Freemasonry and its ancient mystic rites
Format:
Book
Title:
Freemasonry and its ancient mystic rites
Uniform Title:
Glimpses of Masonic history
ISBN:
9780517202678
Publication:
New York : Gramercy Books, 1998.
Physical Description:
xi, 241 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
General Note:
Originally published as: Glimpses of Masonic history, 1926.
Contents:
Schools of Masonic Thought -- The Egyptian Mysteries -- The Cretan Mysteries -- The Jewish Mysteries -- The Greek Mysteries -- The Mithraic Mysteries -- Craft Masonry in Mediaeval Times -- Operative Masonry in the Middle Ages -- The Transition from Operative to Speculative -- Other Lines of Masonic Tradition -- The Scottish Rite -- The Co-Masonic Order.
Summary:
This book explores the history of Freemasonry and its relationship to many of the ancient mystical rites of Egypt, Greece, Crete, and medieval Europe. It concludes with a discussion of the Scottish Rite and the Co-Masonic Order of the twentieth century.
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