Secret Master opens the Lodge of Perfection, the first of the Scottish Rite's four bodies, a span of fourteen degrees, the fourth through the seventeenth, whose general thematic content, moral and philosophical instruction built around the historical figure of Solomon and the building of the Temple, is described at length in general reference works on the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite.
Published Scottish Rite literature consistently frames the Lodge of Perfection as an extension of the Craft's own Temple-building symbolism into a much longer sequence than the three Craft degrees allow, Secret Master's opening position giving it the same threshold role within this fourteen degree span that Entered Apprentice holds at the start of the Craft system itself.
As with every Masonic degree, the publicly available material covers the Lodge of Perfection's general thematic content and structural position, not the specific ceremonial detail the Scottish Rite transmits only to its own members during conferral.
General Scottish Rite literature describes the fourteen degree Lodge of Perfection as, by a wide margin, the longest of the Rite's four bodies, a structural fact that situates Secret Master's opening position at the head of the single largest block of degrees a candidate works through.