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From: Ron Boutwell
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 1994 05:05

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This is in reply to Otto Tennant who said:


OT>I believe that there are places where the York Rite also offers
OT>"quick" degrees.

You're right.  In fact, Indiana only recently began holding annual
Grand Master's Classes to accomplish that very goal.  The Shrine's
here have not latched on to that method of getting up to elligablily
status for the Shrine though.  I imagine they will soon (G).


OT>My personal experience, FWIW, was to become a Master Mason, _ask_
OT>for a petition for Scottish Rite, do that, then _ask_ for a
OT>petition to the Shrine.  I even had to ask for a petition to the
OT>local Shrine Club.

This is as it should be I suspect.  Or at the very least, it should
be made clear that the Shrine is not the final degree in Scottish
Rite Masonry.  I am sure that in most places this is made clear as it
is here in Indiana.  But in Mississippi when my father went through
there was an obvious deception taking place whereby both
organizations seemed to purposely give the impression that they were
one, thus insuring no 32nd degree Mason go without his Shrine degree
(G).
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