Your first steps into our sanctuary are duty, reflection, and study. They teach us to honor those relationships with God, family, country, and Masonry.
5th Degree – Perfect Master:
The degree teaches that honesty and trustworthiness are the cornerstones of the foundation of Masonic honor. This virtue should be in all of our undertakings.
6th Degree – Intimate Secretary:
In this degree, we should learn duty, charity, and toleration. We are told to reshape ourselves and our thinking into charity, self-control, and success. Be a peacemaker.
7th Degree – Provost and Judge:
“We learn that impartial justice protects persons, property, happiness, and reputation.” These degrees teach us to judge with patience and impartiality.
8th Degree – Intendant of the Building:
We should strive for perfection by using the great principles of “God’s inherent love, charity, morality, and kindness.”
9th Degree – Elu of the Nine:
The Scottish Rite virtues are at the very heart of this degree, truth, candor, and generosity. We should use these to shape our lives and conduct.
10th Degree – Elu of the Fifteen:
This degree teaches tolerance of others. Everyone has the right to hold his or her own political or spiritual beliefs.
11th Degree – Elu of the Twelve:
This degree teaches sympathy. We should be sympathetic to our brother Masons and to all of mankind as well.
12th Degree – Master Architect:
This degree teaches faith in morals, virtues, and God. “Life is what each man makes of it; the optimist turns a trial into a blessing.”
13th Degree – Royal Arch of Solomon:
This degree teaches liberty in our minds and our hearts, motivated by duty and honor.
14th Degree – Perfect Elu:
We learn to reflect and look within ourselves in this degree. We should strive to be true to ourselves and our God.
