Statement of Allegiance

The Bodies of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry sitting in the Valley of Galveston, Orient of Texas, acknowledge and yield allegiance to the Supreme Council (Mother Council of the World) of the Inspectors General, Knights Commander of the House of the Temple of Solomon, of the Thirty-third and last Degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States of America, whose See is at the Grand Orient of South Carolina, now sitting at Washington D.C. of which..

Ill. Ronald A. Seale, 33°

is Sovereign Grand Commander

Ill. M. Douglas Adkins, 33°

is Sovereign Grand Inspector General in Texas

Ill. Brack Jones, Jr., 33°

is Personal Representative of SGIG

and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Valley of Galveston

Scottish Rite Creed

Human progress is our cause, liberty of thought our supreme wish, freedom of conscience our mission,and the guarantee of equal rights to all people everywhere our ultimate goal.

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MASTER CRAFTSMAN

I believe that the Ancient and Accepted rite can be placed in possession of a pure and high toned body of Masons in this State (Texas), whose worth and work will entitle them to the respect of other members of the rite wherever located. --Philip C. Tucker, First Sovereign Inspector General for Texas, August, 1, 1866