Over the years many myths have built up about one of the founders of the Golden Dawn, Samuel L. MacGregor Mathers. Many of these have been created by those who wish to damn the Golden Dawn and its system of magic or by those who want to naively believe a bogus magical story about the Order and its founders. In King Over the Water, Golden Dawn magician Nick Farrell paints a picture of the founders of the Golden Dawn becoming out of their depth as the Order began to create magicians. Rather than painting Mathers as an eccentric genius, Farrell sees him as an autocratic fantasist. He sees Mathers struggling to keep up as his students rapidly became better than him at the system he created, and shows how he was unable to raise his game to help the Order develop further. In what is a portrait of the problems that could befall any esoteric leader, Farrell (author of Gathering The Magic, a textbook on magical group dynamics) reveals how Mathers' later rituals were an attempt to remove the magic from the system he created so that he could milk it for money. Included are previously unpublished papers from Mathers' own version of the Golden Dawn, the Alpha et Omega, including the original Z documents, the full version of the Book of the Tomb (a key document for creating a Vault of the Adepts), the original method for the consecration of the sword, and much more. King Over the Water is the prequel to Farrell's groundbreaking expose on the Alpha et Omega, Mathers' Last Secret, and provides another look into the mind of a magician that helped develop the magic we use today.

1907. Contents: Mysteries-Ancient, Egyptian, Adonisian, Dionysian, Eleusinian, and Mithraic; Solomon's Temple; Ancient Temples; Speculative Masonry; Revival; Degrees; Ritual; Book of the Law; Design of Freemasonry; Commandery; Knights of the Red Cross; Symbolism; Ancient Templars; Defense and Fall of Acre; Final Dissolution; Knights of Malta; Encyclopedia.

2011 Reprint of 1906 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Fully describes the first three degrees of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. Pike is best known for his major work, "Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry," originally published in 1871. "Morals and Dogma' was traditionally given to the candidate upon his receipt of the 14th degree of the Scottish Rite. This practice was stopped in 1974. "Morals and Dogma" has not been given to candidates since 1974. A classic work on the subject.

1924. Brotherly Love; Attendance; The Ideal Mason; DeMolay; For Love or Money; The Charity Fund; Masonic libraries; The Masonry You Make; Understanding; The Pledge; Those Symbols; Ancient Landmarks; Do you Study Geometry; Work to Do; Those Legends; plus much more!

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THIS 66 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Gnostics and their Remains Ancient and Mediaeval, by C. W. King. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766103811.

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THIS 24 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Symbolism of Freemasonry: Its Science, Philosophy, Legends, Myths and Symbolism, by Albert G. Mackey. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564594696.

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Contents: On the Hieroglyphical System of the Ancients; On the All Seeing Eye; The Serpent; The Cherubim; The Deluge; The Mysterious Darkness of the Third Degree; The Three Pillars, Wisdom, Strength, and Beauty; The Masonic Ladder; The Point Within the Circle; The Masonic Apron; The Government of the Lodge; Conclusion of the Course.

THIS 68 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor, by Malcolm C. Duncan. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564594882.

The mention of the word Masonry, to the ordinary mind, suggests a body of men possessing certain secrets, which, to the uninitiated, are full of wonder. Should I here announce to the Masonic world that they, as an organization, have not in their possession THE secret for which all their rite and symbolism stands, they would be justly startled. But such is the fact. It is not the purpose of this work to review Masonry as to its origin, etc., but to interpret its hidden mystic meaning to those 'Who have made proficiency and been duly passed.' By some I shall perhaps be thought a madman, by some as too vague for clear understanding, and by some as undertaking the impossible. To all, I humbly ask a close and sincere study of these pages; and, I have reason to believe, that if you will pursue this course, you will discover the 'LIGHT' which you have so fondly dreamed in your possession.

A Similar System Exists Among the Mohammedans; Freemasonry and the Ancient Gods of India; Symbolic Conception of FM and India; R.A. Proves the Truth of this Contention; Brief Summary of Hindoo and Other Eastern Doctrines Traceable in Freemasonry; Lost Sign in Masonry and the "Operative" Masons; Letter "G"; Mark Degree; Masonic Signs and Grips the World Over; Our Signs and Grips in Africa; America and Australasia; Ancient Europe; Origin of Freemasonry; Mythos; When Did the Purely Jewish Influence Enter? Brief Summary of the True Line of Descent of Modern Freemasonry; Comacines; Ancient Charges and What They Tell Us; Decline of the Guilds; Darkness Before the Dawn; Formation of Grand Lodge; Early History of Grand Lodge; So-Called Higher Degrees; Ancient and Accepted Rite; Remaining Degrees of the Ancient and Accepted Rite; Cross and the Vesica Piscis; Two Kinds of Cross; Crosses in the Craft; Vesica Piscis; Rose Croix and Kindred Degrees; So-Called "York Rite" and Allied Degrees; Knights Templars; What Were the Beliefs of the Templars? Are There Any Traces of the Old Templar Ceremonies in the Masonic Templar Ritual? Other Chivalric Degrees in Freemasonry; Iconoclasm in Freemasonry; Brief Summary of Evidence as to the Antiquity of our Signs; Grand Ideal; The First Steps; Ancient Wisdom and Modern Masonry; The Bora Ceremony.

1901. Being the Opening, Closing, Secret Work and Lectures of the Mark Master, Past Master, Most Excellent Master and Royal Arch Degrees. Illustrated.

THIS 40 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Count of Saint-Germain, by Isabel Cooper-Oakley. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766101010.

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THIS 36 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Masons as Makers of America, by Madison C. Peters. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766127354.

Contents: Masonry and Religion; From Darkness to Light; Initiation, Real and Ceremonial, The Purpose of the Mysteries, The Ideal Lodge; Light on the Way, The Knowledge of Yourself, The "G," The Ladder, The Superstructure, The Cable-Tow, The Apron, The Wind, Seeking a Master, Wages, The Law of the Mount; Fulness of Light, Observations and Examples, Apocalypsis; The Past and Future of the Masonic Order. Freemasons, this book should be in your Masonic library!

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