Complete Your Journey

Entering upon the York Rite starts with the Capitular Degrees of the Holy Royal Arch, although in joining the York Rite, one may elect to receive only the Capitular Degrees and not the Council Degrees or Orders of the Commandery; however, completion of the Capitular and Cryptic Degrees is necessary for application for the Orders of the Commandery.

• Petition to Join
• Petition to Affiliate

About the York Rite

The York Rite is a confederation of degree systems consisting of the Royal Arch Chapter, Cryptic Rite Council, and the Commandery of Knights Templar. As practiced in Utah, it is sometimes referred to as the American Rite of Masonry. While most of the degrees of the Ritual were nurtured in England, it is in North America that they have attained their highest development. It is only in America that there is a regular arrangement of the degree systems as a total Rite.

A Master Mason should be interested in Masonic advancement and the lessons exemplified in the York Rite degrees lessons of honesty, charity, harmony, justice, spirituality, service, fortitude, hope, prudence, fidelity, truth, religion, faith, love, and toleration, become part of one’s life as a Mason. The York Rite becomes that teacher of the philosophy of the Blue Lodge Mason.

The York Rite is a confederation of degree systems consisting of the Royal Arch Chapter, Cryptic Rite Council, and the Commandery of Knights Templar. As practiced in Utah, it is sometimes referred to as the American Rite of Masonry. While most of the degrees of the Ritual were nurtured in England, it is in North America that they have attained their highest development. It is only in America that there is a regular arrangement of the degree systems as a total Rite. A Master Mason should be interested in Masonic advancement and the lessons exemplified in the York Rite degrees lessons of honesty, charity, harmony, justice, spirituality, service, fortitude, hope, prudence, fidelity, truth, religion, faith, love, and toleration, become part of one’s life as a Mason. The York Rite becomes that teacher of the philosophy of the Blue Lodge Mason.