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This is in reply to MOISANT  who said:


M>In article <79.679.975.0C938090@indy.com>, ed.bloom@indy.com (Ed
M>Bloom) writes:

M>I'm from Toledo.  A Royal Arch Mason is the Highest degree in
M>Chapter which is York Rite.  You have Blue Lodge then Chapter,
M>Council, Commandary, and Shrine in York Rite and Scottish Rite has
M>its own path culminating in Shrine.


Actually you are a little incorrect about one thing.  The Scottish
Rite DOES NOT CULMINATE IN THE SHRINE DEGREES.  The Shrine is NOT a
part of The Scottish Rite at all.  This is a common misconception
among man y US Masons including my own father until recently who (at
the ripe old age of 23) was purposely mislead by a Shrine in Jackson
Mississippi to believe that the Shrine and Scottish Rite were all
part of the same degrees.  He only recently found out they are
entirely different organizations who sometimes work together towards
a common goal (recruitment wise).  You do not have to be a 32nd
degree Mason to be a Shriner.  You also have the option of being a
Knights Templar in the York Rite and petitioning the Shrine.  But you
do have to be either a 32nd Degree Mason or a Knights Templar.

The misconception comes from the fact that Shriners know the fastest
way for a Master Mason to become ellligable for the Shrine is to go
Scottish Rite vs. York Rite.  Why?  Because in most cases (in the US)
a Master Mason can be made a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason within a
single weekend wheras it takes months and sometime a year to become a
Knights Templar in the York Rite.  In many cities the local Shrine
will always schedule their Shrine degrees to follow the Scottish Rite
Degrees on the same weekend.  In my fathers case, he was handed two
petitions at the same time.  One was for Scottish Rite, the other was
for Shrine.  he filled them both out and gave them back to his
sponsor who sponsored him into each one on the same weekend decades
ago.  It would not serve the recruitment goals of the Shrine to
encourage or even mention to a Master Mason that they CAN go through
the York Rite Degrees instead of the Scottish Rite Degrees in order
to become elligable for The Shrine.  The candidate would take way to
long to get up to Knights Templar.
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