The Rite of Strict Observance: Masonic Orders of Fraternity by Manly P. Hall 7/12

"The Rite of Strict Observance was for all practical purposes destroyed by the very forces which had been falsely credited with its formation. The disintegrating agent operated through Johann August von Starck, who attempted to impose the domination of the clergy upon the Rite. This clerical group finally succeeded, and the Lodges of Strict Observance afterwards called themselves the United German Lodges." This is part 7 of 12, The Rite of Strict Observance, of Masonic Orders of Fraternity series by Manly P. Hall.