United National Supreme Council

United National Supreme Council’s website describes a private corporation that manufactured its “Masonic” authority. Their About page claims the body began with eleven lodges and eight chapters, with no record of where they came from and they received a charter from the North Carolina Secretary of State on April 8, 1980, and held an organizational meeting on May 31, 1980. That page also names “Ill. Windell Daniels, 33°” among the early leaders.

A legitimate masonic organization has proper origin. Each regular Grand Lodge can trace its lineage through the forming lodges charters to either the Grand Lodge of England, Grand Lodge of Ireland or the Grand Lodge of Scotland. Each of these Grand Lodges have lineage to operative Freemasonry. Whatever Grand Lodge, Supreme Council or Grand Chapter may have received a Business License to operate as a non-profit or business in their state, but their lineage comes from the Secretary of State, and the State is not a masonic body. A business charter does not give a body the right to practice Freemasonry, it only gives them the right to operate a business. Civil incorporation is irrelevant to Masonic lineage or regularity.

Their site further states that “the Supreme Council is the governing body for the Scottish Rite Freemasonry of United National Masons,” and it lists “Grand Lodges & Grand Chapters” for multiple states under the same corporate system. This structure places Craft Masonry and the Scottish Rite under one umbrella that issues its own “grand” bodies. When we look at how legitimate Supreme Councils are formed, we look at the first Supreme Council, (the Mother Supreme Council of the World, established in 1801), Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction's Constitution. It states in Article IX of the 1786 Scottish Rite Grand Constitution "In a country under the jurisdiction of a Supreme Council of Sovereign Inspectors General, duly constituted, and recognized by all others, no Sovereign Grand Inspector General, or Delegate Inspector General can exercise his individual powers, unless he shall have been recognized and confirmed by the same Supreme Council" what this is saying is that permission is needed to form a Supreme Council by an original  Supreme  Council. This goes back to lineage.

Furthermore, Article XVII of the 1786 Scottish Rite Grand Constitution states "It requires a majority of votes to invest with lawful authority the acts of Sovereign Grand Inspectors General done in a country where there exists a Supreme Council of the 33rd degree legitimately instituted and recognized. Wherefore, within that country, or in a territory which is a dependency of the same Council, no one of such Inspectors can individually exercise his powers except in a case wherefore he shall have obtained authorization from such Supreme Council; or, if the Inspector shall belong to another jurisdiction, when he shall have obtained permission by the rescript, which from its formula is known as an Exequatur." This says 2 things. 1. Permission is needed to form a Supreme Council and 2. It can't be in a territory that already has a Supreme Council. This Supreme Council was not formed by a legitimate Sovereign Grand Inspector General nor was there ever permission given to be formed. The territory they oversee was already occupied and the person who established them was never a mason to begin with.

That model also fails with core regularity standards. A legitimate Grand Lodge must have sovereign jurisdiction over Craft lodges and be a responsible, independent, self-governing organization, not subject to or sharing authority with a Supreme Council.

Lastly, this body claims to be Scottish Rite but according to its own website, the first Sovereign Grand Commander, the head of the Supreme Council, was installed in 2009. 29 years after it was created.

A Grand Lodge /Grand Chapter doesn't report to a Supreme Council like bogus Supreme Council does. The Grand Master is the only highest authority is the Grand Lodge. All other houses answer to their respective leaders. The first 3 degrees are governed by the Grand Master and 4-33 are governed by the Sovereign Grand Commander. The Supreme Council doesn't charter a Grand Lodge or a Grand Chapter. It only has jurisdiction over the 4-33 Scottish Rite degrees. And a Grand Lodge or Grand Chapter doesn't have or receive charters, they only issue charters. The Supreme Council run separately from a Grand Lodge.

U.S. regularity practice also confirms the irregularity. The four recognized Scottish Rite Supreme Councils in the United States publicly affirmed their mutual recognition in the 2022 Statement of Unity. “United National” is not among them. Their claims over appendant bodies also lack standing. Shriners International requires petitioners to be Master Masons in good standing of a lodge recognized by, or in amity with, the Conference of Grand Masters of North America. The General Grand Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star restricts eligibility to Master Masons in regular lodges and their eligible relatives. A private “ladies council” or in-house OES has no recognition in regular Masonry and their "Daughters of Isis" is nothing more then a plagiarism on Prince Hall Affiliated Imperial Court. They couldn't use the original logo due to it being trademarked which adds more proof of it's illegitamcy.

Regarding individuals, the record they publish shows “Ill. Windell Daniels, 33°” listed on their own rolls under “Gone But Not Forgotten.” But there is no evidence that Daniels was ever made a Mason. As far as we know, he’s a cowan.

So, by its own descriptions and structure, this organization is bogus. It subordinates or bundles Craft Masonry under a self-styled Supreme Council, claims self-chartered “Grand Lodges & Chapters,” and asserts control over appendant bodies without meeting the recognition and eligibility standards used by regular Masonry.