The Sanctuary Of Memphis, Or Hermes:

1756 , However , Brother Lacorne , delegated by the Count de Chermont , established in 1761 a Grand Lodge , which , although at first disagreeing , fraternised on the 24 th . January , 1762 , through the labours of M . Chaillon de Gouville , his successor ; but , in 1765 , a complete rupture took place . Those two Grand Lodges anathematised each other , and matters came to such a pass

that "work" ceased on the 24 th June , 1767 . The first Grand Lodge resumed work on the 21 st June , 1772 . The second did the same on the 24 th December of the same year , constituting- themselves under the title of the Grand Orient , a title nnder which it still continues to be known . On the 5 th of March , 1773 , the first assemblage of the Grand Orient took laceand it proclaimed its public existence on the 9 th of the same month .

p , On the 24 th of July following- the Duke of Luxembourg , its Grand Master , installed the three chambers which then composed the Lodge , and on the 28 th October of that year Louis Phillipe Joseph d'Orleans AA'as elected Grand Master .

The Grand Lodge declared , on the 17 th June , 17 c 4 , that the Grand Orient had acted both usurpingly and irregular ; but , deprived , as it would appear , of influential and capable membership , and without assistance outside , it could merely limit its vindication to a barren contest of pamphlets and misconceived decisions . During this time the Grand Orient strode forward rapidly towards a Masonic unitynow become desirableand effected numerous ameliorations .

, , On the 14 th June , 1773 , it suppressed the irremovableness of the Venerables , who were then Masters of Lodges from whence issued the grade of Magister ad vitam ( Master for life ) . On the 23 rd October following the Grand Orient for the first time issued the six-monthly pass-word—a custom which has ever since prevailed . At length , on the 27 th December , 1774 , the Grand Orient substituted the name of the " Masonic Order" for that of the " Royal Art "

( Collection of Precepts ) . On the 13 th May , 1793 , the Grand Mastership was declared vacant in consequence of the resignation of its titulary , the Duke of Orleans . And the Grand Orient and the Grand Lodge resumed the business of the Order in 1796 .

Through the anxious and careful management of Brother Roitier de Montalau , a contract of union , the need of which had been long and universally felt , was entered into and signed on the 21 st May , 1799 ; and the meeting of the contesting institutions took place on the 22 nd June subsequently—the Grand Orient absorbing the " Grand Lodge . " Thus terminated the scandalous discussions ancl dissensions — all anathemas retracted , and all exclusions revoked .

During those quarrels of the Grand Lodge and of the Grand Orient , and even anteriorly , other rites were established in France . On the 15 th of April , 1747 , Charles Edwart Stuart , the grandson of James II . of England , and son of the Prinee called the "Old Pretender , " opened at Arras a primordial Chapter of the "Scottish Jacobite . " In 1754 the Chevalier de Bonneville founded the Hierophant Grand Lodge , named De Clermont . The Knights of

the Empires of the East and of the West established themselves at Paris in 1758 , and in the following year a Chapter of the Fathers of the R . \ S . \ was established in Bordeaux . At length , Pirlet founded , on the 22 nd of July , 1722 , the Cons . ' , des Chev . ' . d'Oiv . ( Council of the Knights of the East ) ; and on the 21 st September , same year , the Council of the Empires of the East and West and that of the R . ' . S . \ arrested Masonry from perfection at the

25 th degree . Stephen Morin , a Jew , had received , in the preceding- year , authorisation from the-Lodge of the Knights of the East and the West to propagate Masonry in America , whence Brother Hocquet in 1803 , ancl Brother Grasse-Tilley in 1804 , reported to France , the first with 25 , the second with 33 degrees .