The story
didn't end
at Master Mason.
You were raised a Master Mason. That was chapter three. The Scottish Rite is chapters 4 through 32 - a deliberate, dramatic curriculum of character, leadership, and service taught through some of the most beautifully crafted ritual on the planet.
A university for
Master Masons.
The Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite is one of the two main branches of Freemasonry a Master Mason can pursue (the other being the York Rite). Across the Southern Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States, the Scottish Rite confers 29 degrees, numbered 4 through 32, each of which tells a story, asks a question, and leaves a mark.
These are not lectures. They are full theatrical dramas - costumes, sets, scripts, music - performed by the brothers of the Valley to teach the candidate a lesson he cannot get from a book. By the time you are made a Master of the Royal Secret, 32nd Degree, you haven't just been promoted. You have been shaped.
Four classrooms.
One curriculum.
Every Valley of the Scottish Rite is organized around four Masonic bodies - each one teaching a different arc of the larger story.
Lodge of Perfection
Degrees 4 through 14. The ineffable degrees. Here the lessons turn inward - self-knowledge, duty, fidelity, and the search for that which was lost.
Chapter of Rose Croix
Degrees 15 through 18. Hope, faith, charity, and tolerance are taught in some of the most moving dramas in all of Freemasonry.
Council of Kadosh
Degrees 19 through 30. The chivalric and philosophic degrees - a brother is confronted with the great questions of justice, liberty, and moral courage.
Consistory
Degrees 31 and 32. The capstone. The candidate is made a Master of the Royal Secret and charged with the lifelong labor of living the lessons.
What will the
Rite do for me?
Not a shortcut. Not a guaranteed promotion at work. Not a secret handshake that pays off a mortgage. That's not what this is.
What the Rite will give you is a set of lessons, a set of brothers, and a set of habits that - if you take them seriously - will make you harder to knock off balance, slower to speak in anger, quicker to serve, and more present in every room you walk into. The Valley of Ocala has men in their thirties and men in their nineties. The ones who thrive are the ones who decided to show up and do the work.
Tony Robbins says progress equals happiness. The Scottish Rite is progress with a purpose.
Any Master Mason in good standing.
If you have been raised a Master Mason in a regular Blue Lodge recognized by the Grand Lodge of Florida, you are eligible to petition the Valley of Ocala.
Start at a Blue Lodge.
The journey begins in your local Masonic Lodge. Contact us and we'll point you to a Lodge near you in Central Florida.
Part of a 35-state brotherhood.
The Valley of Ocala is part of the Supreme Council, 33rd Degree, Scottish Rite Southern Masonic Jurisdiction - headquartered at the House of the Temple in Washington, D.C.