Valley of Toronto

Valley of Toronto, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry acknowledges and yields allegiance to the Supreme Council of the Thirty-Third Degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry of Canada, whose Grand Orient is in the City of Hamilton, in the Province of Ontario.

Commentary on the Degrees of the

Ancient and Accepted
SCOTTISH RITE
of Freemasonry of Canada

Symbolic Lodge

1° Entered Apprentice Mason

Moral truth and Virtue

2° Fellow Craft

Nature and Science

3° Master Mason

Death

Lodge of Perfection

4° Secret Master

Silence Obedience fidelity

5° Perfect Master

Leaving a good legacy

6° Intimate Secretary

zealous faithful disinterested benevolent and act the peace maker
Curiosity

7° Provost and Judge

Justice and Mercy

8° Intendent on the Building

Meritocracy

9° Elect of the nine

Ignorance

10° Elect of the Fifteen

Fanticism

11° Grand Elect

True and Reliable

12° Grand Master Architect

Advancement of Knowledge

13° Royal Arch of Solomon

Finding ones purpose

14° Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Mason

The innafable truth

Chapter Rose Croix

15° Knight of the East or Sword

How one person can create positive change

16° Prince of Jerusalem

Aid the labourers under your employ
"noblesse oblige"

17° Knight of the East and West

Religion

18° Knight Rose Croix of HRDM

Initiation by Faith, Hope and Charity

Consistory

19° Grand Pontiff

Good triumphs over evil

20° Master Ad Vitum

Practice what you profess

21° Patriarch Noachite or Prussian Knight

No one is exempt from Justice

22° Prince Lebanus of Knight of the Royal Ax

The Nobility of Work

23° Chief of the Tabernacle

Service to God

24° Prince of the Tabernacle

Forgiveness

25° Knight of the Brazen Serpent

Belief

26° Prince of Mercy

Mercy

27° Commander of the Temple

Despotic Rulers

28° Knight of the Sun Princes Adept

This is the last of the Philosophical Degrees
Subjects studied
Hermetic Kabalah.
Alchemy
Religions of the Ancients
Theology
Deeper meanings to the symbols.

In Albert Pike's Morals and Dogma 1/4 of the book is devoted to this degree. The subjects in this degree are considered the most difficult in their complexity. Under the 25°-degree system of Stephan Moran it was the 23°. This is the Rosicrucian degree as apposed to a Rose Croix degree. . "Do you really know the meaning of what you are saying or are you merely a parrot" is the challenge of the true adepts of this degree.

Suggected reading:

Vested in Glory
Bridge to Light - Rex R. Hutchens

Mackey's Encyclopedia vII p 556

Morals and Dogma of the AASR Albert Pike PP 581 - 800 of 861 PP

Legenda AASR Albert Pike PP 71 - 133

Magnum Opus of the AASR XXVIII PP 1 - 43 Albert Pike

Franckin Manuscript Stephan Moran

Enoch I II

Kabbalah by Gershom Scholem

Web Sources:
http://www.fm-europe.org/delta/rites/reaa.html