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According to the records of the Order, the manuscripts were passed from Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie, a Masonic scholar, to Rev.

A. F. A.

Woodford, whom British occult writer Francis King describes as the fourth founder ( although Woodford died shortly after the Order was founded ).

The documents did not excite Woodford and in February 1886 he passed them on to Freemason William Wynn Westcott, who managed to decode them in 1887.

Westcott was pleased with his discovery and called on fellow Freemason Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers for a second opinion.

Westcott asked for Mathers ' help to turn the manuscripts into a coherent system for lodge work.

Mathers in turn asked fellow Freemason William Robert Woodman to assist the two and he accepted.

Mathers and Westcott have been credited for developing the ritual outlines in the Cipher Manuscripts into a workable format.

Mathers, however, is generally credited with the design of the curriculum and rituals of the Second Order, which he called the Rosae Rubae et Aureae Crucis (" Ruby Rose and Golden Cross " or the RR et AC ).