Condensed History Of The Ancient And Accepted Scottish Rite Masonry PDF Download

Excerpt from New Edition of the Brief History of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry: Together With a Historic Sketch of the So-Called Revival of Freemasonry in 1717, and Other Interesting and Instructive Matter In presenting this "New Edition Of A Brief History Of The Ancient And A Accepted Scottish Bite Of Freemasonry" to his Brethren of the Craft, a few prefatory remarks the Author deems to be necessary at this time. The first edition prepared by him was under the auspices of the Grand Consistory of the State of California in the month of July, 1885, at which time he was its Deputy and Grand Lecturer as also the Deputy of 111. Bro. Charles F. Brown, 33, one of the Active Inspectors-General for this State. Some fifteen hundred copies were then printed and distributed gratuitously among the Brethren of the A. & A. S. Rite in particular, and the Blue Lodges throughout the State of California in general, the Grand Consistory afterwards paying for the printing and the postage cost of distribution, but no compensation was made to the writer for the compiling of the work, which had been prepared after a great deal of time expended in reading and condensing of the history of the Kite for the object had in view. Being printed only in pamphlet form, the most of the first edition was soon lost and destroyed. Many of the Brethren having manifested their desire to have the same reproduced, the writer had already undertaken the task and it was well under way, when he was written to by the agent of publishers in the East, and solicited to prepare a portion of a new and large Masonic work of a more general and comprehensive character, which will soon make its appearance. In that work, will appear an abridged portion of this, an of the first edition issued in July 1885, which the Writer has supplied to those publishers for that work, but not exclusively, he retaining the original production prepared by him in 1885, as also the present work enlarged and expanded with notes and additional matter, which the limited space allotted in the forthcoming publication by the Eastern publishers would not admit. He, however, would most cordially commend the work referred to, which "The History Of Freemasonry And Concordant Orders" to be published by L. C. Hascall & Company, publishers, New York and Boston, U. S. A., and which every Master Mason, Royal Arch Companion, Knight Templar and Scottish Rite Mason ought to have, and it should be found in every Masonic Library as it will be the best Masonic work of interest of the Century, as a general compendium of the history of our Ancient and Honorable Order. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.