Latest
Newsletter (March 2023)
Our Remembrance and Renewal program has been rescheduled. It will be held in conjunction with our next stated meeting, which will be on April 10. Dinner will be at 6:30 PM. We hope that you can join us for dinner. The menu will be:
If you will be having dinner with us, please make a reservation with Sir Knight Harold Bogner no later than Friday, April 7, by email at hbogner@smartsourcellc.com email, or by phone at (805) 218-1648 (leave a message).
The
Remembrance and Renewal program will include
the traditional Remembrance of Departed
Brethren, The Last Supper explanation, the
Mystic Banquet, and the Extinguishing and
Relighting of the Lights.
We hope to see you there.
Grand
Commander's Statement on Grand Lodges
Grand
Commander's Statement on Visitation
Memorial
Service for James Craig
The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of
Freemasonry is commonly known as the Scottish
Rite. It is one of several appendant groups of the
worldwide fraternity known as Freemasonry. Each
Valley has up to four Scottish Rite bodies, and
each body confers a set of degrees. In the
Southern Jurisdiction these are the Lodge of
Perfection (4° - 14°), Chapter of Rose Croix
(15°-18°), Council of Kadosh (19°-30°), and the
Consistory (31°-32°). The Supreme Council confers
the 33rd Degree of Sovereign Grand Inspector
General.
The Scottish Rite is one of the two major branches of higher-degree Freemasonry in which a Master Mason may proceed after he has completed the three degrees of Symbolic or Blue Lodge Masonry. The other branch is known as the York Rite, consisting of Royal Arch Masons, Royal and Select Masters and the Knights Templar.
The Scottish Rite
Creed - "Human progress is
our cause, liberty of thought our supreme wish,
freedom of conscience our mission, and the
guarantee of equal rights to all people
everywhere our ultimate goal."