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DEGREES OF THE
ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED
SCOTTISH RITE

Excerpts from the Statutes and Regulations of the
Supreme Council 33° of the Ancient and Accepted
Scottish Rite of Freemasonry of Canada.

ART. 44. --The Supreme Council recognizes the exclusive authority of the Symbolic Grand Lodge over the three Symbolic Degrees of Freemasonry and Masonic Furneral Rites and Ceremonies, and exercises authority over only the degrees from the fourth to the thirty-third degree, both inclusive.

ART. 45. --The degrees from the fourth to the thirty-second, both inclusive, are to be conferred or communicated in the following bodies, namely:
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LODGE OF PERFECTION

4°    Secret Master
5°    Perfect Master
6°    Intimate Secretary
7°    Provost and Judge
8°    Intendant of the Building
9°    Elect of the Nine
10°  Elect of the Fifteen
11°  Elect of the Twelve
12°  Grand Master Architect
13°  Royal Arch of Solomon
14°  Grand Elect Perfect and Sublime Mason
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Rose Croix Symbol

CHAPTER OF ROSE CROIX

15°  Knight of the East or Sword
16°  Prince of Jerusalem
17°  Knight of the East and West
18°  Knight Rose Croix
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Symbol of Consistory

CONSISTORY

19°  Grand Pontiff
20°  Master ad Vitam
21°  Patriarch Noachite
22°  Prince of Libanus
23°  Chief of the Tabernacle
24°  Prince of the Tabernacle
25°  Knight of the Brazen Serpent
26°  Prince of Mercy
27°  Commander of the Temple
28°  Knight of the Sun
29°  Knight of St. Andrew
30°  Knight Kadosh
31°  Inspector Inquisitor Commander
32°  Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret

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ART. 46. --This Supreme Council reserves to itself the right to confer or communicate any of the degrees of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite.

GRAND ORIENT, HAMILTON
PROVINCE OF ONTARIO

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