Delving Further Beyond the Craft (Paperback)

Inspired by Keith Jackson's classic book Beyond the Craft, Neville Barker Cryer delves further into the world of Freemasonry to investigate the origins and meaning of this most fascinating of misunderstood orders. In this historical guidebook to the Masonic Orders that are beyond the Craft, Cryer researches this fascinating subject in more detail, and not only delves in depth into the history of each Order, but also looks at the degree system and regalia of each Order. This book will be a fascinating read as it reveals the complexity of these Orders, many of which can trace a pedigree back to the earliest days of Freemasonry in England. Included here are histories of the Mark Degrees, the Ark Mariner, the Secret Monitor, the Cryptic Degrees, the Allied Degrees, the Ancient and Accepted Rite, the Red Cross, the Knights Templar, and the Holy Royal Arch Knights Templar Priests.