*Provincial Grand Master, Sir Jeffrey Wonderling*

Welcome To The

Royal Order of Scotland
Provincial Grand Lodge of the
United States of America

The Royal Order of Scotland is a worldwide Masonic honor society, headquartered in Edinburgh, Scotland, that unites Freemasons who have been recognized or honored by other organizations. In the United States, the Royal Order is a national organization without chapters or subordinate bodies. As such, it brings together distinguished members from across the country for convivial fellowship and ancient Masonic ceremonies.

Membership is by invitation only. Candidates must be Master Masons for at least five years, promoted to the 32^nd Degree in the Scottish Rite or Knight Templar in the York Rite, be of the Christian faith, and already received honors such as the 33^rd Degree, KCCH, Red Cross of Constantine, or KYCH. We also consider religious and community service performed for the benefit on one’s fellow man, such as offices held in churches, activity on boards and commissions, and active work with youth groups such as Boy Scouts or DeMolay. Each applicant is judged on his own merit.

The Royal Order of Scotland confers two degrees, that of Heredom of Kilwinning and Knight of the Rosy Cross. The lessons and ceremonies of these degrees are Masonic and chivalric in nature, inspired by early Scottish Masonic traditions and military history, especially the 1314 Battle of Bannockburn and King Robert the Bruce. They are considered as being among the earliest Masonic degrees still practiced today. Please visit the remaining pages of this website for more information about our organization, its history, leaders and charitable works.

Sir Albert Pike’s Vision for the Provincial Grand Lodge, USA

The Provincial Grand Lodge has been established with a limited membership, to make impossible the cheapening of our degrees, and that the admission to it might be, as it is in England and Scotland, a high honour. We do not propose to create Chapters, for we neither desire to levy taxes, nor to govern subordinates, nor to add to the legislation or jurisprudence of Masonry.

We have desired to create an association of worthy Masons and gentlemen, of all of the States and Territories, to assemble annually, not for dry discussions or for display, but for social intercourse and festive enjoyment, to the end that each may become richer at every meeting, by the acquisition of new friendships, and the strengthened ties of old ones; wiser, by learning to set a higher estimate on human nature; truer and nobler by self-correction, and the communion of wise and proud men.

We will always have it at heart to maintain and increase the honour and dignity of Free Masonry, as the Advocate and Defender of civil and religious liberty; to elevate and ennoble it, and make it worthy of the respect of men of intellect and scholarship; and to prevent the removal of the ancient Land-marks.

[Royal Order of Scotland, Report and Historical Survey, p. 39 (Edinburgh: Published by the Grand Secretary, 1960)]

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Sir Albert Pike’s Vision for the Provincial Grand Lodge, USA

Royal Order of Scotland
Provincial Grand Lodge of the
United States of America