The Book of the Chapter (Classic Reprint): Or Monitorial Instructions, in the Degrees of Mark, Past and Most Excellent Master, and the Holy Royal Arch - Couverture souple

Albert Gallatin Mackey

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330115406 ISBN 13 : 9781330115404

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Book of the Chapter

But a Monitor is within every mason's reach. It is the first book to which his attention is directed, and is Often placed in his hands by thepresiding officer, as a manual which he is recommended to study; and, accordingly, the Monitor is to many a mason, emphatically, his cede meewm. But unless he can find Something -more important in its pages than such works as those'of webb and cross con tain, he will scarcely «arise fromthe perusal with any in creased store of knowledge. Ohls'wrdt is for more light -not for a recapitulation of what he-has alreadyheard and seen, but~for a rational explanation of the meaning of that through which he has passed.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from The Book of the Chapter: Or Monitorial Instructions, in the Degrees of Mark, Past and Most Excellent Master, and the Holy Royal Arch

It must be acknowledged that there is no dearth of ordinary monitorial books, although I know of none exclusively appropriated to the Chapter degrees. But an experience, by no means inconsiderable, has forced upon me the conviction that the plan upon which these works have been hitherto constructed, is not such as to meet the demands of the enlarged masonic intellect of the present day. All the Monitors now extant appear to have adopted that of Thomas Smith Webb as their prototype, and, like it, have been very generally confined to the arrangement of the prayers, charges, and Scripture lessons, which are used in the several degrees, without any, or, at most, a very slight attempt to explain, by commentaries, the symbolic meaning or the historical references of the different portions of the ritual. Hence, but very little knowledge, beyond the mere working part of our institution, is to be obtained from these books; and although they are well enough for that purpose, still, as it is not the only purpose which may and ought to be effected by a Monitor, I have sought to present the masonic reader with something more in the ensuing pages.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330115406
• ISBN 13: 9781330115404
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 271
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