Estados Unidos

June 26, 2022

The York Rite of Freemasonry. A History and Handbook by Frederick G. Speidel. Part III – The Council of Royal and Select Masters, 40-51. Oxford, N.C. : Press of Oxford Orphanage, 1978.

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. [...]