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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $12.30
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Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Anonymous
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Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 291
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Publication Date: 1997-03
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Reading Level: 112
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Description: Concerning the Pennsylvania ritual, Albert G. Mackey wrote, "The method of Entering, Passing, and raising candidates in the Lodges of Pennsylvania differs so materially from that practiced in the other States of the Union, that it cannot be considered as a part of the American Rite as first taught by Webb, but rather as an independent, Pennsylvania modification of the York Rite of England. Indeed, the Pennsylvania system of work much more resembles the English than the American. Its ritual is simple and didactic, like the former, and is almost entirely without the impressive dramatization of the latter." This fascinating book contains the complete ritual of the degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft, and Master Mason, deciphered from a work dated 1880. Although modern Masonic historians claim that the current Pennsylvania ritual is the "Antients' work," it differs significantly from the ritual used 100 years ago, as revealed herein. For the first time ever, this old ritual makes available the most unusual ritual ever used in American Masonry. If you have never seen the Pennsylvania ritual, this book will give you insight concerning the nature of the Pennsylvania workings, as the editor compares the old and new rituals. Pennsylvania Masons will be amazed at the changes which have been made in their ritual in the last 100 years.
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Price: $55.00
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Sale: $10.40
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Manufacturer: Greybull Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Glenn O'Brien
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Publisher: Greybull Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 366.1
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Publication Date: 2004-11-02
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Reading Level: 168
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Description: Grown men dressed in fezzes, driving mini-cars, and masquerading as clowns. You hear the word "Shriner" and immediately think of Barney Rubble and Fred Flintstone attending a meeting at the Water Buffalo Lodge. On the heels of her book Rodeo Girl, photographer Lisa Eisner has once again turned her camera to a subculture that favors rhinestone-encrusted hats. Coincidence? Probably not. Eisner's grandfather was a Shriner, and, as a child, she used to imagine him going off to secret meetings replete with secret handshakes and secret passwords. She has spent the past five years researching and photographing every aspect of Shriner life--their homes, meetings, parades, football games, conventions, and charitable works.
So, what is a Shriner? Legend has it that in 1872, a group of Masons who were inclined to lunch together at the Knickerbocker Cottage in New York City formed the fraternal order known as the Shriners as a fellowship for Masons who had completed certain requirements. In their heyday in the 1940s-1960s, there were a million Shriners in the United States, including John Wayne, Red Skelton, Gene Autry, Harold Lloyd, and Franklin Roosevelt. Today this slice of Americana is in danger of extinction. Eisner's vivid photographs offer intimate access into a world we won't soon forget.
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Price: $40.95
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Sale: $28.00
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Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Albert G. Mackey
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Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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Dewey Decimal Number: 366
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Publication Date: 2002-07-25
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Reading Level: 520
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Description: Other volumes in this set include ISBN number(s): 076612651X. Volume one of a two volume set. (This description is for all volumes.) Mackey knew that very "few men have the means, time, and the inclination for the purchase of numerous books, and for the close and attentive reading of them...to acquire a knowledge of all matters connected with the science, the philosophy, and the history of his Order." It was this thought that suggested to him that he should collect materials for a work which under one cover might help to enlighten his Brethren. This book is so absorbing you could sit and read it from cover to cover. It also serves as a handy reference guide for any Masonic question that may arise. Highly recommended.
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Price: $34.95
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Sale: $22.81
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Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Albert Pike
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Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 291
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Publication Date: 1993-01
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Reading Level: 404
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Description: If you're a Thirty-second Degree Mason you may THINK that you've received all the Scottish Rite degrees, but chances are you haven't. Why? Unknown to most people, Albert Pike also wrote Scottish Rite rituals for the three Blue Lodge Degrees. In Pike's words, these Scottish Rite Blue Lodge rituals were "to be studied and understood before investiture with the fourth degree. For, without it, the system of that Rite is incomplete, and even like a fabric without foundation." This rare reprint includes the, openings, closings and rituals of the Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason degrees according to the Pike workings of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. More importantly it contains the complete SECRET WORK. These rituals are MUCH MORE ESOTERIC and differ significantly from the Webb-form (York Rite) Blue Lodge rituals commonly used in the United States, and the book has several interesting illustrations (including Hiram's jewel-a talisman!). Also included is the "Table Lodge" ceremony. Highly recommended. Very scarce!
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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $17.95
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Manufacturer: What Do You Know about Royal Arch?
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Barker Cryer::Revd Neville
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Publisher: What Do You Know about Royal Arch?
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Dewey Decimal Number: 200
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Publication Date: 2002-06-02
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Reading Level: 104
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Description: Intended as a companion to 'I Just Didn't Know That', this book provides ten lectures intended to stimulate discussion and to provide information for the giving of talks.
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $9.99
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Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: William Garey
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Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 366
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Publication Date: 2003-04
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Reading Level: 68
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Description: 1869. Or the Freemason's Pocket Compendium with an emblematical frontispiece. The author trusts his zeal for the cause of Freemasonry and the special object of this book, namely as a preparatory work for this Masonic neophyte, adapted to prepare him for more profound search into the mysteries and teachings of Freemasonry, will be sufficient apology, if any is necessary, for the addition of this unassuming contribution to Masonic literature. The author has endeavored to display the beauties of Freemasonry in a brief, yet comprehensive, form.
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Price: $20.95
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Sale: $12.91
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Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Charles E. Cohoughlyn-Burroughs
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Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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Dewey Decimal Number: 366
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Publication Date: 2004-05-06
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Reading Level: 80
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Description: Bristol Masonry is unlike anything seen elsewhere in England. In the first degree alone one witnesses unusual ceremonies and hears statements which will surprise even the well-read Mason. Have you ever heard "the Nile, the Ganges, the Euphrates, [and the] Mississippi" mentioned in an Entered Apprentice degree? How about "the immeasurable wilds of the scattered Indian tribes across the mighty Atlantic...the wandering Arabs, roaming tartars, or far distant Chinese"? Have you ever seen the "circle of swords," the "cup of affliction" or the "writing test" given to an Entered Apprentice? It is all here, and much more. As one of the most unusual rituals in the English language, Masons travel from all over the world to witness these fascinating ceremonies. Boasting what is probably the oldest Craft working in England, Bristol ritual retains aspects which are similar to the unpublished Irish workings, but also resembles Continental Masonry in some regards. Official or no, most English and Scottish rituals are available through booksellers, but copies of the Bristol ritual are difficult to come by, as the ritual has previously only been circulated in manuscript and typescript, and are frequently sold by used book dealers for as high as £60 per section. By this is meant that the ritual manuscript is divided into sections containing the parts of individual officers, few Brethren having a complete copy of the text. This book collates, for the first time, the entire ritual.
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Price: $11.95
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Sale: $8.05
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Manufacturer: A&b Publishers Group
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Leon De Poncins::Vicomte Leon De Poncins
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Publisher: A&b Publishers Group
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Dewey Decimal Number: 366.1
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Publication Date: 1994-09
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Reading Level: 224
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Price: $30.95
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Sale: $20.39
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Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Eugene, comte Goblet d'Alviella
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Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 366
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Publication Date: 1997-03
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Reading Level: 312
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Description: 1894. The author, a Grand Master of Belgian Freemasonry, was universally recognized as the greatest living exponent of symbols. "By symbolism the simplest, commonest, objects are transformed, idealized, and acquire a new and illimitable value. Men everywhere are either choosing natural or artificial objects to remind them of the Great Hidden One." Contents: On Symbols Common to Different Races; On the Gammadion of Swastika; On the Causes of Alteration in the Meaning and Form of Symbols; Symbolism and Mythology of the Tree; On the Tansmutation of Symbols; On the Winged Globe, the Caduceus, and The Trisula, Addenda; Index. Illustrated.
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Price: $34.95
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Sale: $30.96
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Margaret C. Jacob
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 366.1096609033
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Publication Date: 1991-12-26
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: Long recognized as more than the writings of a dozen or so philosophes, the Enlightenment created a new secular culture populated by the literate and the affluent. Enamoured of British institutions, Continental Europeans turned to the imported masonic lodges and found in them a new forum that was constitutionally constructed and logically egalitarian. Originating in the Middle Ages, when stone-masons joined together to preserve their professional secrets and to protect their wages, the English and Scottish lodges had by the eighteenth century discarded their guild origins and become an international phenomenon that gave men and eventually some women a place to vote, speak, discuss and debate. Margaret Jacob argues that the hundreds of masonic lodges founded in eighteenth-century Europe were among the most important enclaves in which modern civil society was formed. In France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Britain men and women freemasons sought to create a moral and social order based upon reason and virtue, and dedicated to the principles of liberty and equality. A forum where philosophers met with men of commerce, government, and the professions, the masonic lodge created new forms of self-government in microcosm, complete with constitutions and laws, elections, and representatives. This is the first comprehensive history of Enlightenment freemasonry, from the roots of the society's political philosophy and evolution in seventeenth-century England and Scotland to the French Revolution. Based on never-before-used archival sources, it will appeal to anyone interested in the birth of modernity in Europe or in the cultural milieu of the European Enlightenment.
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