Euclidean Order of Freemasonry

An Introduction

The Euclidean Order of Freemasonry (EOF) holds charters for the Régime Écossais Rectifié — the Rectified Scottish Rite (RER) — one of the traditions united under the Esoteric College of Rites. The EOF works the complete RER system, from the Craft degrees through the Chevaliers Bienfaisants de la Cité Sainte (CBCS), offering its members the whole of the Rite as a single, continuous experience. Paired with modern administration and teaching tools, this unaltered seven-degree Christian system offers students of Freemasonry and Martinism a path that is both deeply esoteric and deeply spiritual.
A Brief History of the Rectified Scottish Rite
The Rectified Scottish Rite traces its formation to the Convent of Lyon in 1778, where Jean-Baptiste Willermoz led a reform of the Templar Strict Observance then current in France and Germany, reshaping it into a new system later ratified at the international Convent of Wilhelmsbad in 1782. This "rectification" was not merely organizational; it was substantially theological, drawing on Willermoz's own initiatic formation.
In 1767, Willermoz had been received into the Ordre des Chevaliers Maçons Élus Coëns de l'Univers, the theurgic order founded by Martinès de Pasqually, whose system centered on the doctrine of humanity's fall from an original state of grace and the possibility of its reintegration through ritual and contemplative work. Willermoz absorbed this theology deeply, and it became the doctrinal foundation upon which the Rectified Rite's degrees were built — most notably its inner order, the CBCS, which carries the Rite's central teaching on the fall and reintegration of mankind.
Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin, Pasqually's most influential disciple, was likewise close to this circle and contributed to the intellectual and spiritual atmosphere from which the Rite emerged, lending his own mystical reading of the Coën theology — one that would in time give rise to Martinism proper. The Rectified Scottish Rite thus stands as a direct institutional heir to the Élus Coëns current, preserving in Masonic form a teaching whose deepest roots lie in the theurgic and mystical work of Pasqually and Saint-Martin.
The Euclidean Order of Freemasonry
The Order's roots lie in a lodge of research founded some twenty years ago within a traditional American Masonic body, established to study the RER system. Drawn to the Rite and wishing to work it exclusively, seven Master Masons left their other bodies to form a single lodge dedicated to the Craft degrees of the RER. Eleven years later, having received recognition from outside bodies, the lodge began conferring the Fourth Degree — the Lodge of St. Andrew — along with the three further degrees leading to the CBCS. The Euclidean Order of Freemasonry was subsequently formed to house these lodges and carry out the Order's growing administrative work.
Euclid Lodge, and the EOF that grew from it, have from the beginning been open to men and women alike, welcoming diversity of membership in every degree and office, from Entered Apprentice to Grand Master.