The first Scottish Rite Supreme Council was formed on May 31, 1801, at Shepheard’s Tavern Charleston, South Carolina. This was the birth of the Mother Supreme Council of the World. But even before this date, the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry was beginning to take shape. Scottish Rite Masonry first emerged, at various times and places, in Scotland, England, and France. It is important to trace the original wellspring, but we know now that a confluence of tributary streams flow into a reservoir at Bordeaux, France. Regular unites developed and were known as the Rite of Perfection. It was This Rite that Stephen Morin, in 1761, was empowered to bring into the Western Hemisphere. Degrees for the Rite of Perfection were formalized under the Secret Constitution of 1761 and 1762. These Degrees were conveyed by merchant Brethren to cities on the American mainland, including New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1763, and Charleston, South Carolina, in 1783.

The Grand Constitution of 1786 provided for the extension of the Rite in a country by a Supreme Council. This opportunity was seized by a group of eleven Brothers in Charleston, led by Brother John Mitchell and Frederick Dalcho. It was they who opened the first “Supreme Council of the 33^rd Degree of the United States” on May 31, 1801. However, it wasn’t until 31 years later that the name “Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite” first appeared in the 1832 French publication of the Grand Constitutions. With the start of administration of Sovereign Grand Commander Albert Pike in 1859, The name “Scottish Rite” came into general use in the Mother Jurisdiction and elsewhere.

1st ANNUAL SCOTTISH RITE RITE CARE RACE 2008
June 28th
Gates Open at 4:30 P.M.
Contact Bill Summerville
or Bill Lefler
(803) 684-2148
(803) 628-1236

Mission Statement

To improve it's members and enhance the communities in which they live
by teaching and emulating the Principles of
Brotherly Love, Tolerance, Charity and Truth,
while actively embracing high social, moral and spiritual values,
including fellowship, compassion
and dedication to God, family and country.

Strategic Objectives

The Scottish Rite Creed

The cause of human progress is our cause,
the enfranchisement of human thought our supreme wish,
the freedom of human conscience our mission,
and the guarantee of equal rights to all peoples everywhere,
the end of our contention.
 

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