m i»Jimi&A\M)ei^'iiM^Mm'iiMimaii^nu.WL.\.ui.jii.»tMaim CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY FREEMABONBY. Ancisnt Q and Accepted Scottish Rlte. Constitu- tions and Regulations of 1762. Statutes, Regulations, etc, of 1786 The Secret °^ *^ ^^^ degree,. with the Statutes of ,Q,"o^'^"^'°''^ 1859, 1866, 1868, 1870 and 1872 of the Supreme Council for the Southern Jurisdiction. Compiled by Al- bert Fike. N. Y., 5632, imperial 4to, full morocco extra, bevelled boards silt '"^^''' '"'' • $20 00 THE GIFT OF HEBER GUSHING PETERS CLASS OF 1892 A..v'5,t.2.S.O..\ .vX-vT^A.-iL. 5226 Library Cornell University A54 HS769.P63 " Snt and ae|...SS^^.aSf 017 1924 030 325 ^^^^ Cornell University Library The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924030325017 ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED OF FREEMASONRY. |,I(E ^jOnBtitalions and jjtjuIatioM of ms- Statutes and EEfiULATioNS of Peefection, and other Degeees. ©era Instituta Sccrcta rt Jfurrtramtitta #ri>mi:s of 178G. THE ^Eci^ET Constitutions of the 550 Degi^ee, "WITH THE STATUTES OF 1859, 1866. 1868, 1870 and 1872, OP THE SUPREME COUNCIL FOR THE SOUTHERN JURISDICTION. COMPILED BY ALBERT PIKE, ''i SOVEREIGN GRAND COMMANDER Or THE SUPREME COUNCIL OF THE 33d DEGREE FOR THE SOUTHERN JURISDICTION OF THE UNITED STATES. NEW YORK: MASONIC PUBLISHING COMPANY, No. 626 BROADWAY. A. M. 5632. i^ir , Igyz, ir... £.: Cc^^c—f cJc^ £ZZ (jL^ , C J "W X^ ^ Zt^ ^ o-i^ «, <^Wv^ <a^- ii-t-1- u^tl^ 1^ e,« — -eo^o-iv J- Cw_^J3 ^i^odr ^i-a^ Ci,-^i;^r- PREFATORY. |N the year 1859, the Sovereign Grand Com- mander of the Supreme Council for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States prepared, and gave to Bro.-. Robert Macoy, who published it on his own account, an edition of the Grand Constitutions of 1 762, and the Statutes, Institutes and Regulations of the Rite of Perfection subsequent thereto, and of the Latin Grand Constitutions of 1786, and the Statutes of the Supreme Council for the Southern Jurisdiction. In this work, these, with additions, are published by that Supreme Council. Thory, {Acta Latomorum, i. 79,) says: " 1762, 21 Septem- ber.—Committees from the Council of Emperors of the East and West at Paris, and the Council of Princes of the Royal Secret, framed, at Bordeaux, the Regulations of the Masonry of Perfection, in thirty-five Articles, and fixed the degrees administered by the Council." All the other French writers of Masonic History state the same, with little or no additional information. Copies of these Constitutions and Regulations of 1762, and of the subsequent Statutes, Institutes and Regulations, of unknown date and uncertain authenticity, which follow the Constitutions in this volume, were published in French, (5) PREFATORY. g at Paris, in the " Recueil des Actes du Supreme Conseil de France," in 1832, by authority of that body. In the Archives of the Supreme Council for the Southern Jurisdiction, at Charleston, is a book, in manuscript, writ- ten by the Bro.-. Jean Baptiste Marie Delahogue, father-in- law of the Bro.-. Comte Alexandre Frangois Auguste de Grasse, in 1798 and 1799; containing among other docu- ments, a copy of the Constitutions of 1762, and of other Stat- utes and Regulations; all authenticated by his signature and that of the Bro.-. Comte de Grasse; and under the Seal of the Sublime Grand Council of the Princes of the Royal Secret, then in existence and sitting at Charleston. The Comte de Grasse was a member of the Supreme Council at Charleston, and its Grand Representative for the French West Indian Islands, where he established a Supreme Council, at Port-au-Prince, in 1803, and thence went to France, and there in 1804 established the Supreme Council of France. The Bro.-. Delahogue was commis- sioned by the Supreme Council for the United States at Charleston to extend the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite in Louisiana, went to Santo Domingo with the Bro.-. de Grasse, was Lieut.-. Gr.-. Commander of the Council established there ; and accompanied him to France, and held the same office in the Supreme Council of France. There is also in the same Archives another book, being the register delivered by the Bro.-. Jean Baptiste AveilM, Deputy Grand Inspector-General and Prince Mason, to the Bro.-. Pierre Dupont Delorme, Deputy Gr.-. Insp.-. Gen- eral and Prince Mason, at Port-au-Prince, on the loth of December, 1797, containing the same and other docu- PREFATORY. 7 ments. In this book, there is attached to the copy of each document a copy of a certificate that it is a correct copy, of the Bros.-. Hyman Isaac Long, Jean Baptiste Marie Dela- kogue, Auguste de Grasse, Dominique Saint Paul, Alexis Claude Robin and Remy Victor Petit, Dep'y-'. Insps.-. General and Princes Masons, given at Charleston, on the 9th of June, 1799; with the certificate of the Bro.-. Aveilh6, dateo, loth December, 1797; and each is visd by the Bro.-. de Grasse, as Sov.-. Gr.-. Insp.-. General, 33d degree, on the 12th of March, 1802. In the copies in this latter book are many obvious er- rors but in ; substance they agree with those more accu- rately made by the Bro.-. Delahogue. The copies in the Recueil des Actes differ in many respects from both. Some of the variations are evidently caused by alterations purposely made, of later date. The copy by the Bro.-. Delahogue purports to be a copy of a copy delivered in 1768 by the Bro.-. Stephen Morin to the Bro.-. Henry A. Francken ; and is evidently the most authentic. That in the Recueil des Actes was undoubtedly furnished from Charleston, and is not in any way authen- ticated. We here publish these Constitutions, with the subsequent Institutes, Statutes and. Regulations, according to the Bro.-. Delahogue's copy, even in which there are some obvious mistakes, which it is not in my power to correct. Even errors in grammar I have left uncorrected, my object being to give a literal copy of each document, preserving even the faulty or antique orthography, from the old man- uscripts in the Archives at Charleston. I have also carefully scrutinized and corrected the trans- ; 8 PREFATORY. that learned lation into English, and venture to hope readers will find it correct. " To these are appended the " Ordinances of the Chapter of Rose Croix, from the old MSS. mentioned in the caption. These are followed by a Historical Inquiry in regard to the authenticity of the Latin Constitutions of 1786; and this by the Constitutions themselves, with translations into French and English. The French translation is that pub- lished in 1859, and as then made by the 111.-. Bro.-. Charles Laffon de Ladebat, 33d, of Louisiana, Active Member of the Supreme Council. I have carefully re-translated them into English, correcting some errors of the original trans- lation, and making the re-translation more close and literal. These are followed by the French imperfect version of the same, with preface and translation. Then follow Avhat have been known as " The Secret Con- stitutions," in French, with a translation, and after these the Statutes of the Supreme Council for the Southern Jurisdiction and its rolls of membership of different years. Containing the only complete body of the law of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, that has ever been published, it is hoped that this book may be approved by the Brethren of the Order. It is published by authority of the Supreme Council and, to be used and enforced, needs no further authentica- tion. Albert Pike, 33d. Bov/. Gr.' Com.". Ob.-, ov WABHrNGTON, D. C, 25 a.-. M.-. 6683. «^-]Jj5, : CONSTITUTIONS ET REGLEMENS PAR NEUF COMMISSAIRES NOMMfiS AD HOC, PAR LE SOUVERAIN GRAND CONSEIL SUBLIME SES SUBLIMES PRINCES DU EOrAL SECRET, Etc., Etc., Etc. OEIBNTS DB PAEIS ET BBELrfT. ONSTITUTIONS et Reolemens redigea par nmf Oommissavres nommis par U Grand Gonseil des Sowoerams Princes du Royal Secret, aux Orands Orients de Paris et BerUn, en vertu de la de- Wyeration du 5e jov/r de la Se semaine, de la lie Lune de I'JEre Se- braiique, 5563, et de I'Bre Ohretienne, 1763. Pour Stre ratifies et observes par les Grands Gonseils des Sublimes CTieiiaMers et Princes de la Ma^on- nerie, ainsi que par les Gonseils particuliers et Grands Inspeeteurs reguliirement constitues sur les deux Hemispheres.* Il est connu que toutes les soci^t^s ont regus des grands bienfaits par les travaux constants des Sublimes Chevaliers et Princes de la Magonnerie ; il ne peut consequemment * Dans la copie du Fr.\ Aveilhe, le document jusqu'a I'ast^risque se lit comme suit RiiGLEMENS ET CONSTITUTIONS Faits par les neuf Commissaires, nomm^s par le Souverain Grand Conseil des Sublimes Chevaliers du Royal Secret et Princes de la Majonnerie. Au Grand Orient de Bordeaux, en consequence de la deliberation du 5e jour de la 3e semaine, de la 7e lune de I'Ere H6braique, 5562, ou de I'Ere Ohretienne, 1762, pour etre observes et ratifies par ledit Souverain Grand Con- seil des Sublimes Chevaliers du Royal Secret, Princes de la Majonnerie, et par tous les Conseils particuliers reguUerement constitues sur les deux Hem- ispheres; transmis a notre frere Etienne Morin, Grand Inspecteurde toutes les Loges dans le Nouveau-Monde. (10) CONSTITUTIONS AND REGULATIONS DRAWN UP BY NINE COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED AD HOC BT THE SOVEREIGN GRAND SUBLIME COUNCIL OP THE SUBLIME PRINCES OP, THE ROTA.L SECRET, Etc., Etc., Etc. OHIENTS OP PAHIS AND BEELIN. j|ONSTITUTIONS and REGnn-ATioNS H/rawn up by mne Oommis- sioners appointed hy the Grand, Council of the Sovereign Princes of tlie Royal Secret, at the Grand Orients of Paris and Berlin, by mrtue of the resolution of the 5th day of the dd week of the seventh Month of the Hebrew Era, 5563, and of the Ghri»tian Era, 1763.