The Scottish Rite Valley of Columbia Missouri

Chapter of the Rose Croix

The Degrees from the fifteenth to the eighteenth are Historical and Religious. They emobdy the period in which they were written and apply in equal force today. They teach war against Ignorance, Intolerance and Error, that every noble heart is God's temple and we should labor to establish the reign of Love and Peace, thus building a lasting temple of God.

John the Baptist taught a creed belonging to the sect of the Essenes and very similar to Christianity. They beleived that Truth was scattered in different sects. Light was the symbol of Good; Darkness was the symbol of evil. The Cross has been a sacred emblem of earlies antiquity; the Rose a symbol of the dawn. Together the Rose and the Cross represent the dawn of eternal life.

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