GRAN ESCOCESA DE SAN ANDRÉS O PATRIARCA DE LAS CRUZADAS
GRADO 29
Grado 29º – Undécimo del Consejo de Kadosch
El Grado de Gran Escocés de San Andrés enseña la fidelidad a la fe, la razón y la justicia, exaltando el espíritu de servicio, la humildad y la defensa del ideal masónico.
La Patriarca de las Cruzadas representa al ser que, tras vencer sus pasiones, consagra su fuerza al bien común y a la búsqueda de la verdad universal.
Este grado simboliza la unión entre la caballería templaria y la sabiduría escocesa, invitando a la iniciada a ser una guerrara de la luz, defensora de la libertad y del perfeccionamiento moral de la humanidad.
Meditación
TWENTY-NINTH DEGREE.
GRAND SCOTCH CHEVALIER OF ST ANDREW OP SCOTLAND.
The twenty-ninth degree is called the Grand Scotch Chevalier of St Andrew of Scotland. It was established in the time of the Crusades by the Chevaliers who were enjoined to go to the Holy Land. It is a reunion of all the grand symbolic mysteries of the Scottish Rite.
The degree is known only in England or Scotland. It is not worked in France, where it is not known, except by report from the rank it occupies in the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite.
The Lodge is lighted by eighty-one lights, disposed in nine branches of nine each, which comprise the sixteen lights which are placed in the four corners, and two before the cross. The Lodge is hung in red. The drapery is supported by white columns.
The seats occupied by the Brethren are covered with blue. The Grand Master and all the Brethren are clothed in red robes. They are decorated with a crimson ribbon, worn as a sash, from which hangs the jewel of the order, which is a St Andrew’s Cross, with a crown of ash above it. In the middle of the cross is a pine cone and a J, enclosed in a triangle placed in a circle, which rests upon the two arms of the cross.
On the extremities of the arms of the cross are the initials of the two sacred words and the passwords. The jewel is attached to a deep green ribbon, bordered with red. When there is only the ribbon worn en sautoir, it is of watered green, bordered with red. There is worn also a scarf or belt of white silk, with gold fringe. All the Brethren wear swords.
Loth, J. (1875). The ancient and accepted scottish rite Ilustrations of the emblems of the thirty – three degrees. Simpkin, Marschall, & Co. https://archive.org/details/cu31924030318541
