GRAN PONTÍFICE O SUBLIME ESCOCESA
Grado XIX
Grado 19.º
Primero del Consejo de Kadosch
El título de Gran Pontífice, se remonta a la mayor antigüedad, habiendo sido instituido en honor de Horacio Cloques, por haber salvado a Roma. El jefe de los Pontífices fue llamado Sum us Pontifex, con cuyo título se honró Julio César, pasando después este cargo a ser una de las prerrogativas de los Emperadores romanos, hasta que a fines del siglo III, se hizo de este título un sinónimo de Papa. Pontífice significa “constructor de puentes”.
Meditación
Su meditación es el ingreso y recorrido por la Jerusalén Celeste hasta el árbol de la vida.
GRAND PONTIFF OR SUBLIME SCOTCH MASON
NINETEENTH DEGREE
The nineteenth degree is called Grand Pontiff, or Sublime Scotch Mason. It is occupied in the examination of certain mysteries, of which, however, we can not in this place give an account. The Lodge is draped in blue, sprinkled with gold stars. It is ruled over by a Master and a Warden.
The Master is clothed in a white satin robe; he is seated, under a blue canopy, on a throne of the same colour, and behind is a transparency which illuminates the Lodge. He holds a sceptre in his hand. The Warden is seated opposite the Master ; he holds in his hand a gold star. All the Brethren wear white robes, and upon their heads blue chaplets upon which gold stars are embroidered.
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
