"Manual of Freemasonry" by Richard Carlile

This electronic edition is based on a facsimile of an unspecified printing, issued by Kessinger Publishing in Kila, Montana.



Carlile’s exposure was originally printed by instalments in a radical magazine called The Republican in 1825. An earlier book version was issued in 1831.

CONTENTS
PART I
Introduction: The Key-Stone of the Royal Arch
First Degree, or Entered Apprentice
Second Degree, or Fellow Craft
Third Degree, or Master Mason
PART II
Introduction
The Tau and the Cross
Ceremony of Installation for the Chair, or Past Master
A Description of Royal Arch Masonry
Masonic Orders of Chivalry: the Knights Templar
PART III
Introduction
A Table of some of the Names of the Sacred Scriptures
Mark Man
Mark Master
The Architect’s Degree in Masonry
Grand Architect
Scotch Master or Superintendent
Secret Master
Perfect Master
Intimate Secretary, or English Master
Intendant of the Buildings, or Master in Israel
Past Master (brief description)
Excellent Masons (brief description)
Super-Excellent Masons (brief description)
Nine Elected Knights
Elect of Nine (brief description)
Second Elect of Nine, or Peregnon
Third Elect, or Elect of Fifteen
Priestly Order of Israel, or Provost and Judge
Provost and Judge, or Irish Master
Noahite, or Prussian Knight
Red Cross Sword of Babylon
Knight of the Sword of the East
Red Cross of Rome and Constantine
Knights of the White Eagle or Pelican
Rosicrucian or ne plus ultra Degree

First published in book form London, 1833.