Meaning of Masonry
by W. L. Wilmshurst
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Author: W. L. WilmshurstEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1995-12-02
ISBN: 0517331942
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Gramercy
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Summary: 5 Stars
One of the best books on Fremasonry anywhere! This is the book that removes the scales from the Freemason's eyes with surgical precision. The author is really concerned about the reader as a Freemason, not just as a member of the fraternity. So often it is that members of the fraternity are not Freemasons; they are just members. Make no mistake here, Wilmshurst is writing to the Freemasons.
This book reveals the symbols behind the symbols; the screts behind the secrets; the Freemasons behind the Masons (You'll need to think about that one. And don't ask me because I won't tell).
This is a book about Freemasonry not targeting everybody involved with Freemasonry. Written nearly a century ago, it appeals only to a select minority within Freemasonry's ranks (which is shameful). You would think others would have got the message long ago. But unfortunately for the world, that just ain't so. Members will read this book and walk away with nothing--they enjoy that. Members are afraid to look behind Freemasonry's myriad veils, anyway, most are comfortable with a surface knowledge and a shallow understanding. But Freemasons will read this book and never walk away from it. To be sure, this is what going down the rabbit hole is all about; this is the red pill. This is the stuff "they" don't tell you in the lodge.
This book is not easy reading. But if you're accustomed to this reading genre, you won't find the Edwardian English in the book too archaic to keep up with. And even if you never read this genre, but you are a Freemason and not just a member of the fraternity, you will find your way around the archaic expressions with little difficulty. Language, notwithstanding, the message here is so potent and timeless, it makes no difference.
The author eloquently emphasizes throughout the book that Freemasonry's ancient message, is its true message (which is spiritual), and therefore cannot be received from its concrete, surface symbolism, but rather from the timeless principles which emanate from within the allegories, rituals, and spiritual interpretation of the symbols.
After reading The Meaning of Masonry, Freemasons are sure to see a light they never saw in the lodge.
Summary of Meaning of Masonry
Although the Freemasons number over six million members worldwide, they are a very secretive organization. the general public today thinks of them as a social fraternity like the Rotary Club, but that is hardly the whole truth. By mysterious coincidence, it seems, many Masons have been major figures in modern history. many of the Founding Fathers of the United States?including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Paul Revere?were Freemasons. Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian freedom fighter, was also one, as were the composers Franz Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and writers François Marie Arouet de Voltaire and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The Meaning of Masonry explores the beliefs behind the order, its cryptic rites and symbols, and uncovers its ultimate purpose.Freemasonry Books
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