Greetings Brethren,
The Grand Master has requested the Portland Valley cancel the event for next week that was to be held in his honor. If the opportunity to reschedule comes up the Valley will be notified.
In lieu of that event the Oregon Consistory No. 1 will present an online event via Zoom at 7pm on Tuesday the 1st, on The Circular Throughout Two Hemispheres or the 1802 Manifesto by Right Worshipful Brother Adam Bayer, Past Master of Research Lodge of Oregon No. 198, Past Master of Portland Lodge No. 55, & Current District Deputy of District No. 4 of the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of AF&AM of Oregon
In this presentation Brother Adam discusses the origins of the Scottish Rite from the mid-1700s up through when the Supreme Council announced itself to the Masonic world by publishing an exceptional document known as the Manifesto of 1802. Through this presentation RWBr. Bayer will expounded upon the relationship of the higher degrees of Masonry and the genealogy of the Rite from Illustrious Brother, Frederick the 2nd, King of Prussia, to Brother Etienne Morin and the establishment of the current Supreme Council (Mother Council of the World) of the Inspectors General Knights Commanders of the House of the Temple of Solomon of the Thirty-third Degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States of America. This talk is presented on behalf of Research Lodge of Oregon No. 198 to the Portland Valley of Scottish Rite.
This event will be hosted via Zoom, for registered Zoom users, and via live streaming on the Orient of Oregon’s Facebook group on Tuesday, September 1st, 2020 at 7 o’clock pm, Brother Adam will be available afterwards for a Q&A. The Zoom event will start shortly before 7:00pm and be locked by 7:05pm. A video should be available of the recording from the event for those that cannot make it.
Please email officemanager@portlandsr.com with your membership info to get a link to join the Zoom meeting.