This degree, or rite, is also known by its title in the eighteenth century, being:

THE ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED RITE FOR ENGLAND AND WALES AND ITS DISTRICTS AND CHAPTERS OVERSEAS.

It is practised in Rose Croix Chapters and candidates must have been Master Masons for at least a year.

The ceremony is consistent with the Christian faith, and in its teaching it expresses the figurative passing of man through the darkest vale, accompanied and sustained by the theological virtues.

Rose Croix Collar 18th Degreee

In a subsequent degree of some seniority, the candidate's attention is particularly drawn to a philosophical interpretation of the Masonic system.

In Lincolnshire there are thirteen Rose Croix Chapters based on Lincoln , Grantham, Grimsby (2), Skegness, Scunthorpe, Spalding, Cleethorpes, Long Sutton, Sleaford, Boston, Louth, and Gainsborough.