Manifesto issued by Supreme Council member Emanuel De La Motta, 1814

Manifesto issued by Supreme Council member Emanuel De La Motta, 1814

Universi Terrarum orbis Architectionis per gloriam ingentis Deus meumque jus. Ordo ab chao. In the name and at the special request of the Grand and Supreme Council of the most puissant sovereigns, Grand Inspectors General of the 33d Degree...

Manifesto issued by Supreme Council member Emanuel De La Motta. Dated 1814. Manifesto issued by Emanuel De La Motta and the Charleston Supreme Council declaring Joseph Cerneau to be an "Imposter of the first magnitude" and his Masonic works to be unlawful and void. The circular recognizes the Sovereign Grand Consistory as the "only lawful body in New-York which can exist for the Northern District of the United States of America..."

This copy addressed to the Sovereign Grand Consistory. Includes manuscript note and is signed by both Emanuel De La Motta and his son Jacob De La Motta, who became a member of the Northern Jurisdiction's Supreme Council on June 24, 1814.

Collection of Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library, Lexington, Massachusetts.

1814

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English

RARE 14.6 .D336 1814

Shaw & Shoemaker 31313

Walgren 1417

Harris, Ray Baker. History of the Supreme Council, 33° ... Washington, D.C., 1964, pp. 49-50, 109-126.

1 item (4 pages) ; 40 cm.