Part 1 (2/2)

PART II--HISTORY

CHAPTER I FREE-MASONS 97

CHAPTER II FELLOWCRAFTS 127

CHAPTER III ACCEPTED MASONS 153

CHAPTER IV GRAND LODGE OF ENGLAND 173

CHAPTER V UNIVERSAL MASONRY 201

PART III--INTERPRETATION

CHAPTER I WHAT IS MASONRY 239

CHAPTER II THE MASONIC PHILOSOPHY 259

CHAPTER III THE SPIRIT OF MASONRY 283

BIBLIOGRAPHY 301

INDEX 306 /

Part I--Prophecy

THE FOUNDATIONS

/ _By Syuided and commanded, made happy, made wretched He everywhere finds hinized as such or not recognized: the Universe is but one vast Symbol of God; nay, if thou wilt have it, what is man himself but a Symbol of God; is not all that he does syiven force that is in him; a Gospel of Freedom, which he, the Messiah of Nature, preaches, as he can, by word and act? Not a Hut he builds but is the visible eht; but bears visible record of invisible things; but is, in the transcendental sense, symbolical as well as real_

--THOMAS CARLYLE, _Sartor Resartus_ /

CHAPTER I

_The Foundations_

Two arts have altered the face of the earth and given shape to the life and thought of riculture and Architecture Of the two, it would be hard to knohich has been the more intimately interwoven with the inner life of humanity; for man is not only a planter and a builder, but a , especially in priuseful it attained soht and a mystery Our present study has to do with the second of these arts, which has been called the matrix of civilization