Freemasonry

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Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: The Immemorial Discussion
On the morning succeeding the great feast at the capital of the Persian empire, Darius listened to the oratorical contests of the three…
Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: The Journey
The road from Jerusalem to Susa, the chief treasury of Persia, and one of the favorite cities of the Persian kings, lay in part through the…
Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: The Records of our Fathers
*Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor* (1894) by George Cooper Connor is a ceremonial or ritual manual in the tradition of Masonic/Knights Templar…
Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: The So-Called Vision of Co...
_______________________ A fable invented by the sycophants of Constantine has been dignified into a Motto of the valiant and magnanimous…
Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: The Work
*Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor* (1894) is a ritual script — a "monitor" — intended to guide the initiation ceremonies of the Knights…
Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: Third Appendix: A Form of ...
This is a liturgical ritual handbook — a "Monitor" — published in 1894 for use by Knights Templar commanderies, the Christian-exclusive…
Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: Third Appendix: Asylum, an...
This plate illustrates how a Commandery that has only one large apartment can utilize the same for the Asylum and Prelate's Hall, during…
Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: Third Appendix: Form of Re...
This is a procedural reference document — specifically a template or monitor (a scripted guide for ritual and administrative procedure) for…
Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: Third Appendix: Hints on T...
The social features of the assemblies of the Knights of the Temple will not be neglected by prudent Commanders. A reception and Banquet…
Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: Third Appendix: Hints to E...
1. Give unremitting attention to the protection of the Ritual, and the Paraphernalia of your Commanderies. The first should never be out of…
Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: Third Appendix: Index
*Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor* (1894) by George Cooper Connor is a ritual reference manual — a "monitor" in Masonic tradition — for the…
Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: Third Appendix: Reception ...
This is a procedural excerpt from a 19th-century Masonic Knights Templar ritual manual — specifically a "Monitor," which is a standardized…
Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: Third Appendix: Ritual of ...
This is a ceremonial script from an 1894 Masonic Knights Templar ritual manual, providing a complete order of service for memorial…
Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: Third Appendix: Rules of O...
The following simple rules will be about all that Commanders will find necessary in conducting the business of the Conclaves: 1. On the…
Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: Third Appendix: The Christ...
This is a ritual monitor — a procedural script — for the Knights Templar, a Christian-chivalric order within American Freemasonry…
Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: Third House of the Templars
There is a legend told beyond seas to this effect: When the Papacy decided to suppress the Templars it sent out spies to apply to the Order…
Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: Three Ancient Cities of Pe...
This is a reference or ritual manual entry from a Knights Templar Masonic "Monitor" — a genre of instructional texts used to explain the…
Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: Title Page
Scanned, proofed and formatted by John Bruno Hare, June 2008. This text is in the public domain in the US because it was published prior to…
Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: To Close the Commandery
__________________________ The Commander directs that the same precautionary steps be taken previous to the ceremony of Closing. The…
Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: To Open a Commandery
*Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor* (1894) is a ritual procedural guide for Knights Templar Masonic Commanderies, written by George Cooper…
Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: To Open a Council of the R...
The Council Chamber is suitably arrayed under the direction of the Prince Master of the Palace. Almighty and Eternal Jehovah, the only…
Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: “It Is Finished”
In its Latin form,—"Consummatum est,"—this was a cherished phrase of the ancient Templar usage. It is to be regretted that its use appears…
Symbolical Masonry Index
| J. Bowring, Second Degree Board (Detail) [1819] (Public Domain Image) | Symbolical Masonry by H.L. Haywood [1923] | Symbolical Masonry is…
Symbolical Masonry: Appendix: Questions for Discussion
The following paragraphs are designed solely for the use of Study Clubs and such other classes or groups as may systematically study the…
Symbolical Masonry: Contents
*Symbolical Masonry* (1923) by H.L. Haywood is a systematic exposition and interpretive guide to the rituals, symbols, and degrees of Blue…
Symbolical Masonry: Errata
page 193: 'agosticism'->'agnosticism' page 300: 'hypothenuse'->'hypotenuse' page 354: 'interpetation'->'interpretation' page 364…
Symbolical Masonry: Index
This is the index of *Symbolical Masonry* (1923) by H.L. Haywood, a systematic reference work within the tradition of early…
Symbolical Masonry: Introduction
"Unto the divine light of the holy altar, from the outer darkness of ignorance, through the shadow of our earth life, winds the beautiful…
Symbolical Masonry: Page Index
Index Symbolical Masonry: Page Index page vii page viii page ix page x page xi page xii page 13 page 14 page 15 page 16 page 17 page 18…
Symbolical Masonry: Part One: The First Step: Chapter I. An Introduction to the First Step
This is an excerpt from *Symbolical Masonry* (1923) by H.L. Haywood, a scholarly and interpretive guide to Freemasonic ritual and symbolism…
Symbolical Masonry: Part One: The First Step: Chapter II....
The first step toward seeking admission into the membership of a Masonic lodge is to file with the Worshipful Master of the lodge nearest…
Symbolical Masonry: Part One: The First Step: Chapter III...
This is an excerpt from a 1923 Masonic instructional work examining the theory and practice of the secret ballot in American Freemasonry…
Symbolical Masonry: Part One: The First Step: Chapter IV. Worthy and Well-Qualified
This is a chapter from a 1923 Masonic educational text that explains and defends the membership qualifications for Freemasonry, drawing on…
Symbolical Masonry: Part One: The First Step: Chapter IX. The Sharp Instrument
This is an excerpt from a 1923 Masonic interpretive text, sitting within the tradition of esoteric fraternal commentary that explains lodge…
Symbolical Masonry: Part One: The First Step: Chapter V. The Hoodwink
This is a chapter from *Symbolical Masonry* (1923) by H.L. Haywood, a work of Masonic philosophy that interprets the ritual symbols and…
Symbolical Masonry: Part One: The First Step: Chapter VI....
This is a chapter from H.L. Haywood's *Symbolical Masonry* (1923), a work of Masonic esoteric interpretation in the tradition of fraternal…
Symbolical Masonry: Part One: The First Step: Chapter VII...
*Symbolical Masonry* (1923) by H.L. Haywood is an interpretive essay in the tradition of esoteric Masonic commentary, examining the deeper…
Symbolical Masonry: Part One: The First Step: Chapter VII...
Qualified in all ways necessary and prepared in body and mind, the candidate approaches the lodge, the symbolic significance of which may…
Symbolical Masonry: Part One: The First Step: Chapter X. Invoking the Blessing of Deity
It is of the highest import that in the ceremony of initiation the candidate kneel at the altar of prayer, for this is nothing other than a…
Symbolical Masonry: Part One: The First Step: Chapter XI....
This is a chapter from a 1923 Masonic interpretive work examining the ritual of Circumambulation — the ceremonial walk from East to West by…
Symbolical Masonry: Part One: The First Step: Chapter XII...
This portion of the ceremony has many things to tell us, which, for the sake of simplification, we may break into three divisions: (1) The…
Symbolical Masonry: Part One: The First Step: Chapter XII...
*Symbolical Masonry* (1923) by H.L. Haywood is a work of Masonic expository writing in the tradition of esoteric fraternal literature…
Symbolical Masonry: Part One: The First Step: Chapter XIV. The Obligation
The turning point in the ceremony of each degree is the Obligation, for it is that which marks the Apprentice an Apprentice, the Fellow…
Symbolical Masonry: Part One: The First Step: Chapter XIX. The Rite of Salutation
The Rite of Salutation, during which the candidate pays his respects to the various stations, is in one sense only the lodge's recognition…
Symbolical Masonry: Part One: The First Step: Chapter XV. The Three Great Lights
This is an expository chapter from *Symbolical Masonry* (1923) by H.L. Haywood, a work of Masonic education explaining the symbolic meaning…
Symbolical Masonry: Part One: The First Step: Chapter XVI...
This is an excerpt from *Symbolical Masonry* (1923) by H.L. Haywood, a work of Masonic interpretive writing that explains the symbolic…
Symbolical Masonry: Part One: The First Step: Chapter XVI...
"All great minds love the light," writes Brother J. F. Newton.
Symbolical Masonry: Part One: The First Step: Chapter XVI...
The candidate is now a member of an Entered Apprentice Lodge; accordingly he is given the words, grips and tokens whereby he may prove…
Symbolical Masonry: Part One: The First Step: Chapter XX. The Apron
This is an expository chapter from H.L. Haywood's 1923 book *Symbolical Masonry*, offering a rationalist interpretation of the Freemason's…
Symbolical Masonry: Part One: The First Step: Chapter XXI. Destitution
This is an excerpt from a 1923 interpretive guide to Freemasonic ritual and symbolism, written in the tradition of esoteric fraternal…

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