March/April 2026

Cover of the March/April 2026 Scottish Rite Journal: An ornate, bronze torchère in the Temple Room of the House of the Temple in Washington, D.C., illuminates one of the room's green granite pillars and bronze serpent window decorations. Text: "Further Light in Masonry. Light Symbolism in Nature, the Dark North, the Kadosh Degrees, and a 'Bright Book' (pp. 3–12.) Each Empty Seat Tells a Story, p. 21."

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In this magazine:

Articles—

  • S. Karuna, “Light: To See and to Know”
  • M. Lucas, “Jungian Light in the Shadow of the North”
  • N. Rose, “Piercing the Veil and Finding the Light in the Kadosh Degrees: When Myth Becomes Dogma” | Sidebar: M. Dreisonstok, “The Light of Spiritual Truth: Moses, the Exodus, and the Brazen Serpent”
  • M. Dreisonstok, “A Treasure Hoard in the Second Temple: Light from the ‘Heliand,’ a ‘Bright Book'”
  • M. Savic, “Br. Henry Justin Allen: Governor of the Progressive Era and His Napoleonic Coin”
  • B. Weatherford, “What about Those Empty Seats?”
  • P. Shortt, “‘To Defend and to Improve:’ Working for the Future”
  • J W. D’Acosta, “Guthrie, Oklahoma: Where Masons Unite, Part I”

Features—

  • J. Cole, Grand Commander’s Message, “Buttons”
  • J. Corbett and J. Bozeman, From the Pages of ‘Amicus Illuminismi,’ “Illuminating Masonic Initiation with Light from the Recent Past”
  • A. de Hoyos, Temple Museum Highlights, “1969 Biennial Session Souvenir Medallion” and “The Eagle of Lagash (1768)”
  • M. Dreisonstok, The Masonic Traveler, “Br. Washington Attends Christ Church, Philadelphia, for the Feast of St. John the Evangelist”
  • T. Simpkins, M. Dreisonstok, and C. Dreisonstok, Chips from the Quarry, “Musical Composers of the Romantic Age”
  • Current Interest
  • P.J. Roup, Notes from the ‘Northern Light,’ “Children’s Dyslexia Centers Partner with ‘Empowered'”
  • C. E. A. Lincoln, Cornerstones of the Craft, “Ibsen’s ‘The Master Builder’ as a Masonic Meditation”
  • S. Klein, Book Reviews, “Pillars of the Craft” | Sidebar: A. R. Zelmanovitz “A Closer Look at Voltaire and the Pillar of Tolerance”
  • C. Dreisonstok, Masonic Puzzle, “Holidays Spring Eternal”