Author: Albert Gallatin MackeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The History of Freemasonry
Author: Albert Gallatin MackeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The History of Freemasonry Volume 6
Author: Albert Gallatin MacKeyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781770833708
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
THE HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY ITS LEGENDS AND TRADITIONS ITS CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY BY ALBERT GALLATIN MACKEY, M.D., 33 Volume 6 of 7. SO comprehensive a title as the one selected for the present work would be a vain assumption if the author's object was not really to embrace in a series of studies the whole cycle of Masonic history and science. Anything short of this would not entitle the work to be called THE HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY. Freemasonry as a society of long standing, has of course its history, and the age of the institution has necessarily led to the mixing in this history of authentic facts and of mere traditions or legends. We are thus led in the very beginning of our labors to divide our historical studies into two classes. The one embraces the Legendary History of Freemasonry, and the other its authentic annals. The Legendary History of Freemasonry will constitute the subject of the first of the five parts into which this work is divided. It embraces all that narrative of the rise and progress of the institution, which beginning with the connection with it of the antediluvian patriarchs, ends in ascribing its modern condition to the patronage of Prince Edwin and the assembly at York. This narrative, which in the I5th and up to the end of the I7th century, claimed and received the implicit faith of the Craft, which in the I8th century was repeated and emendated by the leading writers of the institution, and which even in the 19th century has had its advocates among the learned and its credence among the unlearned of the Craft, has only recently and by a new school been placed in its true position of an apocryphal story. And yet though apocryphal, this traditionary story of Freemasonry which has been called the Legend of the Craft, or by some the Legend of the Guild, is not to be rejected as an idle fable. On the contrary, the object of the present work has been to show that these Masonic legends contain the germs of an historical, mingled often with a symbolic, idea, and that divested of certain evanescences in the shape of anachronisms, or of unauthenticated statements, these Masonic legends often, nay almost always, present in their simple form a true philosophic spirit.
The History of Freemasonry
Author: Albert Gallatin MackeyPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486122905
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Written by an expert on "the craft," this classic traces Freemasonry's origins from biblical times to its practice among America's founding fathers. It also explores philosophical, symbolic, and ritual traditions.
The History of Freemasonry
Author: Albert Gallatin MacKeyPublisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781293669853
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
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The History of Freemasonry
Author: Albert Gallatin MackeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freemasonry
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The History of Freemasonry
Author: Albert Gallatin MackeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freemasonry
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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The History of Freemasonry: Its Antiquities, Symbols, Constitutions, Customs, etc. : Vol. III
Author: Robert Freke GouldPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5043288949
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The History of Freemasonry
Author: Albert Gallatin MackeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freemasons
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Scottish Rite Ritual Monitor and Guide
Author: Art DeHoyosPublisher:
ISBN: 9780970874924
Category : Freemasonry
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
Revolutionary Brotherhood
Author: Steven C. BullockPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807899852
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
In the first comprehensive history of the fraternity known to outsiders primarily for its secrecy and rituals, Steven Bullock traces Freemasonry through its first century in America. He follows the order from its origins in Britain and its introduction into North America in the 1730s to its near-destruction by a massive anti-Masonic movement almost a century later and its subsequent reconfiguration into the brotherhood we know today. With a membership that included Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Paul Revere, and Andrew Jackson, Freemasonry is fascinating in its own right, but Bullock also places the movement at the center of the transformation of American society and culture from the colonial era to the rise of Jacksonian democracy. Using lodge records, members' reminiscences and correspondence, and local and Masonic histories, Bullock links Freemasonry with the changing ideals of early American society. Although the fraternity began among colonial elites, its spread during the Revolution and afterward allowed it to play an important role in shaping the new nation's ideas of liberty and equality. Ironically, however, the more inclusive and universalist Masonic ideas became, the more threatening its members' economic and emotional bonds seemed to outsiders, sparking an explosive attack on the fraternity after 1826. American History