Rite maconnic

A Rite maconnic is a coherent whole of ritual and maconnic practices.

History

At the 17th century, ritual maconnic, much the simplest than those of the next century, was not supposed being not written and were never printed. They are more known nowadays only thanks to one very small number of handwritten notes having escaped to the rule and time, like by some old disclosures. The study of these documents shows that they evolved/moved rather considerably with the wire of time.

At the 18th century, after the reorganization of the consecutive practices to the foundation of the first Big rooms, the Ancients and the Moderns practice ritual the rather similar ones again, which are characterized only by one enough small number of remarkable points, such as the place of certain elements symbolic systems, manner of transmitting the passwords, or a more or less important reference to the Christian religion.

However, as of the Years 1740, one sees appearing new divergences, beside the ritual traditional ones of the three first degrees, in the form of several hundreds of ritual of additional degrees known as of high ranks much was only alternatives from/to each other, or remained with the state of projects, or actually never was really practiced. This multiplication of ritual maconnic leads to various initiatives aiming standardizing the practices and at gathering them in coherent and stable units: the maconnic rites .

List rites maconnic

Note: This list counts rites considered as maconnic by the sources mentioned in references. Possible controversies on this subject can be analyzed in the article which is reserved to them.

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