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Picks from the Senior Warden. E-mail me your recommendations.
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Note! Items listed below were found interesting by ME. They are in no way reccomendations of the Master or other officers of this Lodge, by Freemasonry, the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts or any sister/brother/mother Lodge. In addition, *I* may not even *agree* with many of the authors of the works. But I found them *interesting*!
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Born in Blood : The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry
by John J. Robinson
Hardcover - 376 pages (October 1990)
$24.95
"Lively...illuminating. A refreshing example of scholarly detective work." DSKirkus Reviews
For history buffs, curious Catholics, mystery lovers, and Freemasons everywhere comes the first comprehensive and objective book in more than 100 years on the world's largest fraternal organization.
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The Origins of Freemasonry : Scotland's Century, 1590-1710
by David Stevenson
Paperback (November 1990)
Cambridge University Press
$20.95
"This book is the only work on the origins of Freemasonry I have ever seen that ignores the movement's vast myth-making literature and focuses instead on the surviving records of the earliest known masonic lodges. Stevenson--who teaches history at the University of St. Andrews--paints a solid, sober, believable portrait of Freemasonry's rather prosaic origins in the operative masonic lodges of early 17th-century Scotland.
His study is a welcome and refreshing antidote to all the junk that has been written about Freemasonry in the past three centuries. It explodes Masonic authors' extravagant claims for an origin in ancient civilizations and possession of powerful supernatural secrets. It also undermines anti-Masonic authors' equally bizarre accusations of pacts with supernatural forces of evil. It replaces these fanciful images with the story of a remarkable human institution whose recent, humble, workaday origins are far more interesting than its myths." More about The Origins of Freemasonry : Scotland's Century, 1590-1710
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The Trial of the Templars
by Malcolm Barber
Paperback Reissue edition (September 1993)
Cambridge Univ Pr (Trd)
$12.95
A detailed account of the ordeal of the French Templars--arrested, tried and executed from 1307-1314 for
heretical crimes during the Inquisition. Although their confessions were extracted under torture, a number of the brothers survived to defend their Order until 1314.
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The Lost Keys of Freemasonry
by Manly P. Hall, J. Augustus Knapp (Illustrator)
Paperback - 110 pages (July 1996)
Philosophical Research Society
$12.95
Also known as The Secret of Hiram Abiff, this text was written for the Mason and non-Mason alike. Mr. Hall, himself an honorary 33 Mason, reveals the profounder aspects of this ancient Fraternity
which has been a source of inspiration to so many individuals through the centuries. The basic symbolism of the three degrees of the
Blue Lodge is explained and a chapter entitled "The Egyptian Initiate" is especially enlightening.
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The Hiram Key: Pharaohs, Freemasons and the Discovery of the Secret Scrolls of Jesus
by Christopher Knight, Robert Lomas
Paperback - 400 pages (February 1998)
$13.56
"Using rigorous analyses of ancient Egyptian records, the Old and New Testaments, early Christian and Rabbinical texts, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the
rituals of Freemasonry, Knight and Lomas have assembled a startling and controversial book which shows the original Jerusalem Church to be a political device for establishing control,
and the Bible to be far from literal truth." (From a published review.)
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The Meaning of Masonry
by W. L. Wilmhurst
Hardcover - 216 pages (January 1996)
$7.99
The papers here collected have been written with a view to promoting the deeper understanding of the meaning of Masonry; to providing the
explanation of it that one constantly hears called for. The meaning of Masonry, however, is a subject usually left entirely unexpounded and that accordingly remains largely unrealized by its members save such few as make it their private study. It seems
taken for granted that reception into the Order will automatically be accompanied by an ability to appreciate forthwith and at its full value all that one there finds. The contrary is the case, for Masonry is a
veiled and cryptic expression of the difficult science of spiritual life, and the understanding of it calls for special and informed guidance on the one hand,
and on the other a genuine and earnest desire for knowledge on the part of those seeking to be instructed.
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Holy Blood, Holy Grail
by Michael Baigent, Henry Lincoln, Richard Leigh
Mass Market Paperback Reissue edition (February 1983)
Dell Pub Co;
$6.00
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Genesis of the Grail Kings
by Laurence Gardner, Nicholas de Vere
Element Books (Feb. 2000)
316 pages, ardback
$26.95
"Our race, Homo sapien sapien, seems to have evolved out of nowhere--confounding anthropologists for years and dubbed Darwin's 'Missing Link'. Yet the answer has been with us all along. Genesis reveals Adam and Eve not as the first man and woman on earth, but as the first of a kind. The result of exhaustive archaeological, anthropological, and theological research, Genesis of the Grail Kings exposes 'Biblical myth' as manipulated fact, revealing:
Adam and Eve as the first kind of a particular breed of humans, resulting from genetic cloning of a human-like species with extraterrestrials.
All Biblical figures are descendents of pharaohs.
Joseph, the father of Jesus, was an alchemist, not a humble carpenter.
A startling piece of detective work that combines history, literary criticism, esoterica and archaeology, Genesis of the Grail Kings is the ultimate story of earthly kingship from its Mesopotamian foundation."
Okay, this is a weird one. Kinda neat, though!
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Happy to Meet, Sorrry to Part: A Collection of Masonic Poems
Stephen Dafoe, editor
Templar Books (November 1999)
100 pages, paperback
$5.95
Happy to Meet, Sorry to Part, is a collection of Masonic poems written by Freemasons, many of whom are well known in literary circles, while others are Masons for whom, time has erased all memory of their names. Perhaps what is most important is that their messages live on. In this volume are brief biographies and the melodic words of: Rudyard Kipling, Robbie Burns, Dr. Robert Morris, Joseph Fort Newton, Arthur Edward Waite, Albert Pike, and others.
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Freemasonry : A Journey Through Ritual and Symbol
by W. Kirk MacNutly, W. K. Macnulty
Paperback - 96 pages (September 1991)
Thames & Hudson
$13.56
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Francis Bacon's Personal Life Story
by Alfred Dodd
Paperback (March 1997)
Kessinger Publishing
$29.95
"The "Francis Bacon's Personal Life Story" champions the exemplary character of Francis Bacon and his extraordinary commitments to English literature, science and the making of a better world.
Dodd's book informs both the new student to the subject as well as advanced researchers on the historical relationship Bacon had with Masonry, Rosicrucianism, the authorship of Shakespeare, his Tudor identity and tumultuous relationship with Queen Elizabeth, Burleigh and Cecil, Essex, and other key Elizabethans by presenting Bacon as the guiding spirit behind the Renaissance period. The book which was once published as two separate volumes covers the Queen Elizabeth and King James eras. " More about Francis Bacon's Personal Life Story
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Morals and Dogma
by Albert Pike
Paperback (September 1991)
Kessinger Publishing
$45.00
If you read only one book on Freemasonry, this is it! "The teachings of these Readings are not sacramental, so far as they go beyond the realm of Morality into those of other domains of Thought and Truth. The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite uses the word 'Dogma' in its true sense, of doctrine, or teaching; and is not dogmatic in the odious sense of that term. Everyone is entirely free to reject and dissent from whatsoever herein may seem to him to be untrue or unsound. It is only required of him that he shall weigh what is taught, and give it fair hearing and unprejudiced judgment. Of course, the ancient theosophic and philosophic speculations are not embodied as part of the doctrines of the Rite; but because it is of interest and profit to know what the Ancient Intellect thought upon these subjects, and because nothing so conclusively proves the radical difference between our human and the animal nature, as the capacity of the human mind to entertain such speculations in regard to itself and the Deity." More about Morals and Dogma
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Mozart: The Freemason Musics
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Conductor: Martin Haselböck
Performer: Gottfried Hornik, Christoph Prégardien, et al.
Ensemble: Chorus Viennensis, Vienna Academy
March 8, 1995
Audio CD / DDD / Number of Discs: 1
$14.99
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Mozart: The Complete Masonic Music
Composer: Karl Georg von Reutter, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Conductor: Peter Maag
Performer: Kurt Equiluz, Kurt Rapf, et al.
Ensemble: Vienna Volksoper Chorus, Vienna Volksoper Orchestra, et al.
November, 1991
Audio CD / ADD / Number of Discs: 2
$9.49
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Mozart: The Magic Flute
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Conductor: Sir Neville Marriner
Performer: Francisco Araiza, Aldo Baldin, et al.
Ensemble: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
September, 1990
Audio CD / DDD / Number of Discs: 2
$30.33
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