Author: Charles H Vail
Narrator: Graham Dunlop
Unabridged: 5 hr 59 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Findaway Voices
Published: 12/23/2022
Genre: Social Science - Freemasonry
First published in 1909, this book consists of a series of lectures, first given in Pullman Memorial Church, Albion, New York. The purpose of these lectures is to consider the origin and nature of the Ancient Mysteries and Modern Masonry and to show the relation which they bear one to the other. Chapters include The Egyptian, Hindu and Persian Mysteries, The Christian Mysteries, The Meaning Of True Initiation, Masonic History, and The Origin and History of the Knights Templars.
LECTURE I. THE ORIGIN AND OBJECT OF THE ANCIENT MYSTERIES
LECTURE II. THE EGYPTIAN, HINDU, AND PERSIAN MYSTERIES
LECTURE III. THE DRUIDICAL, GOTHIC, GRECIAN, AND JEWISH MYSTERIES
LECTURE IV. THE CHRISTIAN MYSTERIES
LECTURE V. THE CHRISTIAN MYSTERIES (CONCLUDED)
LECTURE VI. THE MEANING OF TRUE INITIATION
LECTURE VII. THE MEANING OF TRUE INITIATION (CONCLUDED)
LECTURE VIII. THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY
LECTURE IX. THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS AND THE ANCIENT ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE
LECTURE X. THE SYMBOLS AND LEGENDS OF MASONRY
LECTURE XI. THE SYMBOLS AND LEGENDS OF MASONRY (CONTINUED)
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