Ineffable Degrees

Ivory Key

4th degree Secret Master: Your first steps into our sanctuary are duty, reflection and study. They teach us to honor those relationships to God, family, country, Masonry.
Compasses set at 60 degres 5th degree Perfect Master: The degree teaches that honesty and trustworthiness is the cornerstone of the foundation of Masonic honor. This virtue should be in all of our undertakings. 
Triple Delta 6th degree Intimate Secretary: In this degree we should learn duty, charity and toleration. We are told to reshape ourselves and our thinking into charity, self-control, and success. Be a peacemaker.

Gold Key

7th degree Provost and Judge: "We learn that impartial justice protect person, property, happiness and reputation." These degrees teach us to judge with patience and impartially. 
Delta of Gold 8th degree Intendant of the Building: We should strive for perfection by using the great principles of "God's inherent love, charity, morality and kindness".

Dagger

9th degree Elu of the Nine: Scottish Rite virtues are at the very heart of this degree, truth, candor and generosity. We should use these to shape our lives and conduct.

Dagger

10th degree Elu of the Fifteen: This degree teaches toleration of others. Everyone has the right to his own political or spiritual views

Sword

11th degree Elu of the Twelve: This degree teaches sympathy. We should sympathetic to our brother masons and to all mankind as well.
Heptagonal metal of gold 12th degree Master Architect: This degree teaches faith in moral and virtues and in God. "Life is what each man makes of it; the optimist turns a trial into a blessing.
Medallion of gold 13th degree Royal Arch of Solomon: This degree teaches liberty in our mind and our hearts, motivated by duty and honor. 
Compass and Pointed Star 14th degree Perfect Elu: In the degree we learn to reflect and look into ourselves. We should strive to be true to ourselves and our God.

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