| Edition |
First paperback edition. |
| Description |
xvii, 246 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction -- Masonic history -- The origins of freemasonry -- The Scottish evidence -- Problems of definition -- 1. The medieval contribution -- The organisation of the craft -- The old charges -- 3. William Schaw, master of works and general warden -- The life of William Schaw -- The Coplands of Udoch, wardens of the masons -- The first Schaw Statutes -- The second Schaw Statutes -- 4. The Sinclairs of Roslin and the masters of works -- The first St Clair Charter -- The Sinclairs of Roslin -- The second St Clair Charter -- The struggle for jurisdiction -- The Falkland Statutes -- The last general wardens -- 5. The Renaissance contribution -- Neoplatonism and the occult striving of the late Renaissance -- Hermeticism and the cult of Egypt -- The art of memory -- The Rosicrucians -- The architect, the mathematician and the manual arts -- Renaissance, Reformation and the Scottish masons -- 6. Rituals of identification and initiation -- The mason word -- The catechisms: rituals of identification -- The catechisms: rituals of initiation -- 7. Sir Robert Moray : masonry, symbolism and ethics -- The life of Sir Robert Moray -- A mason and his mark -- Voluntary social institutions and the cult of friendship -- 8. The early Scottish lodges -- Lodges and incorporations -- The coming of the non-operatives -- Life in the lodges -- 9. Early Scottish and English freemasonry -- Freemasonry in seventeenth-century Scotland -- Freemasonry in seventeenth-century England. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Freemasonry -- Scotland -- History.
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| ISBN |
0521396549: $44.50 |
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9780521396547 |
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