Mission
ASRH 1807™ preserves a distinct Cerneau-Hérédom research and custodial current within the wider Scottish Rite tradition, using a conservative date framework from Morin, Francken, Hays, Saint-Domingue, Cuba, New York, France, Seymour, Yarker, Scandinavia, and modern custodianship.
The organization does not seek conflict with any lawful Masonic body. It also does not confuse peace with surrender. Its identity, records, officers, ritual custody, warrants, constitutions, and internal government remain its own.
Masonic Education
Study of the Craft, the high degrees, symbols, ethics, history, and the duties of Masonic leadership.
Archival Preservation
Careful preservation, transcription, translation, and publication of records connected to the Rite and its continuations.
Charity & Conduct
Relief, service, restraint, and public dignity practiced as visible duties of the organization.
Leadership Formation
Officer development rooted in humility, firmness, justice, competence, and constitutional order.
Fraternal Relations
Respectful dialogue with other Masonic organizations through accurate language and non-interference.
Sovereign Jurisdiction
Responsible custody of its own membership, records, ritual system, officers, warrants, and internal government.
Our Work
A serious Masonic organization should be known by its labor. ASRH 1807™ presents its public work through education, archives, publications, charitable service, governance standards, and fraternal dialogue.
Education
Lectures, reading programs, officer instruction, and structured study for members seeking disciplined progress.
Archives
Collection, preservation, transcription, translation, and responsible publication of historical records.
Publications
Books, dossiers, papers, constitutional studies, and documentary editions prepared with restraint and citation.
Charity
Relief and service treated as duties of dignity, not spectacle.
Governance
Constitutions, minutes, records, seals, warrants, and officer duties maintained in good order.
Dialogue
Fraternal communication pursued with accuracy, calm language, and respect between sovereign jurisdictions.
Public Notice of Custodianship and Historical Preservation
This notice is presented directly on this website for scholarly, historical, educational, archival, and institutional-preservation purposes. It is not a circular, demand, charge, summons, or claim of authority over any other Masonic organization.
ASRH 1807™ preserves its own research position, documentary custody, educational work, and constitutional identity with public restraint and fraternal dignity.
Public Notice
The Ancient Scottish Rite of Hérédom 1807™ is presented as a sovereign Masonic organization dedicated to the preservation, study, and orderly transmission of its own documentary, ritual, and constitutional inheritance.
The organization maintains its own internal government, archives, warrants, educational work, and standards of conduct. It does not seek controversy, territorial disturbance, or public confusion with any other Masonic body.
Statement of Purpose
The purpose of this public notice is to preserve and study the French, Caribbean, and American high-degree materials associated with the Hérédom and Cerneau research tradition; to support Masonic education, archival review, translation work, publications, and disciplined leadership formation; and to communicate with restraint, accuracy, charity, and respect for the wider Masonic world.
Preservation of ASRH 1807™ identity is not an act of hostility toward any other jurisdiction or obedience. It is an act of historical custody and institutional clarity.
Fraternal Relations and Non-Interference
ASRH 1807™ approaches the wider Scottish Rite family with respect, restraint, and a sincere desire for peace. This respect does not diminish the constitutional identity, archives, warrants, ritual custody, or internal government of this Masonic organization.
The intended posture is dialogue without conquest, friendship without confusion, and peace without surrender. Each Masonic organization remains responsible for its own law, members, archives, and public representations.
Comparative Historical Transmission Summary
| Date / Period |
Location / Current |
Public Historical Significance |
| 1744/1745 and 1761 |
France and the New World |
Morin is retained as the early high-degree root, with the 1761 French powers treated as a foundational point in the wider Royal Secret and Perfection field. |
| 1762 |
Bordeaux / Royal Secret framework |
The twenty-five-degree Royal Secret substrate is preserved as part of the pre-33° foundation from which later Scottish Rite systems developed. |
| 1762–1767 |
Caribbean and Jamaica |
Henry Andrew Francken and related Caribbean materials remain important bridges between French high-degree Masonry and English-language American transmission. |
| 1768–1781 |
North America |
Moses Michael Hays and related Deputy Inspector General context form part of the early American high-degree field under study. |
| 1787–1791 |
Port-au-Prince / Saint-Domingue |
Joseph Cerneau is treated within the ASRH 1807™ research position through the La Réunion Désirée and Saint-Domingue context, followed by displacement toward Cuba and the Spanish Antilles. |
| 1801 |
Saint-Domingue and Charleston |
Saint-Domingue and Charleston are presented as related but distinct currents within the wider Morin/Royal Secret/American field, not as a public claim of control over another jurisdiction. |
| 1806–27/28 Oct. 1807 |
Cuba / Spanish Antilles / New York |
Cerneau’s Cuba-to-New York transition and the New York Consistory/Supreme Council frame are preserved as the core ASRH 1807™ ancestral date marker. |
| 1813–1816 |
Paris and New York |
The French recognition-restoration claim, correspondence, and later acknowledgment are preserved as central research points, stated with archival restraint. |
| 1832–1836 |
New York, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, and Brussels |
The Saint-Laurent reorganization and treaty-era materials are treated as later continuation evidence within the New York and Western Hemisphere field. |
| 1845–1884 |
New York, France, and Britain |
Atwood, Hays, Seymour, French contacts, and the Seymour-to-Yarker date marker form the nineteenth-century bridge into the later international continuation. |
| 1905/1909–1927 |
Scandinavia |
Yarker-to-Brogren/Bogren, Sirén, and Edlund are preserved as the Scandinavian continuation sequence, with exact instrument dates subject to archival verification. |
| 19 Apr. 2019–present |
Modern ASRH 1807™ custodial work |
Modern custodianship emphasizes education, archives, charity, disciplined governance, non-interference, and peace with dignity. |
This on-page summary is educational and public-facing. It preserves a working research chronology and does not operate as a jurisdictional demand, decree, charge, or adverse claim against any other Masonic organization. Date markers that require original-instrument verification are stated conservatively.
Fraternal Relations
Peaceful by Principle.
ASRH 1807™ seeks peace with the wider Masonic world because peace is consistent with discipline, charity, and good order.
Respect Without Erasure.
We acknowledge the historic stature and influence of the Charleston/Southern Jurisdiction current in Scottish Rite Masonry. This respect does not require merger, absorption, submission, or abandonment of the Cerneau-Hérédom inheritance.
Sovereign by Constitution.
This Masonic body governs only what is constitutionally its own. It claims no authority over another Supreme Council, Grand Lodge, or jurisdiction; by the same principle, it preserves its own internal authority.
Fraternal by Conduct.
Future amity should be built on mutual dignity, accurate history, non-interference, good order, and respectful dialogue between sovereign jurisdictions.
Historical Continuity
A Living Tradition.
Scottish Rite Masonry has been transmitted through men, councils, archives, rituals, constitutions, and obligations. ASRH 1807™ approaches that inheritance with documentary seriousness and fraternal restraint.
A Broad Ancestral Field.
The history of Scottish Rite Masonry belongs to a French, Caribbean, American, and transatlantic field. ASRH 1807™ studies that field through France, Bordeaux, the French Antilles, Jamaica, Saint-Domingue, Philadelphia, Charleston, Cuba, New York, Paris, Britain, and Scandinavia, while preserving the Cerneau-Hérédom stream within that larger inheritance.
Cerneau-Hérédom Custodianship.
This current is preserved as a distinct documentary and constitutional stream, including the Saint-Domingue and Cuba transition, the New York establishment of 27/28 October 1807, the 1813–1816 French recognition-restoration research frame, nineteenth-century continuations, and the Seymour-Yarker-Scandinavian line.
Modern Responsibility.
The modern custodianship beginning 19 April 2019 is presented as a duty to preserve the record, educate the brethren, practice charity, maintain standards, and speak in a manner worthy of the Rite.
