Welcome To Ventura Valley,

Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite

New England Summer Picnic (Steak & Lobster picnic)

July 18, 2026

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News of the Valley

Our next stated meeting is on June 8, 2026. Hope to see you at our stated meeting.

Dinner is $20. If you will be joining us for dinner on June 8, please make a reservation! Contact Harold Bogner at hbogner@smartsourcellc.com, or call (805) 218-1648 (leave message).

One of our newer additions to this page is a QR Code for an online Scottish Rite petition (see below). If you are a Master Mason in good standing and you desire to petition for our Scottish Rite degrees, you can use a smart cell-phone to take a picture of the QR Code below. That will take you to an online application for the degrees. (The cost is $200, which will be due after your election. The yearly dues are $95.)

QR Code for Petition for

Scottish Rite Degrees

Grand Commander's Statement on Grand Lodges
Grand Commander's Statement on Visitation
Memorial Service for James Craig

Mission Statement

It is the mission of the Ventura Valley of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry to improve its members and enhance our community by teaching and emulating the principles of Brotherly Love, Relief, and Truth while actively embracing high social, moral, and spiritual values including fellowship, compassion, and dedication to God, family and country.

We achieve this mission by providing further enlightenment to our members through educational opportunities, our philanthropic efforts, and our involvement with the brethren of our Masonic lodges.

House of The Temple

The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry is commonly known as the Scottish Rite. It is one of several appendant groups of the worldwide fraternity known as Freemasonry. Each Valley has up to four Scottish Rite bodies, and each body confers a set of degrees. In the Southern Jurisdiction these are the Lodge of Perfection (4° - 14°), Chapter of Rose Croix (15°-18°), Council of Kadosh (19°-30°), and the Consistory (31°-32°). The Supreme Council confers the 33rd Degree of Sovereign Grand Inspector General.

The Scottish Rite is one of the two major branches of higher-degree Freemasonry in which a Master Mason may proceed after he has completed the three degrees of Symbolic or Blue Lodge Masonry. The other branch is known as the York Rite, consisting of Royal Arch Masons, Royal and Select Masters and the Knights Templar.

The Scottish Rite Creed - "Human progress is our cause, liberty of thought our supreme wish, freedom of conscience our mission, and the guarantee of equal rights to all people everywhere our ultimate goal."

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Contact Valley of Ventura Scottish Rite

Oxnard Masonic Center
341 S. K Street
Oxnard, California

Secretary's Office
Newsletters and Correspondence
Ryan Andrew Phillips, 32° KCCH
1172 Carlsbad Pl
Ventura, California 93003-5827
Tel: (805)665-8255
Email: ryan.phillips138@yahoo.com

Stated Meeting

Second Monday of Each Month
(except July)
5:30 P.M., Social Hour
6:30 P.M., Dinner
7:15 P.M., Program
8:00 P.M., Stated Meeting

Ventura Scottish Rite

From The P.R.

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