I joined the Scottish Rite at this Temple around this time last year. In fact, the anniversary of my degrees is some point this month. This historic building is from the Great Depression era, and it is a beautiful building, in my opinion. It is a mixture of a bunch of different architecture styles, but the inside is mostly Egyptian-revival. I also am on a degree team, where we go on stage and recite our lines in front of a class of candidates, and our degree we put on is the 12th degree, called Master Architect. After a Mason receives this degree, they certainly won’t be a Master Architect in terms of knowing the in-depth mathematics and engineering that goes into building something, but it is a thorough ceremony teaching some tools that ancient architects would have used (namely the compasses, parallel ruler, protractor, plain scale, sector, and slide-rule), as well as physical representations of the different style of columns are present on the stage during the degree. Of course, we don’t teach candidates the practical applications of these things, we instead teach symbolic meanings. The degree also touches on the nature of God as the architect of the universe, showing the perfection of His active nature.