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Rite should ideally be by invitation. However, rank in the Craft or other degrees should also have no bearing; a mason's self-awareness and Christian faith is not measured by the size or

The Intermediate degrees, the 4th to the 17th, are conferred on a candidate by name just before the ceremony of the 18th degree. that there are degrees numbered 'above' the 3° of Master Mason should not lead one to see any of them as 'higher' than the Craft. They have little bearing on the 18° itself, except in tracing the

doubt for those on whom it has been conferred. In Bristol, the members of Baldwyn have their own version as the pinnacle of their unique Rite of Seven Many regret the passing of the beautiful aprons with the tetragrammaton within a blazing triangle and, once again, the Chapters choose their candidates with great care. The ceremony demands real thought and Christian understanding before undertaking it; thus for good reason, membership of the Ancient and Accepted moved on to encompass the life and message of Christ, but one should not think in terms of higher degrees or, worse still, of greater rank or promotion. some considerable time was used directly by Supreme Council to induct suitable brethren on its behalf with members of Supreme Council actively involved in these ceremonies and in the day-to-day

explanation, while the Red Rose alludes both to the Precious Blood and to the Rose of Sharon, mystically identified with Christ. candidate's progress from symbolic, Old Testament masonry to that of the New Testament era and the New Covenant which is at the heart of Rose Croix. For such masons, the level of thought hasof their Freemasonry is membership of the Ancient and Accepted Rite. The 18° is the one 'beyond' the Craft that they would be most reluctant to lose. It is very rare to hear any member speak

symbols - the Rose, the Pelican in its Piety, the Crown of Thorns, the Serpent - it serves the 'perfected mason' as a wonderful aid in the teaching of Rose Croix and is used as such in theAlthough no fan of regalia myself – so often the jewels, sashes, aprons, and collarettes seem with their emphasis on was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the King, behold there came wise men from the East to Jerusalem, saying: Where us He that is The History of the Rose Croix and its antecedents is complex. Any summary such as here will leave out an enormous the start, he is figuratively but a 17° mason, a Knight of the East and West, of symbolic age, coming – as the ritual explains – at a time of dire calamity with but incomplete pre-Christian I must, however, caution masons from rushing into the 18° or claiming to be a Trinitarian Christian if they do not

Rose Croix, like Freemasonry as a whole, is not a religion. It does, however, serve to point the way. It is this which Some of the names of the Offices in a Chapter, for example, ‘Captain of the Guard’, are reminders of the days, long ago, when the Rose Croix degree was worked by the Knights Templar.

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the Rosie Cruces degree was being conferred in Knight Templar Encampments – now called Preceptor. The superbly named Dr Crucifix, a mason with a considerable interest in degrees outside the