List of Masonic rites
A rite, within the context of Freemasonry, refers to a comprehensive system of degrees that hold the capability to initiate and advance a newcomer through various stages of Masonic knowledge and experience. In some cases, a Master Mason can be invited to join a different rite after having reached Mastery to further his knowledge. For a system of Masonic degrees to be named rite, it must encompass the first three blue lodge craft degrees, either as degrees within the rite or as a prerequisite for joining the rite. In essence, a Masonic rite occupies a central position in the trajectory of a Mason's journey, serving as the vehicle through which Masonic teachings and lessons are imparted.[1] Except for rare exceptions, Masonic rites are most of the time under the control of a Grand Lodges for the first three degrees then under the control of a concordant body for any upper degrees.[2][3]
The most practiced rite in the world from the Entered Apprentice degree is the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite.[4]
(33 degrees)
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite
Ancient and Primitive Rite
Portuguese Rite
[9]
Brazilian Rite
Irish Rite
French Rite
Moorish Rite
National Mexican Rite
established at Namur in 1770.[7] (Practiced by some Grand Lodges and worked in exclusivity by the Grande Loge symbolique travaillant au Rite écossais primitif)
Primitive Scottish Rite
Rectified Scottish Rite
Standard Scottish Rite
Rite Français Moderne Rétabli
Rite of Baldwyn
or Oriental, in 95 degrees.
Rite of Memphis
or Egyptian Masonry in 99 degrees.
Rite of Memphis Misraim
Rite of Misraim
Rite Opératif de Salomon
Schröder Rite
Swedish Rite
York Rite
in 10 degrees.
Martinism Rite
or Modern Rite.
French
Pennsylvania Rite, Only state in the United States that does not practice the American Rite (Also called Preston/Webb or York Rite)
created within the Tolérance lodge of the Grand Orient de France between 1969 and 2002.[12] The rite was officially recognized by the Grand Orient de France in 2002 after over 30 years of development. It has since spread to around a dozen lodges. The rite currently only covers the three symbolic degrees (Apprentice, Fellowcraft, Master).[13][12]
Philosophical French Rite
Order of the Apocalypse.
[5]
Order of Noachites, 1757, M. de St. Gelaire.
[5]
Knight of the Holy City Order.
[5]
Architects of Africa or African Brotherhood or Chaos Order.
[5]
Order of the Eagles and the Sun.
[5]
Assanites Order (The Old Man of the Mountain).
[5]
Order of Cuchiara or Trowel Order (Italy, 1512).
[5]
Bonze Order.
[5]
Cauldron Order (Italy, 1512).
[5]
Charles XIII Order (Bernadotte, King of Sweden).
[5]
Knights of Asia Order or Initiated Brothers in 5 degrees.
[5]
Scandinavian Order.
[5]
Adepts Order.
[5]
Knights of the Desert Order.
[5]
Diamond Order or Invulnerable Knights (17th century).
[5]
Awakened Order (18th century).
[5]
Moravian Brothers Order (The Mustard Seed).
[5]
Grand Duke Order.
[5]
Lanturlus Order (Instituted in 1771 by the Marquis de Croismarc).
[5]
Hassanites Order (The Old Man of the Mountain).
[5]
Illustrious Neapolitan Grand Masters Order.
[5]
Magicians Order (18th century).
[5]
Masters of 1804, (Political masonic Order).
[5]
Palladium Order or Sovereign Council of Wisdom (18th century).
[5]
Perfect Initiates of Asia Order.
[5]
Unknown Philosophers Order (In 2 points).
[5]
Sacred Sophisiros Order.
[5]
Saint-Joachim Order (Christian Freemasonry, 1760).
[5]
Seven Sages Order or Companions of Ulysses (17th century).
[5]
Tobacological Order or Prizers (18th century)
[5]
Academy of the Rose, 4 degrees.
[5]
Russian-Swedish, Alchemical Masonry of Schroder.
[5]
Academy of the Ancients or Secrets, in Warsaw.
[5]
Academy Areopagite of the Knights Kadosch.
[5]
Academy of the Sublime Masters of the Luminous Ring.
[5]
Academy of the True Masons, in 6 degrees, in Paris, 1861.
[5]
French Rite
Rectified Scottish Rite
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite
Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis-Misraïm
Philosophical French Rite.
North America[edit]
United States[edit]
The Grand College of Rites focuses on the collection and publication of texts from defunct masonic degrees, and quasi-Masonic rituals used by other fraternities and societies.[37] One of its stated purposes is the prevention, within the larger community of Freemasons, of the revival or usage of any rituals that are not currently in use in the United States.[38]