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Welcome to the official web site of the Regular Grand Chapter
of Virginia, Order of the Eastern Star.

The Regular Grand Chapter of Virginia, Order of the Eastern
Star is an Appendant Body of the Regular Grand Lodge of
Virginia, Ancient and Honourable Fraternity of Free and
Accepted Masons. The Regular Grand Chapter of Virginia
welcomes all women no matter what race, religion or creed
you are or belong too. You must believe in a Supreme Being
which is the first admission into the Order.

The Adoptive Rite is a system of forms, ceremonies, and
explanatory lectures which is communicated to certain
classes of ladies, who, from their relationship by blood or
marriage (or a vouch for women by a Master Mason) to Master
Masons in good standing, are entitled to the respect and
attention of the entire Fraternity. These ladies are said to have
been adopted into the Masonic communion because the
system of forms, ceremonies and lectures within the Rite
enables them to express their wishes and give satisfactory
evidence of their claims in a manner that no stranger to the
Masonic family could.

The benefits of this Rite are primarily for women, the extent of
which will depend upon the spirit with which they enter into
and conduct their affairs in the Rite.

The females members of this Rite are called Sisters; male
members are called Brothers.

As the Adoptive privileges of the lady entirely depend upon the
good standing and affiliation of the Brother through whom she
is introduced this system will be a strong inducement, it is
believed, to keep a Brother, otherwise inclined to err, within
the bounds of morality.