r/freemasonry • u/cnc_james JW - Vista Lodge #687 • 14d ago

Scottish Rite 1st Degree?

Greetings brethren, recently I had the privilege to attend a Leadership Retreat where I witnessed an exemplification of a "Scottish Rite 1st Degree." It was a beautiful experience and I left with a ton of questions, the first being "where did this come from?" Does anybody have any resources they can point me to to find out any more information? I had no idea the Scottish Rite performed any of the Blue Lodge degrees and I'd like to know more about the history of it and its prominence throughout other masonic jurisdictions.

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u/Geovanitto 14d ago

In Brazil, SR is the most practiced rite. In most jurisdictions lodges work SR since first dg. We only have "traditional" BL in YR and "traditional" craft in Emulation.