ESCOCESA TRINITARIA O PRINCESA DE LA MERCED
GRADO 26
Grado 26º – Octavo del Consejo de Kadosch
Grado Templario en el que se trata de sentar que el bien y el mal no son más que los acordes y discordes de cuya reunión nace la armonía universal.
En él, todo se hace por tres, y como su objeto, según el ritual, es la redención de los ignorantes y esclavos del error, a quienes es necesario redimir, dándoles a conocer la Verdad, de aquí que se haya creído que estaba en relación con la comunidad religiosa y filantrópica de los Hermanos de la Merced, conocidos con el nombre de Trinitarios.
Meditación
TWENTY-SIXTH DEGREE
SCOTCH TRINITARIAN, OR PRINCE OF MERCY
The twenty-sixth degree is called Scotch Trinitarian, or Prince of Mercy. It is a Christian degree. It is impossible, in this work, to give a description of it, but it may be said, in a word, that its principal aim is to inculcate the importance of truth. The Lodge is hung in green, and decorated with nine columns, alternately red and white. At each column is a candelabra con- taining nine stars, which give eighty-one lights ; this number can be reduced to twenty-seven, as in the following degree,—twenty- seven being a multiple of eighty-one.
Above the head of the President is a dais of three colours,—red, white, and green. Be- fore him, on a table, covered with a cloth of the above-mentioned colours, is a statue, representing truth, holding in its haud a mirror. Its head is surmounted by a flame ; the mirror is in its left hand, and its right is raised towards its heart and holds a triangle. This statue is the paladium of the ordei-. It is covered
with a veil of the three colours. The President is clothed in a long tunic of the same colours ; he wears a crown pieiced in three places by gold arrows. He holds in his hand an arrow in place of a mallet. The dress of the Brethren consists of a red apron, a green and white triangle ornaments the middle ; they also wear, like the President, en sautoir a ribbon of three colours, at the extremity of which is suspended a large equilateral triangle.
Loth, J. (1875). The ancient and accepted scottish rite Ilustrations of the emblems of the thirty – three degrees. Simpkin, Marschall, & Co. https://archive.org/details/cu31924030318541