Valley of Rochester
 Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
  2002 Second Street Southwest, Rochester, Minnesota

‡   SPES MEA IN DEO EST  ‡

" MY HOPE IS IN GOD"

Welcome to the home of the Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite Masons of the Valley of Rochester in the Orient of Minnesota.  The Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry is, above all else, an educational institution.  We seek not to teach men the truth but, instead, a way to the truth.  Each must find the truth for himself.  The Degrees of the Scottish Rite do not teach specific lessons.  Rather, they give parallel examples from earlier cultures, raise questions and challenge us to think.  Freemasonry is a journey of self-discovery and self-development.  We seek only to be a guide, teaching the common ground of various philosophical and religious approaches to belief, in order that men might be more united in their standards of right and wrong and in their understanding of the reality of God.