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Chicago Mendelssohn Club - Third Concert, Thursday Evening, April Thirtieth, Nineteen Hundred and Fourteen, Orchestra Hall... Chicago Mendelssohn Club - Third Concert, Thursday Evening, April Thirtieth, Nineteen Hundred and Fourteen, Orchestra Hall (Hardcover)
Chicago Mendelssohn Club
R716 Discovery Miles 7 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Freemasonry and Catholicism (Hardcover): Max Heindel Freemasonry and Catholicism (Hardcover)
Max Heindel
R490 Discovery Miles 4 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Negro Freemasonry and Segregation Hardcover (Hardcover): Donn A Cass Negro Freemasonry and Segregation Hardcover (Hardcover)
Donn A Cass
R741 R652 Discovery Miles 6 520 Save R89 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Masonic Fair Souvenir - Held in Masonic Temple, Rochester, N.Y., December First to Thirteenth, Nineteen Hundred Two... Masonic Fair Souvenir - Held in Masonic Temple, Rochester, N.Y., December First to Thirteenth, Nineteen Hundred Two (Hardcover)
Anonymous
R823 Discovery Miles 8 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Natural Table - Natural Table of Correspondences Which Exist Between God, Man and the Universe (Hardcover): Piers A. Vaughan Natural Table - Natural Table of Correspondences Which Exist Between God, Man and the Universe (Hardcover)
Piers A. Vaughan; Louis Claude De Saint-Martin
R1,203 R1,011 Discovery Miles 10 110 Save R192 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Official History of Freemasonry Among the Colored People in North America - ; c.1 (Hardcover): Wm H (William Henry) 184 Grimshaw Official History of Freemasonry Among the Colored People in North America - ; c.1 (Hardcover)
Wm H (William Henry) 184 Grimshaw
R1,041 Discovery Miles 10 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Outlaw Bikers and Ancient Warbands - Hyper-Masculinity and Cultural Continuity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Carl  Bradley Outlaw Bikers and Ancient Warbands - Hyper-Masculinity and Cultural Continuity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Carl Bradley
R1,869 Discovery Miles 18 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is the first to compare the shared cultural tenets of ancient warbands and outlaw biker gangs. It argues that the values of hyper-masculinity can be traced from the former into the contemporary environment of the latter: codes of honour, loyalty and bravery have prioritised small groups of males over women and other men, creating a history of hyper-masculinity that shows little sign of stopping. Indeed, Outlaw Bikers and Ancient Warbands: Hyper-Masculinity and Cultural Continuity argues that such hyper-masculine culture can be found in many male groups such as the police, military and sports, and that if we want to understand hyper-masculinity and face it as a society then we need to recognize that outlaw bikers are a reflection of behavior that has a very long tradition. This pioneering work explores these issues from ancient times and into the future.

The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor - Initiatic and Historical Documents of an Order of Practical Occultism (Paperback, New... The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor - Initiatic and Historical Documents of an Order of Practical Occultism (Paperback, New edition)
R719 R681 Discovery Miles 6 810 Save R38 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, active in the last decades of the 19th century, was the only order of its time that taught practical occultism in the Western Mystery Tradition. This is the first complete and undistorted account, tracing the origins, founders, and practices of this very secretive order, which counted among its members many of the well-known figures of late 19th-century occultism, spiritualism, and Theosophy, including Max Theon, Peter Davidson, Thomas Henry Burgoyne and Paschal Beverly Randolph. This scholarly work provides all the materials for revisioning the history, assigning the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor its rightful place as one of the most influential esoteric orders of its time.

The Foundations of Modern Freemasonry - The Grand Architects: Political Change and the Scientific Enlightenment, 1714-1740... The Foundations of Modern Freemasonry - The Grand Architects: Political Change and the Scientific Enlightenment, 1714-1740 (Paperback)
Ric Berman
R1,108 Discovery Miles 11 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Following the appointment of its first aristocratic Grand Masters in the 1720s and in the wake of its connections to the scientific Enlightenment, Free and Accepted' Masonry became part of Britain's national profile and the largest and most influential of Britain's extensive clubs and societies. The organisation did not evolve naturally from the mediaeval guilds and religious orders that pre-dated it but was reconfigured radically by a largely self-appointed inner core at London's most influential lodge, the Horn Tavern. Freemasonry became a vehicle for the expression of their philosophical and political views, and the Craft' attracted an aspirational membership across the upper middling and gentry. Through an examination of previously unexplored primary documentation, Foundations contributes to an understanding of contemporary English political and social culture and explores how Freemasonry became a mechanism that promoted the interests of the Hanoverian establishment and connected the metropolitan and provincial elites. The book explores social networks centred on the aristocracy, parliament, the learned and professional societies, and the magistracy, and provides pen portraits of the key individuals who spread the Masonic message. "Foundations & Schism" (Sussex Academic, 2013), have been described as the most important books on English Freemasonry published in recent times', providing a precise, social context for the invention of English Freemasonry'. Berman's analysis throws a new and original light on the formation and development of what rapidly became a national and international phenomenon.

The Anglo-American Establishment - Original Edition (Hardcover): Carroll Quigley The Anglo-American Establishment - Original Edition (Hardcover)
Carroll Quigley
R799 Discovery Miles 7 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Professor Carroll Quigley presents crucial "keys" without which 20th century political, economic, and military events can never be fully understood. The reader will see that this applies to events past-present-and future. "The Rhodes Scholarships, established by the terms of Cecil Rhode's seventh will, are known to everyone. What is not so widely known is that Rhodes in five previous wills left his fortune to form a secret society, which was to devote itself to the preservation and expansion of the British Empire. And what does not seem to be known to anyone is that this secret society ... continues to exist to this day. ... This group is, as I shall show, one of the most important historical facts of the twentieth century." -Quigley

The History of Freemasonry; From the Building of the House of the Lord, and Its Progress Throughout the Civilized World, Down... The History of Freemasonry; From the Building of the House of the Lord, and Its Progress Throughout the Civilized World, Down to the Present Time. (Hardcover)
James William S. Mitchell
R1,321 Discovery Miles 13 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The only history of ancient craft masonry ever published, except a sketch of forty-eight pages by Doctor Anderson in 1723. To which is addeed a history of the craft in the United States. And a well authenticated account of the initiation and passing of the Hon. Mrs. Aldworth, the distinguished and only lady freemason. By J.W.S. Mitchell ...

Proofs of a Conspiracy Against All the Religions and Governments of Europe - Carried on in the Secret Meetings of Free Masons,... Proofs of a Conspiracy Against All the Religions and Governments of Europe - Carried on in the Secret Meetings of Free Masons, Illuminati, and Reading Societies (Hardcover)
John 1739-1805 Robison; Created by John Adams Library (Boston Public Lib, John 1735-1826 Adams
R910 Discovery Miles 9 100 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Ars Quatuor Coronatorum - Being the Transactions of the Lodge Quatuor Coronati, No. 2076, London; 5 (Hardcover): No Freemasons... Ars Quatuor Coronatorum - Being the Transactions of the Lodge Quatuor Coronati, No. 2076, London; 5 (Hardcover)
No Freemasons Quatuor Coronati Lodge
R913 Discovery Miles 9 130 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Traveling East and Beyond - Volume I (Hardcover): Ronald E. Young 33- Traveling East and Beyond - Volume I (Hardcover)
Ronald E. Young 33-
R1,314 R1,127 Discovery Miles 11 270 Save R187 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

CONSEQUITER QUODCUNQUE PETIT, CONSTANTIA DILLENGENTIA ET COR IMMOBILE SANS PEUR

Freemasonry is worldwide, to know and understand in one country is to know and understand in another although there may be some language barriers, the mode of recognition is the same.

According to Modern Scholars, and Historians, Modern Freemasonry officially began in London, England in 1717 at the Goose and Gridiron Tavern.

There has been dispute among Masonic Historians that Freemasonry origins date back to the beginning of mankind. There are theories which date back to Adam and Eve, Solomon in the building of the Temple in Jerusalem, the building of the Tower of Babel, Alexander the Great, Leonidus king of Spartica, Noah in the building of the Ark, the Ancient Mysteries, and so on. Whatever the case may be, Freemasonry as it is today is based on all these theories, whether true, fables, or just conjured stories, they are the baseline for what we know today as Freemasonry.

According to Scholars, and Historians, Ancient Craft Masonry commenced with the creation of the world, calling it Ano Lucis (A.L.), "in the year of light" 4000 years prior to the Christian era, thus, 4000 plus 2004 = A.L. 6004. Royal Arch Masonry dates from the year the second temple was commenced by Zerubbabel, Anno Inventionis (A.I.), "in the year of discovery," 530 years prior to the Christian era, thus, 530 plus 2004 = A.I. 2534. Order of the High Priesthood date from the year of the blessing of Abraham by the High Priest Melchizedek, Anno Benedictionis (A.B.), "in the year of the blessing," 1913 years prior to the Christian era, thus 1913 plus 2004 = A.B. 3917. Royal and Select Masters date from the year in which the temple of King Solomon was completed Anno Depositions (A. Dep.) "In the year of deposit,"1000 years prior to the Christian era, thus 1000 plus 2004 = A. Dep. 3004. Knights Templar date from the year of the organization of the ancient order, Anno Ordinis (A.O.), "in the year of the Order," 1118 years into the Christian era, thus 2004 - 1118 = A.O. 886.

HE OBTAINS WHATEVER HE SEEKS BY PERSEVERANCE, DILIGENCE AND A STEADFAST HEART, WITHOUT FEAR.

Thomas Dunckerley and English Freemasonry (Paperback): Susan Mitchell Sommers Thomas Dunckerley and English Freemasonry (Paperback)
Susan Mitchell Sommers
R1,156 Discovery Miles 11 560 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Updated with a new preface, this study provides a comprehensive biography of Thomas Dunckerley. An eighteenth-century success story, Dunckerley rose from obscurity to a twenty-year-long career in the Royal Navy, the centerpiece of which was the famous Siege of Quebec. He retired from the navy to climb to the highest echelons of English Freemasonry, holding Grand Masterships and Provincial Grand Masterships across England and across Orders. He was a tender family man, an inspiring leader and heroic patriot. He also had a secret. When Dunckerley was in his forties, his mother left a deathbed confession of her seduction and adultery-and his illegitimacy. As Dunckerley revealed his mother's confession, his friends and Masonic colleagues were thunderstruck to discover he was not the son of a porter at Somerset House, but of the late King George II. For his contemporaries and biographers, all good things in his later career seemed to flow from this revelation. His mother's confession was not Dunckerley's real secret, however. What he actually hid, even from his wife of fifty years, was that the confession, the seduction, the hidden royal birth were all lies-so well-crafted that even now, more than two hundred years after his death, they are still held as Masonic gospel.

Violence and Order on the Chengdu Plain - The Story of a Secret Brotherhood in Rural China, 1939-1949 (Hardcover): Di Wang Violence and Order on the Chengdu Plain - The Story of a Secret Brotherhood in Rural China, 1939-1949 (Hardcover)
Di Wang
R2,629 Discovery Miles 26 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In 1939, residents of a rural village near Chengdu watched as Lei Mingyuan, a member of a violent secret society known as the Gowned Brothers, executed his teenage daughter. Six years later, Shen Baoyuan, a sociology student at Yenching University, arrived in the town to conduct fieldwork on the society that once held sway over local matters. She got to know Lei Mingyuan and his family, recording many rare insights about the murder and the Gowned Brothers' inner workings. Using the filicide as a starting point to examine the history, culture, and organization of the Gowned Brothers, Di Wang offers nuanced insights into the structures of local power in 1940s rural Sichuan. Moreover, he examines the influence of Western sociology and anthropology on the way intellectuals in the Republic of China perceived rural communities. By studying the complex relationship between the Gowned Brothers and the Chinese Communist Party, he offers a unique perspective on China's transition to socialism. In so doing, Wang persuasively connects a family in a rural community, with little overt influence on national destiny, to the movements and ideologies that helped shape contemporary China.

Freemasonry and Its Etiquette Hardcover (Hardcover): William Campbell-Everden Freemasonry and Its Etiquette Hardcover (Hardcover)
William Campbell-Everden
R1,198 R1,016 Discovery Miles 10 160 Save R182 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Records of Capitular Masonry in the State of Connecticut - With a Brief History of the Early Chapters, and the Proceedings of... Records of Capitular Masonry in the State of Connecticut - With a Brief History of the Early Chapters, and the Proceedings of the Grand Chapter, From Its Organization, A.D. 1798 (Hardcover)
Royal Arch Masons Grand Chapter (Con, Joseph Kellogg 1834- Com Wheeler
R938 Discovery Miles 9 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Oxford Freemasons - A Social History of Apollo University Lodge (Hardcover): Joe Mordaunt Crook, James Daniel Oxford Freemasons - A Social History of Apollo University Lodge (Hardcover)
Joe Mordaunt Crook, James Daniel
R1,170 Discovery Miles 11 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Over the past 200 years, many thousands of undergraduates have been initiated into membership of Apollo - the Masonic lodge of the University of Oxford. These have included such diverse figures as Oscar Wilde, Osbert Lancaster, Samuel Reynolds Hole, Cecil Rhodes, Edward, Prince of Wales and his brother Leopold, Charles Canning, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Godfrey Elton and Roger Makins. Drawing on archives held in the Bodleian Library, this book is the first serious attempt to set the story of Apollo in the context of Oxford life and learning as well as its wider social and political diaspora. From the devastating numbers lost in the First and Second World Wars, as well as those decorated for bravery, to the significant number of Olympians who were members of the lodge, it also charts the lodge's charitable work, its changes of location, social events and adaptation to twenty-first-century life in Oxford. Illustrated with archival material, portraits and Masonic treasures, this is history in a minor key, but a minor narrative with major implications, documenting the remarkable numbers of Oxford freemasons with distinguished careers in government, law, the army and the Church.

So Much Bad in the Best of Us - The Salacious and Audacious Life of John W. Talbot (Paperback): Greta Fisher So Much Bad in the Best of Us - The Salacious and Audacious Life of John W. Talbot (Paperback)
Greta Fisher
R538 Discovery Miles 5 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

From supreme president to forgotten enemy, John W. Talbot lived a remarkable life. Charismatic, energetic, and powerful, he founded a national fraternal organization, the Order of Owls, and counted senators, congressmen, and business leaders among his friends. He wielded his influence to help causes close to his heart but also to bring down those who stood against him. In So Much Bad in the Best of Us, Greta Fisher's careful research reveals that Talbot was capable of great evil, causing one woman to describe him as "the Devil Incarnate." His string of very public affairs revealed his strange sexual preferences and violent tendencies, and charges leveled against him included perjury, blackmail, jury tampering, slander, libel, misuse of the mail, assault with intent to kill, and White slavery. Ultimately convicted on the slavery charge, he spent several years in Leavenworth penitentiary and eventually lost everything, including control of the Order of Owls. His descent into alcoholism and death by fire was a fitting end to a tumultuous and dramatic life. After 50 years of newspaper headlines and court battles, Talbot's death made national news, but with more enemies than friends and estranged from his family, he was ultimately forgotten. A gripping true crime story, So Much Bad in the Best of Us offers a mesmerizing account of the life of John W. Talbot, the Order of Owls, and how quickly the powerful can fall.

Rough Mason, Mason, Freemason, Accepted Mason (Paperback): Oscar Patterson Rough Mason, Mason, Freemason, Accepted Mason (Paperback)
Oscar Patterson
R1,051 Discovery Miles 10 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Modern Freemasonry in the United States and Great Britain celebrates its 300th anniversary in 2017 tracing its direct history from the Grand Lodge of England founded in 1717. This text is intended to provide a theory of origin for the Fraternity. It is based on available sources, many of which are not Masonic in nature, but cover the disciplines of history, religion, ethics, economics, politics, and labor development. The book begins with an overview of how the Fraternity initiated members in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and includes the ancient Legend of Noah. It then reviews how history is written and exams the utilization of Biblical and legendary accounts in the development of a country's, peoples', or organization's history. The text moves on to the transition from craft guild to fraternal organization and gives the full text of Freemasonry's four oldest documents: Regius Poem, Cooke Manuscript, Graham Manuscript, and Schaw Statutes. This is followed by a description of the London Masons' Company based on the assumption that this city-wide organization of craftsmen chartered in 1481 may have been the administrative precursor of the Grand Lodge of England. The author then reviews the demise of craft guilds and the rise of fraternal societies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Additional chapters review the Masonic approach to ritual, education, and ethical decision making. The text closes with a discussion of the philosophy of Freemasonry as well as comments and suggestions regarding Freemasonry's future. The last chapter is a Scottish Charge appropriate to all men, not just Freemasons.

The Apron - Its Traditions, History and Secret Significances (Hardcover): Frank C (Francis Carlos) B Higgins The Apron - Its Traditions, History and Secret Significances (Hardcover)
Frank C (Francis Carlos) B Higgins
R689 Discovery Miles 6 890 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Interpreting Masonic Ritual (Paperback): Oscar Patterson Interpreting Masonic Ritual (Paperback)
Oscar Patterson
R904 Discovery Miles 9 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Interpreting Masonic Ritual endeavors to addresses the depth of the ritualistic experience through a discussion of what ritual means to man as well as what man means to ritual. Ritual teaches us about reality but we will not come to a full understanding of it if we disparage what others do and view their actions from a position of pseudo-intellectual or cultural superiority. Ritual is the core of Freemasonry and is that thing which sets it apart from so many organizations. It is the key to the Freemason's "secrets" and the manner through which they transmit our "beautiful system of morality." It is something to be treasured, maintained, taught, elevated, evaluated, and, above, reinforced through proper performance, decorum, and setting.

Histoire Des Jacobins, Depuis 1789 Jusqu'a Ce Jour, Ou Etat De L'europe En Novembre 1820; Par L'auteur De... Histoire Des Jacobins, Depuis 1789 Jusqu'a Ce Jour, Ou Etat De L'europe En Novembre 1820; Par L'auteur De L'histoire Des Societes Secretes (French, Paperback)
Vincent Lombard
R566 Discovery Miles 5 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
La Franc-Maconnerie Dans Sa Veritable Signification, Ou Son Organisation, Son but Et Son Histoire; Tr., Et Augmente De... La Franc-Maconnerie Dans Sa Veritable Signification, Ou Son Organisation, Son but Et Son Histoire; Tr., Et Augmente De Documents Sur La Franc-Maconnerie Belge Et Francaise, Par L'abbe Gyr (French, Paperback)
Eduard Emil Eckert
R640 Discovery Miles 6 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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