Show SCOTTISH RITE HISTORY OLD OU Origin Lost In Dim Vistas Vista Of History Meeting At Capitol WASHINGTON Oct Th 15 16 The meeting of the supreme council Thirty third third degree southern jurIs- jurIs jurIsdiction furls J diction Ancient and sad Accepted Scot Scot- U h Rite In this the neck neek elt of o October 15 has hul raised raise que questions concerning the chance charac- character chater ter and purpose of the fraternity The Scottish Rite Rita holds no conven conven- conventions or other spectacular ular gather InS's ings and Its ceremonials are al- al alj at na a nays s held within Its sani j aura arh'S Therefore little Is known knoB kno 0 B by the general public itt lis atlOn and r T The e supreme council of ot the Scot Scot- Scottish tish Rite nito of rr Thirty third degree Southern whose See Sec Is I at Charleston S C but bat wc w c all co ate are lo located at the Hou House o of oC the Washington D 1 DC C was as or- or Q In la lIIa Mil 1801 Owing O to Its priority It 11 is known as th the mother council of or the world orld Rec- Rec by b this supreme council h I unquestioned standing to the theother other r councils of oC the nations na- na nations t I L SCOPE Scottish Rite lUte supreme councils e c St t in the tho northern jurisdiction U S A Canada England and s Scotland Ireland France Belgium lur Brazil Peru Columbia Uruguay the tho Argentine Italy Haly Cuon Mexico Portugal Chile Ie S Switzerland Lg pt In- In Dominican republic Central I IAm Am lea Ecuador The Netherlands Nether Nether- Netherlands lands nd ben la In the truest I sense It ft Is ersal In Its scope and work rk councils hate hae been es es- es tat Ish in Spain Poland Czecho- Czecho Sio akia alaa Roumania and the tho II ll of oC o Panama but these ha hasp haio 0 not Bk set ei ot been I by the sout south south- notI I s cr r n An n International council ot of Scot Scot- Sc lish bsh Hue Bile supreme councils wh was wash h 11 u I al Lausanne LaWanne 5 Switzerland last year e r The fire next ecumenical confer confer- 1927 1921 In Buo- Buo Buenos once nee I C III bo be held In nos Aires Alres ORIGINS LOST ih I 1 h origins of oC Scottish Rite nUe Freo masonry are arc lost In the dim listo Istas of oC history It Is known n that earin early In the he seventeenth se century Many I degrees ery similar to those now ut used In Ir r the Scottish Rite Rito ed were In the various arlOUs countrIes of Europe They varied greatly how how- and there thero was no recognIzed url uniformity In the ritual or com com- common cormen mon control by I a a regularly established established Masonic body In 1786 Fred Frederick the Great of Prussia Prussia who was recognized that at that time as the Chief of ot Mason Mason- fy In Europe promulgated what hat nh constitutions constitutions are ar known as w the tho grand which form torm the basis baste of all Rite jurisprudence and polity lIL RECOVERS Scottish Rite Rita Masonry In Eu- Eu Europe rope like ilke every other existing tn- tn in suffered Buffered from the tho effects of tho the social and political disturb disturb- disturbance ance anc of ot the revolution an and tl-o tl Napoleonic wars nars arB but with the reorganization ot of social conditions Scottish Masonry was ro re re reorganization ed ad and has flourished until today there thero are aro nearly three-Quarters three of oC ofa ca oCa a million Masons In the world e who hM hale e attained the honor of ot the second thir degree known as the ot of the Royal noyal Secret The thirty-third thirty degree Is la the and administrative degree de- de and Is comprised of ot the BOY sov- BOYer gree er rand Inspectors general of I whom im In the southern jurisdiction tItre can be bo no more than thirty thirty- e Honorary Inspectors gen gen- generl l ertl may ma mil be bo elected by the supreme on the basis of ot the honor honor- honorary ary Inspector g general nerol for tor each two hundred and tidy fifty thIrty second de- de degree degree I gree Masons I |