The Scottish Rite's main charity, inspired by the story in Judges 12, is the https://scottishrite.org/philanthropy/ritecare/ritecare-srclp/ RiteCare free speech therapy clinics for children with speech disorders. By helping children correct speech disorders early in life, they help children avoid bullying and being ostracized.
The Scottish Rite raises its money as a theatrical group. They have 32 plays, but no one has that many actors, most will only see the five required plays to become a 32 degree. The plays are not sequential. They're more like the numbered dishes on a Chinese restaurant menu. There was for a while only 25 plays, but then everyone liked knights in armour, so they wrote an extra 7 plays with knights in armour, which made 32. They rent out their theater and social halls the rest of the year for weddings and other events, which is what pays the bills and raises money for their charities.
The plays (or "degrees") are about the same quality as you'll see at any summer Bible Camp, and the 18th degree is basically Easter Sunday service. (Easy to stage because it's just a cross on the stage with an off stage narrator reading New Testament passages) The overall impression is that Protestant Christianity is the final evolution of all older religions.
The 33rd degree is an honor given to older members. The Knights of Saint Andrew in the Scottish Rite are the younger whiskey drinking guys who enjoy dressing up in kilts and having cigar nights, and there's a whole thing about not being able to be join the KSA once you're a 33rd degree.
The Scottish Rite's main charity, inspired by the story in Judges 12, is the https://scottishrite.org/philanthropy/ritecare/ritecare-srclp/ RiteCare free speech therapy clinics for children with speech disorders. By helping children correct speech disorders early in life, they help children avoid bullying and being ostracized.
The Scottish Rite raises its money as a theatrical group. They have 32 plays, but no one has that many actors, most will only see the five required plays to become a 32 degree. The plays are not sequential. They're more like the numbered dishes on a Chinese restaurant menu. There was for a while only 25 plays, but then everyone liked knights in armour, so they wrote an extra 7 plays with knights in armour, which made 32. They rent out their theater and social halls the rest of the year for weddings and other events, which is what pays the bills and raises money for their charities.
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The plays (or "degrees") are about the same quality as you'll see at any summer Bible Camp, and the 18th degree is basically Easter Sunday service. (Easy to stage because it's just a cross on the stage with an off stage narrator reading New Testament passages) The overall impression is that Protestant Christianity is the final evolution of all older religions.
The 33rd degree is an honor given to older members. The Knights of Saint Andrew in the Scottish Rite are the younger whiskey drinking guys who enjoy dressing up in kilts and having cigar nights, and there's a whole thing about not being able to be join the KSA once you're a 33rd degree.