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Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite

"Much of the Masonic secret manifests itself, without speech revealing it, to him who even partially comprehends all the Degrees in proportion as he receives them; and particularly to those who advance to the highest Degrees of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. That Rite raises a corner of the veil, even in the Degree of Apprentice; for it there declares that Masonry is a worship." - Albert Pike Morals and Dogma,p. 218


"The end of the drama is well known, and how Jacques de Molay and his fellows perished in the flames. But before his execution, the Chief of the doomed Order organized and instituted what afterward came to be called the Occult, Hermetic, or Scottish Masonry. In the gloom of his prison, the Grand Master created four Metropolitan Lodges, at Naples for the East, at Edinburg for the West, at Stockholm for the North, and at Paris for the South." [The initials of his name, J∴ B∴ M∴ found in the same order in the first three Degrees, are but one of the many internal and cogent proofs that such was the origin of modern Free-Masonry" - Morals and Dogma p820 Albert Pike

"During their stay in France the Stuarts had been deeply involved in the dissemination of Freemasonry. Indeed they are generally regarded as the source of the particular form of Freemasonry known as 'Scottish Rite'.

'Scottish Rite' Freemasonry introduced higher degrees than those offered by other Masonic systems at the time. It promised initiation into greater and more profound mysteries - mysteries supposedly preserved and handed down in Scotland. It established more direct connections between Freemasonry and the various activities - alchemy, Cabalism and Hermetic thought, for instance - which were regarded as 'Rosicrucian'. And it elaborated not only on the antiquity but also on the illustrious pedigree of the 'craft'.

It is probable that 'Scottish Rite' Freemasonry was originally promulgated, if not indeed devised, by Charles Radclyffe. In any case Radclyffe, in 1725, is said to have founded the first Masonic lodge on the continent, in Paris. During the same year, or perhaps in the year following, he seems to have been acknowledged Grand Master of all French lodges, and it is still cited as such a decade later, in 1736. The dissemination of eighteenth-century Freemasonry owes more, ultimately, to Radclyffe than to any other man." - The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln Pg. 128


"The Scotch Rite, or Rite of Perfection, also called the Ancient and Accepted Rite, was brought to America, in 1761, by a French Jew, Bro.-. Stephen Morin, in accordance with the powers with which he had be invested by the Grand Consistory of Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret, convened at Paris under the Presidency of Chaillou de Joinville, Substi tute General of the Order." - Transactions of the Supreme Council of the 33rd and last Degree for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States of America. 1857 pg 11-12

"The aprons of the Ineffable degrees are defined in the Northern Jurisdiction as being triangular--those of the Southern Jurisdiction as square."-The Book of the Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1884) By: Charles T. McClenechan Pg. 37

The Southern Jurisdiction is based in Washington, D.C., the Southern Jurisdiction often referred to as the "Mother Supreme Council of the World" was founded in Charleston, South Carolina in 1801. It oversees the Scottish Rite in 35 states, which are referred to as Orients, and local bodies, which are called Valleys. Washington D.C. is home of the "House of the Temple" which is Home of The Supreme Council, 33°, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Southern Jurisdiction. It is located 13 blocks from the White House. The House of the Temple contains the remains of Albert Pike.


Supreme Council 

 "This Supreme Council consists of not more than thirty-three Active Members (Sovereign Grand Inspectors General) and such Emeriti and Honorary Members as the Supreme Council may elect. The Active Members shall be so distributed that no Orient within its general jurisdiction shall have more than one Member."-Statutes of The Supreme Council of the Thirty-third Degree Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, S. 1., U.S.A. Revised and Approved August 2011 ART. IV - 

Sovereign Grand Commander

Elected by the Supreme Council, 33°

Albert Pike, 33°, (GC, 1859)
John Henry Cowles, 33°,  (GC, 1921–1952)
Henry C. Clausen, 33°, (GC, 1969–1985)
C. Fred Kleinknecht, 33°, (GC, 1985–2003)
Ronald Armbrust Seale, 33°, (GC, October 7, 2003-)


A.A.S.R. Degrees


“It is curious to note too that most of the bodies which work these, such as the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, the Rite of Avignon, the Order of the Temple, Fessler’s Rite, the ‘Grand Council of the Emperors of the East and West — Sovereign Prince Masons,’ etc., etc., are nearly all the offspring of the sons of Ignatius Loyola. The Baron Hundt, Chevalier Ramsay, Tschoudy, Zinnendorf, and numerous others who founded the grades in these rites, worked under instructions from the General of the Jesuits. The nest where these high degrees were hatched, and no Masonic rite is free from their baleful influence more or less, was the Jesuit College of Clermont at Paris.”

"That bastard foundling of Freemasonry, the ‘Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite,’ which is unrecognized by the Blue Lodges was the enunciation, primarily, of the brain of the Jesuit Chevalier Ramsay. It was brought by him to England in 1736-38, to aid the cause of the Catholic Stuarts. “-Vol 2, Page 390 ISIS UNVEILED H. P. Blavatsky


 The Scottish Rite Masonic Calendar 

A.M, Latin for Anno Mundi, “In the year of the World” date the same as Craft Masons, except for the use of the Jewish Chronology. It found by adding 3760 to the common time.


33rd Degree members 

All Masons elected to the 33° have their names published in the Transactions of the Supreme Council, 33° S.J. Below you can veiw some of them.


1st President of Philippines Emilio Aguinaldo Coroneted 33rd Degree on February 12, 1955 .

Foster Bailey, Alice Bailey's seccond husband, was a 33rd degree .

Manly P. Hall

Albert Mackey

Frank S. Land founder of DeMolay organization in 1922. In 1925, he was named Knight Commander of the Court of Honor of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry and crowned with the 33rd degree.

Buzz Aldrin (NASA)

Kenneth S. Kleinknecht, 33°, the Manager of the Apollo Program Command and Service Modules; Deputy Manager, Gemini Program; Manager, Project Mercury (brother is C. Fred Kleinknecht, 33°, Sovereign Grand Commander, 1985–2003)

Sovereign Grand Commander, 33 Jonathan Blanchard

George Bannerman Dealey, Dealey Plaza is named after him.

 S. A. Zola, 33° Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Egypt.
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