Excerpt from Manual of the Lodge of Perfection, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry: Containing Instructions in All the Degrees, From the Fourth to the Fourteenth; Together With the Ceremonies of Inauguration and Constitution, and Installation of Officers, as Practiced in the Northern Jurisdiction of the United States To Open a Lodge of Grand, Elect, Perfect, and Sub lime Masons, Opens all the degrees contained Within it; - but a body of any degree may be opened or closed independently. 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.