Royal and Select Masters (Masonic order). General Grand Council (U.S.)

Scope and Contents From the Series: When the Office of the Sovereign Grand Commander moved out of the Statler Building in Boston in the late 1960's, many of the older records were stored in the “Carriage House,” an outbuilding near the new headquarters in Lexington, Massachusetts. It was not until the mid-1990's, when the Carriage House was repurposed, that these records were moved to storage at the Museum & Library. The records were in poor condition, many of them loose and unfiled, with no way to discern original order....

Scope and Contents Document entitled "Royal and Select Master" opens with the question: "We have been asked several times, what kind of degrees are the above mentioned and where did they come from?" It uses information from the Circular of the Supreme Grand Council of Sov. Gr. Insp. Gen. of 33° to address these questions. This document ascertains that the degrees of Royal and Select Master cannot be separated from the series of degrees conferred from the Lodges of Perfection and therefore, a Counsil [sic] of R...