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ESOTERIC AND OCCULT
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Western Esotericism and Rituals of Initiation
By Henrik Bogdan
For more than 300 years the practice of Masonic rituals of initiation has been part of Western culture, spreading far beyond the boundaries of traditional Freemasonry. Henrik Bogdan explores the historical development of these rituals and their relationship with Western esotericism. Beginning with the Craft degrees of Freemasonry--the blueprints, as it were, of all later Masonic rituals of initiation--Bogdan examines the development of the Masonic High Degrees, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn--the most influential of all 19th-century occultist initiatory societies--and Gerald Gardner's Witchcraft movement of the 1950s, one of the first large-scale Western esoteric New Religions Movements.
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Stellar Theology and Masonic Astronomy
By Robert Hewitt Brown
Written by a 32 degree mason and published in 1882 this work gives the reader an overview of the workings of Masonic and zodiac influence on mankind. Topics include the Masonic square, the star, the royal arch, and many more. Classic reprint with great information you won't find elsewhere. Covers what the ancients knew about astronomy and brings back the lost meanings of ancient symbols and legends. Explains what these symbols really mean to the modern world and its religions.
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Restoring the Temple of Vision:
Cabalistic Freemasonry and Stuart Culture
By Marsha Keith Schuchard
This book uncovers the early Jewish, Scottish, and Stuart sources of "ancient" Cabalistic Freemasonry that flourished in Écossais lodges in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Drawing on architectural, technological, political, and religious documents, it provides real-world, historical grounding for the flights of visionary Temple building described in the rituals and symbolism of "high-degree" Masonry. The roots of mystical male bonding, accomplished through progressive initiation, are found in Stuart notions of intellectual and spiritual amicitia. Despite the expulsion of the Stuart dynasty in 1688 and the establishment of a rival "modern" system of Hanoverian-Whig Masonry in 1717, the influence of "ancient" Scottish-Stuart Masonry on Solomonic architecture, Hermetic masques, and Rosicrucian science was preserved in lodges maintained by Jacobite partisans and exiles in Britain, Europe, and the New World.
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Secret Tradition in Freemasonry
By Arthur Edward Waite
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The Blazing Star and the Jewish Kabbalah
By William B. Greene, R.A. Gilbert
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Ancient Operative Masonry
By S. R. Parchment
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Ancient Egyptian Masonry:
The Building Craft
By Sommers Clarke
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Hermetic Masonry
By Frank C. Higgins
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Hiramic Tradition
By W. W. Covey-Crump
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