This
degree description is courtesy of the Valley of Guthrie, Orient of
Oklahoma.
Twenty-ninth Degree
Knight
of Saint Andrew
In this degree, the
Mason learns that there is no contradiction between religion and
science; that religion can be better understood through science and
science can be better understood by religion. He who denies
science is as fanatical as he who denies religion. Our
lifetime is limited in time; thus we must see God within this limited
period of our time. Yet, God transcends all time; he is an
energy over and beyond time. There is no other energy that
creates that energy. There is no end to that energy.
Freemasonry is thus the continual effort to exalt the divine
in man over the human so that we may come to better understand the
nature of God in our time.
Jim Tresner
is Director of the Masonic Leadership Institute and Editor of The
Oklahoma Mason. A frequent contributor to the Scottish Rite Journal and
its book review editor, Illustrious Brother Tresner is also a volunteer
writer for The Oklahoma Scottish Rite Mason and a video script
consultant for the National Masonic Renewal Committee. He is the
Director of the Thirty-third Degree Conferral Team and Director of Work
at the Guthrie Scottish Rite Temple in Guthrie, Oklahoma, as well as a
life member of the Scottish Rite Research Society, author of the
popular anecdotal biography Albert Pike, The Man Beyond the Monument,
and a member of the steering committee of the Masonic Information
Center. Ill. Tresner was awarded the Grand Cross, the Scottish Rite's
highest honor, during the Supreme Council's October 1997 Biennial
Session.
