Who Are the Scottish Rite?
The Scottish Rite Is a Masonic Organization That Continues a Master Mason's Education of the First Three Degrees. the Scottish Rite Consists of the 4°–32° and...
The Scottish Rite is a Masonic organization that continues a Master Mason's education of the first three degrees. The Scottish Rite consists of the 4°–32° and an honorary 33°, which is awarded for exceptional service.
What is the purpose of the Scottish Rite?
Their principal purpose is the investigation and contemplation of the ineffable name of Deity. Here begins the Scottish Rite adventure that leads to the thirty-second degree, which is more a beginning than an end, only a milepost on a man's path of personal growth.
What is the difference between Scottish Rite and Masons?
The Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite is an appendant body of Freemasonry and is considered entirely optional for Masons to join. The Scottish Rite is technically a concordant body because some of its degrees continue the story of the building of Solomon's Temple that's started in the first three lodge degrees.