The Book of the Chapter: Or Monitorial Instructions, in the Degrees of Mark, Past and Most Excellent Master, and the Holy Royal Arch (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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9781528047296: The Book of the Chapter: Or Monitorial Instructions, in the Degrees of Mark, Past and Most Excellent Master, and the Holy Royal Arch (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 152804729X ISBN 13: 9781528047296

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Excerpt from The Book of the Chapter: Or Monitorial Instructions, in the Degrees of Mark, Past and Most Excellent Master, and the Holy Royal Arch

But a Monitor is within every mason's reach. It is the first book to which his attention is directed, and is Often placed in his hands by thepresiding officer, as a manual which he is recommended to study; and, accordingly, the Monitor is to many a mason, emphatically, his cede meewm. But unless he can find Something -more important in its pages than such works as those'of webb and cross con tain, he will scarcely arise fromthe perusal with any in creased store of knowledge. Ohls'wrdt is for more light -not for a recapitulation of what he-has alreadyheard and seen, but~for a rational explanation of the meaning of that through which he has passed.

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