The Oregon Consistory No. 1 presents The Circular Throughout Two Hemispheres or the 1802 Manifesto by Right Worshipful Brother Adam Bayer, Past Master of Research Lodge of Oregon No. 198, Past Master of Portland Lodge No. 55, & Current District Deputy of District No. 4 of the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of AF&AM of Oregon
In this presentation Brother Adam discusses the origins of the Scottish Rite from the mid-1700s up through when the Supreme Council announced itself to the Masonic world by publishing an exceptional document known as the Manifesto of 1802. Through this presentation RWBr. Bayer will expounded upon the relationship of the higher degrees of Masonry and the genealogy of the Rite from Illustrious Brother, Frederick the 2nd, King of Prussia, to Brother Etienne Morin and the establishment of the current Supreme Council (Mother Council of the World) of the Inspectors General Knights Commanders of the House of the Temple of Solomon of the Thirty-third Degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States of America. This talk is presented on behalf of Research Lodge of Oregon No. 198 to the Portland Valley of Scottish Rite.