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RECOGNIZED ORDERS Freemasonry consists of the three 'Craft' degrees (Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason). The many other Masonic degrees and Orders are not basic to Freemasonry but add to it, further expounding and illustrating the principles stated in the Craft. Some of these additional degrees are numerically superior to the third degree but they are not in anyway superior to or higher than the Craft. From the Constitution of the Grand Lodge of South Australia and Northern Territory: "The Association shall practice no Degree of Freemasonry
but those of Entered
Apprentice, Fellow Craft, and Master Mason, and recognise no other
Degrees,
save those of the Honourable Degree of Mark Master Mason, and the
Supreme
Order of the Holy Royal Arch."
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 OTHER ORDERS The following Orders for Freemasons are found in South Australia and Northern Territory, but are not recognised by the Constitution of the Grand Lodge. .
Details of Officers of these various Orders and their constituent bodies may be found in the latest issue of the Freemasons Year Book which is available at a small charge from the Grand Lodge Office. Ancient and Honourable Fraternity of Royal Ark Mariners of South Australia membership
qualification: Craft Master Mason and Mark Master Mason
Allied Masonic Degrees - Grand Council for Southern Australia, Division of South Australia - see Pietre-Stones membership
qualification: Craft Master Mason, Mark Master Mason and Royal Arch Mason
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite for Australia membership
qualification: Craft Master Mason
Knight Masonry membership
qualification: Craft Master Mason, Mark Master Mason and Royal Arch Mason
Holy Royal Arch Knight Templar Priests membership
qualification: Craft Installed Master, Royal Arch Mason &
Knight Templar
Knights Templar - Great Priory of South Australia membership
qualification: Craft Master Mason and Royal Arch Mason
 Operatives - Worshipful Society of Freemasons, Rough Masons, etc membership
qualification: Craft Master Mason, Mark Master Mason and Royal Arch Mason
Order of the Secret Monitor for South Australia membership by invitation
Red Cross of Constantine for South Australia membership
qualification: Craft Master Mason and Royal Arch Mason
Royal and Select Masters of South Australia membership
qualification: Craft Master Mason, Mark Master Mason and Royal Arch Mason
Royal Order of Scotland, Provincial Grand Lodge of South Australia membership
qualification: 5 years Craft Master Mason
Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia, Province of South Australia membership
qualification: Craft Master Mason
St Thomas of Acon,
Commemorative Order ofmembership
qualification: Craft Master Mason, Royal Arch Mason and
Knight Templar
MASONIC FAMILY . The Grand Lodge of South Australia and Northern Territory does not admit women to membership . The following are informally associated with Freemasonry in South Australia and Northern Territory Masonic Widows Associations Masonic Youth Group / International Rainbow Girls Order of the Eastern Star, United Grand Chapter of Australia membership
qualification: Craft Master Mason; ladies with Masonic Connections
UNRECOGNIZED . Members of the Grand Lodge of South Australia and Northern Territory are not permitted to visit, join or belong to lodges of the following organisations: Order of Women Freemasons - OWF (two lodges in SA) women only
Honourable Fraternity of Ancient Freemasons - HFAF (no lodges in SA) women only
International Order of Co-Freemasonry Le Droit Humain, LDH, Co-Masons, Australian Federation (one lodge) women and men
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OTHER FRATERNITIES . Some fraternities (including friendly societies) in SA and NT, not Masonic in origins or nature, not associated with Freemasonry; Freemasons not forbidden to join: International Concatenated Order Of Hoo-Hoo  Odd Fellows - Brother and Sister (Rebekah) Lodges - the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) The Grand Lodge of South Australia
Level 5, 47 Gawler Place, Adelaide SA 5000 (the commercial offshoot
of IOOF SA is now KeyInvest)
 RAOB GLSA GLE - Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes 78
Kermode
St
,
North
Adelaide
SA 5006
Independent Order of Rechabites (IOR)  United Ancient Order of Druids - UAOD Druids
Grand
Lodge,
15
Ash
Avenue,
Belair SA 5052
Fraternities
that
no
longer
operate
in
South Australia include:Druids Hall, 8 Jervois St, Torrensville SA 5031 Order of Free
Gardeners, and Order of Foresters
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 References, recommended further reading, websites: "Beyond The Craft" by Keith B. Jackson (2005) ISBN-13: 978-0853182481 A guide book that details Masonic Orders beyond the Craft that are worked in England and Wales. A very useful small book. "Delving Further Beyond the Craft" by NB Cryer (2009) ISBN-13 978-0853183198 "Discovering Fraternal and Friendly Societies: their badges and regalia" by Victoria Solt Dennis (2005) ISBN-13: 978-0747806288 "The Higher Degrees Handbook" by JSM Ward - somewhat dated but may be found online "The Open Door: The History of the Order of Women Freemasons 1908-2008" by Ann Pilcher-Dayton (2008) ISBN 978-0-9558598-0-9. The Gavel, the magazine of the Order of Women Freemasons. "Haunted Chambers: the Lives of Early Women Freemasons" by Karen Kidd (2009) ISBN:1934935557 "Mutual Aid or Welfare State. Australia's Friendly Societies" by Green, DG and Cromwell, LG (1984) ISBN:0868616648 The above and many other publications are to be found in the Grand Library. Australian Centre for Fraternal Studies ... Forester's Heritage Trust (UK) Ancient Order of Druids (UK) Friendly Societies in Edinburgh, the Lothians and Fife ... Order of Free Gardeners ... Friendly Societies Research Group, Open University, UK The Centre for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism, University of Sheffield, UK |
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