Cryptic Masons - Who We Are

Who We Are

The Cryptic Rite is the completion of a story.
It is the story of the preservation of a word.

Symbolic Freemasonry treats of the loss of a word.
Royal Arch Masonry treats of its discovery.
Cryptic Masonry teaches of its preservation, and completes the story of Ancient Craft Masonry.

Those who have assumed the Council obligation, have done so because they were interested in the complete story of Freemasonry.

The Cryptic Rite derives its claim to the word "Cryptic" because the scene of the Royal and Select Master is laid in the underground Crypt beneath the Solomonic Temple. The word "Cryptic" means hidden. Hence its use in describing these degrees.

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