Manual of the Freemasonry Lodge. Albert Gallatin Mackey

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       Albert Gallatin Mackey

      Manual of the Freemasonry Lodge

      Monitorial Instructions in the Degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft, and Master Mason

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      2020 OK Publishing

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       Preface.

       Manual of the Lodge.

       Forms of Prayer.

       Entered Apprentice's Degree.

       First Section.

       Second Section.

       Third Section.

       Fellow Craft's Degree.

       First Section.

       Second Section.

       Master Mason's Degree.

       First Section.

       Second Section.

       Third Section.

       Ancient Ceremonies of the Order.

       Section I. Consecration, Dedication, Constitution, and Installation of the Officers of a New Lodge.

       Section II. Annual Installation of the Officers of a Lodge.

       Section III. Installation of the Officers of a Grand Lodge.

       Section IV. Ceremony Observed at Grand Visitations.

       Section V. Festivals of the Order.

       Section VI. At Laying the Foundation Stones of Public Structures.

       Section VII. Dedication of Freemasons' Halls.

       Section VIII. Funeral Service.

       Section IX. Regulations for Processions.

       Appendix.

       I. The Twenty-five Landmarks of Freemasonry.

       II. Charges of a Freemason

       III. General Regulations.

       IV. Forms of Documents.

      "Antiquity considered Initiation as a delivery from a living death of vice, brutality, and misery; and the beginning of a new life of virtue, reason, and happiness."—Washington

      TO

      WINSLOW LEWIS, M. D.,

      PAST GRAND MASTER OF MASSACHUSETTS,

      THIS WORK

      Is Deidcated,

      NOT MORE

      AS A TRIBUTE OF THE RESPECT WHICH I FEEL

      FOR

      HIS INTELLECTUAL ATTAINMENTS,

      THAN

      As a Token of that Sincere Affection long since won from me

      BY THE

      LARGENESS AND KINDNESS OF HIS HEART.

      PREFACE.

       Table of Contents

      The popularity which has been accorded to the "Book of the Chapter" has induced me to believe that a Manual of the Three Symbolic Degrees, prepared according to the same method which had guided the composition of that work, would be equally acceptable to the craft.

      The present volume has, therefore, been written to supply what I have long supposed to be a desideratum in Masonic literature, namely, the means of enabling the young Mason or the recent initiate more thoroughly to understand the ceremonies through which he has just passed, and to extend his researches into that sublime system of symbolism of which in the ordinary lectures of the Lodge he has received only the faint out lines.

      Many who anxiously desire to obtain "more light" on the obscure subject of Masonic symbolism,

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