Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite

MASONIC SYMBOLS - SCOTTISH GRADES

The Italian Freemasonry recovering slowly but surely the path marked by bright thinkers who claimed the shining ideologies, it is almost unanimously placed under the banner of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite.

Once again it became clear discernment of Italian thought.

In fact, as regards perfection of form and sanctity of purpose to our Rite there is nothing to add.

So while the Blue Masonry - common to all rites - provides the basic prerequisites needed to say to the stabilization of the individual conscience, Speculative Freemasonry - which in our Scottish Rite Degrees embraces all - through meditation to a deeper, leads to extend the benefit to the collective terms for the accomplishment of the Work 1.

Even in these grades, it speaks with the symbol, it means prodigious wealth of condensation and keeps intimacy and their evidence, which is off of a flash caught a vision is not sensitive.

Understanding the symbol means to have penetrated the formation of ternary what is symbolized, have made her own means those "gems the crystallized thought of races before his death, in order to pass their time in the immortal soul" (Saunier).

But to understand this sacred deposit of the Age must be broken to a formidable intellectual gymnastics, be fitted with a special sensitivity, know of its intent and its penetration ascend the ladder of understanding until the brightest skies.

And this inner work which each has to consciously devote himself to its development I wanted to convey my modest contribution, and I did it with joy because the talk was of Scottish Degrees for me a commitment of heart after being told of Freemasonry and Blue was greeted with such kindness.

In the following pages I faced the task of helping the understanding of the symbolism contained in this wonderful philosophical synthesis which is the Scottish Rite, I hope that even if the treatment is inadequate assumption reading what I wrote a little put out that eclecticism of light that makes it so admirably on our immortal Rite.

                                                                                                                                                                                                 Poggio Mirteto, August 1948

                                                                                                                                                                                               UMBERTO Gorel Porciatti