Freemasonry

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• Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor Index

  | | Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor by Malcolm C. Duncan [1866] | This book presents details of Masonic initiation rituals, along with…

• Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor: Appendix

  *Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor* (1866) is a printed exposure of Freemasonry's secret lodge rituals, belonging to a genre of…

• Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor: Errata

  page 22: 'waitting'->'waiting' page 63: 'verticle'->'vertical' page 98: 'Pronuunced'->'Pronounced' page 179: 'dueguard'->'duegard' page…

• Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor: Extracts from a Dict...

  *Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor* (1866) is a reference work in the tradition of Masonic instructional literature, presenting an…

• Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor: Fellow Craft, or Sec...

  I SHALL omit the ceremonies incident to opening a Lodge of Fellow Crafts, as they are very similar to those employed in opening the First…

• Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor: Mark Master, or Four...

  THE Degree of Mark Master, which is the Fourth in the Masonic series, is, historically considered, of the utmost importance, since we are…

• Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor: Master Mason, or Thi...

  *Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor* (1866) is a ritual exposé — a detailed, unauthorized transcript of Freemasonic lodge ceremonies…

• Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor: Most Excellent Maste...

  This is an expository/instructional text from Duncan's *Masonic Ritual and Monitor* (1866), a Freemasonry ritual manual by Malcolm C…

• Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor: Past Master, or Fift...

  This is an excerpt from *Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor* (1866), a ritual-exposure text that reproduces the secret ceremonies of…

• Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor: Preface

  *Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor* (1866) is a practical reference guide to Freemasonry's ceremonial rituals and degree progressions…

• Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor: Royal Arch, or Seven...

  This is an excerpt from a 19th-century exposé of Freemasonic ritual, specifically documenting the Royal Arch Degree — one of the higher…

• Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor: Title Page
• General Ahiman Rezon Index

  | (Public Domain Image) | General Ahiman Rezon by Daniel Sickels [1868] | This is a collection of Masonic rituals, including ceremonies…

• General Ahiman Rezon: Ahiman Rezon: Signification of the ...

  This excerpt is a scholarly philological essay from a 19th-century American Masonic book of constitutions, situated within the tradition of…

• General Ahiman Rezon: Ancient Ceremonies: Consecration of a New Lodge

  This is a 19th-century Masonic procedural text — specifically a lodge formation and consecration manual — drawn from Daniel Sickels'…

• General Ahiman Rezon: Ancient Ceremonies: Dedication and Constitution of a New Lodge

  A piece of solemn music is performed. The Grand Master, then standing with his hands stretched forth over the Lodge, exclaims, To the…

• General Ahiman Rezon: Ancient Ceremonies: Dedication of Masonic Halls

  AT the time appointed for the celebration of the ceremony of dedication, the Grand Master and his officers, accompanied by the members of…

• General Ahiman Rezon: Ancient Ceremonies: Grand Visitations

  THE Grand Master, accompanied by the Grand Officers, should, at least once a year, or as often as he may deem expedient, visit the Lodges…

• General Ahiman Rezon: Ancient Ceremonies: Installation of the Officers of a Grand Lodge

  AT the hour appointed for the installation of the officers of the Grand Lodge, the Installing Officer (who should be the retiring Grand…

• General Ahiman Rezon: Ancient Ceremonies: Installation of...

  This is an excerpt from a Masonic ritual manual — specifically the installation ceremony section of *General Ahiman Rezon* (1868), a guide…

• General Ahiman Rezon: Ancient Ceremonies: Introduction

  THESE CEREMONIES should be carefully studied and well understood by every Master of a Lodge. They include the ceremonies of Opening and…

• General Ahiman Rezon: Ancient Ceremonies: Laying Foundati...

  This is an excerpt from a Masonic ritual manual (a "ahiman rezon," or book of constitutions) published in 1868, specifically the prescribed…

• General Ahiman Rezon: Appendix—Masonic Documents an...

  To the M. W. Grand Master of Masons of the State of THE undersigned petitioners, being Ancient Free and Accepted Master Masons, having the…

• General Ahiman Rezon: Contents

  *General Ahiman Rezon* (1868) by Daniel Sickels is a Masonic lodge manual and ritual compendium — a practical and ceremonial reference book…

• General Ahiman Rezon: Errata

  Errata page 81: 'Feeemasons'->'Freemasons' page 92: 'figuee'->'figure' page 124: 'Guage'->'Gauge' page 128: ' orm'->'form' page 141…

• General Ahiman Rezon: Explanation of the Frontispiece

  Click to enlarge Frontispiece THE Tracing-Board, or Floor-Cloth of an Entered Apprentice, here described, is a copy of a reproduction of…

• General Ahiman Rezon: First Degree: Entered Apprentice: C...

  BROTHER: As you are now introduced into the first principles of Masonry, I congratulate you on being accepted into this ancient and…

• General Ahiman Rezon: First Degree: Entered Apprentice: Charge, at the Initiation of a Soldier

  BROTHER: Our institution breathes a spirit of general philanthropy. Its benefits, in a social point of view, are extensive. In the most…

• General Ahiman Rezon: First Degree: Entered Apprentice: Charity the Chief Social Value

  This is an excerpt from a 19th-century Masonic ritual and moral instruction manual, *General Ahiman Rezon* (1868) by Daniel Sickels…

• General Ahiman Rezon: First Degree: Entered Apprentice: D...

  This is an annotated excerpt from a 19th-century Masonic ritual guide, specifically a lengthy commentary on the Masonic emblem of the…

• General Ahiman Rezon: First Degree: Entered Apprentice: Form and Dimensions and Boundaries of the Lodge

  This is an excerpt from *General Ahiman Rezon* (1868) by Daniel Sickels, a Masonic lodge manual belonging to the tradition of Freemasonry's…

• General Ahiman Rezon: First Degree: Entered Apprentice: Great Tenets of a Freemason

  *General Ahiman Rezon* (1868) by Daniel Sickels is a Masonic ritual and instructional text — part of the tradition of Masonic "monitors"…

• General Ahiman Rezon: First Degree: Entered Apprentice: Illustrations

  "There are many prominent emblems in this degree, teaching, first, the propriety of maintaining regularity of life, and attending to the…

• General Ahiman Rezon: First Degree: Entered Apprentice: Lodge Meetings—Where Held

  Lodge meetings, at the present day, are usually held in upper chambers—probably for the better security which such places afford. It may…

• General Ahiman Rezon: First Degree: Entered Apprentice: Obligation of Secrecy

  This is an excerpt from a 19th-century Masonic reference work (a "Rezon" — a book of Masonic law and instruction), presenting a…

• General Ahiman Rezon: First Degree: Entered Apprentice: Prayer at Initiation

  VOUCHSAFE thine aid, Almighty Father of the Universe, to this our present convention; and grant that this candidate for Masonry may…

• General Ahiman Rezon: First Degree: Entered Apprentice: R...

  This is an excerpt from a 19th-century Freemasonic ritual manual, falling within the tradition of esoteric fraternal literature that…

• General Ahiman Rezon: First Degree: Entered Apprentice: Rite of Induction

  This is an excerpt from an 1868 American Masonic reference work, part of the instructional/ritual commentary tradition within Freemasonry…

• General Ahiman Rezon: First Degree: Entered Apprentice: S...

  THIS section fully explains the manner of constituting, and the proper authority for holding a Lodge. Here, also, we learn where Lodges…

• General Ahiman Rezon: First Degree: Entered Apprentice: Section II. The Preparation. Right Hand. Badge of a Mason

  This is an excerpt from Daniel Sickels' 1868 *General Ahiman Rezon*, a Masonic ritual handbook that explains the allegorical and moral…

• General Ahiman Rezon: First Degree: Entered Apprentice: Situation of the Lodge

  This is an excerpt from a 19th-century Masonic ritual handbook explaining the symbolic and theological significance of orienting Masonic…

• General Ahiman Rezon: First Degree: Entered Apprentice: Symbolism of the Degree

  This is an excerpt from *General Ahiman Rezon* (1868) by Daniel Sickels, a Masonic ritual and instructional manual in the tradition of…

• General Ahiman Rezon: First Degree: Entered Apprentice: T...

  This is an excerpt from *General Ahiman Rezon* (1868) by Daniel Sickels, a Masonic handbook belonging to the tradition of Freemasonry's…

• General Ahiman Rezon: First Degree: Entered Apprentice: T...

  Are the MOSAIC PAVEMENT, the INDENTED TESSEL, and the BLAZING STAR. The Mosaic Pavement is a representation of the ground-floor of King…

• General Ahiman Rezon: First Degree: Entered Apprentice: The Furniture of the Lodge

  Consists of the Holy Bible, Square, and Compasses. The Bible is dedicated to the service of God, because it is the inestimable gift of God…

• General Ahiman Rezon: First Degree: Entered Apprentice: The Lights of the Lodge. Moveable and Immovable Jewels.

  A Lodge has three symbolic lights:—one in the East, one in the West, and one in the South. * * * * * * * The fixed lights of the Lodge were…

• General Ahiman Rezon: First Degree: Entered Apprentice: The North-East Corner

  IN the important ceremony which refers to the north-east corner of the Lodge, the candidate becomes as one who is to all outward appearance…

• General Ahiman Rezon: First Degree: Entered Apprentice: The Symbolic Pilgrimage

  This is an excerpt from a 19th-century Masonic ritual handbook, written in the tradition of esoteric fraternal literature that seeks to…

• General Ahiman Rezon: First Degree: Entered Apprentice: Working-Tools of an Entered Apprentice

  Is an instrument used by operative masons to measure and lay out their work; but we, as [paragraph continues] Free and Accepted Masons, are…

• General Ahiman Rezon: Introductory: Admission of Candidates

  BY the regulations of the Fraternity, a candidate for the mysteries of Masonry cannot be initiated in any regular Lodge, without having…

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