Provide a full list of higher, progressive, side or appendant orders in freemasonry
No single complete list of every appendant, higher, or side degree exists across Freemasonry, as different jurisdictions and governing bodies maintain their own distinct Rites and degree structures 12. The literature details several specific lists and administrative groupings across different systems 121.
In the American Rite, the Cryptic degrees of Royal Master, Select Master, and Super-Excellent Master follow the Royal Arch 1. Side or honorary degrees connected to specific lodge offices include that of Past Master, conferred upon an elected Master of a Symbolic Lodge, and the Holy Order of High Priesthood, conferred upon an elected High Priest of a Chapter 2.
In the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, degrees extend beyond the symbolic lodge up to the 33rd degree 2. In the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States, the higher degrees run from the 20th (Grand Pontiff) through the 30th (Knight Kadosh), concluding with the Consistory grades of Inspector Inquisitor (31st) and Master of the Royal Secret (32nd), under a Supreme Council of Sovereign Grand Inspectors-General (33rd) 2. The Northern Masonic Jurisdiction classifies these grades with minor variations, placing the 15th and 16th degrees under a Council of Princes of Jerusalem and beginning its Consistory at the 19th degree 2. Historically, the earlier 25-degree Rite of Perfection combined the essentials of what later became the 32nd and 33rd degrees 2.
In England, the Grand Council of Allied Masonic Degrees affirmed a list of 32 degrees and orders under its jurisdiction in 1902 1. This list includes Funeral Master, Master of the Blue (or Knight of Solomon), Most Excellent Master, Excellent Mason and Master of the Veils, Sublime Master (or Jacob's Wrestle), Fugitive Mark, Architect, Order of the Scarlet Cord, and various chivalric grades such as Knight of Patmos, Knight Rose Crucis, and Holy Royal Arch Templar Priest 1.
Additional distinct governing bodies and chivalric orders include the Royal Order of Scotland, the Great Priory of the Temple and Hospital (Masonic Knights Templar), the Red Cross of Constantine, and the Order of the Secret Monitor 123.
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