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Ian Gittins. Unlocking the Masonic Code: The Secrets of the Solomon Key
Unlocking the Masonic Code: The Secret of the Solomon Key. Ian Gittins
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
What is Freemasonry?
How do you join the Freemasons?
Men Only
- 1 - THE REAL HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY
The Building of King Solomon’s Temple
The Hiramic Legend: The Murder of Hiram Abiff
The Widow’s Son
Medieval Masons
The origins of the term Freemason
The Regius Manuscript
King Athelstan
The Cooke Manuscript
From Operative to Speculative
The Schaw Statutes
The Grand Lodges
Deference Within Masonry?
Antients and Moderns
Masonry gets a Constitutional
Rome is not amused
Catholicism vs Freemasonry Today
Freemasonry in France
Dr Joseph Guillotine
Recognition
Freemasonry in America
Prince Hall Masons
Swearing on a Masonic Bible
Masons—or murderers?
American Civil War
The Very First Time I Saw Your Fez
Freemasonry and the Second World War
Post-war to the Twenty-first Century
- 2 - THE NOTIONAL HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY: GREAT CONSPIRACY THEORIES
THE NOTIONAL HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY
The Wisdom of Solomon
Dionysian Artificers
Four Crowned Martyrs
FREEMASONRY: GREAT CONSPIRACY THEORIES
Who were the Knights Templar?
The Secrets of the Templars?
The Dead Sea Scrolls
From Templars to Masons?
Were Templars at Bannockburn?
The Mystery of Rosslyn Chapel
Welcome to America: the Pre-Columbus Templars?
New Ideas for a New Land
The Rosenkreuz Myth
A Masonic Revolution?
Warren, Revere and Hancock
Founding A Nation
Franklin in France
George Washington the Mason
The Secrets of the Seal
Snuffing Out The Illuminati
Baphomet
Masons Not Welcome
Masonry and Racism
The Bilderberg Group
- 3 - INSIDE THE LODGE—MASONIC RITUALS AND SYMBOLS
The First Lodges
Three Great Lights
In The Key of G
The Masonic Seating Plan
The Wardens Have Wood
INNER GUARD
SENIOR STEWARD
JUNIOR STEWARD
Blue Lodge
TYLER
SECRETARY
TREASURER
Cowans and Lions
CHAPLAIN
DIRECTOR OF CEREMONIES
ALMONER
CHARITY STEWARD
ORGANIST
IMMEDIATE PAST MASTER
The Masonic apron
THE MASONIC DEGREE CEREMONIES
NOTES
The Three Degrees
ENTERED APPRENTICE DEGREE
Idiosyncrasies and Differences
Cable-Tow
No More Tongue-Lashings
The Dark Hand of Masonry?
Festive Board
FELLOW CRAFT DEGREE
Shibboleth
Three Precious Jewels
MASTER MASON DEGREE
The Third Degree
Going Slipshod
Tubalcain
The Fatal Maul
The Helpful Sailor
Quiet as The Grave
The Lion of Judah
Appendant Degrees
The York Rite
Royal Arch Masonry
MARK MASTER
PAST MASTER
MOST EXCELLENT MASTER
ROYAL ARCH
Jahbulon
Only The Key is Wanting
The Missing Link?
Cryptic Masonry
ROYAL MASTER
SELECT MASTER
SUPER EXCELLENT MASTER
Chivalric Masonry
ILLUSTRIOUS ORDER OF THE RED CROSS
ORDER OF MALTA
ORDER OF THE TEMPLE
Scottish Rite
Only in America
Lodge Of Perfection
Tetragrammaton
Chapter of Rose Croix
Masons and the Rose Cross (Croix)
Council of Kadosh
Kabbalah
Consistory Degrees
NOTES
The 33rd degree. 33) INSPECTOR GENERAL
- 4 - MASONIC SYMBOLS—A BRIEF GUIDE
24-INCH GAUGE
47TH PROPOSITION OF EUCLID
ACACIA
ALL-SEEING EYE
ANCHOR AND THE ARK
ASHLARS
BEEHIVE
CABLE-TOW
CHALK, CHARCOAL AND CLAY
CIRCUMAMBULATION
COFFIN AND SPADE
COMPASS
CORN, WINE AND OIL
CORNUCOPIA
DOUBLE-HEADED EAGLE
FIVE-POINTED STAR
G
GAVEL
HEART AND SWORD
HOODWINK
HOURGLASS
INDENTED TASSEL
JACOB’S LADDER
LAMB
LEVEL
MAUL
MASONIC APRON
MOSAIC PAVEMENT
NORTHEAST
PILLARS
PLUMB
POT OF INCENSE
SCYTHE
SLIPPER
SQUARE
SUPPORTS OF THE LODGE
TROWEL
TYLER’S SWORD AND THE BOOK OF CONSTITUTIONS
VOLUME OF SACRED LAW
WINDING STAIRCASE
- 5 - FAMOUS FREEMASONS
INDEX
Copyright
About the Publisher
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For Mum and Dad
Robert Burns, The Farewell to the Brethren of St James Lodge, Tarbolton (1786)
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The fifteen articles outline the basic requirements and responsibilities of a Master Mason. The first two explain that he should be honest (‘as a judge stand upright’), reliable, and pay his workmen fairly and on time. He should also attend every meeting of his chapter of Masons, unless ‘sickness hath him so strong / That he may not come them among’.
The majority of the articles thereafter deal with the relationship between the Master Mason and the Fellows of the Craft and Entered Apprentices beneath his command. The Mason should ensure that every apprentice is willing and able to study for seven years. He should not recruit a servant, lest his owner should remove him from service of the Craft, nor should he hire or initiate an apprentice who is ‘deformed’ or ‘maimed’ (in 1390, the more politically correct phrase ‘physically challenged’ clearly had yet to enter the lexicon).
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