Supreme Grand Royal Arch Chapter of South Africa
Your journey as a
Master Mason is not
complete.
The third degree is not the end; it is a door left ajar. The Royal Arch is the degree that was always meant to follow. Ancient, profound, and largely unknown. Most never find out what lies beyond it. Now you can.
WHAT WAS LOST, AND WHAT WAS FOUND?
What the third degree begins,
the Royal Arch completes.
The Royal Arch is the completion of pure ancient Masonry. Three progressive degrees. One profound journey.
WAS THE THIRD DEGREE THE END?
Most Master Masons leave the Lodge after the third degree, believing the journey is complete. The Royal Arch exists because it never was.
WHAT REMAINS UNRESOLVED?
There is an absence at the heart of the Craft. Every Master Mason encounters it. The Royal Arch is where that absence is finally resolved, and the story is brought to its conclusion.
WHY SO FEW MAKE THE JOURNEY?
Not because it is difficult. Not because it is exclusive. Simply because it is rarely spoken of. You are reading this because someone thought to pass it on.
First Grand Principal
MEC Avron Jacobson MSA
Installed 2024 • De Goede Hoop Temple, Cape Town
MEC Avron Jacobson MSA was installed as First Grand Principal at the Annual Convocation of the Supreme Grand Royal Arch Chapter of South Africa in 2024 — the latest in an unbroken line of leadership stretching back to 1969.
The Supreme Grand Chapter maintains fraternal relations with sister Grand Chapters in England, Scotland, Ireland, and the Netherlands — part of a worldwide network of Royal Arch Freemasonry rooted in a tradition that predates the modern nation.
Directory
Chapters by Division
01
Southern Division
Western and Eastern Cape. Home to Chapter Mutual — the oldest Chapter in South Africa, consecrated at De Goede Hoop Temple in 1953.
- Chapter Mutual — Cape Town
- Chapter Johannes Truter — Worcester
- Chapter Fiat Lux — Port Elizabeth
- Chapter De Goede Kaap — Cape Town
- Chapter Jeffreys Bay — Jeffreys Bay
02
Northern Division
Gauteng, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, North West, Mpumalanga.
- Chapter Unie — Welkom
- Chapter Koh-I-Noor — Pretoria
- Chapter De Broedeband — Brakpan
- Chapter Orange — Rustenburg
- Chapter Horeb — Krugersdorp
- Chapter Witbank — Kinross
- Chapter Fidelity — Orange Grove
- Chapter Brixton 790 — Kensington
- Chapter Acacia 231 — Pretoria
- Chapter Golden Thistle 245 — Orange Grove
- Chapter St Andrew 647 — Boksburg
- Chapter Amajuba 316 — Secunda
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