Note 3 — PART NINTH. Rise and Constitution of Freemasonry.

We make no mention here of the so-called “higher degrees,” which are, in fact, but amateurish fabrications, without any practical aim. They are distasteful forms of the true freemasonry; they differ as to name and number between one system and another; and the true lodges of Saint John freemasons recognize no such “supergraduation.” The higher degrees are considered in another part of this work.