Freemasonry

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• Morals and Dogma: III. The Master

  *Morals and Dogma* (1871) is a philosophical and esoteric treatise by Albert Pike written as the foundational instructional text of the…

• Morals and Dogma: IV. Intimate Secretary

  *Morals and Dogma* by Albert Pike (1871) is a philosophical and moral treatise drawn from the teachings of Scottish Rite Freemasonry…

• Morals and Dogma: IV. Secret Master

  *Morals and Dogma* by Albert Pike (1871) is a philosophical and instructional treatise written as guidance for Freemasons advancing through…

• Morals and Dogma: IX. Elect of the Nine

  This is an excerpt from Albert Pike's *Morals and Dogma* (1871), a lengthy degree-instruction text of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry…

• Morals and Dogma: Preface

  THE following work has been prepared by authority of the Supreme Council of the Thirty-third Degree, for the Southern Jurisdiction of the…

• Morals and Dogma: Title Page

  CHARLESTON A∴ M∴ 5632 Scanned, January-February 2005. Proofed by John Bruno Hare. This text is in the public domain in the US because it…

• Morals and Dogma: V. Perfect Master

  This is an excerpt from *Morals and Dogma* (1871) by Albert Pike, a foundational moral-philosophical text of American Freemasonry addressed…

• Morals and Dogma: VII. Provost and Judge

  This is an excerpt from *Morals and Dogma* (1871) by Albert Pike, a foundational philosophical text of Scottish Rite Freemasonry explaining…

• Morals and Dogma: VIII. Intendant of the Building

  IN this Degree you have been taught the important lesson, that none are entitled to advance in the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, who…

• Morals and Dogma: X. Illustrious Elect of the Fifteen

  THIS Degree is devoted to the same objects as those of the Elu of Nine; and also to the cause of Toleration and Liberality against…

• Morals and Dogma: XI. Sublime Elect of the Twelve, or Pri...

  This is an excerpt from *Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry* (1871) by Albert Pike, a foundational…

• Morals and Dogma: XII. Grand Master Architect

  This is a chapter from Albert Pike's *Morals and Dogma* (1871), the foundational philosophical text of Scottish Rite Freemasonry, written…

• Morals and Dogma: XIII. Royal Arch of Solomon

  *Morals and Dogma* (1871) by Albert Pike is a philosophical treatise written as instruction for Freemasonic degree initiates, drawing on…

• Morals and Dogma: XIV. Grand Elect, Perfect, and Sublime ...

  *Morals and Dogma* (1871) by Albert Pike is a philosophical treatise and instructional text of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of…

• Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor Index

  | | Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor by George Cooper Connor [1894] | This is a nineteenth century 'Monitor' of the American Knights Templar…

• Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: A Ritualistic Commentary

  *Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor* (1894) is a ritual reference guide for the Knights Templar, the Christian chivalric degree within…

• Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: An Historical Fact

  Simon of Syracuse, a Templar, betrayed his trust to the Saracens. Saladin, despising this Templar's treason, had his head struck off and…

• Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: Appendix: Burial Service

  *Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor* (1894) is a ritual manual for the Knights Templar, a Christian-chivalric appendant body of Freemasonry…

• Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: Appendix: Constituting New...

  The Knights about to be constituted into a Commandery will assemble in the Asylum on the appointed day, and open a Commandery of Knights…

• Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: Appendix: Dedication and C...

  This is a 19th-century Masonic ritual text — specifically, a consecration ceremony script for a Knights Templar "Commandery" (lodge), drawn…

• Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: Appendix: Grand Commanderies

  _________________ The Grand Commander will appoint a Grand Marshal, under whose direction the Officers elect will retire to an adjoining…

• Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: Appendix: Installation of ...

  ________________ The Grand Encampment has adopted only the Vow to be taken by its Officers, but certain ceremonies are usually observed in…

• Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: Appendix: Installation of ...

  *Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor* (1894) is a ritual handbook for the Knights Templar, the Christian-identified branch of American…

• Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: Appendix: Templar Uniform

  ______________ 1. The Uniform of Knights Templar, Knights of Malta, and Knights of the Red Cross, under the immediate jurisdiction of the…

• Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: Appendix: The Order of Malta

  *Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor* is a ritual instruction manual for Knights Templar Masonic lodges (Commanderies), compiled by George Cooper…

• Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: Banners, Crosses and Parap...

  *Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor* (1894) by George Cooper Connor is a ritual and procedural reference manual for the Knights Templar, the…

• Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: Close of Seven Years of Pr...

  *Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor* (1894) is a Masonic ritual handbook by George Cooper Connor, written to guide officers and candidates…

• Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: Concluding Remarks

  *Shibboleth* is a Masonic ritual monitor — a prompt-book and instructional guide — for the Illustrious Order of the Red Cross, a degree…

• Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: Dedication
• Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: Dress of the Ancient Templars

  _______________________ The ancient Templars habitually wore a long, white Tunic, or Cassock, cut like that of the priests, with a red…

• Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: Historical Lecture

  During the period that succeeded the Crusades a civil Knight made a vow to visit the sepulchre of his Lord and Master. Attracted by the…

• Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: History of the Order in th...

  *Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor* (1894) is a reference and ritual guidebook for the Knights Templar branch of American Freemasonry, a genre…

• Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: History of the Order of th...

  This is an 1894 Masonic Knights Templar "monitor" — a ritual instruction text used to prepare initiates — written in the tradition of…

• Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: Monitorial Instructions

  This is a Masonic ritual monitor — a practical guide for Commandery officers — written to accompany a revised ceremonial for the Knights…

• Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: Note by the Publishers

  So far as known, the foregoing Preface is the last word written by Sir George Cooper Connor, the author of this volume. Only a few days…

• Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: Officers of a Commandery
• Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: Order of the Red Cross

  This is a Masonic ritual monitor from 1894 — a guide for American Knights Templar — focused specifically on defending and explaining the…

• Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: Original Templar Grand Mas...
• Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: Preface to Fifth Edition

  The early demand for the Fifth Edition of Shibboleth, a demand the publishers scarcely anticipated in times like these, affords the author…

• Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: Second Appendix: Calendars

  This is a reference excerpt from a Masonic monitor — a practical handbook used by members of fraternal orders — specifically *Shibboleth: A…

• Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: Second Appendix: Fraternit...

  (SEE PAGE 60.) Part of a poem found beside a skeleton in the Museum of the London Royal College of Surgeons, author unknown. It was…

• Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: Second Appendix: Knight Templar Grand Jurisdictions of the United States

  This is a reference table from *Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor* (1894) by George Cooper Connor, a manual for the Knights Templar, a…

• Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: Second Appendix: Popular Abbreviations
• Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: Second Appendix: Some Word...

  Acre, Ack´-er, A city of Syria of Crusade interest. Acacia, Acay´-shi-a, An evergreen, thorny plant. Adonai, Ay-do´-nah, Lord, used where…

• Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: Second Appendix: Templar Forms

  This is a procedural reference work — a "monitor" in Masonic parlance — drawn from a late-nineteenth-century guide to the Knights Templar…

• Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: Second Appendix: The Name ...

  [Sic.—JBH] Assyrian, Eleah; Celtic, Diu; Chinese, Prussa; Arabic, Allah; Dutch, Godt; Danish, Gut; English, God; French, Dieu; Greek…

• Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: Second House of the Templars

  The prayer of the suppliant was granted, and he was admitted to the Vows. The laying aside of the pilgrim's garb, and the sandals, staff…

• Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: The Ancient Motto

  The Grand Encampment has adopted this reading of the Motto of the ancient Templars: "Non nobis Domine; non nobis, sed Nomini tuo da…

• Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: The Banners

  There are two which belong to the Order of the Temple at this time. They are the Grand Standard and the Beauceant. The Grand Standard is of…

• Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: The Charge

  This is a ritual initiation charge from an 1894 Masonic Knights Templar monitor — a ceremonial address delivered to a newly admitted Sir…

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