History of the Ancient and Honorable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons, and Concordant Orders ...

Résumé du livre

Introduction -- Ancient Masonry: the ancient mysteries, cognate orders of chivalry and the "old charges" of Freemasons. Introduction ; The ancient mysteries ; The cognate orders; The documentary early history of the fraternity -- Cosmopolitan Freemasonry: craft, capitular, cryptic. Introduction ; North, Central, and South America ; First meridian ; Second meridian ; Third meridian ; Early American Masonic history ; British America ; Other countries ; The Morgan excitement ; Masonic jurisprudence ; The capitular degrees ; The cryptic degrees ; Eulogium of the ancient craft -- Concordant orders: the chivalric degrees. Knights Templar and allied orders ; British Templary -- Ancient and accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, and the Royal Order of Scotland. Scottish degrees, 4[degrees] to 33 [degrees], inclusive ; The Royal Order of Scotland -- Miscellaneous rites and orders, and statistical division. Other rites and orders ; Statistics of Freemasonry.