by C. W. Towle Purchase through Amazon 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, redefined Freemasonry. The result was a folklore that has been likened to a Disney… Continue reading Stories for the American Freemason’s Fireside

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 president in 1896 was the beginning of an extraordinarily visible… Continue reading Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia – 1898

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 the hot summers. Over the years the lodge attracted a… Continue reading Lodge “Himalayan Brotherhood” No. 459 E.C.: Minute Books and Correspondence

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 letters, entering and leaving rooms – in short, conduct that… Continue reading Hints on Masonic Etiquette

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 in the eighteenth century, and continues to be given today.… Continue reading Royal Arch Masonry in Pennsylvania

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 century and immersed himself in Masonic study. Considering the passage… Continue reading Freemasonry in All Ages

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 career. Not the least of these artifacts is the old clock… Continue reading The Lodge of Washington and His Neighbors

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 provinces but also the course of special Masonic groups such… Continue reading Freemasonry in Canada

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 intertwined with the building of the great cathedrals of Europe,… Continue reading Ancient Masonic Mysteries: John Perry’s The Freemason’s Gift

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 Canada, and with rituals involving events in medieval Paris. It… Continue reading Young Freemasons?: Frank S. Land’s Order of DeMolay

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 nervous officers when they put on degrees, and his readers… Continue reading Masonic Secret Signs and Passwords: The 1856 Edition of Jeremy L. Cross’s The True Masonic Chart 

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 in this volume, he worked his way up the stairs… Continue reading Earl Warren’s Masonic Lodge: Herbert Phillips’ Fifty Year History of Sequoia Lodge