Message from the Most Illustrious Grand Master of the Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters of Portugal
My Dear and Beloved Companions,
I send my fraternal Greetings to all Cryptic Companions, Sir Kinights and Freemasons of Portugal and to all Cryptic Companions troughtout the Globe.
Freemasonry is the world’s oldest and largest fraternal organization, and Cryptic Masonry is a system of degrees for Master Masons who seek further light and knowledge along their Masonic journey.
My Dear and Beloved Companions,
I send my fraternal Greetings to all Cryptic Companions, Sir Kinights and Freemasons of Portugal and to all Cryptic Companions troughtout the Globe.
Freemasonry is the world’s oldest and largest fraternal organization, and Cryptic Masonry is a system of degrees for Master Masons who seek further light and knowledge along their Masonic journey.
The York Rite and Cryptic Masonry
June 26, 2022
The Council of Royal and Select Masters, known as the Cryptic Rite, fills, what would be, a huge void in the history of the York Rite. The degrees controlled by the Grand Councils in the United States are : the Royal Master degree, the Select Master degree, and the Super Excellent Master degree. The first two were called Preservation Degrees. [...]
July 2, 2019
If we were to escape to the poor cubicle of rationalities, where nothing is produced or reproduced other than the fact that we think it is there that everything is produced and reproduced, we would live in a single world where cold stone walls would prevent us from seeing that it is beyond them that there is more sun and more moon.
December 18, 2016
In the symbolic degrees, the Companions are confronted with the story of the loss of the Word, they search for it but do not find it. In the Chapter, they search, they find, but they do not understand the meaning of what they have found. The explanation of how, effectively, the Word was preserved, and what it means, is the theme of the cryptic degrees.
May 5, 2014
One of the problems we most often encounter in Freemasonry is the difficulty we are sometimes confronted with, in ritual practice.