Palo Alto York Rite

of Australia will be found hundreds of Royal Arch Chapters into whose halls you will ever be a welcome visitor. In our own country we find upwards of three quarter million members in 3,000 chapters. https://www.yorkriteofcalifornia.org/royalarch/whatisra.html

No Rite of Freemasonry has come into its own so much as the series of degrees known as the Cryptic Rite, also known as the Cryptic Masons. Its popularity is well deserved for there are no more beautiful or meaningful degrees in all Freemasonry that those conferred in a Council of Cryptic Masons. https://www.yorkriteofcalifornia.org/council/whatis.html

The Knights Templar is a Christian-oriented fraternal organization that is based on the history and mythos surrounding the medieval crusading order of warrior monks, known as the Knights Templar, which existed from the 12th to the 14th century. Originally, the Knights Templar were laymen who protected and defended Christians traveling to Jerusalem. These men took vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, and were renowned for their fierceness and courage in battle. https://www.yorkriteofcalifornia.org/commandery/who_are_we.html