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Freemasons have their own lingo, like many organizations. Want to start a lodge book club, but not sure what to read. This book is perfect for both new and established members or indeed anyone wanting to know about freemasonry. This book, uniform in style and presentation with my earlier freemasons guide and compendium, which, in the main, dealt with craft masonry, is an attempt to provide a simple explanation of the origin, rise, and development, and the customs, ritual, and symbolism, of royal arch masonry so far as present knowledge and considerations of masonic. Freemasons for dummies is the internationally bestselling introduction to the masons, the oldest and largest secret society in the.
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