Give me some advanced knowledge

Advanced grades or higher degrees encompass a variety of systems, Rites, and side degrees beyond the primary degrees of the Craft. Among these, the grade of Rose Croix—conferred as the Eighteenth Degree in the Scottish Rite, the Seventh in the French Rite, and the Third in the Royal Order of Scotland—is recognized as one of the earliest and most widely diffused of the advanced degrees 1. Higher degrees often reinterpret the central allegories of the Craft; for example, while in the Craft the three blows given to the Builder signify the trials of human life and mortality, in advanced degrees such as the Kadoshes they are interpreted through a Templar framework as representing Tyranny, Superstition, and Ignorance 1.

Various governing bodies and Rites have also structured specific offices and instructions as honorary or side degrees outside the standard series. In the Royal Arch and symbolic lodges, degrees such as High Priesthood and Past Master have been conferred as rewards of office without mandatory fees 1. Similarly, in the Scottish Rite, Supreme Councils established the rank of Honorary Thirty-Third for elected members who participate in deliberations without holding active inspector-general status 1. Other systems created distinct side degrees, such as the Early Grand Rite raising the Fugitive Mark to its twelfth degree and converting funerary rites into pledged grades 2.

Beyond formal degree hierarchies, Wilmshurst takes advanced Masonic knowledge to consist of internal self-knowledge and the spiritual evolution of the candidate, arguing that true mastership is an awakening of dormant faculties attained through long personal discipline rather than something acquired merely by formal passage through degrees or holding titular rank 3.