The Masonic Shelf
The Craft, its symbols and its historians.
Speculative Freemasonry emerged from the stonemasons’ lodges of Britain in the late seventeenth century and by 1800 had spread worldwide. Its rituals turned the builder’s tools into moral symbols, and its higher degrees absorbed Hermetic, Kabbalistic and chivalric lore.
This shelf keeps the Craft’s interpreters together, Albert Mackey’s symbolism, Albert Pike’s Morals and Dogma, Wilmshurst’s The Meaning of Masonry, alongside ritual monitors and the exposés and critiques that shadowed Masonry from the start. Every item is also tagged Freemasonry for searching.
On This Shelf (28)
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite
Albert Pike
The History of Freemasonry, Its Antiquities, Symbols, Constitutions, Customs, &c.: Embracing an Investigation of the Records of the Organisations of the Fraternity in England, Scotland, Ireland, British Colonies, France, Germany, and the United States
Robert Freke Gould
An Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry and Its Kindred Sciences, Comprising the Whole Range of Arts, Sciences and Literature as Connected with the Institution
Albert G. Mackey
An Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry and Its Kindred Sciences, Comprising the Whole Range of Arts, Sciences and Literature as Connected with the Institution
Albert G. Mackey
English · Secret Societies
Some Deeper Aspects of Masonic Symbolism
Arthur Edward Waite
Collected Essays & Papers Relating to Freemasonry
Robert Freke Gould
