Appendant and Affiliated Organizations

The Scottish Rite is the largest and most widely practiced Masonic Rite in the world and employs a lodge system. It is part of a tradition of “high degrees” that expand upon and elaborate the teachings and lessons of the first three degrees of Freemasonry.

The York Rite comprises a collection of separate Masonic bodies and associated degrees. The three primary bodies in the York Rite are the Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, Council of Royal & Select Masters or Council of Cryptic Masons and the Commandery of Knights Templar.

Tall Cedars of Lebanon of North America is an appendant Masonic organization devoted to fostering friendship and fellowship among Freemasons and to all mankind.

Tall Cedars of Lebanon of North America Shriners

Shriners International is a fraternity based on fun, fellowship and the Masonic principles of brotherly love, relief and truth. Shriners International also supports Shriners Hospitals for Children®.

The Grotto provides a social element to its members, with sympathy and good fellowship being the key tenets of the organization.

Pennsylvania Grotto Association

High Twelve is an organization of Master Masons who support Masonic causes with special emphasis on youth support and patriotic events. It is so named because noon was once known as “high twelve” and the time to call off from labor.

High Twelve International, Inc.

Pennsylvania State Association of High Twelve Clubs, Inc.

The principal objects for which the organization is formed are fraternal, social and charitable. It endeavors to develop the moral character of its members through a belief in a Supreme Being and the teachings of Truth, Faith, Wisdom and Charity.

Supreme Council, Order of the Amaranth

Pennsylvania Grand Court, Order of the Amaranth

The Order of the Eastern Star is the largest fraternal organization in the world to which both men and women may belong. Its stated purposes are: Charitable, Educational, Fraternal and Scientific.

General Grand Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star

OES, Grand Chapter of Pennsylvania

DeMolay International

International Order of the Rainbow for Girls

Job’s Daughters International 

Pennsylvania DeMolay

Pennsylvania Job’s Daughters

Pennsylvania Rainbow for Girls

Ruth Mitchell Tucker Girls Youth Department

Knights of Pythagoras

Grand College of Rites

Masonic Leadership Center Research Group, sponsored by the Philalethes Society

Masonic Medical Research Laboratory

Masonic Study Circle ‘New Holland’, Australia

Missouri Masonic Lodge of Research

South Australian Lodge of Research No. 216

The Philalethes Society

The Phylaxis Society