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1242:"The Kadosh (thirtieth degree), trampling on the papal tiara and the royal crown, is destined to wreak a just vengeance on these "high criminals" for the murder of Molay and "as the apostle of truth and the rights of man" to deliver mankind "from the bondage of Despotism and the thraldom of spiritual Tyranny"." From the article
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Like all
Masonic Degrees, the Knight Kadosh Degree attempts to teach the initiates a series of moral lessons by the use of allegory and symbolism. The lesson in the Southern Jurisdiction of the Knight Kadosh Degree is that Masons should be "true to ourselves, to stand for what is right and just in
857:. This body adopted many of the degrees of the Council of Emperors of the East and West, including that of "Knight Kadosh." The "Knight Kadosh" degree was adopted as the thirtieth degree and was simply titled "Knight Kadosh." The degree received a substantial re-write in the 1850s when
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Masonic author Frank Conway, in a book reviewing both the history and current practice of rituals for both the NMJ and SJ, written in 2017, describes the Knight Kadosh degree as involving "three skulls, one with a crown, one with a Pope's tiara, and one wrapped in laurel leaves."
850:. The "Knight Kadosh," or originally "Illustrious and Grand Commander of the White and Black Eagle, Grand Elect Kadosh," was part of a full complement of twenty-five degrees or grades governed by this council. The "Knight Kadosh" was the twenty-fourth degree of this complement.
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A different form of the Knight Kadosh degree, using a ritual not authored by Pike, was for many years performed in the
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1259:"When one reaches the 30th degree in the masonic hierarchy, called the Kadosh, the person crushes with his foot the papal tiara and the royal crown, and swears to free mankind 'from the bondage of despotism and the thraldom of spiritual tyranny.'
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