The Porch and the Middle Chamber with Arturo de Hoyos SignatureExpect shipment within 4 6 weeks of order placement. Select copies may be dispatched earlier, subject to current inventory availability. Although not widely used in the United States, the Scottish Rite (the largest Masonic system in the world) has a unique type of ritual which is used in more countries than any other. In 1870 Albert Pike, Grand Commander of the "Mother Supreme Council of the World," printed the ritual which he intended as a foundation