M. q. a. h., II - Wordsmith.org

Also from Schott's Original Miscellany:

�� Degrees of Freemasonry

Freemasonry (a secret fraternal and semi-religious society) claims ancient lineage, and is said by some to employ the following 33-degree hierarchy:

1� Entered Apprentice
2� Fellow Craft
3� Master Mason
4� Secret Master
5� Perfect Master
6� Intimate Secretary
7� Provost and Judge
8� Superintendent of the Building
9� Master Elect of Nine
10� Illustrious Master Elect of Fifteen
11� Sublime Knight, Chevalier Elect
12� Grand Master Architect
13� Royal Arch of Enoch
14� Scottish Knight of Perfection
15� Knight of the Sword & of The East
16� Prince of Jerusalem
17� Knight of the East & West
18� Knight of the Eagle & Pelican and Sovereign
�� Prince Rose Croix of Heredom
19� Grand Pontiff
20� Venerable Grand Master
21� Patriarch Noachite, Prussian Chevalier
22� Prince of Libanus, Royal Hatchet
23� Chief of the Tabernacle
24� Prince of the Tabernacle
25� Chevalier of the Brazen Serpent
26� Prince of Mercy
27� Grand Commander of the Temple
28� Knight of the Sun, Prince Adept
29� Knight of St. Andrew
30� Grand Elected Knight Kadosh, Knight of the
�� Black and White Eagle
31� Grand Inspector Inquisitor Commander
32� Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret
33� Sovereign Grand Inspector General

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I THINK I have copied it truly. One "the" was capitalized; I actually didn't even notice at first that there are were and's and &'s; but I believe I have put them as they are printed in the book.

But doesn't the last one sound more like Hans Blix than Man Who Would Be King?

21� Patriarh Noachite, Prussian Chevalier

Patriarch in the original?

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13� Royal Arch of Enoch

A little webresearch (actually, I was wondering whether this Enoch might have anything to do with Enoch Root of Cryptonomicon and the Baroque Trilogy) led me to the word desuetude, meaning fallen into disuse. ["L. desuetudo, from desuescere, to grow out of use, disuse; de + suescere to become used or accustomed: cf. F. d�su�tude," according to ARTFL Project's Webster Dictionary, 1913 Edition]

Do you suppose this could be another example of the linguistic contraction that made "ele�mosynary" into "alms" ?

Patriarch in the original? Yep. Thanks, Keith. It figures I'd miss at least one, in all that. Oh yes--the book also has the degrees (number and symbol) at the right-hand margin. I wasn't about to try that here--this system likes to shove everything as far left as possible.
Enoch--my first thought was the Biblical one; didn't investigate, however.
I thought it was interesting, the lengths they went to to come up with all these. I wonder how far they date back?

All I could find in a quick search on a slow dial-up is the organization's newsletter. It's a pretty dense site; maybe there's something there:

http://www.freemasons-freemasonry.com

shove everything as far left as possible.

you might try the [ pre ] tag?

I'm not ambitious, I'd be content to rise to be a simple Knight of the Eagle & Pelican and Sovereign Prince Rose Croix of Heredom.

Sounds like at regular at the local pub.

I'm not ambitious, I'd be content to rise to be a simple Knight of the Eagle & Pelican and Sovereign Prince Rose Croix of Heredom.
Sounds like at regular at the local pub.

As to the [pre] tag--I had the idea that that only works if you're copying something from another screen--and not always even then, for me. I copied the opening post from the book--and not for lack of trying to scan it into my computer, either; just couldn't manage it.

<pre> is just html-ese for preformatted text.

[Usually] any extra whitespace [is] stripped out by the browser. The one exception to this rule is the prefromatted text tab <PRE>. Any whitespace that you put into text surrounded by the <PRE> and </PRE> tags is retained in the final output... you can format the text the way you want it to look, and it will be presented that way.

The catch is that preformatted text is usually displayed... in a monospaced font such as Courier.

   
   while the Courier font is just not
   the best to be had from the lot
   it's still nice to be able
   to gin up a table
   or create a poem that's hot 
 
 
 



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