'In 1754, near Paris, Chevalier de Bonneville established the Chapter of Clermont. The Chapter resided in the College of Jesuits of Clermont, hence the name. It is said to have been created to honor the Duc de Clermont, then Grand Master of the English Grand Lodge of France.
The Chapter of Clermont was a “Chapter of the Advanced Degrees” and initially entailed six degrees and was later extended to 25 known degrees. The six initial degrees were 1˚, 2˚ and 3˚ St John’s Masonry, 4˚ Knight of the Eagle, 5˚ Illustrious Knight or Templar, 6˚ Sublime Illustrious Knight.

Interestingly enough historically, prior to the time of the Rite’s creation, James II had been in residence at Clermont in exile from Britain from 1688 to his death in 1701. As noted by German Masonic historian, Lenning… “whilst in exile, James II residing at the Jesuit College of Clermont in France, allowed his closest associates to fabricate certain degrees in order to extend their POLITICAL views.” Lenning believed this to have been an attempt on the part of James and his associates to regain control of the British throne for the House of Stuart. If Lenning is right, this places the origins of the “Rite of Perfection” in the hands of James II and the Jacobite (Stuart) Freemasons who at the time were in exile from Great Britain throughout France and Italy. Lenning also contends that these degrees were introduced into French Freemasonry under the name of the Clermont System.

James II died in exile in 1701. His son James III is said to have continued his father’s Masonic legacy and later created further higher degrees.

Perhaps James II saw in the Jesuit morality plays of the College of Clermont a vessel for passing on a set of moral lessons. Some of the world’s greatest playwrights had emerged from Clermont. Jesuit tutelage had previously produced great writers such as Lope de Vega, Moliere, Racine, and the Corneille brothers. Ensconced in exile, I believe James II did find the inspiration and the training to help produce what would later become the first six degrees. From out of the darkness… comes light."
Valley of Traverse City ANCIENT ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE
www.traversecityscottishrite.com%2Fscottish-rite-history.html

"The first French Templar Lodge was founded in 1725 by a contingent of exiled Stuart sympathizers. In 1745 Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender, attempted to regain his Scottish throne and was soundly defeated in less than a year. Upon returning to France, the Scottish Templars founded the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, quickly developing it to 32 degrees by 1755. In 1801 all French lodges accepted the Templar Scottish Rite degrees. That same year the Scottish Rite of Charleston, S.C., created the 33rd and final degree in Templar Freemasonry.
On the continent of Europe, French Freemasonry is known as Scottish Rite, Grand Orient, French Grand Lodge, Continental, or Latin Freemasonry. The Templar York Rite in England was transported to America, where it remains to this day. English Freemasonry continued with the three Craft Degrees until 1860, when it adopted the thirty additional degrees of the Scottish Rite, but for competitive reasons refused to call it "Scottish.""
Scarlet and the Beast by John Daniel
https://www.facebook.com/billy.dunn.507679/posts/892290465054387

“To prove his independence from Rome, he [President Kennedy] declined to send an [unofficial] Ambassador to the Vatican [unlike FDR, Truman and Eisenhower] and didn’t even celebrate the customary mass in the White House. Cardinal Spellman lost all the influence he had had during Eisenhower’s presidency, when he had a listening ear in [Knight of Malta] John Foster Dulles [whose son today is also a Knight of Malta and powerful Fordham University Jesuit, Avery Cardinal Dulles].
‘Catholic Kennedy’ even favored birth control, an act that was considered a crime even by most non-Catholic Christians. The Jesuits’ leadership, always known for its conservative, even extreme rightist standpoints [i.e., fascism], even feared Kennedy would install a Pope or ‘brainwash’ the ailing Pope John XXIII, trying to make him see things from his point of view, which was that of birth control and detente between East and West [seeking to prematurely end the Black Pope’s Cold War Hoax]. Pope John XXIII was in fact willing to revolutionize everything: he set out to strip the Church of its worldly power and wealth [Temporal Power]; he had
already established a birth control commission [thwarting the Order’s quest of gaining Roman Catholic numerical superiority in historically White Protestant nations]. Even though he died in his eighties and was in failing health, there have been consistent rumors that his death was ‘hastened,’ not
by God but by human hands, afraid as some men, particularly [Jesuit] priests, were that he might be able to accomplish what he had started [the Order murdering Pope John XXIII as it did JFK]. . . ." page 1432 Vatican Assassins