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Freemasons For Dummies

Freemasons For Dummies


By Christopher Hodapp

ISBN: 978-0-7645-9796-1
Format: Paper
Pages: 384 Pages
Pub. Date: September 2005

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Introduction.

Part I: What Is Freemasonry?

Chapter 1: Lodges, Aprons, and Funny Handshakes: Freemasonry 101.

Chapter 2: From Quarries to Lodge Rooms: A History of the Freemasons.

Chapter 3: The Philosophy of Freemasonry.

Chapter 4: Politics, Religion, and Freemasons: They Don’t Mix.

Part II: The Mechanics of Freemasonry: How It Works.

Chapter 5: How the Freemasons Are Organized: Who Does What and Why.

Chapter 6: The Ceremonies of Freemasons.

Chapter 7: The Symbols of Freemasonry.

Chapter 8: Myths and Misconceptions about Masons.

Part III: Knights, Swords, Fezzes, and Dresses: The Appendant Bodies.

Chapter 9: Introducing the Appendant Bodies: Who’s Who, and Who Isn’t.

Chapter 10: The York Rite.

Chapter 11: The Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite.

Chapter 12: The Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.

Chapter 13: The Extended Masonic Family.

Part IV: Freemasonry Today and Tomorrow.

Chapter 14: So Is It Still Relevant?

Chapter 15: Freemasons and the Future.

Chapter 16: So You Want to Become a Freemason.

Part V: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 17: Ten Groups of Famous Masons.

Chapter 18: Ten Amazing Conspiracies, Anti-Masons, and Hoaxes.

Chapter 19: Ten Cool Masonic Places.

Part VI: Appendixes.

Appendix A: The Regius Manuscript.

Appendix B: Anderson’s Constitutions.

Appendix C: Finding a Lodge.

Index.

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