The greatest authorities in the Scottish Rite are emphatic in the statement that neither that Rite nor any other can make a man more of a Mason than he becomes in the Blue Lodge. The degrees can, and frequently do, make him a better Mason, just as the labor required to earn a college degree can, and often does, make a man a better, but not more a citizen than he was before he passed through college. The Scottish Rite degrees are numerically greater than the first, second and third, but not higher. To quote the greatest authority on Scottish Rite Masonry who ever lived, Albert Pike: It may be too late to change a common terminology. But, however we may refer to these ancillary or appendant degrees, let us not make the mistake of pretending that a 33 degree Mason is Higher than a Master Mason, much less the Master of a Lodge. Let us by our conduct and our speech always acknowledge the Grand Master of Masons in his own Jurisdiction to be the highest officer the world has ever known or ever can know.
Posted on: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 11:07:16 +0000
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