Other volumes in this set include ISBN number(s): 0766165507. Volume 1 of 2. This work is a history of the Supreme Council of the 33rd Degree, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States of American and its Antecedents. In 1933, the Supreme Council decided to make what has become an exhaustive research into the history of the Supreme Council and its antecedents, structural, philosophical and genealogical and to publish the results. Many facts are found within that were previously unknown. Some discussed and debated at length certain conclusions of the author, and a few persons even conducted researches of their own and sent in their findings. The result of which is found in this work.