Excerpt from Letters of the Grand Commander of the Supreme Council for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States The Symbolic Degrees had long before become the common property of all the Rites, being, in some form or other, the first three Degrees of all; and in 1770, Zinnen dorf had created at Berlin a Grand Lodge of his Rite, which, in 1774, became the National Grand Lodge of Germany, by patent from the Grand Lodge of England. Also, there were Provincial Grand Lodges in several places in Germany. In 1787, there were, as published by a German gazette, in all parts of the world, Lodges. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.