A Masonic ritual consists of a coherent set of practices of Freemasonry in its various degrees, these practices are codified in the "constitution" (for the general principles of the rite) and the "rituals" (with respect the organization of ceremonies).


1.The Rite Ancient and Accepted Scottish (EBITDA) is practiced by the United Grand Lodge of Morocco.

The Scottish Rite Ancient and Accepted (EBITDA) is one of the Masonic ritual more common in the world. It was founded in 1801 in Charleston (USA) led by Brothers John Mitchell and Frederic Dalcho on the basis of the Grand Constitutions of 1786, attributed [1] Frederick II of Prussia. It was originally a rite intended only to grades below the rank of Master and it acquires its full relevance until the 4th degree.


Although it is composed of 33 degrees, it is usually practiced in the context of two distinct but complementary organizations:

* A Masonic lodges which unites the first three degrees of Freemasonry.
* A "jurisdiction" of high Masonic degrees, led by a "Supreme Council", which includes workshops 4th to 33rd degree.


2.The Emulation Rite rite or English style emulation or rite of union

The rite is a rite Emulation Masonic orality whose characteristics are clustered around the universal references in the art, to exclude any idea of discourse that would value some "brothers" and to practice the ceremonies entirely by heart.

The requirement of orality and practice of ceremonies say by heart the three grades of Emulating rite: Apprentice, Journeyman, Master, not the result of an obligation to preserve an ancient mentality but for a Freemason modern to complete his initiation. It is justified by reasons psychological, moral, human and spiritual. Plus a Mason likens his ritual, he discovers more and more he discovers, the more he learns. Learning by heart the ritual three grades requires the Emulation Rite mason to learn the ritual between outfits. It therefore regularly leave the secular world to get in touch with the spirit of the ritual to be impregnated. Each officer will conduct the workshop approach. The Emulation ritual ceremony akin to an office where the learning by heart of its ritual, each member off him any form of personal expression to be of the purity of its ritual. It is the ritual that governs and manages the lodge.

The housing committee, before the opening session, has already solved the problems of a secular or stewardship. It preserves the atmosphere of religious dress. The promotion of officers and election of the Venerable are played in advance. In the spirit of the ritual, the sponsor of a candidate may, on the day of his initiation he will announce his venerable and virtually what will be the year when he accedes to vénéralat.

The idea is that the harmony of the Lodge. This explains the prohibition of reading the ritual and also that of familiarity in Lodge. Orality ritual gives the new initiate the impression that the text addressed to him is personal.


3. The French Rite

It is intimately linked to the birth of Freemasonry in general and France in particular [1]. The British exiled make the rite of Modernism to be translated, gradually, in French. But if this hybrid does not even know the name of French Rite, it is to distinguish systems called "Scottish" as it is formed.

To ensure a freemasonry in national dimension, the Grand Orient de France organizes uniformity of rites "modern" hexagonal 1782. In 1785, the model is set for the first three degrees "blue lodge" experiencing a strong British influence in distinction still Scottish rites. In 1801 a printer unscrupulous diffuse the rite as the Regulator of Macon, which also contains many additions and corrections compared to the official specifications GODF which they were issued against hard currency only to the Lodges 'obedience that made the request in writing.

Several reforms of the rite will be undertaken.

In 1858 required the French Rite said Murat returns to the fundamentals of the Constitutions of Anderson without lasting change to the rite [ref. necessary].

After the rupture of 1877, the Grand College of Rites of the Grand Orient de France decided to further reform. This will take place in 1879 which are squeezed out of the French Rite forms to which religious connotations, for example, reference to the Great Architect of the Universe and the duties towards God.

The commission headed by Louis Amiable in 1886 will close the form the ritual adogmatic giving him a positivist hue. We'll talk after the French Rite said Amiable. The latter will experience some minor corrections in 1907 to remain unchanged until 1938.

1938 sees the initiative of Arthur Groussier Grand Master of the Grand Orient of France for a new reform of the rite. It is an attempt by a return to basics after the sum of additions and deletions that rendered the French Rite somewhat illegible and mostly devoid of soul [2]. The final version of the French Rite said Groussier be completed in 1955 under the authority of Paul Knight.

In 1960-70, several builders - including Rene Guilly [3] - in search of the original letter of the rite will operate a new attempt to revive the initiatory and symbolic nature of it. The desire to perform these rituals without any 'added' later, without modification or external influences, has the specificity of this rite. As Roger Girard said, "the specificity of the French rite, it is precisely not to be." It is thus indisputable that this rite is probably most closely resembles that which was practiced in England in the first quarter of the eighteenth century and in France in the 2nd half of the eighteenth century. Rene Guilly will cause the creation of a chapter in French Traditional Rite, Chapter still exists today in the French National Lodge. In 1974, born, another chapter in Paris under the leadership of a member of the Grand Lodge Symbolic and Traditional Opera. This will lead by its antennae, the creation of the Rite Sovereign College of Traditional French-oriented multi-obediential. Research other masons lead them in Brazil and is the Supreme Council of the Rite Moderne for Brazil which will grant them a license to establish the French Grand Chapter in 1989. But above all, the overhaul of the General Grand Chapter of the Grand Orient de France in 1999, the patent holder orders wisdom, which marks the revival of the French Rite in 3 grades and four levels + 1 as codified in 1784.