Freemasonry

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General Ahiman Rezon: Introductory: Government of the Fraternity
THE mode of government observed by the Fraternity will give the best idea of the nature and design of the Masonic Institution. Three…
General Ahiman Rezon: Introductory: Introductory
A proper administration of the various ceremonies connected with the Ritual of Freemasonry is of the highest importance, as these form the…
General Ahiman Rezon: Introductory: Origin of Masonry, an...
FROM the commencement of the world, we may trace the foundation of Masonry. Ever since symmetry began, and harmony displayed her charms…
General Ahiman Rezon: Introductory: Qualifications of Candidates
THE qualifications which are essential in those who apply for initiation into the mysteries of Freemasonry, are of two kinds, Internal and…
General Ahiman Rezon: Introductory: The Lodge and its Gov...
1. THE room in which a certain number of Freemasons assemble, for business connected with the institution, is called a LODGE. The assembly…
General Ahiman Rezon: Masonic Burial Services: General Directions
THE services herein arranged for the Burial of the Dead are adapted for all the purposes for which ceremonies of that character may be…
General Ahiman Rezon: Masonic Burial Services: Service at the Grave
This is a ritual liturgy from a 19th-century Masonic handbook, presenting the complete prescribed ceremony for burying a fellow Mason —…
General Ahiman Rezon: Masonic Burial Services: Service at...
This is a Masonic funeral liturgy excerpted from Daniel Sickels' *General Ahiman Rezon* (1868), a Masonic ritual handbook belonging to the…
General Ahiman Rezon: Masonic Burial Services: Service in the Lodge-Room
The brethren having assembled at the Lodge-room, the Lodge will be opened briefly in the third degree; the purpose of the communication…
General Ahiman Rezon: Masonic Calendar
THE ordinary calendar, or vulgar era, is not generally used by Freemasons in dating their official documents. They have one peculiar to…
General Ahiman Rezon: Opening and Closing the Lodge
IN all regular assemblies of men who are convened for wise and useful purposes, the commencement and conclusion of business are accompanied…
General Ahiman Rezon: Page Index
The text you've provided contains only a page index — a numbered list of pages 5 through 408 from a document titled *General Ahiman Rezon*…
General Ahiman Rezon: Preface
| "How far any will be guided by me I hope I shall always know myself so well as to leave that to their own choice. As to the inutility of…
General Ahiman Rezon: Regulations for Processions
When the Grand Master, Deputy Grand Master, or either of the Grand Wardens, joins the procession of a private Lodge, proper respect is to…
General Ahiman Rezon: Ritual for a Lodge of Sorrow
This is a Masonic ritual text from Daniel Sickels's *General Ahiman Rezon* (1868), specifically the ceremonial script and staging…
General Ahiman Rezon: Second Degree: Fellow-Craft: Charge...
BROTHER: Being advanced to the second degree of Freemasonry, we congratulate you on your preferment. The internal, and not the external…
General Ahiman Rezon: Second Degree: Fellow-Craft: Emblem of Plenty Explained
This is an excerpt from a 19th-century Freemasonic ritual manual — specifically Daniel Sickels' *General Ahiman Rezon* (1868), a guide to…
General Ahiman Rezon: Second Degree: Fellow-Craft: Illustrations
"The Second, or Fellow-Craft's Degree is rendered interesting by those scientific instructions and philosophical lectures which…
General Ahiman Rezon: Second Degree: Fellow-Craft: Lecture on the Legend of the Winding Stairs
ALTHOUGH the legend of the Winding Stairs forms an important tradition of Ancient Craft Masonry, the only allusion to it in scripture is to…
General Ahiman Rezon: Second Degree: Fellow-Craft: Of Order in Architecture
The ORDERS OF ARCHITECTURE are next considered and explained. By order in architecture is meant a system of all the members, proportions…
General Ahiman Rezon: Second Degree: Fellow-Craft: Operative and Speculative Masonry
This is an excerpt from a 19th-century Masonic ritual and reference text, specifically from Daniel Sickels' *General Ahiman Rezon* (1868)…
General Ahiman Rezon: Second Degree: Fellow-Craft: Pillars of the Porch
This is an excerpt from a Masonic reference work — Daniel Sickels' *General Ahiman Rezon* (1868), a handbook of Masonic ritual and…
General Ahiman Rezon: Second Degree: Fellow-Craft: Symbol...
This is an excerpt from *General Ahiman Rezon* (1868) by Daniel Sickels, a Masonic ritual manual and instructional text belonging to the…
General Ahiman Rezon: Second Degree: Fellow-Craft: Symbolical Jewels
THE three VIRTUES—symbolically designated "the three Precious Jewels of a Fellow-Craft"—are, if considered from the true point of view, of…
General Ahiman Rezon: Second Degree: Fellow-Craft: Symbols of Peace, Unity and Plenty. Of the Globes.
Are introduced, and their moral application explained. The Globes are two artificial spherical bodies, on the convex surface of which are…
General Ahiman Rezon: Second Degree: Fellow-Craft: The Five Senses of Human Nature
This is an excerpt from *General Ahiman Rezon* (1868) by Daniel Sickels, a Masonic ritual and instructional text belonging to the tradition…
General Ahiman Rezon: Second Degree: Fellow-Craft: The Seven Liberal Arts and Sciences
Which are Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Arithmetic, Geometry, Music, and Astronomy, are here illustrated. Grammar is the science which teaches…
General Ahiman Rezon: Second Degree: Fellow-Craft: The Wi...
The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house; and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber.—I. KINGS…
General Ahiman Rezon: Second Degree: Fellow-Craft: Working Tools of a Fellow-Craft
This is an excerpt from *General Ahiman Rezon* (1868) by Daniel Sickels, a Masonic ritual and instructional text belonging to the tradition…
General Ahiman Rezon: Service for the Consecration of Masonic Cemeteries
This is a Masonic ritual text from Daniel Sickels' *General Ahiman Rezon* (1868), specifically the ceremony for consecrating a Masonic…
General Ahiman Rezon: Third Degree: Master Mason: Charge to the Candidate
BROTHER: Your zeal for our institution, the progress you have made in our mysteries, and your steady conformity to our useful regulations…
General Ahiman Rezon: Third Degree: Master Mason: Emblems of Master Mason's Degree
This is an excerpt from *General Ahiman Rezon* (1868), a Masonic ritual and instructional text by Daniel Sickels that serves as a monitor…
General Ahiman Rezon: Third Degree: Master Mason: Funeral Dirge
* * * * * * * Click to enlarge Music—Pleyel's Hymn. Here another guest we bring; Seraphs of celestial wing, To our fun’ral altar come, Waft…
General Ahiman Rezon: Third Degree: Master Mason: Illustrations
"In the ceremonial of the Third Degree the last grand mystery is attempted to be illustrated in a forcible and peculiar manner, showing, by…
General Ahiman Rezon: Third Degree: Master Mason: King So...
This is an excerpt from a Freemasonic ritual and reference text, the *General Ahiman Rezon* (1868) by Daniel Sickels, belonging to the…
General Ahiman Rezon: Third Degree: Master Mason: Officers' Clothing and Jewels
This is an excerpt from *General Ahiman Rezon* (1868) by Daniel Sickels, a reference manual for Freemasonry in the American tradition —…
General Ahiman Rezon: Third Degree: Master Mason: Rites of Sepulture—Hebrew Customs
This is an annotated Masonic ritual text — a section of the *General Ahiman Rezon*, a Masonic monitor and guide for lodge work —…
General Ahiman Rezon: Third Degree: Master Mason: Symbolism of the Degree
This is an excerpt from *General Ahiman Rezon* (1868) by Daniel Sickels, a Masonic ritual and philosophical manual within the tradition of…
General Ahiman Rezon: Third Degree: Master Mason: Twelve Messengers—Acacia Tree—Letter G.
In the old philosophies, the number 12 always concealed a mystical sense, and was considered a symbol of divine ideas. But here the twelve…
General Ahiman Rezon: Third Degree: Master Mason: Working...
This is an excerpt from a 19th-century Freemasonic ritual handbook, specifically a commentary on the Master Mason degree and its symbolic…
General Ahiman Rezon: Title Page and Front Matter
Illustrations of Masonry Index
| | Illustrations of Masonry by William Morgan [1827] | This book has a controversial backstory which is part of the mythology of…
Illustrations of Masonry: Errata
Errata page vi: 'positon'->'position' page vii: 'parton'->'patron' page 39: 'metalic'->'metallic' page 40: 'Soloman's'->'Solomon's' page…
Illustrations of Masonry: Freemasonry at a Glance: Entere...
The Holy Bible on the altar is usually opened at the 123d Psalm and the square and compass placed thereon, the latter open and both points…
Illustrations of Masonry: Freemasonry at a Glance: Fellow...
FELLOW CRAFT DEGREE The Holy Bible ought to be opened at the 7th chapter of Amos and one point of the compass elevated above the square…
Illustrations of Masonry: Freemasonry at a Glance: Master...
MASTER MASON'S DEGREE. The Holy Bible ought to be opened at the 12th chapter of Ecclesiastes and both points of the compass elevated above…
Illustrations of Masonry: Illustrations of Masonry: Closi...
*Illustrations of Masonry* (1827) by William Morgan is an exposé of Freemasonic lodge ritual, written by a former Mason who revealed the…
Illustrations of Masonry: Illustrations of Masonry: First...
*Illustrations of Masonry* by William Morgan (1827) is an exposé — a non-fiction revelation of the secret rituals of Freemasonry, written…
Illustrations of Masonry: Illustrations of Masonry: First...
"Are you a Fellow Craft Mason?" Ans. "I am—try me." "By what will you be tried?" Ans. "By the square." "Why by the square?" Ans.
Illustrations of Masonry: Illustrations of Masonry: First...
*Illustrations of Masonry* by William Morgan (1827) is an exposé of Freemasonry ritual, presented in catechism format — a series of…

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