nymaso3 wrote:eric384 wrote:Whilst UGLE doesn't recognise the likes of the various Orders headquartered at MMH, they do not proscribe them (which they do with Order of the Eastern Star, Order of the White Shrine of Jerusalem and the Order of the Amaranth). I don't know which camp they have put the Shriners in (though I am aware that a Provincial Grand Master is a Shriner).
It would be very interesting to know UGLE opinions about Shriners in the UK. I've just read on the "information for the guidance of members of the craft" that UGLE regard as irregular the York Rite when worked in UK. So that's why I thought the same was about the Shriners and the US Scottish Rite worked in UK
Fundamental difference between the way US masonry is ordered and the way masonry in England & Wales is ordered
The 'York Rite' is a way of ordering some of the degrees which are worked under their own GL's here in England & Wales, in that respect its an artificial construct
The same degrees exist here, but aren't grouped as a 'rite'
The Scottish Rite likewise exists in the UK, here it is AASR
If you are used to the US system it can be quite a headache to understand the organisational and structural differences