For Official Information Contact:
RI Gr. Recorder
Thomas Flowers
Mailing Address:
Grand York Rite of AR
P.O. Box 3526
Little Rock, AR 72203-3526
(o) 501-375-5587
(c) 501-208-3133
gsr@aryorkrite.org
M:.I:. Sheldon Gately
Ill:. Grand Master
2024-2025
Cryptic Masonry is the next step in the completion of the York Rite. A Council of Royal and Select Masters confers the degrees of Royal Master, Select Master, and Super Excellent Master, which endeavor to instruct those aspiring to its mysteries on the preservation and recovery of the Lost Word referenced in the Blue Lodge.
Its members, called Companions, meet in Councils under the jurisdiction of the Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters of Arkansas, and they in turn are subordinate to the General Grand Council, Cryptic Masons International.
Cryptic Degrees – Saul of Tarsus No. 83 Saul of Tarsus Council No. 83 recently conferred the Cryptic Degrees on Companion Derrek Ramsey, and Companion
Paul C. Bush Council No. 80 Degrees The Grand Council of Royal & Select Masters greeted 18 new Companions into Cryptic Masonry at Paul C.
Grand Council Coins & Pins The Grand Council of Arkansas is selling coins / lapel pins with the profits benefiting the Cryptic Masons Medical Research