download PDF version - Global Grey

INTKODUCTIOK
INEFFABLE AND SUBLIME DEGREES OF THE ANCIENT AJTD
ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE.
HILE the degrees of the
Ancient and Accepted
Scottish rite commence
with the Entered Ap-
prentice, Fellow Craft or
Companion, and Master
Mason, yet in the United
States all authority over
these degrees by the Supreme
Councils is waived,
and they are exclusively
administered by the Blue or Symbolic Lodges, working
under the jurisdiction of Grand Lodges and the repre-
sentative system. In other countries, the first three
degrees are given in Lodges of Perfection.
It is advisable to confer the first three decrees of the
Ancient and Accepted Scottish rite on candidates before
further advancement.
The Ineffable degrees begin with the fourth or Secret
Master, and conclude with the fourteenth, or desrree of
Perfection. It is not required that a candidate should
be in possession of any other than the Symbolic degree*