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I heard Ron Boutwell whispering something about Royal Ark Mariners...

 RB> Ed, I saw a reference to the "Royal Ark Mariner" degree in an old book
 RB> somewhere.  I can't recall the lesson it was intended to convey, but
 RB> I believe it is a degree that either got combined with another degree
 RB> to make up one of our current Scottish Rite degrees, or it was left out
 RB> completely from American Masonry when they put the York and Scottish
 RB> Rites together.

In England, the Grand Ark of Royal Ark Mariners is "moored" to the Mark
Lodges.  In Canada, it is "moored" to the Cryptic Rite.  As the Mark has
been amalgamated into the Chapter in the United States and Canada, and
I am uncertain of the status of the Cryptic Rite in the United States, I
don't have the remotest idea of where the Ark would fit into American
Freemasonry.  It is very much a part of the York Rite where it *is* still
practised.

Jody Lemoine
St. John's Lodge AF&AM #75 GRC
Toronto Antiquity Chapter RAM #91 GRC
Toronto College of the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia

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