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The Count of Clermont, who was Grand Master of Francis having abandoned all care of the French Lodges, left them to the direction of his Deputies. In 1761, he appointed one Lacorne, a dancing-master, his Deputy; but the Grand Lodge, indignant at the appointment, refused to sanction it or to recognize Lacorne as a presiding officer. He accordingly constituted another Grand Lodge, and was supported by adherents of his own character, who were designated by the more respectable Freemasons as the Lacorne Faction. In 1762, the Count of Clermont, influenced by the representations that were made to him, revoked the commission of Lacorne, and appointed Monsieur Chaillou de Joinville his Substitute General. In consequence of this, the two rival Grand Lodges became reconciled, and a union was effected on the 24th of June, 1769. But the reconciliation did not prove altogether satisfactory.

In 1765, at the annual election, neither Lacorne nor any of his associates were chosen to office. They became disgusted, and, retiring from the Grand Lodge, issued a scandalous protest, for which they were expelled; and subsequently they organized a spurious Grand Lodge and chartered several Lodges. But from this time Lacorne ceased to have a place in regular Freemasonry, although the dissensions first begun by him ultimately gave rise to the Grand Orient as the successor of the Grand Lodge.

This word is capable of at least two interpretations.

1. A significant word in the Third Degree according to the French Rite and some other Rituals (see Mac).

2. In the Order of the Beneficent Knights of the Holy City, the Recipiendary, or Novice, is called Macbenac.

KADOSH
called also the Holly Man. The French phrase is Kadosch ou l’Homme Saint. The Tenth and last Degree of the Rite of Martinism.

KADOSH, GRAND, ELECT KNIGHT
The Sixty-fifth Degree of the Rite of Mizraim

KADOSH, KNIGHT
The Thirtieth Degree of the Scottish Rite

KADOSH OF THE JESUITS
According to Thory (Acta Latomorum i, page 320) this Degree is said to have been invented by the Jesuits of the College of Clermont. The statement is not well supported. De Bonneville’s Masonic Chapter of Clermont was probably, either with or without design, confounded with the Jesuitical College of Clermont (see Jesuits).

KADOSH, PHILOSOPHIC
A modification of the original Kadosh, for which it has been substituted and adopted by the Grand Orient of France. The military character of the Order is abandoned, and the Philo sophic Eadosh wear no swords. Their only weapon is the Word.

KADOSH, PRINCE
A Degree of the collection of Pyron

KADOSH PRINCE OF DEATH
The Twentyseventh Degree of the Rite of Mizraim