Brought to Light: The Mysterious George Washington Masonic Cave

Purchase in greyscale | Purchase in color by Jason Williams MD  The George Washington Masonic Cave near Charles Town, West Virginia, contains a signature carving of George Washington dated 1748. Although this inscription appears authentic, it has yet to be verified by historical accounts or…Read more Brought to Light: The Mysterious George Washington Masonic Cave

Washington and His Masonic Compeers

by Sidney Hayden Purchase As Sidney Hayden wrote of this work on George Washington and his Masonic pasts, “Biographies of Washington, and the most eminent of our countrymen who were contemporary with him, have been often written so far as relates to their public acts,…Read more Washington and His Masonic Compeers

Storia del Grande Oriente d’Italia (Italian Edition)

by Emanuela Locci Purchase Questo volume è la traduzione italiana di un libro precedente nato con l’intento di colmare una lacuna bibliografica, infatti, fino alla sua pubblicazione non era presente nella letteratura massonica un libro che trattasse in maniera organica la storia della massoneria in…Read more Storia del Grande Oriente d’Italia (Italian Edition)

Worlds of Print: The Moral Imagination of an Informed Citizenry, 1734 to 1839

by John Slifko Purchase Plato, Aristotle, Baron Montesquieu, and Jean Jacques Rousseau argued that you could never have a democracy bigger than the geographic size, intimate oral habits, and embodied rituals of face-to-face communication, and walking distance of a Greek city-state, French town, or small…Read more Worlds of Print: The Moral Imagination of an Informed Citizenry, 1734 to 1839

Masonry and Protestantism

by Susanna Hopkins Mason Purchase Social history as a corrective to a historiography is often too limited to diplomacy and wars. It began an upward trajectory as early as the 1930s, but it remains constrained by the frustrating cost and availability of materials that even…Read more Masonry and Protestantism

Annals of the Hobby Club of New York City, 1912-1920

by New York Hobby Club Purchase In 1908, the Hobby Club was established as a gentlemen’s club. Planned to be a space for people to showcase their special interests, the “object of the Club shall be to encourage the collection of literary, artistic and scientific…Read more Annals of the Hobby Club of New York City, 1912-1920

Proceedings of the General Grand Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star at its Fourth Stated Meeting, August 17-23, 1883

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An Address Delivered Before the Members of the Anti-Masonic State Convention: Assembled at Augusta, Maine, July 4, 1832

by Moses Thacher Purchase Moses Thacher was born on November 14, 795 in Princeton, Worcester County, Massachusetts. He was frustrated with the growing number of people involved with Freemasonry in his religious community. He felt the oats one swore as part of Masonic ritual were…Read more An Address Delivered Before the Members of the Anti-Masonic State Convention: Assembled at Augusta, Maine, July 4, 1832

History of Saint John’s Lodge of Boston

by Saint John’s Lodge Freemasons Purchase Saint John’s is the oldest lodge in the United States and its social history when fully written will be a corrective to a historiography is often too limited to diplomacy and wars. Fraternal organizations like Saint John’s have impacted…Read more History of Saint John’s Lodge of Boston

History of the Grand Orient of Italy

Emanuela Locci, Editor Purchase The initiative to write this volume comes from the need to fill a bibliographic gap: no book in Masonic literature upon the history of Italian Freemasonry has been edited in English up to now. Thus, it aims to cover this lack…Read more History of the Grand Orient of Italy

Ritual for Local Camps: Royal Neighbors of America, Auxiliary of the Modern Woodman of America

by Royal Neighbors of America Purchase The early members of the Society were ahead of their time. In addition to providing life insurance for women, they stood firmly behind the women’s suffrage movement. Royal Neighbors was also one of the first fraternal societies to insure…Read more Ritual for Local Camps: Royal Neighbors of America, Auxiliary of the Modern Woodman of America

History of the Fraternal Order of Eagles

by J. Fanning O’Reilly Purchase The Fraternal Order of Eagles is an international fraternal organization that was founded on February 6, 1898 in Seattle, Washington by a group of six theater owners. It was initially composed of those who worked within the performing arts. The…Read more History of the Fraternal Order of Eagles

Why Thirty-Three?: Searching for Masonic Origins

by S. Brent Morris, PhD, Introduction by Wallace E. Boston, Jr. Purchase The papers presented here represent over twenty-five years of publications by S. Brent Morris. They explore his many questions about Freemasonry, usually dealing with origins of the Craft. What “high degrees” were in…Read more Why Thirty-Three?: Searching for Masonic Origins

Pioneering in Masonry: The Life and Times of Rob Morris, Masonic Poet Laureate, Together with the Story of Clara Barton and the Eastern Star

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The Early History and Antiquities of Freemasonry: As Connected with Ancient Norse Guilds, and the Oriental and Mediæval Building Fraternities

by George F. Fort Purchase through Amazon Social history as a corrective to a historiography is often too limited to diplomacy and wars. It began an upward trajectory as early as the 1930s, but it remains constrained by the frustrating cost and availability of materials…Read more The Early History and Antiquities of Freemasonry: As Connected with Ancient Norse Guilds, and the Oriental and Mediæval Building Fraternities

Foreign Freemasonry: Its Position vis-a-vis of Christianity and of Catholicity

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The Masonic Genius of Robert Burns: An Address Delivered in Lodge “Quatuor Coronati,” 2076, 4th March, 1892

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Melodies for the Craft, or Songs for Freemasons Suitable for Every Occasion

by R. Fellow Purchase through Amazon Social history as a corrective to a historiography is often too limited to diplomacy and wars. It began an upward trajectory as early as the 1930s, but it remains constrained by the frustrating cost and availability of materials that even…Read more Melodies for the Craft, or Songs for Freemasons Suitable for Every Occasion

History of Freemasonry in England from 1567 to 1813

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A Place in the Lodge: Dr. Rob Morris, Freemasonry and the Order of the Eastern Star

by Nancy Stearns Theiss PhD Purchase through Amazon  UPDATED EDITION Ridiculed as “petticoat masonry,” critics of the Order of the Eastern Star did not deter Rob Morris’ goal to establish a Masonic organization that included women as members. As Rob Morris (1818-1888) came “into the…Read more A Place in the Lodge: Dr. Rob Morris, Freemasonry and the Order of the Eastern Star

The Great Transformation: Scottish Freemasonry 1725-1810

by Dr. Mark C. Wallace Purchase through Amazon  Modern Freemasonry emerged in Britain after 1700 as a prominent fixture in both British communal and social life. It combined earlier stonemason customs and methods of organization with the popular passion for clubs and societies. Some mocked…Read more The Great Transformation: Scottish Freemasonry 1725-1810

The 33 Principles Every Mason Should Live By: The True Meaning of Being a Mason

by C. Fred Kleinknecht Jr. Purchase through Amazon  In 1947 Fred took a job at the House of the Temple, literally learning the Scottish Rite from the ground floor to eventually becoming Grand Commander. He was Grand Commander from October 23, 1985 to October 7, 2003.…Read more The 33 Principles Every Mason Should Live By: The True Meaning of Being a Mason

Swiss Freemasonry: A Historical Sketch with Organization, Principles and Constitution

by Dr. Bernard Perrelet Purchase through Amazon  Social history as a corrective to a historiography is often too limited to diplomacy and wars. It began an upward trajectory as early as the 1930s, but it remains constrained by the frustrating cost and availability of materials…Read more Swiss Freemasonry: A Historical Sketch with Organization, Principles and Constitution

The History of the Order of the Eastern Star Among Colored People

by Mrs. S. Joe Brown Purchase through Amazon  Social history as a corrective to a historiography is often too limited to diplomacy and wars. It began an upward trajectory as early as the 1930s, but it remains constrained by the frustrating cost and availability of…Read more The History of the Order of the Eastern Star Among Colored People

Freemasonry, Politics and Rijeka (Fiume) (1785-1944)

by Ljubinka Toseva Karpowicz Purchase through Amazon  LJUBINKA TOŠEVA KARPOWICZ studied sociology and later political science at the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Belgrade. She received her Ph.D. from the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Ljubljana in 1987. She…Read more Freemasonry, Politics and Rijeka (Fiume) (1785-1944)

Masonic Regularity and Recognition: A Global Issue

Roger Dachez, Introduction by Alain Bauer Purchase through Amazon  “The issue of regularity and recognition in Freemasonry is examined here from a mainly French point of view, because France is essentially the only major Masonic country in the world where this debate is so complicated.…Read more Masonic Regularity and Recognition: A Global Issue

Invasions of the Gulf: Radicalism, Ritualism and the Shaikhs

by Paul Rich Purchase through Amazon  The Gulf was ruled for a good part of the 19th and 20th centuries from India, and those who served there constituted a unique, small foreign service of their own. Their public (private boarding in American usage) school backgrounds…Read more Invasions of the Gulf: Radicalism, Ritualism and the Shaikhs

Masonic Regularity

by Alain Bernheim Purchase through Amazon  Alain Bernheim was born in Paris on May 23, 1931. At twelve he was interned in Drancy under Occupied France. After World War II was over, Bernheim studied at the National Music Conservatory of Paris, and became the first…Read more Masonic Regularity

Getting the Third Degree: Fraternalism, Freemasonry and History

Editors: Guillermo De Los Reyes and Paul Rich Purchase through Amazon Possibly the most international and diverse scholarly conference on fraternalism and freemasonry is the one held in Paris in the spring every two years at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France and hosted by Westphalia…Read more Getting the Third Degree: Fraternalism, Freemasonry and History

Dudley Wright: Writer, Truthseeker & Freemason

by John Belton Purchase through Amazon  Dudley Wright (1868-1950) was an Englishman who took a universalist approach to the various great Truths of Life, he travelled though many religions in his life and wrote about them all, but was probably most at home with Islam.…Read more Dudley Wright: Writer, Truthseeker & Freemason

An Introduction to the Formation of Freemasonry in the United States of America: The Constellation of the Brotherhood

by Larissa P. Watkins Purchase through Amazon  The Constellation of the Brotherhood is another stellar reference resource by bibliographer Larissa Watkins. It encompasses the developmental history of the Grand Masonic Bodies in the United States for each state… It will be a boon to researchers,…Read more An Introduction to the Formation of Freemasonry in the United States of America: The Constellation of the Brotherhood

A General Register of all the Lodges and Grand Lodges of Freemasons: in North America

by J. Fletcher Brennan Purchase through Amazon  Social history as a corrective to a historiography is often too limited to diplomacy and wars. It began an upward trajectory as early as the 1930s, but it remains constrained by the frustrating cost and availability of materials…Read more A General Register of all the Lodges and Grand Lodges of Freemasons: in North America

A Dictionary of Secret and Other Societies

by Arthur Preuss Purchase through Amazon Social history as a corrective to a historiography is often too limited to diplomacy and wars. It began an upward trajectory as early as the 1930s, but it remains constrained by the frustrating cost and availability of materials that…Read more A Dictionary of Secret and Other Societies

A Historical Account of Columbian Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Boston

by John T. Heard Purchase through Amazon Social history as a corrective to a historiography is often too limited to diplomacy and wars. It began an upward trajectory as early as the 1930s, but it remains constrained by the frustrating cost and availability of materials…Read more A Historical Account of Columbian Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Boston

The Unparalleled Sufferings of John Coustos: The Cruel Tortures to Extract the Secrets of Freemasonry

by John Coustos Purchase through Amazon Social history as a corrective to a historiography is often too limited to diplomacy and wars. It began an upward trajectory as early as the 1930s, but it remains constrained by the frustrating cost and availability of materials that…Read more The Unparalleled Sufferings of John Coustos: The Cruel Tortures to Extract the Secrets of Freemasonry

History of the Worshipful Company of Glaziers of the City of London: Otherwise the Company of Glaziers and Painters of Glass

by Charles Henry Ashdown Purchase through Amazon Despite the name, The City of London is only a small part of metropolitan London, and is further unique in that it boasts of its own government. This centers on the ancient companies, or guilds, which in the…Read more History of the Worshipful Company of Glaziers of the City of London: Otherwise the Company of Glaziers and Painters of Glass

Freemasonry: A French View

by Roger Dachez and Alain Bauer Purchase through Amazon Perhaps one should speak not of Freemasonry but of Freemasonries in the plural. In each country Masonic historiography has developed uniqueness, but it is safe to say that one of the highest levels of scholarship has been…Read more Freemasonry: A French View

Freemasonry in the Holy Land, or, Handmarks of Hiram’s Builders

by Robert Morris, LLD. Purchase through Amazon  |  Purchase through CreateSpace In 1868, Robert Morris (1818-1888), a sometime grand master of the Grand Lodge of Kentucky and founder of the Order of the Eastern Star, gathered a group of Masons for Secret Monitor ceremonies in…Read more Freemasonry in the Holy Land, or, Handmarks of Hiram’s Builders

Manual of the Eastern Star: Containing the Symbols, Scriptural Illustrations, Lectures, etc. Adapted to the System of Speculative Masonry

by Robert Macoy Purchase through Amazon  |  Purchase through CreateSpace The secret cyphers and ritual books of the Eastern Star as well as of other fraternal societies inevitably make their way to the shelves of antiquarian book dealers. Efforts to get families to return documents…Read more Manual of the Eastern Star: Containing the Symbols, Scriptural Illustrations, Lectures, etc. Adapted to the System of Speculative Masonry

Elixir of Empire: The English Public Schools, Ritualism, Freemasonry, and Imperialism

by P. J. Rich Purchase through Amazon  |  Purchase through CreateSpace A companion volume, Chains of Empire: English Public Schools, Masonic Cabalism Historical Causality, and Imperial Clubdom, is the second in P. J. Rich’s trilogy about schooling as a political force. Explored are the ways…Read more Elixir of Empire: The English Public Schools, Ritualism, Freemasonry, and Imperialism

Chains of Empire: English Public Schools, Masonic Children, Historical Causality, and Imperial Clubdom

by P. J. Rich Purchase through Amazon  |  Purchase through CreateSpace The British Empire’s and the English public schools’ peculiar system of rituals and rewards had more in common than has been realized. In Chains of Empire, Paul Rich related this to controversies about historical…Read more Chains of Empire: English Public Schools, Masonic Children, Historical Causality, and Imperial Clubdom

Masonic Poems

by Masonic Service Association US Purchase through Amazon  |  Purchase through CreateSpace Masonic poems can be maudlin or marvelous, but critics must concede that Rudyard Kipling and Robert Burns cannot be accused of being amateurs. In short, the poetry of Freemasonry is a very mixed…Read more Masonic Poems

Plain Thoughts on Secret Societies

by John Lawrence Purchase through Amazon  |  Purchase through CreateSpace John Lawrence (1824-1899) was a historian of the United Brethren churches and an abolitionist. When he wrote Plain Thoughts there was a clear consensus among his fellow believers that Freemasonry was insidious and diabolical. But…Read more Plain Thoughts on Secret Societies

Freemasonry’s Research Agenda

by Margaret C. Jacob, Preface by Paul J. Rich Purchase in Print  |  Purchase on CreateSpace Perhaps it should not be surprising that a secret society remains something of a secret. A telling comment made on several occasions by Pierre Mollier, the librarian of the…Read more Freemasonry’s Research Agenda

The Symbolic Tradition of Freemasonry

Edited by Pierre Mollier Purchase Print Version  |  Purchase on CreateSpace This volume, full of significant work on Freemasonry and kindred subjects, is the result of a bold effort to make the best in articles about fraternalism appearing in tonguesother than English available to the English-speaking…Read more The Symbolic Tradition of Freemasonry

Challenges Facing Freemasonry

by John L.L. Cooper III, Preface by Paul J. Rich Purchase through Amazon  |  Purchase on CreateSpace Secrecy and ritualism often go together, although for many societies the secrecy is no longer as strong as it once was. However, ritual remains one of their major…Read more Challenges Facing Freemasonry

Stories for the American Freemason’s Fireside

by C. W. Towle Purchase through Amazon  |  Purchase on CreateSpace This is a collection of stories intended to be morality tales for Masons and their admirers. Numerous nineteenth century writers saw a market for fiction whose intention was to inculcate the values of a popular,…Read more Stories for the American Freemason’s Fireside

Ritual and Secrecy Confront Reality

Edited by by Pierre Mollier, Daniel Kerjan, Yves Hilvert-Messeca, and Carter Charles Purchase through Amazon  |  Purchase on CreateSpace This special issue of Ritual, Secrecy and Civil Society, among other things, questions explores the ways in which the secret initiatory societies interface with political and social…Read more Ritual and Secrecy Confront Reality

Fiat Lux: Full Score, Parts Included

Composed by by Gregory Thomas Woolford Martin Purchase on Amazon (Fiat Lux: Full Score, Parts Included)  |  Purchase on CreateSpace Purchase on Amazon (Fiat Lux: Piano & Vocal Score)  |  Purchase on CreateSpace Gregory Thomas Woolford Martin has composed for small and large ensembles, electronica, choir,…Read more Fiat Lux: Full Score, Parts Included

Between Conflict and Conformity: Freemasonry During the Weimar Republic and the “Third Reich”

Authored by Ralf Melzer Translated by Glenys A. Waldman Purchase through Amazon  |  Purchase through CreateSpace Freemasonry during the Weimar Republic and the ‘Third Reich’…One might ask, “Is that a chapter of forgotten persecution or a legend of persecution?” After extensive research in archives in…Read more Between Conflict and Conformity: Freemasonry During the Weimar Republic and the “Third Reich”

Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia – 1898

by John P. Sheiry Purchase through Amazon  |  Purchase through CreateSpace The Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia is not the grand lodge for the United States, but at times because of its site it has national importance. The election of Brother William McKinley as…Read more Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia – 1898

Hymns to the Gods & Other Poems

by Gen. Albert Pike Purchase on Amazon  |  Purchase on CreateSpace Albert Pike (1809-1891) began writing as a youth, and “Hymns to the Gods” was his first published poem when he was only 23. He subsequently became a contributor to Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine after his…Read more Hymns to the Gods & Other Poems

Freemasonry in Inverness

by Alexander Ross Purchase on Amazon  |  Purchase on CreateSpace Alexander Ross (1834-1925) was educated at Inverness Royal Academy and became an architect like his father. He joined St. John’s Masonic Lodge in 1833 and eventually was its Master. Ross traveled throughout Scotland as public education…Read more Freemasonry in Inverness

Lodge “Himalayan Brotherhood” No. 459 E.C.: Minute Books and Correspondence

by G. Reeves-Brown Purchase on Amazon  |  Purchase on CreateSpace The famous Himalyan Brotherhood lodge owes its origins to a Masonic lodge established in Calcutta in 1773. Members of descendant lodges organized Himalyan Brotherhood in 1838 in the Indian hill station of Simla, where British rulers spent…Read more Lodge “Himalayan Brotherhood” No. 459 E.C.: Minute Books and Correspondence

The Story of the City Companies

by P.H. Ditchfield Purchase on Amazon  |  Purchase on CreateSpace As this volume shows, the guilds or livery companies of London started as medieval associations of tradesmen: haberdashers, skinners, goldsmiths, and ironmongers. They became charity foundations, trustees of schools and hospitals, custodians of art treasures and…Read more The Story of the City Companies

Philippine Masonic Directory ~ 1918

by Chas. M. Colton Purchase on Amazon |  Purchase on CreateSpace Originally limited to the Spanish occupiers, Freemasonry attracted leaders of the Philippine independence movement and has played an important role in the history of the islands. The great leader Joseph Rizal was an active member,…Read more Philippine Masonic Directory ~ 1918

Gems of Song for Eastern Star Chapters

compiled by Pitkin & Mathews Purchase on Amazon  |  Purchase on CreateSpace Although the Order of the Eastern Star at one time claimed ties to orders in the seventeenth and eighteenth century Swedish royal court, the consensus is that it was largely invented as a…Read more Gems of Song for Eastern Star Chapters

Hints on Masonic Etiquette

by R. H. Gaynor Purchase on Amazon  |  Purchase on CreateSpace Freemasonry not only has myriad complex ceremonies for initiating and advancing candidates, but also preserves a code for every social occasion, including requirements for addressing others during meetings, offering banquet toasts, opening and closing…Read more Hints on Masonic Etiquette

Manual of Knights Templar

by Edward J. Newman Purchase on Amazon |  Purchase on CreateSpace Partly because of novelists and Hollywood, the Masonic Knights Templar have enjoyed an enormous amount of recent attention, and are the subject of extravagant claims about their antiquity. The truth is that the present Templars,…Read more Manual of Knights Templar

History of the Knights of Pythias

by Jos. D. Weeks Purchase on Amazon  |  Purchase on CreateSpace Although a secret society, the Pythians sought to aid reconciliation after the Civil War and gave rise to other movements, including the Dramatic Order Knights of Khorassan, Princes of Syracuse, Knights of Omar, and Order…Read more History of the Knights of Pythias

Lyrics & Love Songs

by Albert Pike, with a new introduction by Paul Rich Purchase on Amazon  Albert Pike was a Harvard dropout, Confederate general, lawyer for Native American causes, celebrated Masonic leader, and lifelong writer of poems. Erudite in many languages and expert on folklore and mythology, his work…Read more Lyrics & Love Songs

Meeting Minutes of Naval Lodge No. 4 F.A.A.M. 1813

Purchase through Amazon  |  Purchase through CreateSpace Edited and Introduced by Isaiah Akin This book contains the Meeting minutes of Naval Lodge No. 4 F.A.A.M. of Washington DC from 1813, along with articles about the people mentioned and the Washington Navy Yard where many of…Read more Meeting Minutes of Naval Lodge No. 4 F.A.A.M. 1813

Ivanhoe Masonic Quartettes

Purchase through Amazon  |  Purchase on CreateSpace Selected and arranged by Thomas C. Pollack with a new preface by Sion M. Honea The numerous initiatory degrees which are staged by Masonic organizations are generally plays in which the candidate is a principal actor. Music has…Read more Ivanhoe Masonic Quartettes

President John Quincy Adams’ Quarrel with the Freemasons

Edited and Introduced by Guillermo De Los Reyes Such was the revulsion in the United States over the purported murder of William Morgan, an upstate New Yorker who in 1826 disappeared after threatening to expose Masonic secrets, that political groups campaigned to drive Masons out…Read more President John Quincy Adams’ Quarrel with the Freemasons

Royal Arch Masonry in Pennsylvania

by William J. Paterson The Royal Arch is a Masonic degree as well as a rite of several degrees that are close companions of the initial three Masonic degrees. Many Freemasons consider it the logical conclusion of the Masonic initiation. It was conferred in America…Read more Royal Arch Masonry in Pennsylvania

Freemasonry in All Ages

by Rev. M.F. Carey The tension in Freemasonry over its legendary and real origins and with its Enlightenment ethos in contrast with Christian views is apparent in this work by an Irish Episcopalian priest who came to American in the later part of the nineteenth…Read more Freemasonry in All Ages

The Lodge of Washington and His Neighbors

Purchase through Amazon  |  Purchase from CreateSpace By Charles H. Calahan In 1928, the Masonic lodge that George Washington had presided over as Worshipful Master gathered anecdote about his connections with Alexandria, Virginia, and commissioned photographs of relics and places that provide unusual insights into his…Read more The Lodge of Washington and His Neighbors

Freemasonry in Canada

Purchase through Amazon  |  Purchase on CreateSpace By Sheppard Osborne Since its appearance in 1915, Freemasonry in Canada has been a starting point for any serious discussion of Canadian lodge history. It was remarkable in its time for covering not only developments in the Canadian…Read more Freemasonry in Canada

Ancient Masonic Mysteries: John Perry’s The Freemason’s Gift

Purchase through Amazon  |  Purchase through CreateSpace Edited and Introduced by Guillermo De Los Reyes The antiquity of Freemasonry is much debated. As a philosophical and ritualistic society, rather than a group of stonemasons, it certainly existed in the seventeenth century. But its beginnings are…Read more Ancient Masonic Mysteries: John Perry’s The Freemason’s Gift

The Wisdom of Thomas Starr King: Thomas Starr King’s Substance and Show

Purchase through Amazon  |  Purchase through CreateSpace Two peaks, one in New Hampshire’s White Mountains and one in Yosemite National Park, are named after Thomas Starr King. He left a brilliant career in Boston to go to San Francisco in 1860, where his convincing oratory…Read more The Wisdom of Thomas Starr King: Thomas Starr King’s Substance and Show

Young Freemasons?: Frank S. Land’s Order of DeMolay

Purchase through Amazon  |  Purchase on CreateSpace Edited and Introduced by Guillermo De Los Reyes The Order of DeMolay is a puzzle.  It originated in the United States but is widespread, with chapters in Italy and Japan and Germany as well as Latin America and…Read more Young Freemasons?: Frank S. Land’s Order of DeMolay

New Sources on Women and Freemasonry

 Purchase through Amazon  |  Purchase on CreateSpace Edited and Introduced by Pierre Mollier There has been a great lack in international scholarship concerned with ritual and secrecy because so much of the good work is being done in languages that the mono-lingual English-speaking world has…Read more New Sources on Women and Freemasonry

Masonic Secret Signs and Passwords: The 1856 Edition of Jeremy L. Cross’s The True Masonic Chart 

Purchase through Amazon Edited and Introduced by Guillermo De Los Reyes Contrary to what people think about Masonic secrecy, over the centuries a number of books have revealed much about what goes on in lodges.  Certainly Jeremy Cross was relied on as a crib for…Read more Masonic Secret Signs and Passwords: The 1856 Edition of Jeremy L. Cross’s The True Masonic Chart 

How Washington Lost His Birthday and Other Masonic Essays: Gaston Lichtenstein’s How George Washington Lost His Birthday

Purchase through Amazon Edited and Introduced by Guillermo De Los Reyes This book by Gaston Lichtenstein is an antiquarian’s pleasure. An antiquarian is an enthusiast for things historical, and historians sometime regard being called an antiquarian as an insult, as a slur on their scholarship.…Read more How Washington Lost His Birthday and Other Masonic Essays: Gaston Lichtenstein’s How George Washington Lost His Birthday

Meeting Minutes of Naval Lodge No. 4 F.A.A.M. 1812

Purchase through Amazon  |  Purchase through CreateSpace Edited and Introduced by Isaiah Akin This book contains the Meeting minutes of Naval Lodge No. 4 F.A.A.M. of Washington DC from 1812, along with articles about the people mentioned and the Washington Navy Yard where many of…Read more Meeting Minutes of Naval Lodge No. 4 F.A.A.M. 1812

Anti-Masonry and the Murder of Morgan: Lee S. Tillotson’s Ancient Craft Masonry in Vermont

Purchase through Amazon  |  Purchase through CreateSpace Edited and Introduced by Guillermo De Los Reyes The anti-Masonic movement during the 1820s and 1830s is sometimes related by scholars to the development of the American party system.  Certainly individuals migrated to the Know Nothing and Whig…Read more Anti-Masonry and the Murder of Morgan: Lee S. Tillotson’s Ancient Craft Masonry in Vermont

Earl Warren’s Masonic Lodge: Herbert Phillips’ Fifty Year History of Sequoia Lodge

Purchase through Amazon  Long before Earl Warren was a famous governor of California and then an important Chief Justice of the United States, he was forging a career in Freemasonry. Starting as an officer and eventually master of a local lodge whose history is recounted…Read more Earl Warren’s Masonic Lodge: Herbert Phillips’ Fifty Year History of Sequoia Lodge

L’Enfant and the Freemasons: H. Paul Caemmer’s The Life of Pierre Charles L’Enfant

Purchase through Amazon  Edited and Introduced by Guillermo De Los Reyes The papers of Hans Paul Caemmerer (1922-1954) are deposited in the National Archives and include considerable correspondence concerning this book about Pierre Charles L’Enfant (1754–1825). It was Caemmerer who dispelled the belief that L’Enfant was…Read more L’Enfant and the Freemasons: H. Paul Caemmer’s The Life of Pierre Charles L’Enfant

Masonic Tombstones and Masonic Secrets: Dora C. Jett’s Minor Sketches of Major Folk

Purchase through Amazon Edited and Introduced by Paul Rich Freemasonry carries its secrets beyond death. Masonic funeral ceremonies, the placing of the apron and sprig of acacia in the coffin, and internment rites at burial are part of Craft’s rituals. The carvings on tombstones of…Read more Masonic Tombstones and Masonic Secrets: Dora C. Jett’s Minor Sketches of Major Folk

Freemasonry in Old Buffalo: James Leroy Nixon’s History of Buffalo Consistory

Purchase through Amazon   Buffalo had a reputation for being the “last city in the East” in terms of social mores, and in its heyday supported clubs and societies that had much in common with those in New York and Philadelphia. Some of these still survive,…Read more Freemasonry in Old Buffalo: James Leroy Nixon’s History of Buffalo Consistory

The Genius of Freemasonry: William B. Clarke’s Leaves From Georgia Masonry

Purchase through Amazon  The reader with a curiosity about the secrets of Freemasonry is confronted with a vast and eccentric literature, much of which is highly fanciful and often completely fictional. Finding books that have their feet on the ground, so to speak, is not easy. This…Read more The Genius of Freemasonry: William B. Clarke’s Leaves From Georgia Masonry

The Thomas Starr King Dispute: Acceptance and Unveiling of the Statues of Junipero Serra and Thomas Starr King

Purchase through Amazon  The Reverend Thomas Starr King left the amenities of bookish and comfortable Boston, where he was lionized as a charismatic and courageous preacher, to take a struggling Unitarian pulpit in a San Francisco that in the 1850s was hardly the sophisticated city…Read more The Thomas Starr King Dispute: Acceptance and Unveiling of the Statues of Junipero Serra and Thomas Starr King

The Pope and the Freemasons: The Letter “Humanum Genus” of the Pope, Leo, XIII against Free-Masonry and the Spirit of the Age

Purchase through Amazon   By Pope Leo XIII Popes have never been enthusiastic about Freemasonry. Clement XII condemned the order in 1738, as did Benedict XIV in 1751. This was followed by interdicts by Pius VII in 1821, Leo XII in 1826, Pius VIII in 1829,…Read more The Pope and the Freemasons: The Letter “Humanum Genus” of the Pope, Leo, XIII against Free-Masonry and the Spirit of the Age