Manual of the Lodge

by Albert Gallatin Mackey

Divisions 

Preface

Table of Contents

Plates

System of Monitorial Instruction

1. Entered Apprentice's Degree
2. Fellow Craft's Degree
3. Master Mason's Degree

Ancient Ceremonies of the Order

1. Consecration, Dedication, and Constitution of a Lodge
2. Annual Installation of the Officers of a Lodge
3. Installation of the Officers of a Grand Lodge
4. Ceremony observed at Grand Visitations
5. Festivals of the Order
6. Ceremony observed at Laying the Foundation Stones of Public Structures
7. Dedication of Freemasons' Halls
8. Funeral Service
9. Regulations for Processions

Appendixes

1. The Twenty-five Landmarks of Freemasonry
2. The Old Charges
3. The General Regulations
4. Forms of Documents

A

Manual Of The Lodge:

OR,

Monitorial Instructions

IN THE DEGREES OF

ENTERED APPRENTICE, FELLOW CRAFT, AND MASTER MASON,

ARRANGED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE

AMERICAN SYSTEM OF LECTURES:

TO WHICH ARE ADDED

THE CEREMONIES OF THE ORDER OF PAST MASTER RELATING TO
INSTALLATIONS, DEDICATIONS, CONSECRATIONS, LAYING
OF CORNER-STONES, ETC.

Albert G. Mackey, M. D.

PAST GENERAL GRAND HIGH-PRIEST OF THE GENERAL GRAND CHAPTER OF THE UNITED STATES,
AUTHOR OF A "LEXICON OF FREEMASONRY," "BOOK OF THE CHAPTER," "THE
RITUALIST," "CRYPTIC MASONRY," "SYMBOLISM OF FREE-
MASONRY," ETC.

A NEW EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED BY THE AUTHOR.

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"Antiquity considered Initiation as a delivery from a living death of vice, brutality, and misery; and the beginning of a new life of virtue, reason, and happiness."—Washington

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Effingham Maynard & Co.,

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1891.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868,

By M A C K O Y & S I C K E L S,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for
the Southern District of New York.

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870,

By ALBERT G. MACKEY, M.D.,

at the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

TO

WINSLOW LEWIS, M. D.,

PAST GRAND MASTER OF MASSACHUSETTS,

THIS WORK

Is Deidcated,

NOT MORE

AS A TRIBUTE OF THE RESPECT WHICH I FEEL

FOR

HIS INTELLECTUAL ATTAINMENTS,

THAN

As a Token of that Sincere Affection long since won from me

BY THE

LARGENESS AND KINDNESS OF HIS HEART.