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#M319,      HOUSE UNDIVIDED:  THE STORY OF FREEMASONRY AND THE CIVIL WAR        $22.95

By Allen E. Roberts                

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Here is a story which depicts the "human" side of the conflict.  Many eye-witness accounts never before published and the quotations tell what the men of 100 years ago actually said-not what someone thinks they might have said.  The author has blended two histories--Freemasonry just before, during, and after the Civil War, with the history of the nation itself.  Index and Bibliography.  Hard cover with dust jacket.  384 pages.

#M338,      THE MASQUES OF SOLOMON           Now $17.50     -     Reduced from  $22.50

By C. Bruce Hunter                New Book by Hunter        

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Explores the origins of the Third Degree.  although the Third Degree is the most important part of the masonic ritual, it has always been a curiosity because no one knows precisely who created it or when or why.   Hunter approaches these questions with the methods of a detective investigating a "cold case" and in the process follows clues that lead to surprising conclusions.

MORE INNER WORKINGS,  #M093                                                    $17.50

5 or more purchased - 25% off               BRUCE HUNTER'S NEWEST BOOK

By C. Bruce Hunter

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Explores two questions left unanswered by its companion book, Inner Workings.  The first book examines the origins of the "Master's Word", a word so secret that even the Masons themselves don't know its meaning.  But Inner Workings leaves the story in the 18th century, when the Masons placed the word they didn't understand at the heart of a new ritual.

More Inner Workings begins there and asks the crucial questions:  why the Masons gave this word, of all things, a central role in their ritual, and why they insisted it came from the original language of the Bible.  These questions are of key importance because the language of the Bible is believed by some to be a "Holy Tongue" that contains hidden, sacred meanings.  This book explores the crucial half-century of Masonic history when the Craft fashioned a new ritual that contains unexpected layers of symbols.  And those symbols, in turn, explain why a word the Masons didn't understand had to be at the center of their ritual...and reveal the word's true meaning.

Hardcover,  200 pages.  ISBN 0-88053-097

#M336,        INNER WORKINGS                                                                                                          $17.50

By C. Bruce Hunter

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This book is the results of years of research and more than a few indepth discussions involving the time and energy of several people.  It is undoubtedly speculation, but it is far from idle.  Mr. Hunter has approached the subject on the basis that the Masons who created the modern fraternity were well aware of the importance of the ritual and they designed its ritual to invite speculation. 

Hard cover.  194 pages.

#M314,       A COMPREHENSIVE VIEW OF FREEMASONRY                                                          $21.00

  By Henry Wilson Coil, 330

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Gives a concrete answer to many questions which occur to the uninitiate:  What is Freemasonry?  What are the Basic Differences between Freemasonry in the U.S. and Europe?  What are the Branches of Freemasonry in the U.S.? and many more answers.  One learns much of Antiquity in this story of Modern Masonry against the background of human history.  Many critics who have read it from cover to cover agree that it is the BEST ONE-VOLUMNE History of Freemasonry.  Revised Edition, 288 pages; detailed index; 17 illustrations.  Attractive Dust Jacket.  Cloth.

#M317,        FREEMASONRY IN AMERICAN HISTORY                                                                  $29.50

By Allen E. Roberts

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Traces the history of Masonry in America.  But it is not simply a history of Freemasonry in isolation.  It attempts to set it against the general history of time.  The earlier part is a chronicle of the introduction of Masonry into the various thirteen original colonies.  Throughout the latter part, the names of Freemasons are fully capitalized.

Hard cover, jacket, 504 pages.

#M301,                   THE BUILDERS                                                                                                                  $19.50

By Joseph Fort Newton

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The outstanding classic in Masonic literature of all times.  Many Grand Lodges present a copy to each newly raised Mason.  The first part covers the early history of Freemasonry.  The second is the story of the Order of builders through the centuries from the building of King Solomon's Temple.  The final part is a statement and exposition of the faith of masonry.

Cloth with jacket, 345 pages.  Bibliography, Index, Illustrated.

#M701,           BORN IN BLOOD:  THE LOST SECRETS OF FREEMASONRY                            $24.95

By John J. Robinson

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Many of Freemasonry's members have accepted the belief that the world's largest fraternal organization originated with the medieval stonemasons.  Robinson, in a spell-binding manner, asserts that Freemasonry's origins are with the Knights Templar order. 

Hard cover with jacket, 396 pages.  Indexed.

#M706,               DUNGEON, FIRE AND SWORD                                                                                               $29.95

            By John J. Robinson, author of Born in Blood 

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For 1000 years there has been unrest for supremacy on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the site of the ancient Temple of Solomon.  This brilliant narrative history of the Knights Templar gives a clear explanation of the cultural and religious differences in the Middle east.  The similarity of the antagonisms today of the Sunnis, Shites, Kurds, Armenians, Arabs and Turks who figure so prominently in today's headlines and those of 800 years ago are striking as to be eerie.

Hard cover, 494 pages.

#M714,              THE TEMPLE AND THE LODGE                                                                                             $13.95

                           By Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh

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Did the Knights Templar not really disappear from the face of history in 1314?  What is the real connection between the Knights Templar and the Freemasons?  Did the British actually sabotage the American War of Independence, and did British and American Freemasons collude from 1776 onward?   These and many other intriguing questions are explored.

Soft cover with jacket.  320 pages.  Maps.  Numerous photographs.

                                                               

THE COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO FREEMASONRY   #M505                                  $18.95

By S. Brent Morris, Ph.D. 33 ° 

           

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OUT OF THE SHADOWS:  THE EMERGENCE OF PRINCE HALL FREEMASONRY IN AMERICA                     $29.95                                    

#M735

By Alton G. Roundtree and Paul M. Bessel

           

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