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Ineffable Degrees

	4th Degree – Secret Master: Your first steps into our sanctuary are duty, reflection and study. They teach us to honor those relationships to God, family, country, Masonry.
	5th Degree – Perfect Master: The degree teaches that honesty and trustworthiness is the cornerstone 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 protect person, property, happiness and reputation.” These degrees teach us to judge with patience and impartially.
	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: 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 toleration of others. Everyone has the right to his own political or spiritual views.
	11th Degree – Elu of the Twelve: This degree teaches sympathy. We should sympathetic to our brother masons and to all mankind as well.
	12th Degree – Master Architect: This degree teaches faith in moral and virtues and in 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: In this degree, we learn to reflect and look into ourselves. We should strive to be true to ourselves and our God.