Cryptic Masonry: A Manual Of The Council; Or, Monitorial Instructions In The Degrees Of Royal And Select Master. With An Additional Section On The Super-Excellent Master's Degree.
Published in 1897, this volume contains a Masonic manual of the council and instructions on the degrees of Select Master, Royal Master, Super-Excellent Master and Ceremonies of the Order.
Albert Gallatin Mackey was a medical doctor and Freemason who served as Grand Lecturer and Grand Secretary of The Grand Lodge of South Carolina, as well as Secretary General of the Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States.
If you are a York Rite Council ritualist, you should definitely read this book to understand the basis of these degrees and the underlying basis of our Councils!