Duncan's Ritual and Monitor of Freemasonry: Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor - Softcover

Duncan, Malcolm C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1976002664 ISBN 13: 9781976002663

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

Duncan's Ritual and Monitor of Freemasonry

Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor

Guide to the Three Symbolic Degrees of the Ancient York Rite

By Malcolm C. Duncan

Freemasonry or Masonry consists of fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local fraternities of stonemasons, which from the end of the fourteenth century regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients. The degrees of freemasonry retain the three grades of medieval craft guilds, those of Apprentice, Journeyman or fellow (now called Fellowcraft), and Master Mason. These are the degrees offered by Craft (or Blue Lodge) Freemasonry. Members of these organisations are known as Freemasons or Masons. There are additional degrees, which vary with locality and jurisdiction, and are usually administered by different bodies than the craft degrees.

THE objects which Freemasonry was founded to subserve are honorable and laudable; nor is it intended in the following pages to disparage the institution or to undervalue its usefulness. It has, at various times and in several countries, incurred the ill-will of political parties and of religious bodies, in consequence of a belief, on their part, that the organization was not so purely benevolent and philanthropic as its members proclaimed it to be. In the State of New York, many years ago, it was supposed, but we think unjustly, to wield a powerful political influence, and to employ it unscrupulously for sinister ends. The war between Masonry and Anti-Masonry which convulsed the State at that period is still fresh in the remembrance of many a party veteran. The Order, however, has long since recovered from the obloquy then heaped upon it, and is now in a flourishing condition in most parts of the civilized world.

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Malcolm C. Duncan

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• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1976002664
• ISBN 13: 9781976002663
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 246