Eckleff's ideas of a truly progressive system building upon the internationally recognised three degrees (of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft, and Master Mason) was further developed by Duke Karl of Södermanland, who later became Charles XIII of Sweden.
Additionally 63 recognised "fraternal societies" provide masonic fellowship in rural communities considered too small to support a working lodge.
Priests and bishops of the Church of Sweden have a special role within the Swedish Rite of Freemasonry, particularly in grade VII and above.
The Royal Order of Scotland has never formed part of the Swedish Rite, but in 2000 a Provincial Grand Lodge of the Order was reestablished in Stockholm, the original from 1852,[citation needed] with members of the Swedish Rite permitted to join it as a side degree, or appendant body, with current Provincial Grand Master that is Sir Ulf Lindgren.
It admits only Christian men who are VII grade (or above) members of the Swedish Order of Freemasons, and strictly by invitation only.
On 2 May 1776, the Grand Master of the Swedish Freemasonic Order, Duke Charles, had his spouse, Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp, inaugurated as the Grand Mistress of a female lodge of adoption to his own lodge at the Royal Palace, Stockholm, named Le véritable et constante amitié.
[7] This new woman's lodge of adoption was confirmed by seal from Grand Master of the French Freemasonic Order, Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, and the Grand Mistress of the French Woman's Lodge of Adoption, Bathilde d'Orléans, on 8 May 1776.
[7] The International Order of Freemasonry for Men and Women, or Le Droit Humain, came to Sweden in 1918, when a lodge was established in Stockholm.
Today, there are four Le Droit Humain lodges in Sweden (two in Stockholm, one in Vänersborg and one in Malmö), which are linked administratively with others across Scandinavia.
[9] link is broken, no known active lodge under le droit humain in Sweden at this time (2024) The Swedish Masonic Camp (Swedish: Svenska Frimurare Lägret) was a system established in 1951 using Craft and Royal Arch warrants that John Trollnäs had received in the 1930s from the Grand Lodge of Hamburg.
Det Svenska frimurarlägret seezed all activity in 2011 Gran Oriente Latinoamericano is a co-masonic (mixed male and female) system introduced into Sweden in 1984.