Guide to the three Symbolic Degrees of the Ancient York Rite and to the Degrees of Mark Master, Past Master, Most Excellent Master, and The Royal Arch.
The purpose of this work is not so much to gratify the curiosity of the uninitiated as to furnish a guide for the neophytes of the Order, by means of which their progress from grade to grade may be facilitated. Every statement in the book is authentic, as every proficient Mason will admit to himself, if not to be public, as he turns over its pages. The non- Masonic reader, as he peruses them, will perhaps be puzzled to imagine why matters of so little real importance to society at large should have been so industriously concealed for centuries, and still more surprised that society should have been so extremely inquisitive about them. “But such,” as Old Stapleton says, in ‘Jacob Faithful,’ “is human nature.” The object of the Order in making a profound mystery of its proceedings is obvious enough. Sea-birds are not more in-variably attracted toward a lighted beacon on a dark night, than men to whatever savors of mystery. Curiosity has had a much greater influence in swelling the ranks of Masonry than philanthropy and brotherly love. The institution, however, is now sufficiently popular to stand upon its own merits, without the aid of clap-trap, so “via the mantle that shadowed Borgia.”
CONTENTS
PREFACE
DUNCAN’S RITUAL AND MONITOR OF FREEMASONRY
ENTERED APPRENTICE, ORFIRST DEGREE Samuel Slick, Secretary | Second Order Of Business | Form Of Petition | Third Order Of Business | Fourth Order Of Business | Fifth Order Of Business | Sixth Order Of Business | Seventh Order Of Business | Obligation | First Section | Third Section | Charge At Initiation Into The First Degree
FELLOW CRAFT, OR SECOND DEGREE Oath | Charge | Lecture On The Fellow Craft Degree. Section First
MASTER MASON, OR THIRD DEGREE Preparing The Candidate | Prayer | Historical Account | The Three Steps | The Pot Of Incense | The Beehive | The Book Of Constitutions, Guarded By The Tyler’s Sword | The Sword Pointing To A Naked Heart | All Seeing Eye! | The Forty-Seventh Problem Of Euclid | The Hour-Glass | The Scythe | Charge To The Lodge | Charge | First Section |
MARK MASTER, OR FOURTH DEGREE Mark Master’s Song | Lecture On The Fourth Or Mark Master’s Degree – Section First
PAST MASTER, OR FIFTH DEGREE Lecture On The Fifth, Or Past Master’s Degree—Part Of The Second Section
MOST EXCELLENT MASTER, OR SIXTH DEGREE Lecture On The Sixth, Or Most Excellent Master’s Degree
ROYAL ARCH, OR SEVENTH DEGREE Proclamation | Lecture On The Seventh, Or Loyal Arch Degree.—Section First | Extracts From “A Dictionary Of Symbolical Masonry, Including The Royal Arch Degree,” By The Rev. G. Oliver, D. D.
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