Mastership

We also had an interesting diversion as we discussed what Hank Davis dubbed the "Awesome Deceased," before we remembered that Grand Mastership is only bestowed in living writers.

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Mastership, that is to say, a centre point from which radiated all the impulsions given to this great body, and this primary motive power was sought for successively in all the capitals of the North, in Paris and even in Rome.

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Interestingly, when he took his Ad Gradus examination in Rome prior to his Mastership, Père Garrigou-Lagrange was one of his examiners.

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However, although no direct evidence can be found to link Cocteau with the Priory or Alpha Galates, he was such a complex personality that the idea of his involvement or even his Grand Mastership can never be dismissed out of hand.

The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

Nevertheless, it is highly unlikely that at the tender age of twenty-two he had the kind of authority over such figures as Le Fur, Savoire, and Moncharville that a Grand Mastership would usually imply.

The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

Thomas, his son and heir to the Grand Mastership, was born of this union.

The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

So successful was the Strict Observance that by 1772 it was recognized in Germany as of equal status with the other non-Templarist stream of Freemasonry, the two being brought together as the United Lodges under the Grand Mastership of Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick.

The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

So successful was the Strict Observance that by 1772 it was recognized in Germany as of equal status with the other non-Templarist stream of Freemasonry, the two being brought together as the United Lodges under the Grand Mastership of Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick.

The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

During 1984 Plantard resigned not just from the Grand Mastership but from the Priory of Sion itself, abandoning the whole ship he had steered with such uniquely tricksy skill and guile.

The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

However, membership is alsohereditary: each member is allowed to bequeath his or her grades and titles—bizarrely including even the Grand Mastership—to their son or daughter.

The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006