Council of Kadosh

The degrees encompassed by the Council of Kadosh (Celestial City) are the 19°-30° and considered the Historical, Chivalric, Mystic and Philosophical Degrees. 

The degrees in the council are designed to explore further the moral, political and religious lessons taught in the Lodge of Perfection and the Chapter of the Rose Croix. 

I addition to reinforcing the moral lessons in the preceding degrees, the Council Degrees explain why morality and the practice of virtue are indispensable to the Mason. 

The political lessons within the council explain why intolerance, superstition and bigotry are the special enemies of human freedom. 

The examination of the widely varied religions of the world that occurs in the Council Degrees seek to explain as clearly and accurately as possible the nature of deity and the relationship between Him and man.