The history of freemasonry

The history of freemasonry

by Robert Freke Gould

Occult PhilosophyHermeticismModern

Chapters

29

Total Words

164,818

Reading Time

660 min

Published

1882

Table of Contents

2.XII. Early British Freemasonry (Exgland. — I.) — Masonic Tradition — Sir

3.XIII. Early British Freemasonry (England. — II.) — The Cabbala— Mysticism —

4.XIV. Eaely British Freemasonry (England. — III.) — Ashmole — Masons' Company

5.XV. Early British Freemasonry (England. — IV.) — The " Old Charges " — The

6.M. W. His Grace the Duke of Abercokn, K.G., Grand Master of Ireland, . Frontispiece

8.C. W. I U L Y J 7 4 J

9.book is that which relates matters of fact as they really happened. A book may be genuine without being authentic ;

10.C. "W.," which, despite the authority of Elmes, I unhesitatingly pronounce to be in the same

11.I. The myth may be engaged in the transmission of a narrative of early deeds and events

12.II. Or it may have been invented and adoi^ted as the medium of enunciating a particular

13.III. Or, lastly, the truthful elements of actual history may greatly predominate over the

14.book learning, and, in fact, he boasted that his library would not amount to six folio volumes.

15.book called I., the which next unto the Eible is our gi-eatest treasure, which ought to be

16.book called "Long Livers," originally printed in 1722, the consideration of which we shall

17.V. Clavis Philosophiaj et Alchymia). Franc, 1633. The MS. catalogue of the Brit. Mus. Library aUbrds, so far as I

18.I. I have already stated that what we now call the Hermetic art, learning, or philosophy,

19.III. The discovery of a panacea, or universal remedy, under the name of elixir vitce, by

20.II. "Long Livers"^ is " a curious history of such persons of both sexes who have liv'd several

21.Chapter XV. is thus headed, — " Of Free Masons, and other learned men, that used to get

22.III. Elias Ashmole, " the eminent philosopher, chemist, and antiquary " — as he is styled by

23.CHAPTER XIV.

24.D. K." referred to by Dr Knipe.

25.I. — Lodge Records, i.e., copies or versions of the " Old Charges," m actual Lodge custody,

26.III. — Eolls or Scrolls,'' and Copies in Book form.

27.VI. — MSS. not enumerated in the preceding categories (32-51) — viz., Late Transcripts,

29.Chapter XIII., for whUst, on the one hand, it is essential that old and obsolete theories should

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