About 32 degree

Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret is the thirty-second degree 1. Originally instituted in 1758 by the Council of Emperors of the East and West as the twenty-fifth and highest degree of the Rite of Perfection, Stephen Morin brought the grade to America, where it was later positioned as the 32nd degree during the expansion into the thirty-three degree system at the turn of the nineteenth century 1.

Bodies conferring the degree are known as Consistories 1. In the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States, a Consistory confers the 31st and 32nd degrees, whereas in the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction it confers the nineteenth through thirty-second degrees 1. The elective officers of a Southern Jurisdiction Consistory are led by a Commander-in-Chief, Seneschal, and Preceptor, while the Northern Jurisdiction uses Lieutenant-Commanders for its second and third officers 1.

The clothing of a Sublime Prince consists of a gold Teutonic cross jewel, a black collar edged with white, and a white apron edged with black 1. The apron flap features six flags, an All-seeing Eye, a double-headed eagle, and a Teutonic cross 1. The central symbol of the degree is its tracing board, technically termed the Camp, which retains its original eighteenth-century form and encapsulates the "Royal Secret" from which the grade takes its name 1. The motto of the degree is Spes mea in Deo est ("My hope is in God") 1.