What Did you See There

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What Did you See There
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Councils of Cryptic Masons

• Why do we hide things

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Council is composed of The Royal Master The
Select Master The Super Excellent Master
degrees

• The first two take place underground
• Beneath King Solomons
• Temple
• Cryptic degrees

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The Council (Cryptic )Degrees

• Cryptic degrees teach us
• To search for more Masonic Light.
• How, when and where the Masters WORD was
  preserved.
• Assures us of the Divine Plan for Truth
• Symbolism at its best.

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Royal Master DegreePrologue

• Never ending search for Light
• Every revealment is also a reveilment
• New truth veils some other truth
• Ultimate Truth revealed when we pass the final
  veil.
• This Degree fills in the gap of the Third Degree
  Lessons

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First Section -Players

• Adoniram-work for inspection-serve as a reminder
  of the mysterious triad-
• Hiram A. Prayer Prov. xxx8-9
• Subjects
• (THE WORD)
• (DEATH)
• IF LOST ?

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THE ROYAL MASTERSecond Section

• Cherubrum 0f Pure Gold
• 8th Time to the Altar
• The lessons of Advancement by
• Qualification and By Steps

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Royal Master Obligation shewbread? Penalty and
Sign (Bu Al)Do you know?
the broken triangle
Shekenah

• HOLY VESSELS?

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THE ARK OF THE COVENANT

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THE SELECT MASTER DEGREE
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THE SELECT MASTER DEGREE

• PLAYERS-K.S, H.K.T., H.A., ZABUD,
  Ahishar
• LESSONS?The Ninth Arch and the Secret
  Vault
• OBLIGATION AND SIGNS
• Grip (I-- S----) Man of my Choice
• or Select Man
• DEPOSIT OF THE SACRED TREASURE

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Most PuissantCharles F. Van EttenGeneral Grand
Master1999 - 2002

• The Bosss Apron

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The Apron

• White like your first apron
• Purple border- color of Kings teaches us to rule
  well our lives so to be one of the SELECT
• The Sword charges us to be Guardians of those
  Sacred treasures
• Trowel makes us builders of good for the
  Brotherhood and the world
• The Broken Triangle and the Unbroken Triangle
  teaches us the lessons of mortality and
  immortality .

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The Charge

• Key words (uprightness,integrity,justice, mercy,
  fervency , zeal and duty)
• Avoid Idle or impertinent curiosity , turn away
  (deft ear ) to insinuations weakening resolution
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• BE Dumb and Blind (to what?)
• MAINTAIN silence and secrecy
• You will merit the approbation of the select by
  steady adherence to the precepts.

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THE DEGREE OF SUPER EXCELLENT MASTER

• The last or Third degree in the Cryptic Rite

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Super Excellent Master

• The only degree based upon the destruction of the
  Temple of Solomon
• It is very dramatic and colorful degree
• All Select masters should witness this degree

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What It Teaches
1. To Walk in Faith
2. Promote Friendship
3. Practice Fidelity
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WHAT SHOULD WE DO AS CRYPIC MASONS

• ASK OURSELVES WHAT WE NEED TO CARRY WITH US FROM
  OUR DEGREES
• REALLY STUDY THE SYMBOLISM
• BECOME ACTIVE IN THE PREFORMANCE OF THE RITES
• GET EXCIETED ABOUT MASONARY

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How do we teach our craft
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The End

• Is just the beginning