Editing Scottish Rite (section)

====Resilience and reemergence in the 20th century====

After the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Scottish Rite swiftly reestablished itself under the new Republic of German-Austria. Bick (2016) explains how the Scottish Rite provided a philosophical beacon during volatile social circumstances in the interwar period in Vienna and Austria in the early 20th century. Moreover, the Scottish Rite upheld ideals of religious unity, morality, and service as Austria rebuilt.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Lorenz |first=E.A. |year=2004 |title=Modernity, Nationalism and the Austrian Scottish Rite |journal=Austrian History Yearbook |volume=36 |issue=3 |pages=239–269}}
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While [[antisemitism]] and [[nationalism]] eventually permeated Austria in World War II, the Scottish Rite lodges centered humanism. After the war, the Supreme Council based in Vienna continued operating, despite [[Communism|Communist]] pressures in Eastern bloc countries.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Denslow |first=H. |year=1958 |title=History of Scottish Rite Masonry in Post-War Austria |journal=Ars Quator Coronatorum |volume=48 |pages=23–32}}
</ref> From the post-war period until present day, the Scottish Rite persevered as a bastion of moral enlightenment in Austria even given wider sociocultural trends.