now the Scotch Knight of Perfection, the fifteenth Knight of the Sword or of the East, and the twentieth is Venerable Grand
- History of Freemasonry, III. 93. Thory gives the date of the Kadosch degree as 1743, which seems correct.
- Zohar, section Bereschith, folio 18b.
- A.Q.C., XXVI: "Templar Legends in Freemasonry."
- "This degree is intimately connected with the ancient order of the Knights Templars, a history of whose destruction, by the united efiorts of Philip, King of France, and Pope Clement V, forms a part of the instructions given to the candidate. The dress of the Knights is black, as an emblem of mourning for the extinction of the Knights Templars, and the death of Jacques du Molay, their last Grand Master...."--Mackey, Lexicon of Freemasonry, p.