Did you know that perhaps the oldest Masonic ceremony or ritual in use in the Philippines is the Rose Croix Funeral Ceremony of the Scottish Rite? It remains almost exactly as it was more than 130 years ago when it was first compiled by Albert Pike for the SJ sometime between 1884 and 1887. Other local ceremonies are fairly new, whether funeral, installation, dedication, or cornerstone-laying ceremonies. The local Blue lodge degrees themselves have been numerously and significantly revised in the middle of the 20th century. Those of the York Rite are also modern renditions of their old counterparts. The Revised Standard Pike Ritual – the currently adopted ritual version for the degrees of the Scottish Rite in the Philippines and the SJ – is perhaps the newest of them all, completed only between 1999 and 2000.