Science Productions, LLC
Published: 2012-08-18T04:00:00+00:00

The Ramsay high degree ideology generated a sequence of symbols which moved through successive formulations of Knight Templar imageries. The first of these, a narrative linking the Order to the recovery of the ineffable word and its restoration was, in essence, a reworking of the Royal Arch of Zerubbabel transferred from the building of the Second Temple. The sequence invariably conflated Scottish Crusaders with Knights Templar. Eventually, the thread of revenge for the execution of the last Templar Grand Master Jacques DeMolay became intertwined with revenge for the murder of Hiram Abif in the Knights Kadosh ceremony (1741) through the Chapter of Clermont and the Council of the Emperors of East and West, leading to the creation of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite from the French Rite of Perfection. The movement of Ramsay’s ideology into concrete organizational expression took place between 1737 and 1767 when Masonic writers such as Etienne (Stephen) Morin and James Andrew Francken developed a system of ceremonies termed the Rite of Perfection. Francken established these in a Lodge of Perfection in Albany, New York in 1767. In turn the premier Masonic intellect of his day, Thomas Smith Webb summarized specific ceremonies from the Francken lodge and printed them in his Monitor, termed theIllustrations of Masonry in 1797. From the sequence of events and through parallel channels the Scottish Rite developed. Its first Supreme Council can be dated from Charleston, South Carolina in 1801 from which an Irish Supreme Council was erected. It inherited the formal structure of a systemic Masonic Rite through a conduit from Europe through the Haiti and the West Indies into New York and Philadelphia, Florida, and finally into Charleston where it was taken up by America’s primary Church historian of Anglicanism and Universalist theologian Frederick Dalcho, a native of Prussia and resident of Maryland. A complex of theosophical ideas, later re-denominated philanthropy became linked to the Rite. These concepts can be traced from Jacob Boehme (1574 - 1624) - the German mystic and original thinker within the Lutheran tradition. Boehme’s hermetical and Neo-Platonic ideals influenced many anti-authoritarian and occult movements, including Rosicrucianism, Martinism, and the Religious Society of Friends.

While the national origins of the Scottish Rite have been disputed, there is little question that what is now known as the Scottish Rite was framed in France and transported in stages - largely piece meal - into North America following its origination following The Chevalier Ramsay’s Oration in 1737. The structuring of actual ceremonies appears to have taken place in the College of Clermont in Paris - a Jesuit entity patronized by Catholic Scots in the service of the House of Stuart around a ceremony termed The Scottish Master, Ecossais. The Scotch Master - prevalent in France during Ramsay’s heyday - included reference to a Vault, and probably contains one of the earliest references to what became the Royal Arch of Enoch. The Jesuit contribution to the ideology of the ritual appears to be Joachimite in its origins as a means to

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