PUBLISHED PERIODICALLY BY AND FOR THE SAN ANTONIO SCOTTISH RITE BODIES OF THE ORIENT OF TEXAS 308 Avenue E P. O. Box 2239 San Antonio, TX 78298-2239 (210) 222-0133 FAX (210) 222-0136 Toll Free 1 (866) 222-9293 INTERNET: http:// scottishrite.albertpikedemolay.org EMAIL: secretary@albertpikedemolay.org Sovereign Grand Commander RONALD A. SEALE, 33 Sovereign Grand Inspector General of Texas MORGAN DOUGLAS ADKINS, 33 Chairman, Executive Committee and Volume XCIV, No. 2 April 2008 Sovereign Grand Inspector General Gives Dispensation to the Valley of San Antonio! The San Antonio Bodies of the Scottish Rite will hold our April Stated Meeting in Kerrville Texas, at Kerrville Lodge #697. The SGIG has granted special dispensation for this unique event. Start making plans now to be a part of history in the making! A meal will be served at 6:30 PM for a cost of $5.00 and our Stated Meeting will begin at 7:30 PM as usual. Dress will be coat and tie with your hat and jewel. Map and directions on pg 5. Personal Representative of the Sovereign Grand Inspector General for the Valley of San Antonio REESE L. HARRISON, JR., 33 Venerable Master, San Antonio Lodge of Perfection WEYLAN R. ARNOLD, 32 Wise Master, San Antonio Chapter of Rose Croix ROBERT L. JETT, 33, PVM, PC Commander, San Antonio Council of Kadosh JOE O. ESTLACK, 33, PVM, PVMK Master of Kadosh, San Antonio Consistory THOMAS G. YOUNG, 32 KCCH Kerrville Lodge # 697 119 Methodist Encampment Road, Kerrville, Texas Continuing Masonic Education The next class for the Scottish Rite s CME will be Monday, March 31, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. in a ground floor Lodge Room of the San Antonio Scottish Rite Cathedral. Come and participate in the discussion of the York and Scottish Rite versions of the Fellowcraft Degree of the Blue Lodge. This meeting is open to all Scottish Rite Masons. Dress is business casual.
Page 2 Scottish Rite News Volume XCIV: Issue 2 May 3rd is the Next Reunion! The San Antonio Bodies of the Scottish Rite will hold a reunion on Saturday May 3rd 2008. We are receiving petitions now, so get yours in as soon as practical. Our Degree Fees consider purchasing an endowed membership with your degree fees. Candidates under age 30: Degree Fee is $100.00 Endowed Membership purchased at the time of initiation $1,200.00 Total cost when purchased together is $1,300.00 Candidates age 31 to 74 Degree Fees are $175.00 Endowment $1,200.00 When purchased together The Total Cost of Membership is #1,300.00 (a savings of $75!) Candidates 75 and older; Degree Fees are: $175.00 Endowment $250.00 Total Cost when purchased together $400.00 ( a savings of $25.00) *** ***** ******* Candidates should arrive at the Cathedral at 7:00 AM The Degrees will Start at: 8:00 AM The degrees should finish around 6:00 PM Ask a Brother to join today! Costal Bend Scottish Rite Club offers members Continuing Masonic Education Classes The Costal Bend Scottish Rite Club has been holding Continuing Masonic Education Classes (CME) on the third Wednesday of each month. Like the CME classes in San Antonio the series started with a basic orientation to Freemasonry and the Scottish Rite. They are now working on the symbolic meanings of each degree. Starting with the blue lodge degrees, of both the York Rite and Scottish Rites. These discussions are not lectures and move at the pace the group sets. Ensuring that all opinions are heard. Mak- ing this the perfect time to ask the questions you have always wanted to but may have been afraid to. Any Scottish Rite Mason is welcome to attend. The Next Class Will be held at Del Mar Lodge # 1350, Corpus Christi on 16 April Don t Live in San Antonio? Join a Scottish Rite Club Scottish Rite Clubs are formed to help keep the spirit of Scottish Rite Freemasonry strong in outlying areas of the Valley of San Antonio. For information about a particular Club, call the Secretary at the Scottish Rite office (Use the toll-free number! *** 866-222-9293) Area Club Names Corpus Christi/Rockport Coastal Bend Rio Grande Valley Rio Grande Valley Beeville/Goliad Brush Country Laredo/Zapata Rio Bravo Mathis Lakeside Kerrville/Junction Hill Country Uvalde/Del Rio Uvalde Southwest
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V o l u m e X CI V : S c o t t is h Rit e N e w s Page 4 On the Right Track: Are we there Yet? Members of the Scottish Rite from the Region attend the 2008 Leadership Conference in Dallas where the current status and implementation of our Strategic Plan was the main topic of discussion. The formal opening of the conference was on Friday, with an optional pre-conference seminar offered. Attendees selected the topics that they are interested in for each secession. Individual secessions covered in detail the five strategic Objectives 2. Build a Positive Public Image of the Scottish Rite, which are; of Freemasonry and the Scottish Rite. 1. Fulfill the promise of additional Masonic knowledge 3. Support and expand our philthrough education and training. anthropic activities. 4. Provide a framework for effective leadership to ensure the stability and long-term success of the Fraternity. 5. Provide a financial process to ensure the stability and long-term success of the Fraternity. What an exciting two days, the days were long but they were packed with great information. Hearing how Brothers from several states are dealing with issues like, membership, building repairs, Masonic education, just to name a few was a blast! Seeing that our Valley is in many ways is leading the way for others to follow made each of us proud to be members of this valley. What a great learning experience! 2008 Leadership Conference. Ronald A. Seale Sovereign Grand Commander San Antonio Fellows Don Flanary James W. Todd, 33 Brian Schlameus Venerable Master Weylan Arnold Doug Van Griner Grand Commander Seale continued the tradition of Fellows. Each Valley was asked to select their future leaders relatively new members who have a burning passion for the Scottish Rite. The Fellows met with the Grand Commander and shared their ideas on how to improve the Scottish Rite
Volume XCIV: Scottish Rite News Map to Kerrville Lodge Page 5 A Lodge of Perfection is formed: 1912 When Samuel P. Cochran, Sovereign Grand Inspector General in Texas, pursuant to his previous announcement, arrived in San Antonio on Thursday, September 19, 1912, to institute a Lodge of Perfection, dispensation was granted to 119 brethren, who belonged principally to the Galveston and Dallas Bodies, to form the lodge. The San Antonio Masons and fraternal representatives from the Scottish Rite Bodies of Dallas, El Paso, Houston and Austin, began to assemble in the early afternoon in the Lodge Room of the Crockett Hotel and by four o'clock about 87 of the 119 Masons who were to become charter members of the infant lodge were present. The Crockett Hotel was an appropriate place for the meeting, since it has at all times been owned by San The Crockett Hotel Nat M. Washer, 32 First Venerable Master Antonio Lodge No. 11, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, with a commodious lodge room on the top floor of the hotel, and which was made available to the Masonic brethren. About 4:15 o'clock the meeting was called to order and Nat M. Washer introduced Inspector General Cochran who proceeded to organize a provisional Lodge.
Lux e tenebris LIGHT OUT OF DARKNESS. A motto very commonly used in the caption of Masonic documents as expressive of the object of Freemasonry, and of what the true Freemason supposes himself to have attained. It has a recondite meaning. In the primeval ages and in the early mythology, darkness preceded light. So LUX being truth or Freemasonry, and TENEBRAE, or darkness, the symbol of initiation, LUX E TENEBRIS is Masonic truth proceeding from initiation. 2008 Membership Statistics Starting Membership 3071 Knighted 55 Affiliated 5 Re-instated 31 Demitted 58 Died 102 Suspended NPD 178 Ending Membership 2827 The San Antonio Scottish Rite Bodies meet jointly on the first Thursday of each month. All correspondence and business pertaining to the Valley of San Antonio should be addressed to the Secretary, San Antonio Scottish Rite Bodies. ALLEGIANCE The Bodies of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry sitting in the Valley of San Antonio, Orient of Texas, acknowledge and yield allegiance to the Supreme Council (Mother Council of the World) of the Inspectors General, Knights Commander of the House of the Temple of Solomon, of the Thirty Third and Last Degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States of America, whose See is at Charleston, in the State of South Carolina, now sitting at Washington, D. C..