The Arcane SchoolsJazzybee Verlag, 1909 - 326 pages A Review of their Origin and Antiquity ; with a General History of Freemasonry, and its Relation to the Theosophic, Scientific, and Philosophic Mysteries. The object of the work is to give a broad, but condensed view, of the various traces that are to be found amongst the ancients, in their religion, in their art, and in their buildings, civil, sacred and military, of a Speculative System such as is now embodied in Freemasonry. The work is necessarily a compilation of suitable information to be found in ancient and modern writers upon history, mystery, mysticism, and Freemasonry; but it also embraces the most recent views on these subjects which have been evolved by close and critical examination. |
Contents
PREFACE | 1 |
PROTOARYAN CIVILISATION AND MYSTERIES | 15 |
ARYAN CIVILISATION AND MYSTERIES | 41 |
THE MYSTERIES IN RELATION TO PHILOSOPHY | 58 |
PHILOSOPHY IN RELATION TO MASONIC RITES | 71 |
THE MYSTIC AND HERMETIC SCHOOLS IN CHRISTIAN | 88 |
RECAPITULATED PROOFS OF ANCIENT MASONRY | 123 |
MASONRY IN SAXON ENGLAND | 137 |
MASONRY IN NORMAN ENGLAND | 164 |
FREEMASONRY IN MODERN TIMES | 201 |
THE SYSTEM TERMED HIGHGRADE SPECULATIVE | 232 |
FREEMASONRY IN THE GRAND LODGE ERA | 274 |
FREEMASONRY UNDER THE UNITED GRAND | 288 |
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