From the authors of the bestseller, Holy Blood, Holy Grail, comes a new book on the origins of Freemasonry. Its mysterious beginnings in the fourteenth century through currents of thought and political upheavals surrounding it in seventeenth-and eighteenth-century Europe are charted. "Compelling...sane and informed...Written with gripping academic-detective style".--TorontoStar. 36 black-and-white photographs. ...

Washington's Initiation, Passing, Raising; His Lodge; Masonic Correspondence; His Laying of the Cornerstone of the Nation's Capital; His Funeral; Masonic Items in His Effects; His Apron; Masonic Books Dedicated to Washington; Washington Masonic Medals; Monuments Erected to Washington; Masonic Sentiments and Toasts; The Attacks on Washington's Masonry; Masonic Poems; A List of Books about Washington. Farewell Address. ...

Volume 5 of 7. The history of its introduction and progress in the United States; the history of Freemasonry and the history of the A.A. Scottish rite. This volume deals with the history of Masonry, with chapters entitled: union of the two Grand Lodges; Grand Lodge of France; origin of the Grand Orient in France; origin of the Royal Arch; Royal Arch Masonry in America; history of Christian knighthood; Knight Templarism in America; Freemasonry in ...

This digest of the contents of Brother Albert Pike's monumental work "Morals and Dogma," the text book of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite for the southern jurisdiction, grew out of the desire of Hugo to have an index of the contents for his own use as the presiding officer of each of the Scottish Rite Bodies in Duluth, Minnesota. ...

This work contains the discrepancies of Freemasonry examined during a week's gossip with the late celebrated Brother Gilkes and other eminent Masons, on sundry, obscure and difficult passages in the ordinary Lodge lectures, which, although open questions in the Grand Lodge, constitute a source of doubt and perplexity to the craft. ...

The purpose of this reply is to discuss the relationship of Mormonism to Freemasonry in a spirit of fairness and truth, to answer criticisms of S.H. Goodwin, and leave Masons and Mormons and others not affiliated with either to decide whether the attitude assumed by Goodwin is well taken. It is addressed primarily to members of the Masonic fraternity and the author asks that the reader consider this treatise with a spirit of fairness and reason. ...

Also a history of the origin and progress of Chivalric Freemasonry in the British Isles, particularly Ireland. Includes a complete listing of various statutes, laws and regulations used at the Great Priory and a well written history of Freemasonry in the British Isles. A great book for those interested in the history of Freemasonry. ...

Its mission, its evolution and its landmarks. A revision and condensation of several lectures delivered to the Lodge of Instruction in connection with Lodge Progress, Glasgow. Contents: the mission of speculative masonry; evolution of speculative masonry; landmarks of speculative masonry. ...

This book is a purely historical text concerning the age and influence of the ancient Lodge of Kilwinning on Freemasonry. Contents: the claims of Mother Kilwinning; evidence in favor of Mother Kilwinning; why the venerable lodge requires to vindicate her position; verdict of Grand Lodge since 1807 in favor of priority and original supremacy of the Lodge of Kilwinning; Mother Kilwinning's contention confirmed by the Schaw statutes of 1599; the ...

This is a historical, not controversial, work. It contains a full translation of the official Bulls, Encyclic Letters and Decrees issued against the Craft by Popes and Bishops, as well as the official records of the sufferings imposed upon Freemasons under the Inquisition. It throws interesting sidelights onto the history of Freemasonry in the United Kingdom and Europe, and gives particulars of secret societies into which only Catholics were ...