The Degree Rituals The Supreme Council, 33 ... - Scottish Rite, NMJ
The Degree Rituals The Supreme Council, 33 ... - Scottish Rite, NMJ
The Degree Rituals The Supreme Council, 33 ... - Scottish Rite, NMJ
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88 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Degree</strong> <strong>Rituals</strong><br />
Epilogue<br />
<strong>The</strong> mission of the <strong>Supreme</strong> <strong>Council</strong> Committee on <strong>Rituals</strong> (Ritualistic<br />
Matters), as stated in the report of the committee for 1976, the year Ill.<br />
Brother Partridge, <strong>33</strong>°, published <strong>The</strong> <strong>Rituals</strong>, is to “study our degrees in a<br />
continuing effort to make the presentation of our degree lessons more impressive<br />
and inspiring.”<br />
Nearly 30 years later the committee reported that its “pervasive challenge<br />
. . . is to provide a degree system that embodies the philosophy of <strong>Scottish</strong><br />
<strong>Rite</strong> Masonry, and that can be communicated in an understandable and inspirational<br />
manner by all Valleys . . .”<br />
Truth is fixed and unchanging, but the revelation of truth is progressive.<br />
We interpret life in terms of the moral and philosophical teachings of the past.<br />
From these lessons we must develop a moral code and philosophy in our own<br />
day so that men might have a guide, a moral compass as it were, to the truth<br />
which they can understand and interpret in their own time.<br />
<strong>The</strong> degree rituals of the <strong>Scottish</strong> <strong>Rite</strong> of Freemasonry always have been<br />
a work in progress. <strong>The</strong>y never are a finished thing.
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