Landmarks and Ceremonies of Courts of Heroines of Jericho (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Landmarks and Ceremonies of Courts of Heroines of Jericho Now, after years of patient search in the mysteries of the Ancient Craft and their work ing for hundreds of years, step by step we trace the origin of Female Degrees through ancient and modern times, and find that the Three Degrees, as they are given in the Ritual, were first brought to perfect order in France, as early as the year A. D. 1220, in the reign of Louis VIII.; and from thence passed into Eng land, Germany, Scotland, and many other estab lished governments. We have become perfectly satisfied from our researches that the Three Degrees are the heritage and property of Mas ter Masons, their wives, widows, daughters, mothers and unmarried sisters. These Degrees existed in an organized state,2 many years be fore the Chapter, Council or Encampments were ever heard or thought of. In fact, these Degrees were known and given when we had nothing but the good Ancient Craft Masonry, which is almost as old as creation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.