The Royal Arch Degree has not always assumed the form it does now, and at present it is not the same everywhere. Formerly it was much longer and it comprised other dramatic performances besides that of the rebuilding of K.S.T.
The present book is written as a help to those R.A. Masons who take Freemasonry seriously and who desire to know what lies behind our Ceremonies. It is in the form of a running commentary, but it also tries to throw light on the text by reference to the practices in the old Chapters.
Our own formulary is a revision of one which was arranged by the Rev. Adam Brown, at the instance of the Duke of Sussex, nearly a century ago. The date commonly assigned to it is 1835. The revision carries no authority whatever, but somehow it has supplanted the original. The Duke of Sussex was Grand Master during the years 1831 - 1843.
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