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Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret is the title given to a Freemason who has attained the Thirty-second Degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite 1.

The degree originated in 1758 as the twenty-fifth and highest grade of the Rite of Perfection under the Council of Emperors of the East and West 1. Stephen Morin brought this system to the Americas, and when the Rite was expanded to thirty-three degrees around 1801 in Charleston, South Carolina, Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret became the thirty-second degree 1.

A Thirty-second Degree Mason belongs to a Masonic body known as a Consistory 1. The range of degrees conferred by a Consistory depends on the jurisdiction: in the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States, a Consistory confers the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Degrees, while in the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, it oversees degrees from the nineteenth through the thirty-second 1. The elective officers of a Southern Jurisdiction Consistory are headed by a Commander-in-Chief, Seneschal, and Preceptor, whereas the Northern Jurisdiction uses Lieutenant-Commanders for the second and third positions 1.

The clothing belonging to this degree consists of a black collar edged with white, a gold Teutonic cross jewel, and a white apron trimmed in black 1. The flap of the apron displays six colored flags and a Teutonic cross bearing an All-seeing Eye and an uncrowned double-headed eagle 1. The motto of the degree is Spes mea in Deo est ("My hope is in God") 1. The chief symbol of the degree is its tracing-board, known as the Camp, which represents the "Royal Secret" from which the degree takes its name 1.

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