This article is about Royal Arch Masonry as practiced in the York or "American" Rite. For the similar body in the UK, see Holy Royal Arch.
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Royal Arch Masonry (also known as "Capitular Masonry") is the first part of the American York Rite system of Masonic degrees. Royal Arch Masons meet as a Chapter, and the Royal Arch Chapter confers four degrees: Mark Master Mason, Past Master, Most Excellent Master, and Royal Arch Mason.
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RoyalArchMasonry (also known as "Capitular Masonry") is the first part of the American York Rite system of Masonic degrees. RoyalArch Masons meet as...
exception of Canada), the teachings of RoyalArchMasonry are contained in the "Supreme Order of the Holy RoyalArch" – a stand-alone degree of Freemasonry...
example, in many jurisdictions Cryptic Masonry can be skipped allowing the person to be a member of just the RoyalArch and Knights Templar. It is also common...
"Jah-Baal-strength") is a word which is allegedly used in some rituals of RoyalArchMasonry and derivations thereof. Non-Masonic authors have alleged that "Jahbulon"...
RoyalArch to be the fourth degree. When the two Grand Lodges merged in 1813, Article Two of the Articles of Union agreed that "pure Antient Masonry consists...
Council of Royal & Select Masters or Council of Cryptic Masons depending on the jurisdiction. Within the York Rite, members of Cryptic Masonry meet as a...
the Holy RoyalArch, which is linked to Mark Masonry in Scotland and Ireland, but completely separate in England. In England, the RoyalArch is closely...
including the RoyalArch, excluding the Mark degree. For this reason, while in the rest of the world Mark Masonry became attached to RoyalArch chapters,...
Devil-Worship in France, or The Question of Lucifer, ch. II: "The Mask of Masonry" (London, 1896), reports according to "the works of Domenico Margiotta...
RoyalArch, an appendant Masonic degree conferred in Great Britain, and much of Europe and the Commonwealth RoyalArchMasonry, the equivalent Royal Arch...
Grand Chapter of RoyalArch Masons agreed to fund the completion of the room on the fifth floor and dedicate it to Holy RoyalArchMasonry. That same year...
Master Mason, Mark Master Mason, and the Holy RoyalArch. They are the degrees of: Select Master Royal Master Most Excellent Master Super-Excellent Master...
Chapter of RoyalArchmasonry. Among their members was William Preston, who within a decade, had become a valued writer and lecturer on Masonry. The success...
enriching involvement in Craft Lodge, RoyalArch and Mark Masonry by providing the operative origins to speculative Masonry's symbolic teachings. Carr, Thomas...
stated that there were but three degrees in "pure Ancient Masonry", but included the RoyalArch in the third degree. The degree continues to be administered...
have been published which purport to represent Masonic ritual, including Masonry Dissected by Samuel Prichard in 1730, Three Distinct Knocks in 1760, Jachin...
Freemasonry or Masonry refers to a civic movement promoting fraternity and good works. Freemasonry defines itself as “a regular system of morality, veiled...
American Freemasonry, Hall and 14 others sought and were initiated into Masonry through Lodge No. 441 of the Grand Lodge of Ireland on March 6, 1775. The...
Powell notes how Desaguliers also introduced the "lost word" aspect of the RoyalArch degree which he likely read in a book he owned titled "The Temple of Solomon...
or even existence of the lodge in question. In areas of the world where Masonry has been suppressed by governments, records of entire grand lodges have...
on this in 1856, when he identified 25 Landmarks or characteristics of Masonry which have been widely adopted in America. UGLE considers itself to be...
provinces, promoting RoyalArchmasonry, introducing Mark Masonry to England, and instituting a national body for Templar masonry. This was made possible...
The Order was founded in 1908 as the Honourable Fraternity of Antient Masonry, and formed by a small group of men and women who seceded from the Co-Masonic...
addition the Allied Degrees of Mark, Royal Ark Mariner, Excellent Master, Holy RoyalArch of Jerusalem, Knights Templar, Royal Order of Scotland and Red Cross...
The Royal Order of Jesters is a male fraternal organization, allowing only Shriners in good standing to join. Admission is by invitation only. The original...
Masonic bodies York Rite Order of Mark Master Masons Holy RoyalArchRoyalArchMasonry Cryptic Masonry Knights Templar Red Cross of Constantine Scottish Rite...