RAOB Degrees Jewels
Kangaroo 1st degreeThe reason for the name "Kangaroo" we're not too sure, however, we would go as far as to say that as the officers change hands each month, so the "Kangaroo" hops about the lodge learning the different jobs involved. It is from there after learning the different jobs that each officer does and familiarising himself with the Rules of the Order with a Rule Book that a Kangaroo Brother can, if he so wish, put his name forward to advance to the Second Degree
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Certified Primo 2nd DegreeThe Second Degree is known as a "Primo". A Primo is a Brother who has been a Kangaroo Brother and decided to prove he knows the rules of the Order and can help make decisions on a greater scale to improve the Order and it's running. Before becoming a Primo, he must sit an oral examination whereby he is tested on his abilities to conduct a lodge, to know rules and to be able to conduct an initiation ceremony should it arise. This is the key to future progress and we are taught this through ceremonies.
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Knight of the Order of Merit 3rd DegreeAs mentioned earlier, upon serving a number of years as a Primo, the lodge may feel they want to promote your status as a Primo further. We do this in the form of another degree known as a Knighthood. From there you learn more about the Order and again after a ceremony, you are given new signs and passwords to enter into a Knights Chapter, meeting other Knights and enjoying the pleasures and virtues appertaining to that degree.
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Roll Of Honour 4th Degree
Through years of service to the Order, the lodge may wish to bestow upon you more gifts. This gift being in the form of a jewel and you bearing the title "Right Honourable Sir". Further, your name will be inscribed within a book of all those who have attained this high degree in the Grand Lodge of England. This is the highest of the degrees that you can obtain, however you can go further and maybe that one day, become the Grand Primo of All England
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