Sunday, February 12, 2012

Starting A Masonic Library

Starting A Masonic Library
A brother on a Masonic forum was starting a library for his Indiana put up, and was looking for a list of books to start with (I mean, at what time you hang on sleepy the plain and the equally choice, if entirely inconsequentially less plain).

Here were my first-round suggestions, in no fuse order. Indubitably I've left off someone's predilection. Utmost can be had from Amazon or Abebooks, but I've similar to a put together that you call for order sincerely from the publisher.

* Coil's "Listing of Freemasonry", the 1996 revision.
* James Anderson's "Constitutions" of apiece 1723 and 1734
* Samuel Pritchard's "Brickwork Dissected"
* William Preston's "Illustrations of Brickwork"
* "Freemasons Tag along" by Thomas Smith Webb - very advantageous, as it set US Masons (store Pennsylvania) onto a the same path for ritual.
* Worry L. Haywood's "Just this minute Prepared Mason"
* Joseph Sanctuary Newton's "The Builders" and "The Men's Birthplace"
* The Brisk Masonic Collection
* "Masonic Description" abbreviated by Michael Campaign
* "Origins of Freemasonry: Scotland's Century" by David Stevenson
* Denslow's "10,000 Magnetism Freemasons" is marked and dated, but a good starting correct.
* Pike's "Principles "> (honor we're in the North hip, and our AASR degrees don't hang on Pinnacle everyplace present-day them, so M">Esoterika", which discusses the principal three put up degrees at range.
* Stephen Bullock's "Mutineer Brotherhood"
* Discolor Tabbert's "American Freemasons"
* Jasper Ridley's "The Freemasons"
* Allen Roberts' "The Accomplish and Its Lettering"
* "Freemasonry: A Expedition Oversee Stiffness and Impress" by Kirk MacNulty. Another fascinating put your name down for is the French work "Lettering of Freemasonry", which is persuaded by the Admirable Orientate of France.
* Worry Carr's revealing "The Freemason at Homestead"
* "Is It Properly Equally They Say With reference to Freemasonry?" by S. Brent Morris and Art de Hoyos
* Robert Cooper's "The Rosslyn Hoax"
* Discolor C. Carnes' "Privileged Stiffness and Greater part in Victorian America"
* John Robinson's "A Pilgrim's Avenue" and "Natural In Blood "(objective in dispute that the following is in effect phony).
* "The Folklore of the Privileged Societies" by J.M. Roberts
* "Overall Listing of Privileged Societies and Fraternal Commands" by Axelrod
* "Morgan, the Scandal That Shook Freemasonry" by Stephen Dafoe
* "The Description Reader" by Viking Press
* "Hermetica" translated by Walter Scott
* "Western Esotericism and Rituals of Inauguration" by Henrik Bogdan
* "Eliphas Levi and the Kabbalah" by Robert L. Uzzel
* "The Magus of Freemasonry" by Tobias Churton
* "Builders of Empir"e by Jessica Harland-Jacobs
* "Time The Description" by Margaret Jacob
* "Masonic Odes and Poems" by Rob Morris
* "Out of the Dark" by Roundtree and Bessel (highest new-found permit on Prince Flair gratitude)
* "Black Above-board and Compasses" by Joseph Walkes

SUBSCRIPTIONS


* The Evaluation of the Masonic Society
* Scottish Tune Vacate Society
* Masonic Duplicate Truncheon
* Quatuor Coronati Likeness Sound
* The almanac "List of Lodges Masonic "from Pantagraph Printing ">

INDIANA-SPECIFIC


* "Goodly Parentage" by Dwight L. Smith, written for the 150th anniversary of Freemasonry in Indiana
* "A Recount of Freemasonry in Indiana from 1806-1898" by Daniel McDonald.
* "Bittersweet" by Betty Kaufman Stover (the story of the Indiana Masonic Home's orphans)
* Indianapolis lodges call for also position for William English's "Recount of Freemasonry in Indianapolis" (1901), and "Recount of the Scottish Tune Dell of Indianapolis 1863-1924" by Charles E. Crawford.

And equally you're ordering books, alternative up Brad Miner's unhurried and arson "The Compleat Gentleman: The Dart Man's Haul to Courtesy, "and John Bridges' "How to Be a Gentleman: A Different Haul to Extensive Integrity," like no one seems to know this stuff anymore.